For Tuesday, April 6, 2010: Another Rare Interview with Sharon from a German Magazine

Thanks to Suse, a Sharon fan for allowing me to use this here:


Jasmin German Magazine - Interview 1969:

The caption reads: Sharon Tate: "Thus to live on as before."

"My Luck, My Fear, My Hope"


JASMIN spoke with Hollywood Star Sharon Tate.  This interview took place a few weeks ago.  Today - after the murder of Sharon Tate in the home she shared with her husband Roman Polanski - is this amazing conversation of actuality.


Jasmin: What is your biggest fortune?


ST: The child I am expectiing. But Roman and I, we did not plan this child --it was just a fortunate coincidence.

But this is my life: Only this moment counts, only this day. I have never worried about my future.

Jasmin: What are you scared of?


ST: Being all alone, to have nobody who loves me, nobody who I can love--thats my fear.  Loneliness drives


people to desperation and they realize that they have no reason to live. Thank God I was never in such a


situation but I'm still young yet.  But for elderly people it must be terrible seeing their friends dying-- one


after another.  The loneliness of age deeply depresses me.


Jasmin: What is your biggest hope?


ST: Certainly not my career, I just don't have the ambition.  I hope my child will be the most beautiful and
the healthiest child in the world.  And it shall be happy--a happy person who can see, understand and enjoy
the beautiful things in life.  This is also the hope I have for my own life: just carry on living like I do now--perfectly happy ... or is this maybe asking a bit too much?

Note: If you recognized the photo shoot above you are correct... It is from the famous Esquire Magazine shoot.

Esquire Magazine December 1967 Sharon Tate and Mao Tse-tung

I found a cartoon today that reminded me of a wonderful article on Sharon that was very tongue and cheek that appeared in Esquire Magazine.

Here is the Japanese Animae I found. It looks like it could be of Sharon, after all, the girl has brown eyes and blonde hair and a great body...




Here is the original magazine and it's contents:

A Beginner’s Guide to Mao Tse-tung

The little red book which contains hightlights from The thought of Mao Tse-tung is the most influential volume in the world today. It is also extremely dull and entirely unmemorable. To resolve this paradox, we, a handful of editors in authority who follow the capitalist road, thought useful to illustrate certain key passages in such a way that they are more likely to stick in the mind. The visual aid is Sharon Tate and, to give credit where credit, God knows, is due, she will soon be seen in the Twentieth Century-Fox motion picture, Valley of the Dolls.

1. Every communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."

"Problems of War and Strategy" (November 6, 1938)



2. Our fundamental task is to adjust the use of labor power in an organized way and to encourage women to do farm work.

"Our Economic Policy" (January 23, 1934)




3. How is Marxist-Leninist theory to be linked with the practice of the Chinese revolution? To use a common expression, it is by "shooting the arrow at the target." As the arrow is to the target, so is Marxism-Leninism to the Chinese revolution. Some comrades, however, are "shooting without a target," shooting at random, and such people are liable to harm the revolution.

"Rectify the Party's Style of Work" (February 1, 1942)



4.The world is yours, as well as ours, but in the last analysis, it is yours. You young people, full of vigor and vitality, are in the bloom of life, like the sun at eight or nine in the morning. Our hope is placed on you. The world belongs to you. China’s future belongs to you.

Talk at a meeting with Chinese students and trainees in Moscow (November 17, 1957)



5. ...the flattery of the bourgeoisie may conquer the weak-willed in our ranks. There may be some Communists, who were not conquered by enemies with guns and were worthy of the name of heroes for standing up to these enemies, but who cannot withstand sugar-coated bullets. We must guard against such a situation.

"Report to the Second Plenary Session of the Seventh Central Committee of the Communist Party Of China"

(March 5, 1949)



6.Whoever wants to know a thing has no way of doing so except by coming into contact with it, that is, by living (practicing) in its environment. ...If you want knowledge, you must take part in the practice of changing reality. If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself.

"On Practice" (July, 1937)