RIP Sharon Tate ...

[ronnykmarshall]

It was 38 years ago today that she was murdered.

RIP Sharon!

:loveya:

[supernova]

1. I saw a special about her on TCM

It was some publicity film about how they were gonna promote her, how she had all these qualities to be a really big star and interviewing her, what she wanted to do, what she hoped would be her future.

It was creepy and sad.

[ronnykmarshall]

3. All Eyes on Sharon Tate?

I've seen that too.

We had a BBQ a couple of weeks ago and watched 'Valley of the Dolls'. Great campy movie, even if it was supposed to be a serious drama. Sharon had one the best lines 'You know how bitch fags are!' We howled at that one.

[supernova]

5. Yes, I think that was it!

All Eyes on Sharon Tate. It was before she became famous. It was really sad watching all that energy and enthusiasm from this distance.

Ha. I haven't seen VoD for years. I had forgotten she was in it. I'll have to watch it again sometime.

[meegbear]

7. I was just reading about that ...

the post heading inspired me to goto Wikipedia and read her bio. On that ...

In 1964, Tate made a screen test for Sam Peckinpah opposite Steve McQueen for the film The Cincinnati Kid. Ransohoff and Peckinpah agreed that Tate's timidity and lack of experience would cause her to flounder in such a large part, and she was rejected in favor of Tuesday Weld. She continued to gain experience with minor television appearances, and after she auditioned unsuccessfully for role of Liesl in the film version of The Sound of Music, Ransohoff allowed her to appear in the film Eye of the Devil co-starring David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Donald Pleasence, and David Hemmings. Tate and Sebring traveled to London to prepare for filming. As part of Ransohoff's promotion of Tate, he arranged the production of a short documentary called All Eyes on Sharon Tate, to be released at the same time as Eye of the Devil. It included an interview with Eye of the Devil director J. Lee Thompson, who expressed his initial doubts about Tate's potential with the comment "We even agreed that if after the first two weeks Sharon was not quite making it, that we would put her back in cold storage", but added that he soon realized Tate was "tremendously exciting".

<snip>

The All Eyes on Sharon Tate documentary was used to publicize the film. Its fourteen minutes consisted of a number of scenes depicting Tate filming Eye of the Devil, dancing in nightclubs and sightseeing around London, and also contained a brief interview with her. Asked about her acting ambitions she replied, "I don't fool myself. I can't see myself doing Shakespeare." She spoke of her hopes of finding a niche in comedy, and in other interviews she expressed her desire to become "a light comedienne in the Carole Lombard style". She discussed the type of contemporary actress she wanted to emulate and explained that there were two in particular that she was influenced by: Faye Dunaway and Catherine Deneuve. Of the latter, she said, "I’d like to be an American Catherine Deneuve. She plays beautiful, sensitive, deep parts with a little bit of intelligence behind them."

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Tate

[IndianaJones]

2. Love Sharon Tate! RIP. nt.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear ronny...

Yes...RIP, Sharon Tate...and her son too.

:cry:

[ronnykmarshall]

6. I know ...

He would have been 38.

What do you remember about the murders?

I just remember being scared. I was 8 and lived in Bakersfield at the time. We had cable TV back then and got all the LA stations. I remember George Putnam on KTTV reporting it as did Rona Barrett.

[supernova]

9. Very soon after than we had the Jeffrey MacDonald murders at Ft Bragg

after that the coverage of both cases here was heavy steady.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

10. I don't remember too much...

I was 25 or so, then...

I also remember feeling very scared that this awful random murder could happen to me...

We lived in Manhattan Beach then...

I was horrified that they would murder a pregnant woman...

I just could not grasp that they would commit such a horrific crime...

The death of that innocent baby really affected me for a long time...in fact, it still does.

[LostinVA]

8. A kick for her

A very sweet lady, according to everything I've read about her.

[cwydro]

11. Yeah, my birthday.

Do you know that Linda Kasabian, one of the "family" and the one who flipped for the state...has a myspace page???!!!

Was googling around the other day re the Tate murders and found out that little tidbit.

Too weird.

[ronnykmarshall]

12. She does?

I'll have to check it out. You know the link? If not I'll search MySpace.

[cwydro]

13. No, I don't know anything about myspace...

just found the link when I googled her name. Think she may have her own website and that is where it is. Really weird to me for some reason. Thank god the other monsters don't have one too.

[supernova]

16. Ewww, a new way for these killers

to hook up with their demented "fans." :puke:

[cwydro]

17. you should read

Susan Atkins website. She was one of the worst, imo, and she acts like she is a damn saint or something because she has been "good" in prison.

[ronnykmarshall]

20. She's putrid!

And so is Tex Watkins. There is a great clip when Doris Tate went to Watkins parole hearing. She looked him straight in the eye and said "When does my daughter get paroled?". God Bless Doris and Patti Tate. Debra is the only one left now.

[cwydro]

22. Tex Watkins is supposedly

a preacher now. A PREACHER!
He is out of prison if you can believe that. Scum.

[Elidor]

28. Wiki says he's still in prison

And won't have another shot at a parole hearing until 2011.

If he's smart, he'll make sure they never let him go.

[cwydro]

32. I hope that is true..

now I've got to go google. Can't remember where I read he was out. It didn't make much sense to me.

[edbermac]

33. Tex Watson is NOT out of jail.

He does have a Christian themed website - http://www.aboundinglove.org/

Of all the killers involved in the Tate-LaBianca murders only Leslie Van Houten has a slim chance of getting parole as she was only involved with the LaBiancas.

[cwydro]

34. yeah, I'm on WIki right now

glad to hear he will rot in prison.

Following the links right now to his website...these people are all monsters.

[devilgrrl]

30. Don't you mean Tex WATSON?

Yes, he is a slime bucket. As are the rest of the Manson poseurs.

[cwydro]

39. Yes, Watson.

I just started reading his autobiography on his website about that night. I don't know if I can read it all the way. I had the same problem with Helter Skelter. Scared the bejesus out of me.

[ronnykmarshall]

19. I think the Kasbian one is fake.

It looks like someone just cut and pasted any info about her from the internet.

Plus "she" has pictures of the actress that played "her" in the orginal "Helter Skelter" movie.

[cwydro]

23. Huh!

I'll have to go back and check it out. Like I said, I know nothing of myspace at all. Gives me something to do at work tomorrow, lol.

[devilgrrl]

14. She was pretty lady.

RIP Sharon O8)

[devilgrrl]

15. Say, any LA DUer's wanna hit the 'El Coyote' for happy hour?

:silly:

[ronnykmarshall]

18. Some people WILL!

I've read on some boards related to the murders, that people go to El Coyote every year to honor Sharon and the others that died. That's a great resturant.

[kwassa]

25. I spent so much time there ....

the world's most inauthentic Mexican food, yet we all loved it.

California.

We went cross-country skiing on the Angeles Crest Highway, had dinner and margaritas at El Coyote, and then went to this bowling alley in Hollywood, where we continued with tequila shots. Same day.

ah, memories!

[devilgrrl]

26. That bowling alley is now a school.

No more bowling in Hollywood. :evilfrown:

[LSK]

21. check these out..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFNZj9UOxdY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGu8Ml-O-BQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rm2qOQz6lo&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGXNd3dGOFA&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3sa8YZMnj8&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWDRxdQA8zk&mode=related&search=

[LSK]

24. 1969 news account video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFr4zSA_EhI

[ronnykmarshall]

27. Wow!

Those are great.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

29. RIP Sharon Tate and all the others whose lives were taken on that night

May you all rest in peace

This may sound inappropriate to say it at this time but I HATE Charles Manson and his bunch of whacked-out goofies who worshipped him beyond what words could ever convey. May they never see the light of day again.

[LibDemAlways]

31. Off the top of my head there was also

coffee heiress Abigail Folger, her boyfriend Voytek Frykowski, hair dresser Jay Sebring, and a caretaker named Steven Parent. As big as the story was then, imagine the circus it would turn into today.

[supernova]

35. It would be the OJ Trial all over again

Sharon Tate's autopsy photos would be posted on the net.

CNN and Fixed Noise would be live with every little thing from the manson family, the victims' families.

Court TV would carry live coverage of the trial.

Endless blog entries about the timelines of the murders. Netizens would live memorial entries on the victims' Myspace pages.

The Prosecutor and the Defense Team jockeying for public opinion

Heh. Cynically speaking, and in today's melieu, she'd be the Important Murdered White Woman of the moment.

[Bunny]

36. Sharon's death photos are posted on the net. Along with those of the other victims.

You can see them as they were found at the scene, and at the coroner's office, both before and after they were cleaned up. It is absolutely revolting - the manson family were horrible, horrible monsters.

[supernova]

38. Oh lord,

:puke:

No way I'd want to look at that. :puke:

Course, I don't guess I should be surprised.

[LibDemAlways]

40. I think for a case this sensational Court TV

would pre-empt all other programming. It would be all Manson/all the time.

However, before there were any leads in the case, there were only 4 dead bodies, 6 counting the La Biancas the next night. The endless speculation that would have caused among the army of talking heads would have been intense, and Roman Polanski would have been accused and convicted by Nancy Grace - who'd have to do on-air contortions to explain how he could have been in LA and England at the same time. Probably a good thing there was no cable "news" back then.

[ronnykmarshall]

41. Steven Parent wasn't the caretaker.

He was a friend of the caretaker and was visiting him. The caretaker was the only person not killed.

[LibDemAlways]

42. The memory is going...thanks for the correction.

[Mad_Dem_X]

37. She was gorgeous

What happened to her, and the others who were there, was a tragedy.

She was 8 months pregnant when she was killed.

RIP, Sharon.