Quote of the Week, A Fan Dedication in Photos, Keira Knightly in the March Elle Magazine and more

Here is the quote of the week:

Sharon's friend actress Mary Winters:

"When I think of Sharon, I remember all the happy memories, so loving, vulnerable, and very disciplined when it came to her career. She was very family orientated; we'd often drive to Palos Verdes Estates
and have dinner with them. She was especially close to her mother. Sharon evoked a kind of warmth. Everybody felt very protective towards her. I guess we lived at the Hollywood Studio Club for about six months, then Sharon took an apartment on Fuller street in the building that Richard Beymer's mother managed."

Here is a lovely 3 part photo series on Sharon from a fan:

http://xmaniac.net/?p=102

On the top of the page see Especial Sharon Tate - Parte 2 and there is a 3 as well.

Keira on the Elle cover for March.

Sharon Tate look-a-like, Keira Knightly appears on this month's March edition of Elle magazine.  She has appeared on Elle before and I found a quote from her that was interesting:

Asked if the Oscar nomination for "Pride and Prejudice" had changed her life?

Knightly: "For ages and ages, everybody was going, 'Oh, she's just a pretty face.  She absolutely can't act.'  And I was going, 'Well, maybe they're right; I don't know.'  So that (Oscar nod) at least shut them up for a while."

This is the magazine that the quote comes from.

This reminds me of some of the people who have said the same thing about Sharon.  'Oh, she's just a beautiful face, she never could act.'  I really genuinely think that had Sharon lived, she could have proven all these people wrong too.  But, unfortunately, we'll never know.  I think she did well in the films she did make, don't get me wrong.  But I think she would have really shown us so much more.  She certainly was on her way up and out of the contract with Ransohoff so she could do more classy films like "Tess" to showcase her acting talent.

Here is Andrea's page of montage videos of Sharon:

http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/my_shared?z=409241fe839fff14f2ea96&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url

Be sure to check them out. 

A Nude Angel Doll of Sharon? Sharon Tate and Jack Palance? Rare Photos from Polanski's Tess, Rare Memorabilia and More

I found someone who makes those look-a-like dolls and they made one of Sharon that is nicely done--no pun intended.  It looks more like a work of art.  I found these photos on the net but when I tried to go to the actual link it had been deleted.(?)  But thought you might want to see it. 

Sharon moved in with Jack Palance?  According to a director of one of her early films.  Here is where the comment comes from and what exactly was said:

From: JUST TELL ME WHEN TO CRY by Richard Fleischer

(The director is talking about the film "Barabbas" in his autobiography:) Trying to use the huge crowd to its best advantage, I decided to jump out of continuity and shoot the end of the gladiatorial battle between Quinn and our chief villain, Jack Palace, where Tony is victorious and the crowd calls for Palance's death. Nine thousand people screaming, with their thumbs down! What a shot! The result was unexpected. When the crowd saw Tony, in response to their thumbs-down gesture, kill Palance, they cheered, got up, and started to leave the arena. All nine thousand of them. They thought the show was over! It took an hour to get them stopped and headed back to their seats.

On the second day of shooting we were working closer to the crowd and I could scrutinize it. I was looking for good character faces I could feature in various reaction shots. There were some excellent types, but one face truly stood out, that of an eighteen-year-old girl of stunning beauty. She was gorgeous. A knockout. I pointed her out to my assistant and told him I wanted her in every close shot I could possibly use her in. And I asked him to find out who she was and where she came from. It turned out she was the daughter of an officer at the U.S. military base in Vincenza.

It wasn't too long before Jack Palance also spotted her. And it wasn't too much longer that she moved in with him. Her name was Sharon Tate.

*I think that Fleischer is telling what he thinks to be the truth, the only thing is: I don't think the Tates would have let Sharon move in with Palance at such a young age. They were still very protective of her at this time.  And while, I know Palance went out with her and even got her a screen test at the time, I have never heard from anyone else that they actually moved in together.  Any thoughts?

Here are some more rare photos from 'Tess', Polanski's film dedicated to Sharon:

Rare memorabilia of Sharon on the back cover of the novel version of "The Wrecking Crew":

Would you like to share your thoughts about Polanski's masterpiece, 'Chinatown?' :

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/critics-picks-video-chinatown/

How well is Polanski's latest film doing?  Apparantly quite good.  Most critics love it, Polanski won Best Director at the recent Berlin Film Festival for it and it is doing well at the box office:  This weekend, the political thriller had the highest per screen average by far at the US box office: $45,752 at four theaters in New York and Los Angeles, for a total of $183,009 according to Box Office Mojo.

Here is an article where Roman talks about winning the Berlin Award:

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/22/roman.polanski.best.director.ppl/

Doris Tate 's Premonition of Sharon Tate 's Death and How She Coped, Polanski News, Doomed Movie Lovers and More

National Enquirer Article either from late 1970s or early 1980s:

The mother of murdered actress Sharon Tate says that she saw her daughter die in a vision - three months before the starlet was slain in the Charles Manson "helter-skelter" killings.

And she admits that today she can't sleep without a gun at her side.

Speaking for the first time about her life since losing her daughter, 54 year old Mrs. Gwen Tate told the ENQUIRER:

"Night time is always difficult for me. That is when I do my thinking."

It was night time on August 9 1969 when Sharon and four other were shot and stabbed to death in her Beverly Hills home.

And the passing of years can't erase the bloody imagines.

"I've put myself in Sharons place that night," says Mrs. Tate, "and I have to pull myself away. It is horrific. You could really go completely insane. And there were times when I felt I was on the edge. You just don't accept it. You don't face it."

"It took three years before I woke up and said 'shes gone.' "

Mrs. Tate sat holding a bible in her comfortable home in Palos Verdes, California. "You never get over something like this," she said. "I still go through depressions. I keep the bible close to me, in my bedroom I have my rosary... and a gun. I sleep with it by my side. If someone tried to break in, I wouldn't stop and say 'who are you?' I'd just blow his head off."

Mrs. Tate recalled the vision she had three months before Sharon was murdered.

"I saw myself with her in this room, and I was trying to get her out. A man dressed in black was shooting a gun." (The killers were dressed in black and one man, Charles Tex Watson had used a gun). 

Mrs. Tate recalled something that happened on the day of the funeral - Something that kept her from falling apart. "Sharon's casket was closed," she said. "I went over to kiss it - and I heard her say as plain as if she was standing beside me. 'Mother, that's not me.'  That's what saved my sanity and thats what gave me strength, because I do believe in life after death.

"I feel Sharons presence here in the house and I am certain that, somewhere, some day we will be together."

In addition, I found a link on the internet were it shows that Gwen/Doris Tate visited with a Spiritualist and Medium, Brian Edward Hurst, about Sharon.  He says: "Doris was a wonderful advocate for the Parents of Murdered Children. She has now passed to a higher life."  Here is the link to his website and he has a photo of himself with Doris Tate:

http://www.ktb.net/~hurani/

A new photo I found on the web of a behind the scenes from Polanski's 'Tess':

Here is a link about Celebrity Doomed Lovers that mentions Sharon and Roman:

http://www.celebrityinsightsblog.com/?p=767

Still looking for "The Beverly Hillbillies" and Sharon? :

http://www.oldies.com/product-view/0562D.html

And is it me, or is this asking for to much money for Greg King 's fine biography of Sharon?  I suppose it is out of print now?

http://www.madametalbot.com/pix/books/10/bks1510.htm

Absent Polanski to Dominate Berlin Film Festival?

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9783715

Happy Birthday Sharon! Drew Barrymore Channels Sharon Tate and In Defense of Roman Polanski

Happy Birthday to our wonderful Sharon in heaven!

Other significant things that happened on this day in history:

http://wheniwasbuyingyouadrinkwherewereyou.blogspot.com/2010/01/24-january-2004-singapore.html

I noticed the above link says that Tess star Nastassja Kinski also has a birthday!  Happy Birthday to you!

News:

Drew Barrymore and Sharon Tate?

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/alltherage/2010/01/sag-awards-red-carpet-drew-barrymore-channels-a-sixties-starlet.html

Drew Barrymore Channels a 60s starlet

Drew Barrymore's '60s bouffant and pale makeup were inspired by Brigitte Bardot and Sharon Tate, two references the actress gave makeup artist Debra Ferullo when creating the overall look to compliment her midnight-blue Monique Lhuillier dress.

To get the look, Ferullo used Cover Girl clean liquid makeup and Simply Ageless blush in Plush Peach. To the eyes, layers of Dior Show mascara were applied along with Cover Girl Shadow Blast in Bronze Fire and Silver Sky. For that perfectly frosty, pale pink lip, Ferullo used Dior Addict lip color in Beige Negligee and Dior Addict Ultra Gloss in Jersey Pink.

Frosty pink gloss, a silvery smoky eye along with that teased and twisted up-do, Barrymore looked like she stepped straight out the '60s.
--Melissa Magsaysay

Another defender of Polanski:

http://www.weeklyblitz.net/445/in-defense-of-roman-polanski

Hope everyone is having a great weekend!