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In the end, any of the progress made by the defense with the testimony of forensics expert Vincent DiMaio—who's convinced, for $400 an hour, of the unlikely scenario that Lana Clarkson went home with Phil Spector to end her own life—will likely be negated by a damning statement allowed today by Judge Larry Fidler. It seems, according to a New York cop, that the music producer would show up to Christmas parties at Joan Rivers's house, carrying a gun and speaking rather prophetically about wanting to shoot every woman present in the head:

The ruling came after Vincent Tannazzo, a retired New York City police detective, testified without the jury present about providing security for two Christmas parties given by comedian Joan Rivers in Manhattan.

In both instances, a year apart, he said he wound up ejecting Spector from the parties. He said that in the first instance he brushed up against Spector and was able to tell that Spector had a handgun in his waistband, and when Spector made a move toward his pants he warned the producer that if he pulled the gun "I'd blow his brains out."

He quoted Spector as repeatedly uttering an obscene phrase referring to women.

Tannazzo said Spector said to him, "These (expletive). They all deserve a bullet in their head."

Again, what's most striking about this deveolpment isn't yet another instance of Spector's well-documented history of making misogynist death threats, but his uncanny ability to ingratiate himself after the fact. We're not sure what it takes for Joan Rivers to cross you off her party list, but if openly expressing a desire to shoot every woman in the room wasn't enough to do it, we're left wondering what was. Perhaps it was the year Spector attempted to drown her beloved Yorkie Spike in an eggnog bowl, screaming, "Do you see?! Do you see what these [expletives] make me want to do to you, you sweet, innocent lapdog?!" was what finally got Spector 86'd from future Rivers holiday soirees.