1 00:00:01,440 --> 00:00:05,640 Speaker 1: Greetings, Hollywood Land listeners, thanks for joining us. I'm Jake Brennan, 2 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:08,799 Speaker 1: and we here at Double Elvis are super excited to 3 00:00:08,840 --> 00:00:11,520 Speaker 1: crack into the archive today and bring you this story 4 00:00:11,600 --> 00:00:14,280 Speaker 1: on Sharon Tate. And this is a two part episode 5 00:00:14,320 --> 00:00:17,720 Speaker 1: on Sharon Tate. Both parts tie directly to our two 6 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,360 Speaker 1: part Mama Cass Elliott story that we released in our 7 00:00:21,400 --> 00:00:24,599 Speaker 1: Disgrace Land feed on the Mama's and the Papas. Sharon 8 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:28,200 Speaker 1: Tate and Mama Cass were very good friends, and in 9 00:00:28,240 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 1: researching this story, I found this incredible anecdote detailing a 10 00:00:32,960 --> 00:00:36,520 Speaker 1: party at Cass Elliott's house where Sharon Tate was introduced 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:40,040 Speaker 1: to some scruffy, scary hippies. And you're gonna hear all 12 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:44,200 Speaker 1: about that in these episodes here now. That story incidentally 13 00:00:44,320 --> 00:00:48,239 Speaker 1: came from Michael Kaine's autobiography, a book that is strangely 14 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,880 Speaker 1: out of print and very hard to find. It's almost 15 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:51,519 Speaker 1: like they don't want you. 16 00:00:51,560 --> 00:00:52,520 Speaker 2: To read it. 17 00:00:52,520 --> 00:00:56,320 Speaker 1: It's a book titled What's It All About? Anyway, we 18 00:00:56,360 --> 00:00:59,680 Speaker 1: attack these Sharon Tate episodes with a Roschermont approach, where 19 00:01:00,120 --> 00:01:02,600 Speaker 1: as you'll hear if you listen to the accompanying Mama 20 00:01:02,640 --> 00:01:07,560 Speaker 1: Cass episodes in Disgraceland. Sharon's story takes place within Mama 21 00:01:07,600 --> 00:01:10,560 Speaker 1: Cass's story, and we give you both their points of view, 22 00:01:10,959 --> 00:01:13,960 Speaker 1: which of course varies at times. It's a bit of 23 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:16,479 Speaker 1: a trip, which it should be for a story set 24 00:01:16,640 --> 00:01:20,360 Speaker 1: in nineteen sixty nine. Anyway, we hope you love listening 25 00:01:20,400 --> 00:01:22,640 Speaker 1: to these Sharon Ted episodes as much as we hear 26 00:01:22,680 --> 00:01:29,040 Speaker 1: at Double Elvis loved putting them together. This episode contains 27 00:01:29,080 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: content that may be disturbing to some listeners. 28 00:01:31,640 --> 00:01:33,600 Speaker 3: Please check the show notes for more information. 29 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:37,440 Speaker 1: Hollywood Land is a production of Double Elvis. 30 00:01:39,200 --> 00:01:52,920 Speaker 4: God On My Love, Love It. 31 00:01:55,160 --> 00:01:56,559 Speaker 3: On It. 32 00:02:00,800 --> 00:02:05,000 Speaker 1: The stories about Sharon Tate are insane. She was a 33 00:02:05,040 --> 00:02:09,120 Speaker 1: sophisticated beauty who literally stopped traffic when she walked down 34 00:02:09,200 --> 00:02:12,880 Speaker 1: the street. She began her movie career when America was 35 00:02:12,919 --> 00:02:16,520 Speaker 1: becoming sexually liberated, and despite the ease with which she 36 00:02:16,639 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: made a sex symbol, she aspired to be respected as 37 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:23,840 Speaker 1: a serious actress. She was equally famous for being the 38 00:02:23,880 --> 00:02:29,079 Speaker 1: wife of Roman Polanski, director of the satanic thriller Rosemary's Baby, 39 00:02:29,680 --> 00:02:32,560 Speaker 1: as well as for the cast of Hollywood A listers 40 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:37,560 Speaker 1: that regularly hung around their clo drive home decades later. 41 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:40,079 Speaker 1: She is perhaps best known as one of the four 42 00:02:40,160 --> 00:02:43,920 Speaker 1: victims gruesomely murdered at that Hollywood Hills home in August 43 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:47,920 Speaker 1: of nineteen sixty nine five if you count her unborn 44 00:02:48,040 --> 00:02:51,200 Speaker 1: baby who was murdered along with her. She was close 45 00:02:51,240 --> 00:02:53,760 Speaker 1: friends with Mama cass Elliott, who was at the center 46 00:02:53,800 --> 00:02:56,800 Speaker 1: of the Manson murders and whose actions may be why 47 00:02:56,840 --> 00:02:59,400 Speaker 1: the true motive for those murders has been hidden for 48 00:02:59,480 --> 00:03:04,240 Speaker 1: over fifty years. But throughout her brief career, Sharon Tate 49 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:08,120 Speaker 1: performed slapstick comedy and Maudlin drama was equal a palm, 50 00:03:08,840 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 1: and she made great films. Unlike that clip I played 51 00:03:13,120 --> 00:03:15,400 Speaker 1: for you at the top of the show. That wasn't 52 00:03:15,400 --> 00:03:18,040 Speaker 1: a clip from a great film. That was a fair 53 00:03:18,080 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 1: youse sample from the Library of Congress of Reed Miller 54 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:24,880 Speaker 1: performing Love Here Is My Heart in nineteen twenty one. 55 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,040 Speaker 1: I played you that clip because I can't afford the 56 00:03:28,120 --> 00:03:31,560 Speaker 1: rights to Stanley Kramer's Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? And 57 00:03:31,600 --> 00:03:35,280 Speaker 1: why would I play you that specific slice of groundbreaking 58 00:03:35,320 --> 00:03:39,880 Speaker 1: interracial commentary. Could I afford it? Because that was the 59 00:03:39,960 --> 00:03:44,280 Speaker 1: number one movie in America On December fifteenth, nineteen sixty seven, 60 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:47,360 Speaker 1: and that was the day that Valley of the Dolls 61 00:03:47,440 --> 00:03:51,720 Speaker 1: opened in theaters, reintroducing Sharon Tate as not just another 62 00:03:51,760 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: pretty face, but as a dramatic force to be reckoned 63 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:58,880 Speaker 1: with and a rising starlet, unaware of the reckoning that 64 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:04,000 Speaker 1: was coming to her front door. On this episode sexual Liberation, 65 00:04:04,680 --> 00:04:10,200 Speaker 1: gruesome Murders, a reckoning, and Sharon Tate. I'm Jake Brennan. 66 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:49,120 Speaker 1: In This is Hollywoodland, it was innocent entertainment in the 67 00:04:49,160 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 1: City of Angels. Sharon Tate Hostess with the Mostess at 68 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,360 Speaker 1: the Love House, a French Normandy style residence nestled up 69 00:04:57,400 --> 00:05:00,920 Speaker 1: on Siello Drive in Bennettet Canyon, hollyod Hills. That is 70 00:05:02,279 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: the party, Like the woman herself, was to be perfect. 71 00:05:06,560 --> 00:05:11,040 Speaker 1: Sharon Tate, twenty six years old, blonde, strikingly gorgeous, and 72 00:05:11,160 --> 00:05:15,919 Speaker 1: impeccably tasteful, personified the nineteen sixty nine American vision of 73 00:05:16,080 --> 00:05:20,360 Speaker 1: perfect cheek, mini dresses by Betsy Johnson and Christian Dior, 74 00:05:20,960 --> 00:05:26,440 Speaker 1: oversized sunglasses, patterned scars, Chanelle number five, more cultured than 75 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:31,160 Speaker 1: counterculture neutrality and all its sublime beauty. She had the 76 00:05:31,200 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 1: grace of grace. Kelly in the allure of Audrey Hepburn. 77 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 1: America loved her. Sharon Tate was a star. Just look 78 00:05:40,520 --> 00:05:45,000 Speaker 1: around who's who of Hollywood celebrities mingling in Sharon's living room, 79 00:05:45,440 --> 00:05:48,400 Speaker 1: more than one hundred guests in total. Warren Beatty and 80 00:05:48,440 --> 00:05:52,240 Speaker 1: Steve McQueen bringing that leading man energy, Jane Fonda and 81 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 1: her little brother Peter bringing that old Hollywood pedigree. Nancy 82 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:59,920 Speaker 1: Sinatra getting mileage out of those boots. Tony Curtis was 83 00:06:00,120 --> 00:06:03,200 Speaker 1: going on about his Baltus paintings and telling stories about 84 00:06:03,240 --> 00:06:08,320 Speaker 1: Marilyn god Rest, her soul, hairdresser extraordinaire, Jay Sebring, Sharon's 85 00:06:08,320 --> 00:06:12,799 Speaker 1: ex flame indefinitely in friend zone purgatory, and not least 86 00:06:12,800 --> 00:06:17,719 Speaker 1: of all, Sharon's good friend Cass Elliott aka Mama Cass, 87 00:06:18,160 --> 00:06:20,920 Speaker 1: wrapping LA's pop scene with the members of her newly 88 00:06:20,960 --> 00:06:24,160 Speaker 1: defunct band, The Mama's in the Populace. This wasn't no 89 00:06:24,320 --> 00:06:28,400 Speaker 1: California dreaming. This was real. It was March of nineteen 90 00:06:28,520 --> 00:06:32,400 Speaker 1: sixty nine, and Sharon Tate was perfectly in her element 91 00:06:32,480 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: as a star. Now, if she could just get people 92 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:39,000 Speaker 1: to take her seriously as an actress the way they 93 00:06:39,040 --> 00:06:43,960 Speaker 1: treated her husband, Roman Polanski, director of last year's psychological 94 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:49,800 Speaker 1: horror smash, the satanic thriller Rosemary's Baby. Just look at him, 95 00:06:50,080 --> 00:06:54,040 Speaker 1: that ascot around his neck as if he were John Ford. Okay, 96 00:06:54,120 --> 00:06:57,359 Speaker 1: if anyone was taking Roman too seriously, it was Roman. 97 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: His early films were exact, ridden mind fucks of art 98 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:06,320 Speaker 1: school proportions, and he was the sensitive type. The studio 99 00:07:06,560 --> 00:07:10,520 Speaker 1: butchered The Fearless Vampire Killers, the nineteen sixty seven movie 100 00:07:10,520 --> 00:07:12,880 Speaker 1: on which he and Sharon met fell in love in 101 00:07:12,880 --> 00:07:16,640 Speaker 1: real life, cut it to shit. They even overdubbed Roman's 102 00:07:16,640 --> 00:07:20,200 Speaker 1: accented English dialogue with the voice of another actor. It 103 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:23,800 Speaker 1: was rendered a bloodsucking farce. And Roman didn't do fars. 104 00:07:23,960 --> 00:07:29,160 Speaker 1: Roman did art highbrow. Sharon, on the other hand, didn't 105 00:07:29,160 --> 00:07:33,400 Speaker 1: go for such hoity toity pretensions. Fuck her Let's dance. 106 00:07:34,240 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 1: Sharon just wanted to perform, farce or not. She wasn't 107 00:07:37,840 --> 00:07:40,480 Speaker 1: afraid of being funny and being laughed at. She was 108 00:07:40,520 --> 00:07:44,320 Speaker 1: an actress, after all, legit. She studied with Lee Strasberg, 109 00:07:44,440 --> 00:07:49,600 Speaker 1: but not just drama. Comedy. Comedy was hard, harder than anything. 110 00:07:49,880 --> 00:07:52,680 Speaker 1: She didn't care what anyone else said. The critics thought 111 00:07:52,720 --> 00:07:54,640 Speaker 1: she was funny too, and not just in those episodes 112 00:07:54,680 --> 00:07:57,320 Speaker 1: of The Beverly Hillbillies back when she was just getting started. 113 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:01,440 Speaker 1: Her latest movie, The Wrecking Crew, a spice move with 114 00:08:01,560 --> 00:08:05,960 Speaker 1: Dean Martin, was drawing positive critical marks, mostly for her 115 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,600 Speaker 1: performance as a klutzy undercover agent, But when she tried 116 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:12,080 Speaker 1: to play dramatic to play serious, like she did in 117 00:08:12,200 --> 00:08:15,320 Speaker 1: Valley of the Dolls, she was savaged in the papers. 118 00:08:15,960 --> 00:08:19,800 Speaker 1: Roger Ebert called the movie offensive, appalling in a dirty 119 00:08:19,800 --> 00:08:22,720 Speaker 1: soap opera, which is hilarious because just one year later, 120 00:08:22,880 --> 00:08:25,840 Speaker 1: rog penned his won and only screenplay, a sequel turned 121 00:08:25,880 --> 00:08:29,280 Speaker 1: satire of Valley of the Dolls that intentionally courted an 122 00:08:29,520 --> 00:08:34,240 Speaker 1: X rating anyway, I digress. Roger Ebert decide Sharon Tate 123 00:08:34,600 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: was loved, but similar to her character in that dirty 124 00:08:38,080 --> 00:08:42,280 Speaker 1: soap opera, Sharon feared she was only loved for her beauty. 125 00:08:42,440 --> 00:08:44,640 Speaker 1: She knew she wasn't just a pretty face, even if 126 00:08:44,640 --> 00:08:47,680 Speaker 1: Hollywood favored gratuitous close ups of her tits and ass. 127 00:08:48,559 --> 00:08:51,760 Speaker 1: Like Cass Elliott, people liked to stare at Sharon Tate, 128 00:08:52,120 --> 00:08:55,600 Speaker 1: and like Cass, Sharon was insecure about how she looked. 129 00:08:56,120 --> 00:08:58,640 Speaker 1: But they stared at Sharon differently than they stared at 130 00:08:58,640 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: her two hundred and thirty pound free Sharon Tate's first 131 00:09:03,760 --> 00:09:06,920 Speaker 1: experience with getting noticed happened when she was only six 132 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:09,920 Speaker 1: months old. Her parents entered her in the Miss Tiny 133 00:09:09,960 --> 00:09:13,200 Speaker 1: Top pageant in her hometown of Dallas, Texas, and she won. 134 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,160 Speaker 1: She also won the Miss Auderama contest at fifteen years 135 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:20,440 Speaker 1: old in Richmond, Washington, where her family had moved for 136 00:09:20,520 --> 00:09:24,080 Speaker 1: her father's career in the army. A year later, she 137 00:09:24,240 --> 00:09:28,360 Speaker 1: was crowned Miss Richland. Sharon's family moved again, this time 138 00:09:28,400 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: to Facenza, Italy and then an American high school. There, 139 00:09:31,679 --> 00:09:36,040 Speaker 1: Sharon was named both homecoming and prom queen. The first 140 00:09:36,040 --> 00:09:38,520 Speaker 1: time she walked down the street in New York City 141 00:09:38,640 --> 00:09:42,760 Speaker 1: as an adult, she stopped traffic. Literally, the city that 142 00:09:42,800 --> 00:09:45,720 Speaker 1: never sleeps, the city that is always on, always going, going, going, 143 00:09:45,760 --> 00:09:48,440 Speaker 1: the city that has seen everything. It just stopped. It 144 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:52,040 Speaker 1: ceased to be for a few seconds. No horns, no cursing, 145 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:54,800 Speaker 1: just feed on brake, pedals and jaws on the pavement. 146 00:09:55,280 --> 00:09:56,960 Speaker 1: If you were in New York City that day and 147 00:09:57,000 --> 00:09:59,360 Speaker 1: he saw Sharon Tate walk down the street, you'd know 148 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 1: what I'm talking about. But Sharon endeavored to stop people 149 00:10:04,559 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 1: in their tracks for her talent, not just her appearance. 150 00:10:08,800 --> 00:10:11,480 Speaker 1: After this party was over, she would be one step 151 00:10:11,520 --> 00:10:15,360 Speaker 1: closer to that goal, one day closer to leaving La 152 00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: for Rome, where she would begin filming twelve plus one 153 00:10:19,160 --> 00:10:22,760 Speaker 1: aka The Thirteen Chairs, a film in which she'd co 154 00:10:22,880 --> 00:10:27,200 Speaker 1: star alongside none other than Orson Welles. Imagine that her 155 00:10:27,600 --> 00:10:30,600 Speaker 1: Sharon Tate, just a few years into a film career, 156 00:10:30,679 --> 00:10:33,560 Speaker 1: grinding it out, seeking legitimacy in a movie with the 157 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:35,680 Speaker 1: guy who had made some of the greatest movies of 158 00:10:35,720 --> 00:10:41,280 Speaker 1: all time. Of course Orson's presence notwithstanding, The script called 159 00:10:41,280 --> 00:10:45,440 Speaker 1: for Sharon to perform several semi nude scenes. That was 160 00:10:45,480 --> 00:10:48,800 Speaker 1: nothing new. What was new was that Sharon was three 161 00:10:48,840 --> 00:10:52,280 Speaker 1: months pregnant, and as such, the director had arranged to 162 00:10:52,280 --> 00:10:55,760 Speaker 1: shoot those scenes first upon her arrival, before she began 163 00:10:55,840 --> 00:11:00,120 Speaker 1: to show too much Roman. Her husband wasn't read need 164 00:11:00,240 --> 00:11:03,480 Speaker 1: to be a father, He said that to Sharon verbatim 165 00:11:03,760 --> 00:11:06,080 Speaker 1: in all honesty. He wasn't ready to be a husband either, 166 00:11:06,240 --> 00:11:08,800 Speaker 1: or even ready to be monogamous. But why would a 167 00:11:08,840 --> 00:11:11,840 Speaker 1: happily married man bring home random girls from the Sunset 168 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:14,679 Speaker 1: strip for threesomes if he was ready to be monogamous 169 00:11:14,760 --> 00:11:17,600 Speaker 1: or ready to settle down in any way, and that 170 00:11:17,640 --> 00:11:21,640 Speaker 1: threesome business wasn't Sharon's bag less, so were the other 171 00:11:21,679 --> 00:11:26,880 Speaker 1: sexual encounters of Roman, orchestrated for her freaky stuff, debauched orgies. 172 00:11:27,520 --> 00:11:29,880 Speaker 1: He ran the video camera while she and the others 173 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,000 Speaker 1: did their thing. That thinking about Roman's and fidelities and 174 00:11:33,040 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 1: humiliations made her feel a little less guilty about poking 175 00:11:35,760 --> 00:11:39,800 Speaker 1: a hole in her diaphragm. Getting pregnant. Now, that would 176 00:11:39,840 --> 00:11:43,160 Speaker 1: put a stop to these sexual escapades. She didn't tell 177 00:11:43,240 --> 00:11:45,920 Speaker 1: Roman at first, and when she finally let him know, 178 00:11:46,080 --> 00:11:50,560 Speaker 1: she was expecting his reaction was what she expected. What 179 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:54,280 Speaker 1: if they got rid of it and tried another time, 180 00:11:55,000 --> 00:11:57,840 Speaker 1: she wouldn't hear of it. Nineteen sixty nine was going 181 00:11:57,840 --> 00:12:00,480 Speaker 1: to be her year, a movie with orson well, a 182 00:12:00,559 --> 00:12:03,679 Speaker 1: husband who cut the shit and loved her in her alone, 183 00:12:03,960 --> 00:12:08,160 Speaker 1: and some fucking respect. And so when Sharon and Roman 184 00:12:08,280 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 1: hosted a going away party at one zero zero five 185 00:12:11,080 --> 00:12:14,120 Speaker 1: zero Ciellow Drive for Roman, who was leaving for London 186 00:12:14,160 --> 00:12:17,000 Speaker 1: the next day to scout locations for his next film, 187 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:20,920 Speaker 1: the couple presented a united front the perfect star and 188 00:12:20,960 --> 00:12:24,680 Speaker 1: the hottest director in the trendiest house and coming soon 189 00:12:24,800 --> 00:12:27,920 Speaker 1: the cutest baby. Everything was fine as it should be, 190 00:12:28,000 --> 00:12:33,400 Speaker 1: Everything was perfect, and then the front door blew open. 191 00:12:35,040 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 1: Sharon didn't recognize the two men who walked inside the house. 192 00:12:38,960 --> 00:12:42,480 Speaker 1: She hadn't invited them, and their vibe was stylishly unkempt. 193 00:12:42,800 --> 00:12:45,920 Speaker 1: The one taking lead had long hair, a bush and mustache, 194 00:12:46,000 --> 00:12:48,559 Speaker 1: and a faux for a jacket. He wore a scarf 195 00:12:48,600 --> 00:12:50,480 Speaker 1: around his neck like it was a code word to 196 00:12:50,520 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 1: gain entrance to a secret society. Sharon knew their type, 197 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:59,480 Speaker 1: not just gate crashers, rubberneckers coattail riders. They put jittery 198 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:02,319 Speaker 1: fingers to their noses while their eyes scanned the room. 199 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:04,400 Speaker 1: They knew they were out of their element and were 200 00:13:04,440 --> 00:13:07,480 Speaker 1: quickly assessing the situation to find their easiest way in. 201 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:12,200 Speaker 1: Mustache guy found it, Cass Elliott. She made a beeline 202 00:13:12,240 --> 00:13:14,920 Speaker 1: from across the room. She hugged the new arrivals and 203 00:13:14,960 --> 00:13:18,000 Speaker 1: then walked them over to Sharon. Sharon, I'd like you 204 00:13:18,040 --> 00:13:20,040 Speaker 1: to meet Pick and Billy. These are the guys I 205 00:13:20,040 --> 00:13:23,480 Speaker 1: was telling you about. Of course, Cass had told Sharon 206 00:13:23,559 --> 00:13:26,839 Speaker 1: all about Pick Dawson and Billy Doyle. One or both 207 00:13:26,840 --> 00:13:29,840 Speaker 1: of them was fucking Cass and that was obvious, and 208 00:13:29,880 --> 00:13:32,240 Speaker 1: they were also dealing to Cass, which was a little 209 00:13:32,280 --> 00:13:34,920 Speaker 1: less obvious, since Cass did a good job of keeping 210 00:13:34,920 --> 00:13:37,520 Speaker 1: that shit on the DL and judging by the eyes 211 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,320 Speaker 1: Jay Sebring was giving to the uninvited guest from across 212 00:13:40,360 --> 00:13:43,080 Speaker 1: the room, Cass wasn't the only one with a hookup. 213 00:13:43,600 --> 00:13:47,320 Speaker 1: Ditto Roman's friend from Poland, Voytek Frankowski, and his girlfriend 214 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:50,760 Speaker 1: and coffee are as Abigail Gimbe Folger, who suddenly put 215 00:13:50,800 --> 00:13:53,640 Speaker 1: their cocktail glasses down to rummage for loose bills in 216 00:13:53,679 --> 00:13:57,959 Speaker 1: their pockets. Whatever Pick or Billy was dealing was probably 217 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:01,760 Speaker 1: a little harder than grass or acid. Sharon wasn't stupid. 218 00:14:02,240 --> 00:14:04,640 Speaker 1: She smoked a little grass here and there, and everyone did, 219 00:14:04,679 --> 00:14:07,040 Speaker 1: and she dropped acid a handful of times until that 220 00:14:07,160 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 1: one time she freaked the fuck out and swore off 221 00:14:10,120 --> 00:14:13,880 Speaker 1: for good. But these guys had hard stuff written on 222 00:14:13,920 --> 00:14:18,199 Speaker 1: their faces. Maybe coke, definitely smack. What was that other 223 00:14:18,240 --> 00:14:21,880 Speaker 1: one that acronym MDA. Sharon didn't even know what that was, 224 00:14:21,960 --> 00:14:24,720 Speaker 1: but she knew it was making the rounds. But before 225 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,080 Speaker 1: Pick or Billy could make their rounds at the party, 226 00:14:27,400 --> 00:14:30,360 Speaker 1: Pick got into an argument with Roman's manager Bill Tennant. 227 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:34,640 Speaker 1: Pick was right in his face, yelling. Sharon couldn't tell 228 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,200 Speaker 1: what they were arguing about, but it was escalating fast. 229 00:14:37,680 --> 00:14:40,800 Speaker 1: Pick was drunk or high. He was waving his hand 230 00:14:40,800 --> 00:14:44,080 Speaker 1: as he talked. He wasn't making much sense. Tennant looked 231 00:14:44,080 --> 00:14:47,120 Speaker 1: deeply offended. Roman looked like something had gone wrong and 232 00:14:47,200 --> 00:14:50,680 Speaker 1: this nice little mixer was quickly going to see fucked Sideways, 233 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:54,120 Speaker 1: Pick took another step towards Tenant, spit flying from his 234 00:14:54,160 --> 00:14:57,360 Speaker 1: mouth now and his foot came down on Tenant's foot hard, 235 00:14:57,760 --> 00:14:59,560 Speaker 1: and the two men began to push at each other. 236 00:15:00,160 --> 00:15:03,360 Speaker 1: Roman broke it up. He told Tenant to go cool off, 237 00:15:03,640 --> 00:15:06,240 Speaker 1: and they looked at Pick, Dawson and Billy Doyle and 238 00:15:06,400 --> 00:15:10,560 Speaker 1: very calmly and very forcibly told them to leave now. 239 00:15:12,640 --> 00:15:17,040 Speaker 1: The party never recovered. In fact, it ended early. John 240 00:15:17,080 --> 00:15:19,320 Speaker 1: and Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas thought 241 00:15:19,360 --> 00:15:23,160 Speaker 1: the whole thing was too strange, and that was saying something. 242 00:15:23,640 --> 00:15:27,040 Speaker 1: They billed and took Jane Fonda with them. Warren Batty 243 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 1: suddenly remembered there was something else he had to do. 244 00:15:29,440 --> 00:15:32,400 Speaker 1: Flies Lear jet up to Nova Scotia perhaps, and soon 245 00:15:32,440 --> 00:15:35,240 Speaker 1: it was just Sharon and Roman Roman went to bed. 246 00:15:35,440 --> 00:15:38,280 Speaker 1: He was leaving in the morning ahead of Sharon, flying 247 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:42,280 Speaker 1: to London the scout locations for his next film. Sharon 248 00:15:42,400 --> 00:15:45,200 Speaker 1: was a little surprised that Cass and Jay associated with 249 00:15:45,280 --> 00:15:48,560 Speaker 1: guys like Pick and Billy, and further, she was more 250 00:15:48,600 --> 00:15:51,720 Speaker 1: than a little disturbed that they had infiltrated Sharon's blossoming 251 00:15:51,760 --> 00:15:55,520 Speaker 1: domestic bliss and they knew where she lived. It made 252 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:58,840 Speaker 1: her nervous, not just because they were drug dealers, but 253 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:03,520 Speaker 1: there was something about them, something desperate, something unpredictable. She 254 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:05,600 Speaker 1: saw it in the way Pick looked at Roman when 255 00:16:05,640 --> 00:16:08,160 Speaker 1: Roman kicked him out of the house, like Pick hadn't 256 00:16:08,200 --> 00:16:11,240 Speaker 1: gotten what he came for, Like Roman would be sorry 257 00:16:11,320 --> 00:16:15,280 Speaker 1: for interrupting. Then again, why did any of this surpriser? 258 00:16:15,800 --> 00:16:20,600 Speaker 1: She wasn't that naive. Sharon remembered back to sixty seven, 259 00:16:20,800 --> 00:16:23,600 Speaker 1: a year and a half earlier, her good friend Cass 260 00:16:23,640 --> 00:16:27,160 Speaker 1: stepped on board the SS France off the coast of Massachusetts, 261 00:16:27,480 --> 00:16:30,360 Speaker 1: set sail for London. The Mamas and the Papas were 262 00:16:30,400 --> 00:16:34,400 Speaker 1: embarking on their limitless future. Sharon was happy for Cass. 263 00:16:34,800 --> 00:16:41,480 Speaker 1: Everything seemed possible, everything seemed perfect, until it didn't. When 264 00:16:41,480 --> 00:16:45,600 Speaker 1: the group arrived abroad, authorities were waiting for her. For 265 00:16:45,720 --> 00:17:13,080 Speaker 1: Sharon's friend Mama Cass, the placer under arrest October tenth, 266 00:17:13,280 --> 00:17:17,720 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty seven, a hotel room in Rome. America's perfect 267 00:17:17,760 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 1: movie star, Sharon Tate watching television more than a thousand 268 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:25,760 Speaker 1: miles away on a Southampton dock in the UK, Sharon's friend, 269 00:17:25,840 --> 00:17:29,840 Speaker 1: Mama Cass Elliott, was in handcuffs. Sharon watched it all 270 00:17:29,840 --> 00:17:32,159 Speaker 1: go down on the black and white set like the 271 00:17:32,160 --> 00:17:35,200 Speaker 1: rest of America watching on their own TV sets back home. 272 00:17:35,680 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 1: Sharon was in shock. Cass was being charged with stealing 273 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,080 Speaker 1: towels and soap from a London hotel, held over from 274 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:47,240 Speaker 1: the last time she was in London. How embarrassing Sharon 275 00:17:47,280 --> 00:17:50,720 Speaker 1: could relate. She herself had recently been arrested for something 276 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,840 Speaker 1: even more ridiculous than pilfering toiletries, busted on a train 277 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,399 Speaker 1: in Italy for the offense of wearing a short dress 278 00:17:57,440 --> 00:18:01,280 Speaker 1: that was a little too short. Someone should tell the 279 00:18:01,280 --> 00:18:05,760 Speaker 1: Italian cops that the societal norms were shifting thirteen million 280 00:18:05,800 --> 00:18:07,919 Speaker 1: women in the world on the pill, Sex and the 281 00:18:07,960 --> 00:18:11,000 Speaker 1: single Girls selling millions, even if its author couldn't say 282 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:13,840 Speaker 1: the word sex on television. Then if you weren't prepared 283 00:18:13,880 --> 00:18:16,600 Speaker 1: for all that, Grandpa, then buckle up for the Valley 284 00:18:16,680 --> 00:18:20,159 Speaker 1: of the Dolls, which hit the cinemas that December. It 285 00:18:20,240 --> 00:18:22,800 Speaker 1: was the sixties. People could go where they wanted to go, 286 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:25,760 Speaker 1: do what they wanted to do. Less, of course, they 287 00:18:25,760 --> 00:18:30,280 Speaker 1: were Mama Cass. Something about Cass's bus just didn't sit 288 00:18:30,400 --> 00:18:34,280 Speaker 1: right with Sharon. Her arrest in nineteen sixty seven was 289 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,320 Speaker 1: for a minute, anyway, all anyone back home in the 290 00:18:37,359 --> 00:18:41,320 Speaker 1: States could talk about, even more than Sharon's skimpy outfits 291 00:18:41,359 --> 00:18:44,159 Speaker 1: and Valley of the Dolls. It would remain one of 292 00:18:44,200 --> 00:18:47,520 Speaker 1: America's most infamous busts from the world of pop stardom 293 00:18:47,600 --> 00:18:51,320 Speaker 1: until two years later in nineteen sixty nine, when another 294 00:18:51,440 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 1: arrest for the murder of Cass, Elliot's loyal and sympathetic friend, 295 00:18:55,800 --> 00:19:00,760 Speaker 1: would nearly eradicate Cass's seemingly innocent bus from the pop consciousness. 296 00:19:05,560 --> 00:19:11,480 Speaker 5: We have a weird policy. Late last night, another bizarre 297 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,399 Speaker 5: murder in Los Angeles was second in two days. 298 00:19:14,840 --> 00:19:18,320 Speaker 3: Roland Polanski, the film director and husband of Sharon Tapey 299 00:19:18,920 --> 00:19:21,480 Speaker 3: Paul Newsman to a hotel in Hollywood Today, and there 300 00:19:21,520 --> 00:19:24,600 Speaker 3: he made a long emotional statement told a good deal 301 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:26,760 Speaker 3: of what had been on his mind since his pregnant 302 00:19:26,760 --> 00:19:28,600 Speaker 3: wife and four others were killed at their. 303 00:19:28,520 --> 00:19:32,320 Speaker 5: Home on August eighth. Twenty one year old Susan Atkins 304 00:19:32,680 --> 00:19:34,879 Speaker 5: is involved in still another murder case. 305 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:36,880 Speaker 1: She appeared in the Santa. 306 00:19:36,560 --> 00:19:39,520 Speaker 5: Monica City card Room this morning to enter a plea 307 00:19:39,680 --> 00:19:43,119 Speaker 5: in a trial stemming from the July thirty first murder 308 00:19:43,160 --> 00:19:47,040 Speaker 5: of thirty four year old gry Hinman. Los Angeles police 309 00:19:47,040 --> 00:19:50,640 Speaker 5: have placed miss Atkins, also known as Sadie Gluts, at 310 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,200 Speaker 5: the scene of the Peat murder, taking into account the 311 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:57,199 Speaker 5: published report in the Los Angeles Times, the story that 312 00:19:57,240 --> 00:20:01,440 Speaker 5: Susan Atkins told about what allegedly happened that night after 313 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,560 Speaker 5: the murder at the Tate House. We drove from Clo 314 00:20:04,720 --> 00:20:08,840 Speaker 5: Drive at the base of Benedict Canyon. Up here we 315 00:20:08,960 --> 00:20:12,879 Speaker 5: found some trousers and some shirts. 316 00:20:12,520 --> 00:20:16,200 Speaker 1: Appeared to be turtleneck shirts or something dark in color. 317 00:20:16,640 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 5: Did they appear to have any stains on them? 318 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:23,520 Speaker 3: This is where they live, among the stables, barns, and tony. 319 00:20:23,200 --> 00:20:25,440 Speaker 2: Buildings of an old rundown. 320 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:29,000 Speaker 3: Movie location twenty miles from Los Angeles. They called themselves 321 00:20:29,119 --> 00:20:32,919 Speaker 3: the family, well five members are now in jail on 322 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:37,160 Speaker 3: other charges in the Desert John of Independence. The family's leader, 323 00:20:37,320 --> 00:20:40,639 Speaker 3: Charles Manson is jailed here. It is expected that he 324 00:20:40,720 --> 00:20:43,240 Speaker 3: will be charged in the Tate murders. 325 00:20:43,680 --> 00:20:57,640 Speaker 1: Weird to say, Charles Manson was arrested on October twelfth, 326 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:02,119 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine, in Death Valley, Californfornia, for grand theft auto. 327 00:21:02,320 --> 00:21:05,480 Speaker 1: It took lapd a minute, but with Manson in jail 328 00:21:05,560 --> 00:21:09,159 Speaker 1: and fellow Manson family member Susan Atkins also behind burrows 329 00:21:09,200 --> 00:21:13,040 Speaker 1: and blabbing like a schoolgirl, authorities connected the dots and 330 00:21:13,080 --> 00:21:15,439 Speaker 1: by the end of the year formerly charged the career 331 00:21:15,480 --> 00:21:19,760 Speaker 1: criminal and cult leader with the Tate LaBianca murders, but 332 00:21:19,880 --> 00:21:22,560 Speaker 1: that did little to call the overwhelming sense of panic. 333 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:28,280 Speaker 1: La was fear City. Atkins made a chilling confession that 334 00:21:28,600 --> 00:21:32,280 Speaker 1: Sharon Tate and j Seabring were only the beginning. The 335 00:21:32,280 --> 00:21:34,919 Speaker 1: Manson family had a hit list of other celebrities that 336 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:38,960 Speaker 1: were targeting Frank Sinatra, Elizabeth Taylor and her husband Richard Burton, 337 00:21:39,280 --> 00:21:43,320 Speaker 1: Tom Jones, Steve McQueen. Steve gave a eulogy at his 338 00:21:43,359 --> 00:21:46,199 Speaker 1: friend j Seabring's funeral with a pistol stuffed in his 339 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:49,800 Speaker 1: belt and never left his side. Michelle Phillips carried a 340 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:52,000 Speaker 1: gun in her purse next to her lipstick and keys, 341 00:21:52,560 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: Peace nake. David Crosby bought a shotgun. Jack Nicholson slept 342 00:21:56,359 --> 00:21:58,879 Speaker 1: next to a hammer, And much effort was made to 343 00:21:58,920 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 1: get rid of every little secret in every little habit 344 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:05,880 Speaker 1: in the greater Los Angeles area. Incriminating evidence was buried 345 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:08,720 Speaker 1: way down in a hole. Cut out the freaky living 346 00:22:08,760 --> 00:22:11,840 Speaker 1: to avoid the freaky dying. No one wanted their deepest 347 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:15,040 Speaker 1: secrets exposed. No one wanted to reveal what it was 348 00:22:15,080 --> 00:22:17,680 Speaker 1: that really got them high, for fear that it would 349 00:22:17,720 --> 00:22:21,080 Speaker 1: put a target on their head. As one anonymous source 350 00:22:21,119 --> 00:22:24,280 Speaker 1: told Life Magazine at the time, toilets are flushing all 351 00:22:24,280 --> 00:22:28,560 Speaker 1: over Beverly Hills. The entire Los Angeles sewer system is stoned. 352 00:22:30,040 --> 00:22:33,119 Speaker 1: Police had found drugs scattered all throughout the murder scene. 353 00:22:33,160 --> 00:22:35,960 Speaker 1: At Sharon Tates home at one zero zero five zero 354 00:22:36,000 --> 00:22:39,679 Speaker 1: Ciello Drive next to the mutilated bodies. And we're not 355 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,480 Speaker 1: talking about a little marijuana residue. In the ashtray next 356 00:22:42,480 --> 00:22:46,639 Speaker 1: to Sharon's bed, police recovered thirty grams of hashish and 357 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,160 Speaker 1: ten capsules of the new synthetic drug MDA in the room, 358 00:22:50,240 --> 00:22:54,560 Speaker 1: Voytek Freikowski and Abigail Folger were staying in. More cocaine 359 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:57,639 Speaker 1: and plenty of grass in JC brings, black Porsche parked 360 00:22:57,680 --> 00:23:02,040 Speaker 1: outside the US weren't anything new. The party came to 361 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:06,080 Speaker 1: Hollywood years ago, decades Even actors in the Silent Age 362 00:23:06,160 --> 00:23:09,040 Speaker 1: hit crippling morphine habits behind the smiles they delivered to 363 00:23:09,080 --> 00:23:12,640 Speaker 1: the movie cameras. Major Motion picture studios put good money 364 00:23:12,680 --> 00:23:15,960 Speaker 1: into keeping that wholesome fantasy alive for the public to devour. 365 00:23:16,600 --> 00:23:19,960 Speaker 1: Guys like Eddie Mannox, who for years worked as MGM's 366 00:23:19,960 --> 00:23:23,040 Speaker 1: a fixer, made every problem go away with a little 367 00:23:23,040 --> 00:23:26,000 Speaker 1: bit of muscle and a whole lot of cash. Everyone 368 00:23:26,119 --> 00:23:29,000 Speaker 1: was in on it, and most importantly, the stars got 369 00:23:29,040 --> 00:23:34,000 Speaker 1: what they wanted. Always didn't matter the era. If Charlie 370 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,480 Speaker 1: Chaplin needed to get the sixteen year old he knocked 371 00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:39,520 Speaker 1: up over the Mexican border, then Hollywood made it happen. 372 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:42,440 Speaker 1: If Barbara Stanwick wanted the public to believe she had 373 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:44,760 Speaker 1: cut her wrists while closing a window and not by 374 00:23:44,800 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 1: slitting them in a suicide attempt, then Hollywood made it happen. 375 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:52,240 Speaker 1: If Joan Crawford needed to suppress the scandalous stag film 376 00:23:52,320 --> 00:23:55,560 Speaker 1: she started before she became famous, then Hollywood made that 377 00:23:55,640 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 1: happen too. And if a teenage Judy Garlin needed to 378 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,679 Speaker 1: get hooked on aphetamines in order to stay awake for 379 00:24:00,720 --> 00:24:03,880 Speaker 1: the long, greeling days on movie sets, then Hollywood made 380 00:24:03,920 --> 00:24:06,960 Speaker 1: it happen. If Clark Gable didn't want anyone to know 381 00:24:07,000 --> 00:24:09,240 Speaker 1: about a love child he fathered with a co star, 382 00:24:09,560 --> 00:24:13,680 Speaker 1: not even the child herself, then Hollywood made it happen. Hell, 383 00:24:13,840 --> 00:24:16,399 Speaker 1: the highest paid actor of the Silent film Error, who'd 384 00:24:16,440 --> 00:24:19,800 Speaker 1: gone through three trials for to pray, sexual assault, and 385 00:24:19,880 --> 00:24:23,639 Speaker 1: murder only to be blackballed by the entire industry, wanted 386 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:27,680 Speaker 1: a second chance despite being labeled a bottom feeding pariah. Well, 387 00:24:28,240 --> 00:24:31,280 Speaker 1: that's a different story entirely for this story, we highly 388 00:24:31,320 --> 00:24:33,600 Speaker 1: recommend to check out the episode on Fatty Arbuckle from 389 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:38,280 Speaker 1: Batland Season one. Hollywood lanb point is. The realist thing 390 00:24:38,320 --> 00:24:41,560 Speaker 1: about Hollywood is that it presented itself as a fantasy. 391 00:24:41,880 --> 00:24:44,760 Speaker 1: The fantasy was done with lights and camera angles, hair 392 00:24:44,800 --> 00:24:47,600 Speaker 1: and makeup, in real life talking points that were as 393 00:24:47,640 --> 00:24:51,680 Speaker 1: scripted and rehearsed as any major motion picture. The fantasy 394 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:57,680 Speaker 1: made money. Reality was bankrupt. Hollywood was not blissfully innocent 395 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: until one August morning in nineteen sixty nine, when it 396 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,399 Speaker 1: was shocked awake with the news of the Bruto murders 397 00:25:03,440 --> 00:25:07,119 Speaker 1: on Colo Drive. The other side of Hollywood. The ugly 398 00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:10,440 Speaker 1: underneath was there all along, Even back then, in the 399 00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,800 Speaker 1: nineteen sixties. All you had to do was leave the 400 00:25:12,800 --> 00:25:15,439 Speaker 1: safety of Beverly Hills gated communities, head south on the 401 00:25:15,440 --> 00:25:17,760 Speaker 1: one oh one and tore the burned out doors of 402 00:25:17,800 --> 00:25:21,080 Speaker 1: downtown La buildings where bumbs had been doused with gasoline 403 00:25:21,119 --> 00:25:23,919 Speaker 1: and set on fire just to night before. Soon it 404 00:25:23,960 --> 00:25:26,919 Speaker 1: wasn't just nameless bombs getting torched on skid Row. It 405 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:30,480 Speaker 1: was pregnant actresses and hairstyles to the stars getting stabbed 406 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:34,560 Speaker 1: repeatedly in their own homes. Manson the murders, it was 407 00:25:34,600 --> 00:25:37,320 Speaker 1: nothing more than a director with a megaphone calling cut 408 00:25:37,320 --> 00:25:41,120 Speaker 1: on the whole fantasy. The pretending stopped the sun rose 409 00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:45,120 Speaker 1: blindingly in the city of Make Believe. But before that 410 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:48,760 Speaker 1: sun rose, the players in this elaborate fantasy were happily 411 00:25:48,800 --> 00:25:52,560 Speaker 1: partying in southern California canyons and houses like those of 412 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,800 Speaker 1: America's prettiest star in America's plus size Sweetheart and back 413 00:25:56,840 --> 00:25:59,919 Speaker 1: in the late sixties and a haze of grass and LSD. 414 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,880 Speaker 1: It was becoming increasingly clear that the good vibrations were 415 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:13,680 Speaker 1: nothing more than figments of someone's imagination. We'll be right 416 00:26:13,720 --> 00:26:14,760 Speaker 1: back after this. 417 00:26:14,880 --> 00:26:16,240 Speaker 3: We're were were. 418 00:26:22,920 --> 00:26:25,479 Speaker 1: Sharon Tate knew who she would see when she visited 419 00:26:25,480 --> 00:26:30,480 Speaker 1: cass Elliott's place on Woodrow Wilson Drive. Poets, actors, bikers, dopers, 420 00:26:30,520 --> 00:26:34,040 Speaker 1: lots of musicians. Hey, was that Mickey Dolan's. Definitely wasn't 421 00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:37,000 Speaker 1: Peter Torp because that guy was always ninety nine percent naked, 422 00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,560 Speaker 1: But that definitely was the love and spoonfuls. John Sebastian 423 00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:44,240 Speaker 1: over there, his librarian glasses and mutton chops gave it away. 424 00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:48,040 Speaker 1: The birds Gene Clark wasn't getting anything away, especially not 425 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:50,920 Speaker 1: the affair he was having with Michelle Phillips. God help 426 00:26:51,000 --> 00:26:53,480 Speaker 1: him if Papa John ever caught one of that. Frank 427 00:26:53,560 --> 00:26:55,680 Speaker 1: Zappa could give a shit about what two or more 428 00:26:55,720 --> 00:26:58,639 Speaker 1: consenting adults wanted to do in their own time, regardless 429 00:26:58,640 --> 00:27:01,280 Speaker 1: of who they were betrothed to. He definitely put out 430 00:27:01,280 --> 00:27:04,280 Speaker 1: that absolutely free love vibe, what with the hot freaks 431 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:06,680 Speaker 1: following him around it all, and you could always count 432 00:27:06,720 --> 00:27:09,480 Speaker 1: on David Crosby to show up, sometimes with his long 433 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:12,960 Speaker 1: haired Canadian protege attacking along, though it was immediately more 434 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:15,879 Speaker 1: than obvious to everyone except David Crosby that despite what 435 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,760 Speaker 1: kros said or thought, Joni Mitchell was no man's protege. 436 00:27:20,840 --> 00:27:23,800 Speaker 1: Everyone went to Mama Cass's place, and for good reason. 437 00:27:24,280 --> 00:27:26,600 Speaker 1: There was the company, for one, the feeling that you 438 00:27:26,640 --> 00:27:28,960 Speaker 1: were in the middle of a creative cauldron, and there 439 00:27:29,000 --> 00:27:32,679 Speaker 1: was always music being made, ideas being exchanged, and there 440 00:27:32,720 --> 00:27:36,640 Speaker 1: was always privacy in space. Once the home of Hollywood 441 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:40,480 Speaker 1: screen queen Natalie Wood, Cass's English Country revival home was 442 00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:44,400 Speaker 1: tucked away deep in Laurel Canyon's lush greenery Queen Palms 443 00:27:44,400 --> 00:27:46,160 Speaker 1: looked out on the San Fernando Valley. 444 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:46,520 Speaker 3: Below. 445 00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:50,359 Speaker 1: The hustle and bustle of la seemed light years away, 446 00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,840 Speaker 1: another galaxy altogether. Places like Mama Casses were a bubble 447 00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:59,160 Speaker 1: that seemed to exist outside the real world. Cass welcomed 448 00:27:59,160 --> 00:28:02,919 Speaker 1: Oliver guests with open arms. Her place was like a 449 00:28:02,960 --> 00:28:05,760 Speaker 1: twenty four to seven truck stop, as she once set herself, 450 00:28:06,280 --> 00:28:09,399 Speaker 1: All work and no play makes Cass a dull girl 451 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:14,000 Speaker 1: and Cass was far from dull. Cass was hit to 452 00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:16,880 Speaker 1: the latest fashion, in the newest music, the coolest movies. 453 00:28:17,480 --> 00:28:19,879 Speaker 1: She made her own art, but she also underwrote the 454 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:22,480 Speaker 1: art being made by everyone else around her, just by 455 00:28:22,480 --> 00:28:24,879 Speaker 1: giving them a place to let it all hang out. 456 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,840 Speaker 1: America at large may have thought they were hippies, the 457 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,160 Speaker 1: kind that practiced free love in the streets of San 458 00:28:31,200 --> 00:28:34,200 Speaker 1: Francisco during the Summer of Love. The same ones that 459 00:28:34,280 --> 00:28:36,680 Speaker 1: wanted to give piece a chance, the ones who were 460 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:42,600 Speaker 1: tuning in and dropping out. Dropouts, that's what they were. Idealists, dreamers, lazy, 461 00:28:42,640 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 1: good for nothing bombs who needed to get real jobs. 462 00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:48,560 Speaker 1: But what a bunch of dirty hippies, right, But that's 463 00:28:48,600 --> 00:28:53,560 Speaker 1: not entirely true. Mama Cass Elliott, the mamas and the papas, 464 00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:56,480 Speaker 1: the jingle jingle guitar players that do you believe in magickers, 465 00:28:56,880 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 1: the ones clad em beads, fringe bell bottoms and candy 466 00:28:59,720 --> 00:29:04,040 Speaker 1: color poucie tides. They were rich hippies. There was a difference. 467 00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 1: They looked anti establishment, they sang anti establishment songs, but 468 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:12,480 Speaker 1: they were all very much movers and shakers, firmly ensconced 469 00:29:12,520 --> 00:29:16,920 Speaker 1: in the establishment's world. They owned expansive and expensive homes 470 00:29:16,960 --> 00:29:20,360 Speaker 1: in the canyons of Los Angeles, with kidney shaped swimming 471 00:29:20,400 --> 00:29:23,480 Speaker 1: pools and the kind of edness, seclusion, and privilege that 472 00:29:23,600 --> 00:29:26,640 Speaker 1: only money could buy. But the rich hippies weren't the 473 00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: only ones partying at Cassaday Cass And there were others, 474 00:29:30,880 --> 00:29:34,520 Speaker 1: the ones who weren't famous, ones who didn't necessarily want 475 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,320 Speaker 1: to be famous, but who wanted the luxuries afforded by 476 00:29:37,360 --> 00:29:41,480 Speaker 1: that lifestyle. They coveted thy neighbors, goods, and their wives. 477 00:29:41,920 --> 00:29:44,840 Speaker 1: They found their way in by any means necessary. And 478 00:29:44,880 --> 00:29:47,080 Speaker 1: there were plenty of these people at Cass's place all 479 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:50,840 Speaker 1: the time, plenty of gate crashers that rich hippie regulars 480 00:29:50,880 --> 00:29:55,160 Speaker 1: like Sharon Tate barely knew, like Pick Dawson and Billy Doyle. 481 00:29:55,920 --> 00:29:58,880 Speaker 1: Sharon had only recently met them, and they both still 482 00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:02,400 Speaker 1: gave her that scene, uneasy feeling. And then there were 483 00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:05,920 Speaker 1: the guests that Sharon didn't know at all. Most blended 484 00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:09,560 Speaker 1: into the whole technicolor scene, except for one in particular, 485 00:30:10,320 --> 00:30:15,440 Speaker 1: a short, scruppy guy surrounded by young, filthy girls. Sharon 486 00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:18,360 Speaker 1: found herself in the same room as him, at least once. 487 00:30:19,200 --> 00:30:22,080 Speaker 1: She never met him she would never forget him, and 488 00:30:22,120 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 1: she would see him again when she'd least expected. Sharon 489 00:30:42,080 --> 00:30:45,360 Speaker 1: Tate was tired of playing house on her own. She 490 00:30:45,400 --> 00:30:47,840 Speaker 1: had Jay to keep her company, sure, but as an 491 00:30:47,880 --> 00:30:51,400 Speaker 1: expecting mother nesting in her idyllic Cielow drive home in 492 00:30:51,440 --> 00:30:54,560 Speaker 1: the summer of nineteen sixty nine, she could stand to 493 00:30:54,560 --> 00:30:57,560 Speaker 1: see her husband every now and then. Roman was still 494 00:30:57,600 --> 00:31:01,240 Speaker 1: in London, delayed again. He'd been there for months upon months. 495 00:31:01,640 --> 00:31:03,920 Speaker 1: Every time he was scheduled to fly home, something else 496 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:06,640 Speaker 1: came up. Sharon didn't know how long it took scout 497 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:09,560 Speaker 1: locations for a major studio film, but she knew it 498 00:31:09,600 --> 00:31:14,040 Speaker 1: didn't take this long. Roman was stalling, partying, no doubt, 499 00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:18,600 Speaker 1: probably fucking some British birds too. Sharon thought having a 500 00:31:18,640 --> 00:31:21,120 Speaker 1: baby would bring them closer, that it would curb some 501 00:31:21,160 --> 00:31:24,880 Speaker 1: of Roman's less than chivalrous behavior, like how he forced 502 00:31:24,880 --> 00:31:27,760 Speaker 1: her to watch a videotape of him fucking another woman. 503 00:31:28,600 --> 00:31:31,400 Speaker 1: He said it turned him on. She wanted to please him, 504 00:31:31,440 --> 00:31:34,120 Speaker 1: so she just sat through and tried not to look 505 00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,360 Speaker 1: too horrified. What she didn't always do what he told 506 00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:39,920 Speaker 1: her to do. Once he asked her to wear a 507 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:42,880 Speaker 1: dress that one of his former lovers had worn. He 508 00:31:42,920 --> 00:31:45,360 Speaker 1: waited for her pool side with some of their friends, 509 00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,720 Speaker 1: but when she emerged wearing not the old lover's dress 510 00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:52,480 Speaker 1: but a dress of her own, Roman was furious. He 511 00:31:52,560 --> 00:31:54,400 Speaker 1: picked her up and threw her in the pool while 512 00:31:54,400 --> 00:31:58,960 Speaker 1: her friends watched and stifled nervous laughter. Roman couldn't throw 513 00:31:58,960 --> 00:32:01,200 Speaker 1: her in a pool now, not in her condition, with 514 00:32:01,360 --> 00:32:04,239 Speaker 1: child and all. But Roman also couldn't throw in her 515 00:32:04,240 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 1: pool now because he wasn't even fucking there. She wondered 516 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:10,960 Speaker 1: if he realized how insignificant it made her feel. Roman 517 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,040 Speaker 1: had thought about Sharon's lonely predicament ahead of time, which 518 00:32:14,120 --> 00:32:16,720 Speaker 1: is why he asked his friend voy Tech Freikowski and 519 00:32:16,800 --> 00:32:20,400 Speaker 1: Voytech's girlfriend, Abigail Folger to stay at the house with Sharon. 520 00:32:21,080 --> 00:32:24,000 Speaker 1: In Roman's mind, it was a win win. Voy Tech 521 00:32:24,040 --> 00:32:25,920 Speaker 1: got to live above his pay grade in exchange for 522 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:29,560 Speaker 1: making Roman feel better about himself, better about not rushing 523 00:32:29,600 --> 00:32:32,720 Speaker 1: back to his wife, whose belly was now really showing, 524 00:32:32,760 --> 00:32:36,280 Speaker 1: and driving home the gravity of the situation in London. 525 00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:38,440 Speaker 1: Roman did not to face the fact that he was 526 00:32:38,480 --> 00:32:40,560 Speaker 1: going to be a father. Hell, he didn't need not 527 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:43,280 Speaker 1: to face the fact that he was married. Sharon On 528 00:32:43,320 --> 00:32:46,360 Speaker 1: the other hand, really didn't need Voytech and Abigail at 529 00:32:46,360 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: her house, and she certainly didn't want them there. They 530 00:32:49,640 --> 00:32:52,920 Speaker 1: attracted people like Pick Dawson and Billie Doyle and a 531 00:32:52,960 --> 00:32:56,240 Speaker 1: scene that liked to party all the time. The going 532 00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,120 Speaker 1: away party, that was one thing, but Sharon had her 533 00:32:59,160 --> 00:33:02,440 Speaker 1: baby on her brain. Soon she and Roman would start 534 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:05,760 Speaker 1: a new family, leave the parties to Cass Elliott. She 535 00:33:05,880 --> 00:33:09,280 Speaker 1: was better at it anyway. Sharon could play guest and 536 00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,240 Speaker 1: not host. Hosting had become less of a priority as 537 00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:15,680 Speaker 1: nineteen sixty nine war On. She had just completed the 538 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:19,560 Speaker 1: shoot for twelve plus one aka The Thirteen Chairs, her 539 00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:23,000 Speaker 1: biggest role to date, alongside one of Cinema's biggest actors, 540 00:33:23,560 --> 00:33:26,200 Speaker 1: and now that she was back in the States, motherhood 541 00:33:26,240 --> 00:33:28,560 Speaker 1: was the next thing on her plate. The scene at 542 00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 1: her house now was less than ideal, so she went 543 00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:35,240 Speaker 1: to Cass's place. She always had Jay in tow. Even 544 00:33:35,280 --> 00:33:37,960 Speaker 1: though they were no longer a couple, Jay remained a 545 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:39,880 Speaker 1: major part of her life, and just like he was 546 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:42,280 Speaker 1: a major part of just about everyone's life in Hollywood, 547 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,200 Speaker 1: especially the men Paul Newman, Jim Morris and Bruce Lee, 548 00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:49,360 Speaker 1: Marlon Brando, Steve McQueen. They all just didn't wake up 549 00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:52,120 Speaker 1: one day looking like Caesar. Rome may have been built 550 00:33:52,120 --> 00:33:54,920 Speaker 1: in a day, but Jay Seabrings sculpted that cut in 551 00:33:54,960 --> 00:33:59,080 Speaker 1: about sixty minutes, give her take. As soon as they 552 00:33:59,160 --> 00:34:03,440 Speaker 1: arrived to work making introductions, the first face that day 553 00:34:03,520 --> 00:34:07,560 Speaker 1: was a familiar one. Michael Sharon. Sharon, this is Michael 554 00:34:08,239 --> 00:34:12,040 Speaker 1: Sharon definitely knew who Michael Kane was. The Academy Award 555 00:34:12,080 --> 00:34:14,880 Speaker 1: nominated Michael Kane, the guy who could play a womanizing 556 00:34:14,920 --> 00:34:17,399 Speaker 1: playboy in Alphie and then pivot to her ruthless spy 557 00:34:17,560 --> 00:34:21,040 Speaker 1: and funeral in Berlin. The English actor was not some 558 00:34:21,200 --> 00:34:23,799 Speaker 1: drugged out sunset strip rue who had wandered into the 559 00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:27,160 Speaker 1: a list seen at Mama Cass's house by accident. Michael 560 00:34:27,239 --> 00:34:30,160 Speaker 1: Caine was fresh off to film The Italian Job, and 561 00:34:30,239 --> 00:34:34,000 Speaker 1: he had entered Cass Elliott's home brimming with unnoticeable excitement 562 00:34:34,040 --> 00:34:39,040 Speaker 1: and understated cool. Sharon was pleasantly surprised when this cool 563 00:34:39,080 --> 00:34:42,120 Speaker 1: British actor said he knew who she was, that he'd 564 00:34:42,160 --> 00:34:45,520 Speaker 1: heard of her, he'd even seen her films. Thankfully, he 565 00:34:45,520 --> 00:34:47,640 Speaker 1: didn't have the same opinion as Roger Eber when he 566 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:50,920 Speaker 1: came to Valley of the adults. Sharon was on cloud nine, 567 00:34:51,440 --> 00:34:54,520 Speaker 1: and Cloud nine was where she remained while Cass continued 568 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:57,040 Speaker 1: to guide Michael King through her party and introduce him 569 00:34:57,080 --> 00:35:01,200 Speaker 1: to her friends. First, to pick Thaws, Billy Doyle, and 570 00:35:01,280 --> 00:35:03,800 Speaker 1: another friend of their Sharon had only just met, who 571 00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:08,239 Speaker 1: they all called Cowboy, real tall, masculine. Sharon wasn't quite 572 00:35:08,280 --> 00:35:10,600 Speaker 1: sure what to make of her affinity for denim and leather. 573 00:35:11,120 --> 00:35:14,520 Speaker 1: And then Cass introduced Michael Kine to Void Tech Freikowski 574 00:35:14,520 --> 00:35:18,280 Speaker 1: and Abigail Folger, who had followed Sharon over from Cielo Drive. 575 00:35:18,840 --> 00:35:21,799 Speaker 1: Of course they had. Sharon couldn't fucking escape these two 576 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,040 Speaker 1: if she tried. And then Sharon watched from across the 577 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:29,160 Speaker 1: room as Cass brought Michael Kane to another guest, a short, 578 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:34,720 Speaker 1: scruffy dude surrounded by very young, very filthy girls. Sharon 579 00:35:34,800 --> 00:35:38,360 Speaker 1: paused to wonder just how young they were. She watched 580 00:35:38,400 --> 00:35:42,000 Speaker 1: Cass make the introduction and the standard hand gestures the 581 00:35:42,040 --> 00:35:45,880 Speaker 1: social contract, but the short scruffy guy didn't appear all 582 00:35:45,920 --> 00:35:49,040 Speaker 1: that social. It didn't look like he said two words 583 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:52,600 Speaker 1: to Michael, didn't even offer his hand, just skulked away 584 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:57,960 Speaker 1: all the dirty young women followed. Sharon Tate watched the 585 00:35:58,000 --> 00:36:03,160 Speaker 1: interaction with equal parts in and suspicion. Something very strange 586 00:36:03,239 --> 00:36:05,840 Speaker 1: emanated from the freaky little hippie who just blew Michael 587 00:36:05,920 --> 00:36:09,399 Speaker 1: Caine off without so much as a handshake. Sharon looked 588 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:14,080 Speaker 1: around the party, Cass Elliott, Jay Sebring, Michael Caine, Pick Dawson, 589 00:36:14,239 --> 00:36:18,239 Speaker 1: Billy Doyle, and this angry, weird little man that she'd 590 00:36:18,239 --> 00:36:22,279 Speaker 1: never laid eyes on before. It wouldn't be until months later, 591 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,719 Speaker 1: in August of nineteen sixty nine, that the world would 592 00:36:25,800 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 1: fully realize what strange company Sharon Take kept. I'm Jake 593 00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:36,440 Speaker 1: Brennan and this episode of hollywood Land is to be continued. 594 00:36:49,800 --> 00:36:52,840 Speaker 2: Hollywood Land was created by Years Truly and is produced 595 00:36:52,880 --> 00:36:56,760 Speaker 2: in partnership with Double Elvis. 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