How can this man possibly be guilty of murder? He is obviously the very picture of stability. Phil, baby, are you trying to go to jail?
Really, are you suprised that everything has gone a little pear-shaped for Phil? First off, that kind of genius just isn't normal. The guy was a millionaire at twenty-one, and had basically flamed out of the business before turning thirty. (After his absolutely brilliant work on Ike and Tina Turner's "River Deep, Mountain High" yielded a commercial flop, he turned his back on the industry and became something of a recluse.) He had always been known as an "erratic" fellow, but by the time he was doing work with Leonard Cohen and the Ramones in the 1970s and '80s he was pretty far gone. He fired a gun in the studio while working with John Lennon in 1970, chased Cohen around the studio with a loaded crossbow(!!), and (according to Dee Dee Ramone, anyway) threatened to shoot the Ramones during the End of the Century sessions.
So, to sum up, Phil has always had a bit of a "shooting people" problem.
[Special thanks to our Legal Counsel for sending this picture over. It's ironic that he should be the one to send it... since I must be violating some copyright laws by posting it here. Is there such a thing as contributing to the delinquency of a blogger?]
**TRAGEDY UPDATE** Thurl Ravenscroft, best known as the voice behind Tony the Tiger and the "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" song, has died.
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