I am happy to announce that Robert Blake was just acquitted in the shooting death of his wife, "small time grifter" Bonnie Lee Bakely.
Now before you get all "but he did it!" on me, let us take into account the evidence. No eyewitnesses, no physical evidence, not even the gun could be traced to Blake. So whatever you think of Mr. Blake, it would have been seriously unjust had be been found guilty.
After keeping up on this trial, covering it on the radio long enough for me to move to another city and the station to change call letters, watching Baretta on DVD (which has an interesting first episode involving dinner, driving and the death of his fiancée) and most recently, Electra Glide in Blue I am relieved the same kid who played a young John Garfield in Humoresque is walking free. Sorry. No matter how dimestore novel this got (which made it all the more interesting), no matter how much Christian Brando's name came up (a friend of mine believes Christian Brando is connected to every major crime in Los Angeles) no matter how much motive the guy ("Little Sleazer" as James Ellroy coined him) had involving that mail-order huckster, well...you just never know.
We shall see what's next for little Mickey.
Keep your eye on the sparrow.
hey what's up Kim? I totally agree with you... people listen to the media and think that they're lawyers.. but wasn't the girl that died some con artist that's screwed more than one person?
Posted by: Dennis Morgan | March 16, 2005 at 10:40 PM
The only thing I think of when I see Blake is "Lost Highway", like most of Lynch's movies many of the characters are memorable. I think the police may be down on their celebrity arrest quota. Really a stretch to arrest him when that is all they have.
Posted by: Jeff | March 17, 2005 at 09:03 PM
sorry, but your thoughts on this made me decide to delete your bookmark. okay, now i gotta go back and find where i left my gun. its probably in the restaurant...
Posted by: bookmark deleted | March 17, 2005 at 11:31 PM
Hey, "Little Rascals," "In Cold Blood," "Baretta," "Electra Glide in Blue," "Lost Highway" - he's innocent, and you can take that to the bank, Jack.
Posted by: theron | March 18, 2005 at 11:18 AM
I knew Blake in L.A. Back in the 70's and 80's through my father who was then working at NBC Blake worked for ABC Blake had a lot of bad luck after he made "Baretta" and I know for a fact even though he had bad luck he would never kill his wife, he was egotistical, he was down on his luck, but he was never a murderer.
Posted by: PREACHER | June 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM