Here's who Al Pacino and Helen Mirren are playing

In case you're wondering, here, pictured with Phil Spector, is the woman who elderly British millionaire Helen Mirren will be playing in a made-for-HBO movie about convicted murderer Phil Spector.

The movie was written and is being directed by neo-con David Mamet. Mamet claims to believe that Spector is innocent. He won't say why.

Spector was the gun-toting troll who murdered Lana Clarkson. In was proven in court that Spector had a long history of threatening women with guns. He shot Lana Clarkson then ran out of the house with the gun in his hand yelling that he "just killed somebody".

But at his trial Spector's defense was that Clarkson killed herself because she was depressed about her acting career. Do Al Pacino and Helen Mirren believe this? Alleged feminist Mirren is playing Linda Kenney Baden, Spector's attorney.

Playing Spector's attorney in a movie isn't an anti-Feminist act. But appearing at all in a movie, the whole purpose of which is to defend and support a man with a proven history of threatening women with guns until he finally murdered one of them, is.

I wrote about this earlier. A group called Friends of Lana Clarkson was formed. They already got Bette Midler to drop out of this movie. She was set to play Mirren's role. They're not trying to stop the production of this thing, but they are demanding that it not misrepresent what happened, that it not portray Spector as a victim and that it not smear Lana Clarkson.

Spector's defense was that Lana Clarkson killed herself because her acting career wasn't going well. He was rich and successful and Lana Clarkson wasn't.

Pacino stupidly told reporters that Spector "just wanted to be left alone". And this was why he put a gun to his girlfriend's head and said he'd kill her if she tried to leave? He did this to more than one woman. We know that he pulled a gun on The Ramones and threatened them when they tried to leave his mansion.