For Thursday, December 30, 2010: Emmanuelle Seigner Singing and More Art of Sharon

Here are some recent photos of Emmanuelle singing.  She looks great and the dress she wears is something Sharon would have loved:

And here is some more great art of Sharon! :

This was sent to me from Natalie in Poland.  Thanks so much Natalie! Lovely Work! :

The one below is a new one from Deviant Art:

And I can't post Sharon art without adding Kerstien's fine site!

Her link:

http://www.kerstien.se/sharoninart.htm

More Art of Sharon, Movie Posters from her films and Polanski's "The Ghost" gets 'awards boost' from Film Comment

Here is some new art I have found on Sharon from Deviant Art, Flicker and just searching Google:

I like the colorization of the top photo.

Another cool one from 'FVK'.

I had to edit this one because, although it is very nice, it has something to do with the murders.  But the girl who did it was doing it for a criminal justice class, so I guess I see why she did it the way she did.  If you want to see the full version:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/minxmir/3114165434/

However, for the best Sharon art (in my biased opinion!) is always Kerstien's

Her link is here:

http://www.kerstien.se/sharoninart.htm

Here is a site that has some reproduction movie posters of Sharon's films:

http://www.moviepostershop.com/sharon-tate-posters

And Roman's latest gets a boost from a top industry film magazine:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/blogs/race/polanskis-ghost-dead-20-real-61498

Sharon in the satirical magazine CARICATOUR #1, May, 1968, More Sharon in Art and a Sharon song sent to me by a fan

Found this interesting clipping from this site today:

http://mikelynchcartoons.blogspot.com/2010/09/caricatour-1-may-1968-part-two-of-two.html

But of course, she IS NEWSWORTHY!

Here is some more art I found on Sharon and art that reminds me of her:

From Deviant Art

I try to find as many different styles of art as I can.

And I cannot do Sharon art without adding Kerstien. :)  This is one of Sharon as a chess piece:

Amazing...right?  For more Sharon art please go to this link:

http://www.kerstien.se/sharoninart.htm

And here is a lovely but sad song dedicated to Sharon and her baby, Paul Richard Polanski sent to me by a fan, Sam Michael Nardone.  Thanks so much for sending this:

Paul Richard

Copyright © 1992 by Sam Michael Nardone.


Dedicated to Sharon Tate, and her unborn baby, Paul Richard.

Paul Richard,


with so much love,


your mother cared for you.


You were the apple of her eye...


an unborn little child...






Chorus:


And no one knows,


how your mother prayed for your life,


with pleading cries:


but it was denied.


And all her tears...


and unspoken fears...


couldn't give you one more day...


couldn't make the darkness go away...


Inside you felt all her pain:


like thunder, lightening and rain...


Thunder, lightening and rain...






Paul Richard,


for eight long months,


your mother rejoiced over you.


You were protected inside...


until that night...






Chorus:


And no one knows,


how your mother prayed for your life,


with pleading cries:


but it was denied.


And all her tears...


and unspoken fears...


couldn't give you one more day...


couldn't make the darkness go away...


Inside you felt all her pain:


like thunder, lightening and rain...


Thunder, lightening and rain...






Paul Richard,


joyous in heaven,


with your mother by your side...


No more pain inside...


no more tears and cries...


Just happiness in the light of sunshine...


the light of sunshine...






Chorus:


And no one knows,


how your mother prayed for your life,


with pleading cries:


but it was denied.


And all her tears...


and unspoken fears...


couldn't give you one more day...


couldn't make the darkness go away...


Inside you felt all her pain:


like thunder, lightening and rain...


Thunder, lightening and rain...






FADE:


O beautiful Sharon so long ago,


I look at your portrait,


while hearing your sweet echo...



Groovy and Great Artist Kerstien Matondang has updated her ultra cool Sharon Tate Site! and More Sharon Art

The sensational artist Kerstien Matondang has recently updated her fabulous site!

Take a look here:

http://www.kerstien.se/sharoninart.htm

Please be sure to leave her some comments in her guestbook!  She looks as though she has been busy lately!  Thank you Kerstien, for all you do in Sharon's memory.  I think she would be very proud!

Here is more nice art of Sharon from http://www.deviantart.com/ :

Hope you all enjoyed these!

For Monday March 29, 2010: I am back on the internet! New Art of Sharon, Full Transcript of Wanted and Desired, Sharon and Roman and Life Magazine Archives, and Faye Dunaway

After a week I am back on the internet.  Thanks to everyone who has emailed and said how much they appreciate this blog.  I am proud to keep Sharon's great memory alive.


I am going to make it up to you on posts that I will date from the day I was not on... So we start with:

Monday March 29, 2010

New Art of Sharon on Deviant Art:

I found a link that has the entire transcript of the documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired.  It has a lot of wonderful quotes about Sharon:

http://www.script-o-rama.com/movie_scripts/r/roman-polanki-wanted-and-desired-script.html

If you haven't seen the archives of Life Magazine please check out this page showcasing photos of Roman, Sharon, Mia Farrow and Debra Tate:

http://www.life.com/search/?q0=sharon+tate

Be sure to check out this month's Vogue with Model Gisele on the cover. It has an article on one of Sharon's favorite actresses, Faye Dunaway.

More of the Sharon Tate Art Gallery, Sharon in "Don't Make Waves" and a clip from Polanski's "The Ghost Writer."

First of all, I apologize for making this short tonight but I have come down with an awful head and sinus cold. 

I found this art was reminiscent of Sharon from Deviant Art and iStockphoto:

Doesn't the above photo look like that one photo that was suppose to be Sharon but actually turned out to be some other actress?  I can't remember where I saw it but if you know email it to me and I'll put it here to show everyone.

And of course, I never can do "The Sharon Tate Art Gallery" segments without including the great Kerstien Matondang: 

From her website: http://www.kerstien.se/sharoninart.htm

 

Here is a review that focuses mainly on Sharon's performance in "Don't Make Waves."  A very interesting read:

http://www.laverneonline.com/2010/03/01/upon-further-review-what-might-have-been%E2%80%A6/

And if you haven't seen "The Ghost Writer" yet here is a clip from it:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/roman-polanskis-the-ghost_n_482772.html

More of the Translated Article: Sharon Talks About Polanski, Roman's New Film is a Critical Hit and what Ewan McGregor says about working on the film.

L'Europeo August 21, 1969



My meeting with Sharon Tate


by Adriano Botta


Continued from yesterday...
 

Sharon colorized art from Deviant Art.

"The critics (for Eye of the Devil), however, admited that my beauty was charged with sexuality.  This at once made me shudder and at the same time excited," says Sharon Tate at the banquet after her marriage. Roman Polanski nodded in a small, dark corner with the pictures of the faces of Mickey Mouse behind him.



She gradually made two other films, The Valley of the Dolls and Don't Make Waves with Tony Curtis and Claudia Cardinale. Then she began echoing her meeting with Polanski for The Fearless Vampire Killers. "It was an encounter that changed everything in my life. I had never before known such a man. I am terribly in love with him. He has taught me many things. Not only to remain naked with joy and ease, but also to live life with more intensity-- I--who am so lazy that I could sleep at night and day.


"It is not true that we take a lot of drugs. To me, Roman is a drug. Next to him I feel drugged. I do not take drugs from his orders.  Instead we go roaring around in a red Ferrari that runs with of the wind. I was ordered not to smoke anymore, because the tobacco, would ruin my teeth. He ordered me not to wear underwear because it leaves marks on the skin. And without the constraints of bourgeois body, it is much more beautiful and natural. In The Fearless Vampire Killers we have made our first film together. I play a bewitching part, or rather, I portray a vampire. At first I am not a vampire though, no, I'm a country girl kidnapped by vampires. Roman, who besides directing the film has a part in it.  He falls in love with me and saves me before all the blood was sucked out of me by the vampires. But she does not get a transfusion. The blood and rigor in the films of Roman. So much so that she leaves the country with this tremendous experience a new taste. The taste of blood. She becomes a vampire and changes him into one too. The finish is spectacular. I grow teeth like Dracula. I must confess: I like the macabre Roman does.  It is exciting to me.  He is a macabre genius."

Tomorrow more of this new translated article.

Polanski is getting some great reviews for "The Ghost Writer:"

http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/movie_reviews/b167807_review_ghost_writer_clever_thriller.html

http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2010-02-19-ghostwriter19_ST_N.htm

http://www.hitfix.com/blogs/2008-12-6-motion-captured/posts/the-ghost-writer-is-a-sleek-and-satisfying-thriller-for-grown-ups

This one is by famous critic Kenneth Turan of 'The Los Angeles Times' :

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-ghostwriter19-2010feb19,0,5640884.story

This critic is already talking about Oscars for next year for Polanski's film:

http://www.seattlepi.com/movies/415582_film32307228.html

Ewan McGregor on Polanski:

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2010/02/18/the-ghost-writer-star-ewan-mcgregor-on-his-upcoming-projects/

Sorry mainstream media. Ewan McGregor, star of the Roman Polanski thriller “The Ghost Writer,” knows that you want him to dish on the 76-year-old director, who’s currently under house arrest in Switzerland stemming from a 1977 sex-charge case. But he’s not biting. The actor, who plays an unnamed author hired to ghost-write a memoir for a disgraced ex-British prime minister, said he sympathizes with Polanski and feels bad for him, but that’s the furthest he’ll go.

“It’s very tricky because his whole situation is so complicated and nothing to do with me,” he said. “I worked intensely with him for four months and I felt badly for this children, whom I got to know during the shoot.”

McGregor talks more about working with Polanski in this article and it shows a clip from the film:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703444804575071470108130174.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_RIGHTTopCarousel

The Wall Street Journal: It's hard to talk about "The Ghost Writer" outside the context of Mr. Polanski's troubles. Is that fair to the film?

Mr. McGregor: I think the film is a much heavier political story than it is a commentary on Polanski's life. He really seems like a very self-assured person to me who doesn't need to make a comment on his life through his films...Polanski seems terribly private. He wasn't with us at the launch of the film [in Berlin] but quite probably, he wouldn't want be there anyway.

Mr. Polanski is notoriously direct with actors while on set. Did you find him as gruff as advertised?

He doesn't sugarcoat his notes. Most directors would tell you, "That was great, but let's try it like this." He'll just stop you mid-take and go "No no no—why are playing it like this?" and you'll just look back and be like, "I don't know, good question." We're sensitive souls, us actors, and after a while, it dents your ego, but once you realize he's like that with the set dresser and the prop man, and just about everyone, it was OK.

Morgane Polanski.  Makes you wonder what Sharon and Roman's own future daughter might have looked like?  I know their first child was a boy but I have always wondered if they had more...

Note on Polanski's "The Ghost Writer": it has 94 year old Eli Wallach who has remembered Sharon fondly when she was an extra on the film set from the movie, "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man."  Also, Polanski's beautiful daughter Morgane playes in her dad's film.  She plays a hotel receptionist trapped in period costume.