Slouching toward Hollywood

Joan Didion hasn't filed a story on the Phil Spector - Lana Clarkson murder, so you'll have to make do with this piece from The Independent (U.K.):

"It's Sunset Boulevard in reverse," said one of the guys at Cantor's, the delicatessen on Fairfax, the next morning. "The chick is the William Holden character. Her car breaks down. She pulls into this mansion up in Alhambra, and there's this little old guy, Phil Spector."

"What chick today has heard of Phil Spector?" asks his companion.

"This chick is 40. And Spector sees her, and he thinks maybe she is the one sent by providence and the William Morris talent agency to save him. Aren't you waiting to be rescued by a gorgeous chick?"