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...Married Ronnie Spector, lead singer of the Ronettes, with whom he reportedly had a very unhealthy relationship. According to an in-depth 2003 Vanity Fair article, he would often have her call while touring and leave the phone off the hook so that he could fall asleep listening to her breathe. His jealousy was epic. Spector made his estate into a fortress - barbed wire, electric fences - kept a glass-topped coffin in the basement for Ronnie ("so I can keep an eye on her after she's dead") and forced her to take a Phil Spector mannequin with her when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phil Spector | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

...People call me a genius. Well, Phil Spector is a genius." - Bob Dylan, during a concert (Vanity Fair, June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Phil Spector | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

...part, that's because few overdose victims get immediate medical treatment. While most overdoses take place in the presence of other people (surveys of heroin users suggest that 58% to 86% were not alone when an overdose occurred), many bystanders don't call the authorities for help, usually because they're high themselves. Naloxone kits can be crucial in these circumstances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do DIY Anti-Overdose Kits Help? | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

...year-old man sprawled out on a La-Z-Boy in a chic Chicago townhouse. He had overdosed on heroin and GHB (a party drug that is also used as a date-rape drug), according to his two panicked friends. The friends were high too, and afraid to call 911, so they called Bigg instead, whom they knew from Chicago Recovery Alliance's needle-exchange program...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Do DIY Anti-Overdose Kits Help? | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

...best!" - an observation that earned him a spot on the site's all-time-worst list. "At my local gym, most of the guys (losers) are jealous of me, as (I don't wish to boast) I'm in great shape. I'm pretty sure that they call me names when I'm not around," he wrote in an e-mail. So when his gym mates congratulated him for bench-pressing 180 lb., "I suppose I felt vindicated in some way and wanted to tell the world about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Twitter's Biggest Egos, Exposed | 5/29/2009 | See Source »

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