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Ever since Scary Hollywood Lawyer Terry Christensen was indicted in connection with the Anthony Pellicano Wiretapping Trial of the Century, the entertainment industry has been waiting for the other, fancier shoe to drop: namely, the bringing of charges against Scarier Hollywood Lawyer Bert Fields, who had hired Pellicano in the past but denies knowing about any of the investigator's illegal eavesdropping activities in connection with his cases. Today's LAT reports that prosecutors and Fields' predictably high-powered defense team have engaged in "a difficult game of chicken" by agreeing to extend the deadline for the filing of charges, and that part of the new strategy may include offering Fields an emasculating-sounding "queen for a day" session, which, unfortunately, does not seem to include wearing a tiara while receiving a pedicure and mud mask treatment:

In Fields' case, she said, the goal for his attorneys is to create as much of a buffer as possible between their client and Pellicano.

One tactic they may choose in the coming weeks would be to make Fields available for a "queen for a day" interview with Saunders.

This would give the prosecutor an opportunity to question Fields directly to size up his credibility, she said. Fields would have immunity for anything he said thus "queen for a day." But if Saunders doesn't believe Fields, Levenson said, "it wouldn't stop him from bringing charges."

And in other Pellicano trial news, reporter Ross Johnson writes on LA Indie that sources within the PI's family have indicated to him that Pellicano may serve as his own counsel, a move which may plunge the trial into Vin Diesel in Find Me Guilty levels of hilarity:

The theory is that Pellicano, if convicted at trial with himself as counsel, will have to do the same prison time as if he pled guilty, say the sources.

If found guilty, federal sentencing guide lines might limit the P.I. s imprisonment to as little as five years. The government will give him eight because he s Tony. But he s got a temper, and if he goes Saddam in the courtroom, it could get ugly, says a family member, in reference to the actions of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, whose outbursts in his Baghdad trial are currently aimed at embarrassing the newly formed Iraqi government.

We don't want to read too much into Pellicano's family comparing his potential courtroom behavior to that of a genocidal dictator, but it's starting to look like this trial might wind up being a lot more entertaining than we'd ever dared to dream.