Phil Spector's no Dudley Moore

It's one thing to have his clumsy, drunken romantic come-ons rejected, but when some "fans" mistook him for an Oscar nominated (and very petite) actor, that's when Phil Spector really came unglued.

So says the testimony at the music legend's retrial for the murder of House of Blues hostess and model/actress Lana Clarkson.

Seems that Spector was mistaken for the late Dudley Moore, Oscar nominated for "Arthur," sometime in the early '90s outside the fashionable restaurant Elaine's in Manhattan. He responded by pulling out a gun and chasing the confused young guys down the street.

As an L.A. Times story points out, this testimony came, oddly, from a witness called by the defense. Maybe this trial will turn out differently from the first one, in which a number of women testified that the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer showed them the business end of a handgun when they refused his sexual advances or otherwise pissed him off.

Dorothy Melvin, who manages comedian Joan Rivers, dated Spector for four years and recounted the Dudley Moore tale yesterday on the stand. She also said the Grammy-winning record producer/songwriter turned into "a demon" when he drank. More of her testimony here.

Spector's trial is only a few days old (he's pictured here at the end of last year's case, which ended in a hung jury) so we expect weeks of unfortunate ensemble/wig choices and horrifying testimony. We'll bring you the lowlights as we see them.