{august 9, 1969} /// AQUARIUS /// Sharon Tate /// charles manson

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I've been sitting on Netflix for a week (after work) and watching the sensational movie / series 'AQUARIUS' (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3768572/) ----- (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_(American_TV_series)

with the excellent David Duchovny in the lead role. I finished tonight. 26 episodes of 45 minutes each with two 13-episode so-called ‘season’s behind me. Since other great series, namely 'NEWSROOM' and another starring David Duchovny, namely 'CALIFORNICATION' (https://www.sho.com/californication) --- nothing has touched me like this! !

There are movies and movies. Especially recently, TV (and cinemas above all) emit a lot of crap, and HBO is the leader in this, which I just gave up after many years because I'm not going to go back intellectually :-) Such is probably their mini-intellectual audience now - fanatic about SF or horror.

However, returning to the decent cinematography, i.e. the film 'AQUARIUS', I was captivated by the dialogues, acting, wonderful music from the late '60s and, of course, the well-kept scenography and period costumes. There is also something special about this film, namely a haze that runs through the entire film regarding the terrible tragedy of Roman Polanski, his beautiful wife Sharon Tate, their unborn son Pau, Richard and a few other people murdered by a thug-derailers from the gang of a certain 'Charles Manson' who he deservedly died behind bars, and what Sharon's mom --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Tate and her lawyers watch to it!! In other words, the thug was not released after a period of time (20, 30 or 40 years), although he tried hard to do so. Degenerate rotted in his cell until the end ...

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I recommend Netflix and this series because they provide amazing experiences, joy and satisfaction as usual in the case of high-level works.

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Siedzę od tygodnia (po pracy) na Netflix i oglądam rewelacyjny film / serial ‘AQUARIUS’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_(American_TV_series) ze znakomitym Davidem Duchovnym w roli głównej. Dziś w nocy skończyłem. 26 odcinków po 45 minut każdy z dwóch 13 odcinkowych tzw. ‘sezonów’ za mną. Od czasu innych wspaniałych seriali, a mianowicie ‘NEWSROOM’ oraz innego gdzie główną rolę gra David Duchovny, a mianowicie ‘CALIFORNICATION’ (https://www.sho.com/californication) --- nic mnie tak nie wciągnęło i nie poruszyło !!

Są filmy i filmy. Szczególnie ostatnio TV (a kina przede wszystkim) emitują masę badziewiu, a przewodzi w tym HBO z którego właśnie po wielu latach zrezygnowałem bo nie zamierzam się cofać intelektualnie :-) Taką mają teraz zapewne mini-intelektualną publiczność – sfanatyzowaną na punkcie bzdetów typu SF czy horror.

Wracając jednak do porządnej kinematografii czyli filmu ‘AQUARIUS’ to urzekły mnie dialogi, aktorstwo, cudowna muzyka z końcówki lat ’60 i oczywiście zadbana scenografia oraz stroje z epoki. Jest też coś szczególnego w tym filmie, a mianowicie mgiełka jakby przewijająca się przez cały film a dotycząca strasznej tragedii Romana Polańskiego, jego pięknej żony Sharon Tate, ich nienarodzonego synka i paru innych osób zamordowanych przez zbir-wykolejeńców z bandy niejakiego ‘charlesa mansona’ który zasłużenie zdechł za kratami, a czego dopilnowała mama Sharon --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Tate i jej prawnicy !! Innymi słowy – nie zwolniono zbira po czasie (20, 30 czy 40 lat) choć starał się o to usilnie. Zwyrol gnił w celi do końca … (* vide more)

Polecam Netflix i ten serial bo zapewniają niesamowite doznania, radość i zadowolenie jak zwykle w przypadku dzieł na wysokim poziomie.

vide more:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3768572/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuAOLHGRt-I

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius_(American_TV_series)

https://www.imdb.com/video/vi1373941785/?playlistId=tt3768572&ref_=tt_ov_vi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHVmC066zuc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vEPqks27Ko

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loXpxN0Z078

* {august 9, 1969}

Roman and Sharon

Sharon Tate --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharon_Tate

https://www.reelreviews.com/shorttakes-56/morbidly-hollywood-no-ad/tatebeauty

http://www.sharontate.net/index.html

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=sharon+tate+

Roman Polański --- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski

https://www.google.pl/search?q=roman+pola%C5%84ski+sharon+tate&hl=en&sxsrf=AJOqlzV3CHH7KP9cJp67JPxnDhOoQTzaQw:1674927984070&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiW94786Or8AhUil4sKHRe_ApYQ_AUoAXoECAEQAw&biw=1396&bih=590&dpr=1.38

THE CRIMINALS HAVE GOT DEATH SENTENCES BUT UNFORTUNATELY THESE SENTENCES ARE NOT PERFORMED!! IT SEEMS TOTALLY UNFAIR TO THOSE WHO THEY MURDERED...

ZBRODNIARZE DOSTALI WYROKI ŚMIERCI ALE NIESTETY TYCH WYROKÓW NIE WYKONANO !! WYDAJE SIĘ TO TOTALNIE NIEUCZCIWE W STOSUNKU DO TYCH KTÓRYCH ONI ZAMORDOWALI …

murdered by the 'manson' gang

Tate murders, the shocking and grisly murders of actress Sharon Tate and four other people by followers of cult leader Charles Manson on the night of August 8–9, 1969, in Los Angeles. Two more people were killed on August 10. After two highly publicized trials, Manson and four of his followers were convicted of all the murders in 1971.

Sharon Tate

Tate, a fledgling actress whose best-known movie was Valley of the Dolls (1967), was married to filmmaker Roman Polanski and was more than eight months pregnant. In the summer of 1969 the couple was renting the house at 10050 Cielo Drive, in the exclusive Benedict Canyon neighbourhood of Los Angeles. While Polanski was in Europe, his friend Wojciech Frykowski and Frykowski’s girlfriend, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, were staying with Tate.

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Sharon Tate: Murder and aftermath

On August 8, Manson ordered his follower Charles “Tex” Watson to go to 10050 Cielo Drive with several other cult members and kill everyone there “as gruesome[ly] as you can.” Manson was familiar with the house because its previous tenant, music producer Terry Melcher, had earlier considered and then decided against giving Manson a recording contract. Watson drove to the estate with Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian. When they arrived on the property after midnight, they encountered a car driven by Steven Parent, an 18-year-old who had been visiting the estate’s caretaker at his home in the guest house. Watson shot Parent to death before he, Atkins, and Krenwinkel broke into the main house, leaving Kasabian to stay at the gate as a lookout. The four people in the home—celebrity hairstylist Jay Sebring, a close friend of Tate’s, was also there—were made to gather in the living room, and Tate and Sebring were linked by ropes tied around their necks. Sebring was shot and stabbed to death. Frykowski and Folger managed to free themselves and flee the house, but both were chased down and killed by Krenwinkel and Watson. Finally, Atkins and/or Watson fatally stabbed Tate. As they left, Atkins used Tate’s blood to write the word “PIG” on the front door.

*Sharon Tate was a rising star in Hollywood

and wife to prominent film director Roman Polanski when she was murdered

*Sharon Tate was just 26 when she died in horrifying circumstances

*Sharon was eight and a half months pregnant when she was murdered

*Sharon was buried with her baby son wrapped in her arms

The following night, Manson took Watson, Atkins, Krenwinkel, and Kasabian as well as Leslie Van Houten and Steven “Clem” Grogan in search of more people to murder. Manson selected the Los Angeles home of grocery store executive Leno LaBianca and his wife, Rosemary. After Manson and Watson tied the couple up and robbed them, Manson left with Atkins, Kasabian, and Grogan. Watson, Van Houten, and Krenwinkel remained and, acting on orders from Manson, stabbed the couple to death, again leaving words written in blood on the walls.

Charles Manson (murder)

The crimes created a panic in Los Angeles, especially given their horrific nature; Frykowski had been stabbed more than 50 times and shot twice. Investigators were initially baffled and failed to make the connection between the two murder scenes, with detectives convinced that a drug transaction was the likely trigger for the Tate murders. However, in October 1969 various members of the Manson cult were arrested at their base, Spahn Ranch in Death Valley, accused of stealing vehicles and burning equipment. One of those arrested implicated Atkins in an earlier murder, and Atkins, while jailed, boasted to cellmates of the Tate murders. By year’s end all of the killers had been arrested. The trial, which combined the Tate and LaBianca murders, began in June 1970, with Kasabian, who had been granted immunity, as the main prosecution witness. Despite frequent disruptions, Manson, Atkins, Van Houten, and Krenwinkel were found guilty in January 1971. Watson was tried and convicted later that year. All received the death penalty, but the sentences were commuted to life in prison after California abolished capital punishment in 1972. Although they became eligible for parole, their requests were repeatedly denied. The story of the Tate and LaBianca murders was recounted in the book Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders (1974), cowritten by Vincent Bugliosi, who served as prosecutor at the trial.

https://www.reelreviews.com/shorttakes-56/morbidly-hollywood-no-ad/labiancacrimescene

criminals / murderers / degenerates

Cult leader Charles Manson, who died Sunday at the age of 83, was the bête noire of the 1960’s counter-culture; an enigmatic quasi-religious despot who hid murderous intentions behind his piercing gaze and long hippie hair. A petty thief and small-time pimp, Manson had spent most of his adult life in prison before landing smack dab in the middle of San Francisco’s “Summer Of Love” in 1967. Seeing the drug addled Haight-Ashbury youth as easy marks he began attracting followers, mostly young women into his cult, known as The Family.

Harboring his own musical ambitions, Manson and The Family descended upon Los Angeles in 1968, initially taking over the home of Beach Boys drummer Dennis Wilson. Angered by his inability to secure a record deal and fueled by delusions of an oncoming race war, Manson goaded his followers into committing a series of murders in August 1969, including the brutal killing of actress Sharon Tate, who was 8-and-a half-months pregnant at the time, and Leno and Rosemary LaBianca. Eight members of The Family, including Manson, were eventually convicted for the 1969 killing spree, with other members running afoul of the law in its aftermath. These are the other members of the blood-thirsty cult and where they are now.

criminals / murderers / degenerates

they were happy at first

they sang as they walked into the courtroom

but after a few years the faces were thin

and you should have been behind bars, loose / mislay the beautiful years of youth

instead of living free in beautiful California

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początkowo było im wesoło

śpiewały idąc na salę rozpraw

ale po kilku latach miny miały cienkie

i trzeba było siedzieć za kratami, gubić piękne lata młodości

zamiast żyć na wolności w pięknej Kaliforni

Charles "Tex" Watson (MURDER)

A 22-year-old baggage handler when he first encountered the Manson Family, Watson was drawn to the music scene and the plethora of young women surrounding him. He oversaw the August 9, 1969 murders at the rental home of actress Sharon Tate, which included the pregnant actress and her friends; celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski, and his girlfriend, Folger's coffee heiress Abigail Folger, as well as Steven Parent, who was visiting the house’s caretaker. He was also present the following night, with Manson, for the murders of supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary.

Following the murders, Watson fled to his native Texas, but was eventually captured and extradited to California, where he was convicted on seven counts of first-degree murder and sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life in prison. He married Kristin Joan Svege in 1979 and fathered four children with her, though they divorced in 2003. He became an ordained minister while behind bars, and runs a prison ministry with an online website. In 2016 he applied for parole, which was denied, according to the Associated Press, and remains incarcerated at San Diego’s Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility.

Susan Atkins (MURDER)

Knicknamed Sadie Mae Glutz or Sexy Sadie by Manson, Atkins met the cult leader after fleeing an unhappy home life and working as a topless dancer. She played a role in three of the group’s killings, including the Tate - LaBianca murders, as well as the July 1969 killing of Gary Hinman, a Manson associate who was killed over a money dispute. Atkins was arrested in connection to the Hinman murder in October 1969, and while in jail told her cellmates she had participated in Tate’s stabbing death and tasted her blood. During her trial she was a disruptive presence before being convicted and sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life in prison. She married twice while in prison, became a born-again Christian and unsuccessfully petitioned to be released on parole, which was denied even after she was diagnosed with brain cancer and had a leg amputated. She died at the age of 61 at the Central California Women's facility in Chowchilla, as reported in The New York Times. At the time of her death, she was up the longest-serving female inmate in the California penal system, an honor that now befalls fellow Manson Family murderer Patricia Krenwinkel.

Patricia Krenwinkel (MURDER)

Krenwinkel grew up in Los Angeles and had briefly considered becoming a nun before meeting Manson while working as a secretary and immediately falling under his spell. It was she who introduced The Family to Beach Boys Dennis Wilson, after he picked her up while she was hitchhiking. She participated in both of the Tate - LaBianca murders, chasing down and repeatedly stabbing Abigail Folger on the front lawn of the Tate home and writing "DEATH TO PIGS" on the wall and "HeaLter Skelter" [sic] on the refrigerator in blood at the second crime scene. Following the arrests, Manson told her to go stay with her aunt in Alabama, where she was later arrested. Like the others, she was convicted and sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life in prison. She has been denied parole 13 times, most recently in 2016.

Leslie Van Houten (MURDER)

A former high school homecoming queen, Van Houten grew up in the suburbs of Southern California before falling into the hippie scene. She met Manson through musician and actor Robert “Bobby” Beausoleil, with whom she was in a polyamorous relationship, which also included Family member Catherine Share. Van Houten volunteered to accompany Manson and other Family members on August 9, 1969 when they murdered the LaBiancas, personally stabbing Rosemary LaBianca over a dozen times, wounds she later claimed were inflicted after her victim was dead. She was convicted along with Manson, Atkins and Krenwinkel in 1971. Just 19 at the time of the murders, her conviction was overturned in 1976, but she was again found guilty on two counts of murder in 1978. A model prisoner by all accounts, she was granted parole this past September, however, her fate lies in the hands of California Governor Jerry Brown who vetoed an April 2016 ruling which also advocated her release.

Linda Kasabian (MURDER)

Born Linda Drouin and raised on the East Coast, Linda ran away at 16, later having two children and marrying a man named Robert Kasabian. She fell in with The Family in 1969, having sexual liaisons with both Manson and Watson. She was present at both the Tate and LaBianca murders, serving as a driver and lookout, but did not participate in the actual killings. When asked to participate in the murder of an acquaintance in Venice Beach, she knocked on the wrong door intentionally, saving the man’s life. Deeply disturbed by the events, two days after the killings she fled California for her mother’s home in New Hampshire. After hearing of the arrests of The Family, she turned herself into police and agreed to testify against Manson and the group in exchange for immunity from prosecution. After the trials she moved back to New Hampshire where she has avoided the media spotlight and raised four children.

Bobby Beausoleil (MURDER)

Before entering the orbit of The Family, Robert “Bobby” Beausoleil had spent time in reform school, played in an early version of critically acclaimed L.A. rockers Love and appeared in the cult movie Lucifer Rising and a softcore porno film called The Ramrodder. As a member of The Family he participated in the kidnapping, torture and murder of Gary Hinman in late July 1969. He was arrested on August 6, 1969, just days before the Tate – LaBainca murders, after cops found him sleeping in Hinman's car with the murder weapon on him. He was convicted, sentenced to death and later had his sentence commuted to life in prison. According to the Los Angeles Times, while incarcerated he became a member of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang. He has also recorded several albums of instrumental music while in prison, including a new soundtrack for Lucifer Rising. He is currently serving out his sentence at California Medical Facility in Vacaville and has been denied parole 18 times, most recently in October.

Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme (MURDER)

A childhood member of traveling dance troupe the Westchester Lariats, Lynette Fromme was a homeless hippie runaway when she met Manson in Venice Beach soon after his 1967 release from prison. While she didn’t participate in any of the 1969 murders, in September 1975 Fromme pointed a loaded Colt .45 caliber pistol at then-President Gerald Ford, and was sentenced to life in prison. In December 1987, she escaped from a federal prison in West Virginia in an attempt to see Manson and was captured two days later. She was released on parole in 2009 and in 2010 Inside Edition found her working at a WalMart in Rome, New York, according to the Utica Observer Dispatch.

Mary Brunner (MURDER)

Raised in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, “Mother Mary” was one of Manson’s first followers, meeting him weeks after he got out of prison in 1967. In April 1968, she gave birth to Manson’s son, Valentine Michael Manson, who was raised by Mary’s parents in Wisconsin after they petitioned for his custody in 1970. She was present at the murder of Gary Hinman, and initially agreed to testify against Beausoleil in exchange for immunity, but later recanted her testimony. She was arrested on August 8, 1969, the day of the Tate murders, for using stolen credit cards at a Sears store in the San Fernando Valley. In August 1971, along with Catherine Share and several male members of The Family, she participated in an armed robbery of a gun store in Hawthorne, California, which ended in a brief shoot-out with police. She was sentenced to 20 years to life but paroled in 1977 and released from prison. According to a 2016 article in Rolling Stone magazine, after her release she moved to the Mid West and changed her name.

Steve "Clem" Grogan (MURDER)

Grogan was just a teenager with a history of juvenile delinquency when he began working at The Spahn Movie Ranch, the western movie set and horse ranch where The Family moved in 1968. Grogan was in a car with Manson and other Family members on the night of the LaBianca murders, but didn’t participate. He did, however, play a role in the murder of Donald "Shorty" Shea, whom he hit in the head with a metal pipe while “Tex” Watson stabbed him. Grogan was sentenced to life in prison, and at various points during his incarceration was housed in the same prisons as both Bobby Beausoleil, with whom he played music, and Manson himself, whom he allegedly avoided. In 1977 he helped police find Donald Shea’s remains and was eventually granted parole and released from prison in 1985. According to The New York Post, he currently lives in California.

Bruce Davis (MURDER)

Born in Louisiana, Davis met Manson and The Family in 1967 during a hippie sojourn to Oregon. Davis was present during the kidnapping and murder of Gary Hinman, and participated in the murder of Donald "Shorty" Shea in late August 1969. A Hollywood stuntman, Shea worked at The Spahn Movie Ranch, where The Family had set up base, and had numerous conflicts with the group. Manson ordered his killing, which was carried out by Charles “Tex” Watson, Davis and Steve "Clem" Grogan. Davis was sentenced to life in prison, where he became a born-again Christian, and according to the Los Angeles Times earned a doctoral degree in the philosophy of religion. Since 2010 he has been found suitable for parole five times, yet each time the ruling was reversed by the sitting Governor of California.

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