Ratings: HBO's 'Phil Spector' Draws Just 754K Viewers

"I think the nature of Phil Spector and the life that he lived encouraged that. He must have lived, it seems to me, in a permanent dream. I've heard so many extraordinary stories about him. Obviously we all did a lot of research. My husband actuallyWriter-director David Mamet's HBO movie Phil Spector is a curious creature. It makes a big deal out of being a drama that's not meant to represent reality, but it's about a real murder case, all of its major characters are based on real people, and youBruce Handy reviews the HBO movie Phil Spector, in which Al Pacino stars as the bewigged record producer during his murder trial.In the week leading up to tonight's premiere of the HBO original movie Phil Spector, the pre-release publicity has all been orchestrated around quotes from the film's writer-director, David Mamet, claiming that the movie is not

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