For Tuesday, December 28, 2010: Another Site with Sharon Photos, Liesl dies, and Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" is appearing on many top 10 lists for the best films of 2010

Here is another great site with Sharon photos and art:

http://www.fanpix.net/picture-gallery/sharon-tate-picture-16330801.htm

Agathe Von Trapp who Sharon almost played as Liesl (but another actress got the part) in "The Sound of Music" has passed away:

http://www.undercover.fm/news/13206-agathe-von-trapp-dies-at-age-97

And Roman Polanski is beginning to appear on many best films of 2010 with his film, "The Ghost Writer":

http://www.salon.com/entertainment/movies/film_salon/2010/12/30/scenes_2010_ghost_writer

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-schreiber/top-ten-films-of-2010_b_802964.html

For Thursday, December 23, 2010: Another mention of Sharon as Marilyn, Sharon and Paul Bern and Roman Wins Award

Another mention of Sharon as Marilyn.  This digital photo really seems to be making the rounds these days:

http://paraphernaliainyourcloset.blogspot.com/2010/12/sharon-tate.html

More about the Jean Harlow-Paul Bern-Sharon Tate connection here, although many of you have probably already heard this story:

http://www.suite101.com/content/sharon-tate-encounters-harlow-house-ghost-paul-bern-a323940

And sorry if this is old news to you but I found this on Roman from December 4:

Roman Polanski wins best European picture award

(AP) – Dec 4, 2010

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Roman Polanski's "The Ghost Writer," a story of a journalist hired to write the memoirs of a British prime minister, has won the prize for best film at the European Film Awards.

Polanski, who was awarded the Silver Bear for best director at the Berlin Film Festival, also took five other key prizes at the ceremony held in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, late Saturday.

Nominated in seven categories, the movie won the best director prize, best actor for Ewan McGregor, and best screenwriter went jointly to Robert Harris and Polanski.

"You have awarded a truly European venture. This is too much ... thank you very much," Polanski said in an acceptance speech through a Skype connection from an unknown location. "I wish to thank — before anything — this wonderful crew I had, a truly European crew."

It was not the first time that the Polish-born director has received recognition from the European Film Academy.

The 77-year-old Oscar winning director of movies like "Rosemary's Baby" and "Chinatown" was honored with a lifetime achievement award in 2006 in Warsaw, Poland.

In Tallinn, French composer Alexandre Desplat was awarded for best composer while his compatriot film editor Herve de Luze won the production designer prize for Polanski's movie, which was mainly shot in Germany.

"The Ghost Writer," about the memoirs of a politician, played by Pierce Brosnan, is loosely based on former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Its production was a tangled tale for Polanski.

As he was finishing the movie in September 2009 Polanski was taken into custody at Zurich airport by Swiss police at the request of U.S. authorities to face prosecution in a 1977 child sex case. He had to finish editing the film while in Swiss prison before being released on house arrest.

In July, Polanski was freed after the Swiss government declined to deport him to the United States. But he still faces an Interpol warrant in 188 countries. Most European nations, including Estonia, have an extradition treaty with the United States.

McGregor, who played the ghostwriter, said he had a "fantastic time" while making the film.

"More than any other part I've played I feel like the director Roman Polanski had his hands really on my performance and is as worthy of this award as I am," McGregor told the audience through a video message from Thailand, where he is currently shooting a film.

Among other prizes at the academy's 23rd annual awards ceremony, Swiss actor Bruno Ganz was honored with a lifetime achievement prize handed out by German director Wim Wenders.

Ganz, 69, with a screen career that spans five decades with memorable performances in Wenders' "Wings of Desire" and "The American Friend," in which he costarred with Dennis Hopper. He is also remembered from his acclaimed performance as Adolf Hitler in the 2004 German drama "Downfall" that portrays the last days of the Third Reich.

French actress Juliette Binoche presented the European achievement in world cinema award to Lebanese composer and musician Gabriel Yared, who has written scores for "The English Patient" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley."

The prizes — the European equivalent of the U.S. Academy Awards — have been presented since 1988 by the European academy to celebrate the continent's film industry as a European counterweight to the Oscars.

Photo of the Week, Hairstyles of the 1960s, and News on Polanski

Here is the photo of the week:

I've always loved these Terry O'Neill pictures. ;)

I found this interesting Italian site that has some great hairstyles from the 60s that includes Sharon:

http://digilander.libero.it/guido_1953/pics/hairstyle/hairstyle-girls.htm

News on Polanski:

Here is a new article:

http://unbiasedwriter.com/film/roman-polanski-the-controvery-of-an-artist/

And here is one on him winning yet another award for "The Ghost Writer":

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gAU4_WvbQ4FUoPyRscn2sE-vn_3g

And here is an interesting short interview with Polanski when he was asked about Sharon.  If you listen closely you can still hear Roman's voice:

http://www.rtve.es/mediateca/videos/20090714/charles-manson-entrevista-roman-polanski-anos-despues-del-asesinato-esposa/566770.shtml

Channeling Sharon Tate, Very Rare Sharon and Roman photos up for bid lately by David Bailey and the Euro Film Awards Nominate "Ghost Writer"

I have noticed that Drew Barrymore has been channeling Sharon Tate's hair and natural looking makeup lately:

And she's not the only one channeling Sharon's great style, this blogger noticed someone else who is...

http://decadesinc.blogspot.com/2010/09/decades-loves-ladies-of-san-fran.html

And, Gisele Bundchen in this magazine...

http://www.gossiprocks.com/forum/magazines-photoshoots/132956-gisele-bundchen-muse-magazine-summer-2010-a.html

Recently, in Europe this rare nude Sharon Tate and David Bailey pic sold for 1900 Euros:

And now Christie's has this up for bid:

http://www.christies.com/LotFinder/lot_details.aspx?pos=9&intObjectID=5355123&sid=

Click on the link above for a larger view of it.

And Polanski's "The Ghost Writer" has been nominated for the Euro Film Awards:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/awards/news/e3i8ee6fde4efa3c4bf2fa159d847e7ab64

John Steiner on Sharon Tate, New Sharon Tate Art, A New Blog on Sharon and More

A little while ago a Sharon fan asked about John Steiner and what he thought of Sharon.  I tried to email him but never got a response so I emailed one of his fans and here is what he had to say:

Actor John Steiner.

Sorry I've been so long in replying. I've been rooting through some old magazines and files to see if I can find anything for you. Sadly, there is very little on the film, which has always struck me as strange. It was pretty much overshadowed at the time by Mel Brook's inferior The Twelve Chairs, and the film has stayed stubbornly unfashionable.

Steiner only mentioned the film in passing in an interview in the early 70's, and quoted that Tate was a "lovely lady."


All the very best, Cranston


For his website go here:

http://www.moviemags.com/main.php?title=JOHN%20STEINER%20ZINE&etos=%

Another artistic blogger has created a nice sketch of Sharon here:

http://celebritysketches.blogspot.com/2010/04/this-drawing-was-inspired-one.html

And another person has began a Sharon Tate blog.  She wrote and complimented me on mine.  Thank you!  Here is the link for her blog:

http://cielostar1969.blogspot.com/

Good luck with your blog!  The more the merrier for fans of Sharon!

Have you ever wondered what happened to Polanski directing Robert Harris' other best seller Pompeii?

http://www.slashfilm.com/2010/04/12/ridley-scott-producing-pompeii-mini-series-formerly-developed-as-a-feature-by-roman-polanski/

Here is a video of Author Robert Harris talking about "The Ghost Writer" and comparing Polanski to Hitchcock:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8615081.stm

Photo Comparison of the Week, More Fantastic Videos of Sharon from Artist Kerstien Matondang, Style Icon Sharon and More on Polanski

Here is the photo comparison of the week:

The eyeglasses, hair and even the clothes remind me of something Sharon would wear. ;)

From Vogue Magazine: A Dolce and Gabbana Ad.

The great artist Kerstien Matondang has uploaded two great mini movies here:

http://kerstien.se/_bluerayforsharon_.htm

http://kerstien.se/star_for_sharon.htm

Please be sure to check out her site for more...

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

And be sure to leave your comments on her guestbook here:

http://99419.netguestbook.com/

Here is another blogger showing photos of Sharon as a style icon:

http://www.iadorestyle.com/2010/04/style-icon-sharon-tate/

And here is a new article on Polanski and his talent:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/263c350c-435b-11df-833f-00144feab49a.html

Roman Polanski has 'the gift of the nose'

By Tobias Grey

The gift of the nose” is how Jerzy Mierzejiewski, one of Roman Polanski’s teachers from the Lodz Film School in Poland, summed up his young protégé’s uncanny ability to make films that reverberate with audiences on several levels.

Robert Harris, who adapted the film’s screenplay from his book ‘The Ghost’, at the Berlin Film Festival in February.

Even now, at the age of 76, Polanski knows how to sniff his way to a good film. His 18th feature, The Ghost Writer, which won the Silver Bear at this year’s Berlin Film Festival, is the latest in a long line of Polanski pictures where art and reality have become inexorably entwined.

Yet that was never his original intention. Polanski first contacted the novelist Robert Harris to see if he could make a film out of Harris’s novel Fatherland, an alternative history of the second world war with Nazi Germany as the winners. Told that the rights for Fatherland were gone, Polanski read his way through the rest of Harris’s oeuvre until he got to Pompeii, the English author’s novel about ancient Rome.

Harris agreed to write Polanski a screenplay. But in 2007, just as Polanski was about to start principal photography on the $100m budgeted film, the project became derailed by a looming Hollywood strike. A dogged Harris then sent Polanski his just-finished novel The Ghost, a roman à clef about a professional ghostwriter employed to write the memoirs of a former British prime minister who bears more than a passing resemblance to Tony Blair.

Ten days later Harris received a phone call from Polanski saying he would like to make a film out of The Ghost and asking Harris again to write the script.

“Providence!” exclaims Harris, who altogether spent two-and-a-half years working with Polanski on the two scripts. “It was far more suitable as a Polanski film than Pompeii was.”

Harris points to The Ghost’s isolated setting, its sexual tension and the master/servant relationship between the former prime minister (Pierce Brosnan) and his ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) as typical Polanski territory. But what neither Polanski nor Harris could have predicted was that The Ghost Writer’s plot – ex-PM Adam Lang, accused of war crimes, becomes a prisoner in his publisher’s compound – would end up echoing Polanski’s own house arrest in Switzerland for a crime he had committed more than 30 years earlier.

Polanski, who fled the US for Europe in 1978 before being formally sentenced for having unlawful sex with a 13-year-old, was arrested in Switzerland last September after travelling to the Zurich film festival to receive a lifetime award. After spending two months in jail, Polanski was granted house arrest at his residence in Gstaad, where he is still awaiting a decision over his appeals to fight extradition to the US.

“Some American critics said, look how he [Polanski] made this film to parallel his own situation under house arrest,” says Harris. “But that was a long way from our thoughts at the time we wrote the film. He’s funny, Roman: things just happen around him. He’s like a kind of whirlpool where fantasy and reality seem to collide.”

Polanski would likely agree. The opening of his (ghostwritten) autobiography Roman by Polanski (1984), is a confession of a kind: “As far back as I can remember the line between fantasy and reality has been hopelessly blurred. I have taken most of my lifetime to grasp that this is the key to my very existence.”

Harris suggests that it was during the second world war, after his parents were deported from Poland by the Germans (his father survived, his mother didn’t), that Polanski, who was on the run, began to fuse reality and fantasy “by hanging around in movie theatres as a kind of alternative reality”.

Filmmaking has allowed the director to evacuate his demons. His extraordinarily bloodthirsty Macbeth was the film he made after his wife Sharon Tate was murdered by Charles Manson’s gang, while the tag line of Tess, which Polanski made in France after fleeing the charges in the US, reads like reverse propaganda: “She was Tess, a victim of her own provocative beauty.”

Polanski finally felt ready to make a film about the Holocaust – The Pianist – after reading the Polish pianist Wladisaw Szpilman’s memoir of the Warsaw ghetto. For Polanski, who had turned down an offer to direct Schindler’s List because it was set in the Krakow ghetto “just too close to home”, The Pianist was far enough away from his own story to make a film possible.

Harris finds Polanski’s current predicament ironic because the director had felt that during the making of The Ghost Writer his legal situation was improving and that he might soon be able to return to the US. Marina Zenovich’s documentary Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired came out in Paris, where Polanski lives, during their collaboration in 2008.

“He heard about it when I was sitting with him,” Harris says. “The film makes clear that a deal was done; he pleaded guilty to one charge (unlawful sex with a minor) and the rest was never tested in court. The understanding was that he [Polanski] would not get a custodial sentence and the judge ratted on that.”

With redemption seemingly just around the corner, Polanski and Harris busied themselves writing a film designed to be a pure entertainment in the Hitchcock mould, for once not driven by any personal trauma. Harris’s models for his original novel were North by Northwest and “the entertainments” of Graham Greene. Polanski also discussed Carol Reed’s The Odd Man Out, which according to Harris is “his all-time favourite film”.

As was his wont Polanski made sure that Harris remained as faithful to the source material of his novel as possible. “Whenever I tried to leave something out in the screenplay he’d say, ‘You’ve left out these lines,’” remembers Harris. “‘Don’t f*** with success!’ he’d say. ‘Leave it in.’”

Although Harris wrote all the new film’s dialogue, Polanski would egg him on to put more dark humour into the script. “His default position is that the world is so terrible you have to laugh,” says Harris. “It was like working with a kind of super-editor. Sometimes I had to rewrite each scene 20 or 30 times until they chimed with what he had in his head.”

The other film of Polanski’s that The Ghost Writer most resembles is Chinatown. There is the same idea of a slightly cynical but inherently naive, young man snooping around in matters that shouldn’t concern him as much as they do. How do you end a story like that? In his autobiography Polanski delivers the rare insight that ending films effectively is always the most difficult.

“The film was going to end on an ambiguous note, with Ewan McGregor’s character just disappearing into a crowd,” says Harris. “But just before he started shooting the final scene Polanski said, ‘We can’t have this, it’s got to end on a darker note.’”

‘The Ghost Writer’ is released on April 16

Actress Suzanna Leigh Remembers Sharon Fondly But Not Roman, LAPD Detective Who Worked on the Tate Case Passes, Actor Hugh Grant Turned Down "The Ghost Writer", and Actress Olivia Williams Says "No Comment" on Polanski Case But Insists He is a Great Director

I got this book recently that includes talk of Sharon.  It is a autobiography of Actress Suzanna Leigh.  She was good friends with Sharon and mentions her fondly in the book.  However, she does not have nice things to say about Roman.  Not sure if I should mention what she says of him in the book.  If you are interested in a copy here is her website:

http://www.suzannaleigh.co.uk/index.html

Actress Suzanna Leigh.

Here is a highlight of what she says of Sharon:

 

"She was one of the sweetest people, besides being absolutely stunning. 

"I had met Sharon when she came over to London from Los Angeles in 1966 and I knew from our very first meeting that she was a lovely girl.  She had long blonde hair, the most stunning figure and legs that went on forever.  She also had a sweet personality and I don't think she ever said a nasty word about anyone."

 

It is an interesting book and offers many rare and great stories about Leigh's co-star and good friend, Elvis Presley.  So I do recommend it.

 

One of the LAPD detectives who worked on the Tate murder case has passed.  I remember how Polanski said all of them were so helpful in the case.  Here is a article about his passing:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-danny-galindo8-2010apr08,0,1301666.story

Los Angeles Times, April 8, 2010:

Danny Galindo dies at 88; LAPD detective in Tate-LaBianca murder cases

He was the first detective to arrive at the scene of the LaBianca slayings and conducted a detailed search, according to the book 'Helter Skelter.'

Danny Galindo, a retired Los Angeles police detective who helped investigate the notorious Tate-LaBianca murders, died of a heart ailment Tuesday at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, his family said. He was 88.

"He was an important member of the Manson murders investigative team," said Vincent Bugliosi, who was the chief prosecutor in the case. Cult leader Charles Manson and several followers were sentenced to death (later reduced to life terms) in the 1969 murders of actress Sharon Tate, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca and five others.

Described by Bugliosi as amiable and hard-working, Galindo was a member of the LAPD's prestigious Robbery-Homicide Division when he was sent to the Tate house in Benedict Canyon, where the first five killings took place on the night of Aug. 8, 1969. As he told Los Angeles magazine last year, he took charge of the evidence being gathered and stayed to guard the house after the other investigators left the gruesome scene.

The next night he was filing reports at Parker Center downtown when he was called to the scene of two more murders, this time in the Los Feliz area. He was the first detective to arrive at the LaBianca residence and conducted a detailed search, according to Bugliosi's book about the murders, "Helter Skelter." Galindo later testified about the results of his search, including finding the word "WAR" carved into the abdomen of Leno LaBianca.

On the night of the LaBianca murders he was asked by a television reporter if the Tate and LaBianca murders were related and regretted his answer. "I told him, 'I think it's more of a copycat case.' I introduced that expression, and I've lived with it forever. It was a hell of a mistake on my part," he said in the Los Angeles magazine piece, "because it wasn't until much later that things would begin to fall into place."

Galindo was born in El Paso on May 4, 1921. He flew a fighter plane for the Army Air Forces during World War II and was awarded the Purple Heart and Flying Cross after he was shot down over Germany.

He joined the LAPD in 1946 and quickly became a detective. He retired from the department in 1977 after three decades in homicide. He later worked as an investigator for the State Bar of California before starting his own investigations firm.

He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Margie, a son, a daughter and a grandchild.

 

Actor Hugh Grant apparently turned down a part in "The Ghost Writer":

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/people/news/article_1546036.php/Hugh-Grant-passed-on-Roman-Polanski-movie

And here, Actress Olivia Williams talks fondly of Polanski but does not want to discuss his current case:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7547577/Olivia-Williams-interview-Polanski-terrified-me-but-hes-a-movie-master.html

 

A highlight from that interview is this quote from Williams about 'what if this is Polanski's last movie?':

“That would be a tragedy, a f---ing waste. Roman is one of the great masters of film; he is unlike any other director. The over-sensitivity of modern actors has affected directing in a very negative way. So often these days, at the end of a take, you will find a director tentatively whispering to his star: 'That was great but perhaps, maybe, would you possibly even consider trying it again ever so slightly differently…’. Roman is not like that at all. If he is unhappy with something, he will interrupt a take waving his arms and bellowing: 'No! No! No!’, which, at first, was absolutely terrifying.

“He came at me with that once during my crying, shagging scene, which is a, you know, somewhat sensitive and vulnerable moment for any actor.” Again the eyebrow creeps up, comically. “It turned out he was upset because the pillow behind my head was at an angle that irritated him. After that, I stopped taking it personally.”

For Wednesday, March 31, 2010: Interesting Quote from Polanski, A Great Video Montage of Sharon, and Sharon, Roman on Playboy After Dark and Another Pierce Brosnan Interview

Here is an interesting quote I found from Polanski:

“I’m not a fortune teller. I would like to be judged for my work, not for my life. If there is any possibility of changing your destiny, it may only be in your creative life.”


This quote comes from a discussion about his film "Chinatown" from here:

http://tacomafilmclubannex.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/chinatown-924-broadway/

Here is a sad but very interesting montage on You Tube that has an interesting interview with Debra Tate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pMhHvcvGdw&feature=related

And if you haven't seen this Playboy After Dark interview please go here:

http://trueslant.com/susannahbreslin/2010/03/30/hugh-hefner-interviews-roman-polanski-and-sharon-tate/

Here is one of the highlights of the interview:


“I was arrested, I was arrested on a train,” Tate chimes in breathlessly. “My dress was like to here,” she gestures high on her thigh. “I said, ‘If you stop opening the windows and looking at us, you wouldn’t ever know I had a short dress on!’”


Hef asks Tate how she feels about doing nude scenes.


“Well, I feel that if it’s a real scene,” Tate responds, “and it’s an honest scene, and if it’s something where you’re stripped naked that you would be doing naturally, you know, making love, which is natural, taking a bath, you know, that’s lovely, you know, if it has a reason for it, it’s beautiful, but if it’s contrived, then, you know, it becomes vulgar.”

And here is another Pierce Brosnan interview mentioning Polanski and "The Ghost Writer".  Everytime I think he has said everything about this subject, I find something new in these interviews:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7528829/Pierce-Brosnan-interview-for-The-Ghost.html

The Meaning of a Name: Doris Tate and Ewan McGregor Compares Polanski to His Mother

I haven't done this in awhile and thought it would be interesting to put in Sharon's mother's name and see what it says:

You entered: Doris Gwendolyn Willet Tate

There are 24 letters in your name.

Those 24 letters total to 113


There are 8 vowels and 16 consonants in your name.

What your first name means:  Greek Female Gift. In Greek mythology, the daughter of Oceanus and mother of the sea-nymph Nereids; also the name of a district of Greece. Famous bearer: American actress Doris Day.

Your number is: 5

The characteristics of #5 are: Expansiveness, visionary, adventure, the constructive use of freedom.

The expression or destiny for #5:

The number 5 Expression endows with the wonderful characteristic of multi-talents and versatility. You can do so many things well. The tone of the number 5 is constructive freedom, and in your drive to attain this freedom, you will likely be the master of adaptability and change. You are good at presenting ideas and knowing how to approach people to get what you want. Naturally, this gives you an edge in any sort of selling game and spells easy success when it comes to working with people in most jobs. Your popularity may lead you toward some form of entertainment or amusement. Whatever you do, you are clever, analytical, and a very quick thinker.

If there is too much of the 5 energy in your makeup, you may express some the negative attitudes of the number. Your restless and impatient attitude may keep you from staying with any project for too long. Sometimes you can be rather erratic and scatter yourself and your energies. You have a hard time keeping regular office hours and maintaining any sort of a routine. You tend to react strongly if you sense that your freedom of speech or action is being impaired or restricted in any way. As clever as you are, you may have a tendency to make the same mistakes over and over again because much of your response is glib reaction rather that thoughtful application. You are in a continuous state of flux brought by constantly changing interests.

Your Soul Urge number is: 1

A Soul Urge number of 1 means:

Your Soul Urge is the number 1. With a Soul Urge number of 1, you want to lead and direct, to work independent of supervision, by yourself or with subordinates. You take pride in your abilities and want to be recognized for them. You may seek opportunities to display your strength and usefulness, wanting to create and originate. In your desire to manage the big picture and the main issues, you may often leave the details to others.

The positive 1 Soul Urge is Ambitious and determined, a leader seeking opportunities. There is a great deal of honesty and loyalty in this character. If you possess positive 1 Soul Urge qualities, you are very attainment oriented and driven to success. You are a loyal friend and strictly fair in your business dealings.

The negative side of the 1 Soul Urge must be avoided. A negative 1 is apt to dominate situations and people; the home, the spouse, the family and the business. Emotions aren't strong in this nature. If you possess an excess of 1 energy, you may, at times, be boastful and egotistic. You must avoid being too critical and impatient of trifles. The great need of the 1 Soul Urge is the development of friendliness, and a sincere interest in people.

Your Inner Dream number is: 4

An Inner Dream number of 4 means:

You dream of being a very solid citizen that people can depend upon. You strive for organization and predictable order. You want to be recognized as a person with a plan and the discipline to make that plan work like clockwork.

--From this site: http://www.paulsadowski.com/Numbers.asp

Here's an interesting small article I found today:

Ewan McGregor has compared Roman Polanski to his mother, because they are both “annoying”, and “usually right”.

The 38-year-old Scottish actor worked with the legendary film director on new thriller The Ghost Writer. McGregor plays an author who discovers a deadly secret when he is commissioned to write the memoirs of a former British Prime Minister. He found the role extremely challenging because he was constantly being criticised by Polanski.

“Roman doesn’t sugar-coat his notes to anyone – he tells it as he sees it,” McGregor told Total Film magazine. “We were doing one scene and Roman wanted a pillar moved two inches to the right, so there was a props guy with a drill trying to unscrew this pillar.

“I was running the lines and Roman just grabbed my script and said, ‘No! Why would you f**king play it like this? You would play it like this…’ Then he walked away and grabbed the drill out of the props guy’s hands and said, ‘Why are you doing it like this? You f**king drill it like that!’

“Once you learn not to take it personally, it’s fantastic and he’s like your mother – annoyingly, usually right.”

The Ghost Writer will be released worldwide on April 16.
 
--From this site: http://www.musicrooms.net/showbiz/4616-Ewan-McGregor-Has-Compared-Roman-Polanski-His-Mother.html

Photo Comparison of the Week, ICON Showing, Jay Sebring's old friend is still cutting hair, Sharon is the Best, and Brosnan appreciates work with Polanski

Here is our photo comparison of the week:

Someone mentioned that this photo of model Sophie Dahl looks a bit like Sharon:

I didn't realize the ICON Show was still going on?  But here is a woman who said she viewed it during Oscar week:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/flavia-colgan/icon-the-life-and-love-of_b_497675.html

One of Jay Sebring's old friends is still cutting hair:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/california/ci_14665834

Vote for Sharon as one of the best here:

http://bestuff.com/stuff/sharon-tate

Brosnan appreciates work with Polanski:

http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/03/13/986434/brosnan-appreciates-work-with.html

What’s it mean that an Irishman and a Scotsman— yourself and Ewan McGregor — are in a movie that does such a job on an English prime minister?

Oh, that’s the Polanski sense of humor, an Irishman playing the ex-prime minister. That didn’t get beyond me. But I’m not sure why he wanted me, and I didn’t ask. I thought, let sleeping dogs lie. Let’s just have fun. Let’s just play. He likes actors from the British Isles.

Roman with friend Catherine Deneuve.

What made working with Polanski better, or different, than with other directors?

Well, for one thing we shot my last scene in the movie first. We rehearsed in Roman’s trailer and he said, “OK, let’s shoot.” And we did anything but shoot. He fussed with the props, he fussed with the computers, he fussed with the guns, he fussed with my security men and then, right before lunch, he said, “OK, Pierce, after lunch, 27 lens . . .” and that’s a big lens, right in your face. And then we shot the scene.

And why did you want to work with him?

The man comes out of such a turbulent past and such a history of cinema and tragedy. I’d never met him, but the day I went to have lunch with him in Paris, I already knew him — what he sounded like, what he looked like, his life. It was a great invitation, a wonderful time, a magnificent director. He’s a unique character and wonderful filmmaker, and this character that I play was a great way to step out and play a political thriller.

Photo of the Week, A man fondly remembers Sharon but not so for Roman, Valley of the Dolls on the Manhattan stage, and Kim Cattrall says Polanski 'doesn't do anything on a whim.'

Here is the photo of the week:

I dedicate this to Muriel who shares so many of her great photos on The Official Sharon Tate Board:

Here is a man who remembers Sharon fondly but does not have such nice things to say about Roman:

http://bornagainredneck.blogspot.com/2010/03/name-dropping-2-tate-and-polanski.html

Tate and Polanski had gone to Europe the day after Manson first met them in March. I met them in July of 1969. At the time I was working in a pharmacy in Gloucester Road in London. One day Tate and Polanski brought a roll of 35 mm film into the pharmacy to be developed. I told them that the film would be ready in two days time but they did not return. Tate was obviously pregnant and stunningly beautiful. I showed all the other people who worked in the pharmacy Tate's photos. They were typical tourist pictures taken by Polanski of Tate posing in front of all the tourist spots in London.

A few weeks later I heard of that Tate had been murdered. I went to get her photos only to find that they had been stolen.

Yes, it was the same pharmacy in which I met Snowdon.

At that time Polanski was 36 and Tate was 23. He was a creepy little garden gnome and Sharon was a tall willowy blonde beauty - obviously the gnome's "American trophy." She was lovely, open, friendly and "radiant with pregnancy" as they say. He was a shifty-eyed weasel; one of those dirty creeps who makes the hair stand up on the back of your neck and causes your testicles to shrivel up.

There is a web mention here about the Sharon Tate mystique.  Apparently they are having a "Valley of the Dolls" stage production:

http://www.kera.org/artandseek/content/2010/03/12/artseek-qa-bob-and-doug-go-to-new-york-and-into-the-valley-of-the-dolls/

And Kim Cattrall says Polanski 'doesn't do anything on a whim':

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/movies/polanski-doesnt-do-anything-on-a-whim/article1493974/

Another article on Cattrall where she mentions Polanski:

http://www.vancouversun.com/entertainment/ghosts+Cattrall+present/2661951/story.html

Hope everyone has a great weekend!

Debra Tate Disturbed to Find Murder Scene Items Used in Exhibition, Rare Photos of Celebrities, and Some Rare Videos

I got the computer tonight and was surprised by the news that the LAPD had items on a display at a homicide investigators conference in Las Vegas that were very graphic and 'too close to home' for victims.

Apparently, the rope that hung Sharon and Jay was on display and even Robert Kennedy's shirt from his assasination was there.  There were also some weapons used at the Manson murders on display.  The items have since been removed.

"This is supposed to be a learning experience," Police Chief Charlie Beck told The Associated Press on Wednesday. "It wasn't intended to cause anyone grief or to be prurient or salacious in any way."

 Debra Tate, the sister of Sharon Tate, said she and family members of other victims should have been notified in advance that evidence was going to be shown.

"A little warning would have been nice so we could prepare ourselves emotionally," Tate said. "It's part of the insensitivity the department shows toward victims. We're being victimized over and over again.

"From my perspective it's very disturbing. Number one, I didn't get any notice that this was going to occur.

"These are very personal artifacts to me. These are things that bring back horrible memories, not only for myself, but other Manson family victims."

Tate plans to complain to the LAPD. However, she said she understands the value of the exhibit.

"I understand using it as a teaching tool and keeping the public aware of how heinous these murders were," she said. "From that aspect it's very important."

For the complete articles that the above information comes from go to these sites:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/nation-world/ci_14504278?nclick_check=1

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7363336/Bloodstained-Kennedy-shirt-removed-from-exhibition.html

http://www.theolympian.com/2010/03/03/1158749/lapd-removes-kennedy-death-items.html

Here are some very rare photos of celebrities including Sharon and some of her friends:

http://freshpics.blogspot.com/2010/03/rare-photos-of-celebrities.html

Here is a video dedication to Jay and Sharon:

http://www.nedir.ws/?p=72777

And here is a dedication to Doris, Patti and Debra:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRK9yUWmrlA&feature=youtube_gdata

And Emmanelle Seigner and Morgane Polanski fans of 'Sex and the City'?  :

http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2641493

More exclusive clips from Polanski's "The Ghost Writer":

http://www.collider.com/2010/03/04/6-movie-clips-from-roman-polanskis-ghost-writer-starring-ewan-mcgregor-and-pierce-brosnan/