'A shirt the color of dried blood'

Times columnist Steve Lopez attended the Spector openings and comes away with his take:

Phil Spector is parading down the hall on the way to his murder trial with not one, not two, but three extra-large bodyguards. It looks like a wedge of beefy NFL linemen is blocking for the strangest looking quarterback in history. When Spector gets closer, in a knee-length suit and a shirt the color of dried blood, I can’t quite figure out who he looks like, but then it comes to me: He is the character on the Buster Brown shoes my mother used to get me, with hair no one but Jean Stapleton would have left the house with. At the very least, I’d dump the makeup artist. Spector looks like he’s just had a wreck with a Pillsbury flour truck.

Read the rest of Steve's column here.