Quote of the Week, Last Person to See Sharon Alive?, Hauntings in America Makes Mistakes, and What Kind of Grandmother Would Sharon have made?

Here is our Quote of the Week by Sharon's mother Doris: 

Small clipping of Sharon and Doris and their dogs.

"I know I was horrible at times, I was, I really kept a tight rein on, I had to, I felt fine about Sharon being a star, as long as I was close by. You cannot protect your kids, you just can't, there are 24 hours in a day."

Here is a web mention of Sharon but it doesn't provide much for details?

http://www.cocosvariety.com/2010/09/hans-ohrt-beverly-hills.html

Did he see Sharon leaving El Coyote Restaurant or is there something I don't know about?  If anyone knows please leave a message here or email me.

This Hauntings of America appears to be off with the facts, for instance calling Roman "Rob" Polanski and others:

http://www.itvexposed.com/hauntings-in-america-hauntings-across-america/

I saw that today is Grandparents day and I was wondering what kind of Grandmother Sharon would have made?  I'm sure she would have been wonderful and would have loved babysitting.  Here is a web mention of famous grandmothers, like Goldie Hawn:

http://specials.msn.com/A-List/Lifestyle/Famous-grandparents.aspx?cp-documentid=25526307&imageindex=1&cp-searchtext=Famous%20grandparents

That's one thing we have never really heard about either; I wonder what kind of relationship Sharon had with her own grandparents?  If anyone knows feel free to message here or email me.  Thanks and Happy Grandparents Day to you if you are one! ;)

Quote of the Week, Yuba Exhibit Shows Victims, and Sharon Tate as a Gift?

I found a quote today that I thought would make Sharon laugh:

If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

I was thinking of little things Sharon used to do like overwatering her plants and having the water come out of the bottoms all over.  On the contrary though, I do not thing this shows Sharon as being dumb. I think we all do silly things sometimes.  At least Sharon could laugh at herself.  But that doesn't mean she was not intelligent.  I think she was... I recall Deborah saying somewhere that Sharon was kind of like Goldie Hawn.  And even though Goldie could do silly and funny things too, that does not mean she was not a very savvy career woman. I think Sharon would have become more known this way if she had lived.  After all, she was still relatively young when she died and we all know that we change in our thirties in the way we think of things.

Yuba exhibit puts face on victims of violence

http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/victims-94224-photographs-ended.html

Twenty-five photographs tell a story of lives ended — but never forgotten.

The Yuba County residents who were victims of homicides are displayed at the courthouse and county Government Center for National Crime Victims Rights Week.

Jason Roper, Victim Witness Program manager for the Yuba County Probation Department, said the photos put faces to people whom some may know only as names in a newspaper story.

"It's definitely created a huge emotional reaction," Roper said. "It's caused a lot of discussion."

Michelle Porter — stepmother to Crystal Porter, 19, who died with her 1-year-old daughter Katelynn in a suspicious Sept. 17, 2006, fire in Marysville — said her family members and all those shown in the photos shared a similar fate.

"They were all taken from us way too soon," Michelle Porter said.

The photographic project by Victim Witness, she said, follows extraordinary help from the county agency since the 2006 deaths. "Victim Witness has always been there for myself and my family," Porter said.

Such help had not always been available here or elsewhere.

Dan Levey, national president of Parents of Murdered Children, said a presidential task force started in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan was a key part of efforts to assist crime victims. Levey praised the Yuba County photo project.

"It gives meaning and honor to who they were," he said.

Bilenda Harris-Ritter, a Folsom attorney who is on the board of the national parents group, said that before the early 1980s, the criminal justice system often overlooked crime victims.

"People don't see the victims in a murder case," Harris-Ritter said. "They do see the defendant every day."

U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder, in a letter about the Crime Victims Week, noted the event evokes powerful memories of a time when victim support services were not available to those harmed by crime.

"In the not so distant past, victims were being routinely excluded from courtrooms," Holder wrote.

Sandy Fonley, who worked for Yuba County in victim assistance for more than two decades, said the 1969 murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others in Los Angeles by the Manson Family helped spur attention to crime victims.

Doris Tate, Sharon's mother, had said her daughter's celebrity status shouldn't have made her death more significant than others, recounted Fonley, who met Doris Tate.

Fonley recalled Tate saying, "My daughter happened to be beautiful," as she crusaded for the rights of all victims.

CONTACT Ryan McCarthy at749-4707 or rmccarthy@appealdemocrat.com

And I bet a lot of men would love to have Sharon as a gift. ;)  Here is a look back at one of the bits from the Beverly Hillbillies episodes.  Be sure and watch the whole thing to see what I am talking about. :)
 
http://www.wikio.com/video/sharon-tate-clampetts-culture-janet-trego-3130960

Penelope Cruz Article Reminds One of Sharon Tate & More Links on Polanski Case

I got in the new Vanity Fair this past weekend and the article had some quotes and information in it that reminded of Sharon.  There was an article on the beautiful, talented actress Penelope Cruz who also appears on the cover.

The article in the magazine says one director said that many in Hollywood "didn't know what to do with her."  Talking about Penelope Cruz.  This reminded me of what agent Hal Gefsky confessed about Sharon: "she was so young and beautiful that I didn't know what to do with her."

Speaking of her Cruz's beauty, Woody Allen says: "I don't like to look at Penelope directly.  It is too overwhelming."  That could equally be said of Sharon.

Cruz, who had some great roles in Europe, found that her first films in Hollywood were not doing anything for her career.  Italian director Pedro Almodovar says: "It was bad luck for Penelope, because some of the movies were very ambitious, but this happens.  They only saw her as a beautiful girl.  It is a problem with the market, the agents, the studios, the film industry as a whole that labels actors in a way that is not subtle at all."  The problem, he continued, is that Hollywood put her in about 10-12 movies like this but luckily, it did not ruin her career.  She continued to make more European films and with Almodovar until the great roles began to come her way.

That part of the article made me think of Sharon since Hollywood treated her much the same way.  And, even though many of her films had ambitions behind them as well, Hollywood failed to realize she could be much more than just another pretty face.  Perhaps Sharon would have had a period like Cruz's, when she didn't get the roles she should have.  We can only wonder what would have happened in her career in the years to come.

The article also discusses how Allen found her comedic talent.  "She has a natural sense of humor," he says. Vanity Fair's author Ingrid Sischy writes: "Because of Cruz's looks and the fact that the camera loves her as much as it does, her comedic flair has often been left untapped.  But she could just be the great 21st century screwball talent, the Jean Harlow or Carole Lombard of our time."

Sharon had a great comedic talent.  Some critics recognized this in Sharon's performances especially in the likes of "The Wrecking Crew."  Sharon also loved the comedy style of Carole Lombard stating that she wanted to be a light comedian in that same vein.

Apparently, Almodovar pushes Cruz for great performances much like Polanski pushed Sharon.  No telling what would have happened if Polanski and Sharon had continued to make films together.  Surely, he would have saved her career like Almodovar did Cruzs. 

It is a shame we can only now speculate what may have happened.  In my opinion, I think Sharon would have continued her career and would have made it big like Farrah Fawcett or Goldie Hawn or possibly a combination of the two. 

Just for fun, I put together a mock up issue of Vanity Fair with Sharon on it's cover.  I only changed the faces with Sharon as I do remember Sharon used to wear many different wigs for photo shoots.  So I just wrote here that Sharon was wearing a wig for our photo op.  I also put the photos of Cruz on so you can compare those.  These women are certainly two of cinema's most beautiful women!

I am not the best graphic artist as you can see but I did what I could and I sincerely hope you all enjoy the pretend photographs.

If you can't get enough of all the media hype over Polanski here are a few more noteworthy articles:

If you have not seen 'Wanted & Desired' that is a documentary on the case, you would want to read this:

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/oct2009/pola-o05.shtml

The Los Angeles Times has a few articles on Polanski, one of the most interesting ones discusses his film "The Piano." :

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/movies/la-et-polanskifilm5-2009oct05,0,3211525.story

This site talks about how Samantha Geimer now views the case:

http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/39787386.html

And this site takes a look back at Polanski's "Chinatown." :

http://fandangogroovers.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/forget-it-jake-its-chinatown/

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