Dakota in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood puts a focus on Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski, especially in the wake of Polanski's success with his first American film. Rosemary's Baby is a 1968 American psychological horror film with elements of supernatural horror written and directed by Roman Polanski, based on Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin. One of the major "characters" of Rosemary's Baby is the Bramford, an apartment building in New York City, which the Dakota was used for exterior shoots.

"Dakota" has become a subtle theme within Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

Zitkala-Sa (Lakota: Red Bird = Cardinal, the bird) (1876—1938), 

Yankton Dakota Sioux author, photographed by Joseph Keiley.

Dakota (given name) ... The name is translated to mean "friend," "friendly" or "allies" in the Yankton-Yanktonai and Santee dialects of the Dakota language.

The word Dakota means "ally" in the Dakota language, and their autonyms include Ikčé Wičhášta ("Indian people") and Dakhóta Oyáte ("Dakota people")

As Taratino's movie notes, in February 1969, Polanski and Tate decide to rent 10050 Cielo Drive, a luxury home in Benedict Canyon, an area west of Hollywood in the Santa Monica Mountains that overlooks Beverly Hills and Bel Air, in the west-central part of the Beverly Crest neighborhood of Los Angeles, bordering Beverly Hills.

Rudolph Altobelli (1929-2011), a music and film industry talent manager, bought the Cielo Drive house in the early 1960s and often rented it out. Residents included Cary Grant and Dyan Cannon (it was their honeymoon nest in 1965), Henry Fonda, George Chakiris, Mark Lindsay, Paul Revere & the Raiders, Samantha Eggar, and Olivia Hussey. Charles Manson visited the house in late 1968, when it was occupied (from May 1966 to January 1969) by couple Terry Melcher (the son of actress Doris Day) and Candice Bergen with roommate/talent-manager Roger Hart. The couple split in early 1969, with Melcher relocating to Malibu. 

In February 1969, Roman Polanski and his Sharon Tate began renting the home from Altobelli. On August 8/9, 1969, the home became the scene of the murders of Tate, Wojciech Frykowski, Abigail Folger, Jay Sebring, and Steven Parent at the hands of the Manson "Family". William Garretson, Altobelli's caretaker and an acquaintance of Parent, lived in the guest house behind the main house and was unaware of the murders until the next morning, when he was taken into custody by police officers who had arrived at the scene. He was later cleared of all charges.

Altobelli moved into the house just three weeks after the murders and resided there until 1988. He sold it to Alvin Weintraub, and others rented it from him. The final resident of the original house was the musician Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Alvin Weintraub had it demolished in 1994, and construction on a new home began later that same year. A new house was constructed, with a new address, 10066 Cielo Drive. The property was on the market in August 2019, showing an estimated price of $9,665,500.

The Dakota

The Dakota is located at 72nd Street and Central Park West in the Upper West Side of Manhattan and was completed in 1882. This building was designed by Henry J. Hardenbergh and stands 110 feet tall with 10 floors. The Dakota houses and has housed many famous entertainers throughout the years (in many ways like 10050 Cielo Drive). One entertainer, famous musician and peace activist, John Lennon was shot four times in the entrance hallway to the Dakota and died on that spot on December 8, 1980.

The Dakota replica is by InFocusTech. This pewter replica stands 3 inches tall and is finished with a brown stain.

Cliff Booth's Comics

In a pan around stuntman Cliff Booth's trailer, we see his comic books, Kid Colt Outlaw and Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos (1963-1981). Quentin Tarantino has cited Sgt. Fury as an influence on Inglourious Basterds (2009). The main character, Sgt. Nick Fury, later became the leader of Marvel's super-spy agency, S.H.I.E.L.D.

Johnny Walsh shares:

Re: the comics in Cliff’s trailer:
Kid Colt Outlaw once upon a time had as a foe Dakota Dixon.
Nick Fury secretly adopted twin sisters named North and Dakota.

Dakota Fanning and Squeaky Fromme

Lynette Alice "Squeaky" Fromme (born October 22, 1948) is portrayed by Dakota Fanning in Quentin Tarantino’s film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. (Hannah Dakota Fanning was born on the 23rd of February 1994, in Conyers, Georgia. Her father named her Dakota, her mother named her Hannah. Fanning is an Anglicized form of the Gaelic Fionn, meaning "fair," and may have Norman roots from the Viking invasion of northern France. Her mother's maiden name Arrington has links to the east of England, notably Cambridgeshire. Her first word was "Momo", which was the family cat's name.)

In 1967, Fromme went to Venice Beach, California, suffering from depression. There she became a member of the "Manson family." Ranch owner George Spahn gave her the nickname "Squeaky" because of the sound that she made when he touched her. 

Fromme was not involved with the Tate time period killings. Six years later, she attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford on September 5, 1975. She was sentenced to life imprisonment for the attempt, but was released on parole on August 14, 2009, after serving nearly 34 years. She lives in New York State, nowadays, with her boyfriend in a modest house "decorated with skulls," as the media puts it. Her book, which was originally over 600-pages about the Manson family, entitled Reflexion, was eventually published in 2018 by the Peasenhall Press.

Dakota, er, Decoteau, Daycahtoo, or Dechohtow

"Rick [Dalton]'s character on Lancer is named Decoteau, which he thinks is pronounced Dakota but everyone else pronounces as Daycahtoo (the French pronunciation would be closer to Decohtow)." Source.

The noble French surname Decoteau is of local origin, deriving from a geographic feature near where the initial bearer once resided. In this instance, the name is derived from the French word, "cote," which in a geographic sense, means, "by the coast."

See also Twilight Language: Dakota, August 3, 2011.

Stabbing Spree

A man who was “full of anger” stabbed, slashed and robbed his way across two Southern California cities in a bloody rampage that killed four people and wounded two others who were allegedly targeted at random.

All victims are Latino 

33-year-old suspect is Latino

Locations of Garden Grove (GG) stabbings:

Subway sandwich shop

7-Eleven (7/11)

Chevron station

Apartment building (in 12100 block of Jentges Avenue in Garden Grove) 

A separate, non-related stabbing happened in a Garden Grove apartment complex named "Flower Tree," killing Vivian Wolff, 62. Her son, Jonathan Michael Warner, 28, is considered a "person of interest."

If it isn’t obvious ~> ‪Chevron = 

V-symbol meaning to connect Heaven (Cielo) and Earth‬ ~>

‪Manson Family killings = Tate 1969

"Gilroy Garlic, and 1977 blackout, among other things. Orange is itself a pregnant sync." ~ Anita Ladaprarez

"Orange - 33." ~ Eric Dilley.

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood's Manson Family's Bowling Sisters

Parker Love and Kansas Bowling play two of the Manson Family in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

Parker Love Bowling (at right) plays Family member "Tadpole" (at left). Tadpole was not involved in the murders charged to the various members in 1969.

Kansas Bowling played Sandra "Blue" Good, who was a Manson Family member who was convicted for mailing threatening letters. She was paroled but maintained her loyalty to Manson; she still does to this day. Bowling is an up-and-coming director, writer, and actress, having helmed her first film, B.C. Butcher, in 2016.

Sandra Collins Good (born February 20, 1944) is a long-time member of the Manson Family and a close friend of Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme. Good's Manson Family nickname is "Blue," which was given to her by Charles Manson to represent clean air and water.

Parker Love Bowling (see IMDb here) and Kansas Bowling (here) are well-known avant garde actors, producers, and directors. Kansas was born on August 2, 1996, in Beverly Hills, California. 

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood's Death Ripple

In a year filled with several significant 50th anniversaries ~ of the Moon Landing, of the Woodstock music festival, of the Beatles' last performance, of the battle of Hamburger Hill in Vietnam, of the Stonewall riots in New York City ~ another one is the series of killings carried out by the Manson Family on August 8-9, 1969.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (stylized Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood) is a 2019 comedy-drama film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, which involves, of sorts, the timeline and people of the Manson Family killings in Los Angeles 1969.

These were the days of hippies and Hollywood stars and rock stars. Sometimes they overlapped. Especially in 1969.

Jack Nicholson, Dennis Hopper, and Michelle Phillips.

Leading up to the film opening, the release date was changed from August 9, 2019 to July 26, 2019. The August date, of course, would had been the 50th anniversary of the actual Tate murders (which began with the invasion of the residence on the 8th but occurred on the 9th).

July 26th is the birthday of Mick Jagger, Stanley Kubrick, Aldous Huxley and Carl Jung. July 26th is the birthday of actors Helen Mirren, Sandra Bullock, Olivia Williams, and Kate Beckinsale.

Before the movie was released, some characters involved in the film passed away.

Charles Manson and Damon Herriman

Charles Manson died on November 19, 2017, from cardiac arrest resulting from respiratory failure and colon cancer.

Burt Reynolds and George Spahn. Spahn died September 22, 1974, at 85.

Bruce Dern and Burt Reynolds

Burton Leon Reynolds Jr. was born February 11, 1936, in Lansing, Michigan. Reynolds died of a heart attack at the Jupiter Medical Center in Jupiter, Florida, on September 6, 2018, at the age of 82. In May 2018, he joined the cast for Quentin Tarantino's film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood as George Spahn (an eighty year old blind man who rented out his ranch to Charles Manson), but he died before shooting his scenes, and was later replaced by Bruce Dern. Reynolds' body was cremated at the Gold Coast Crematory in Florida.

Luke Perry (born October 11, 1966), who played Scott Lancer (read "Wayne Maunder") in the Tarantino film, died. Perry had a massive stroke at his home in Sherman Oaks, California, on February 27, 2019. Five days later on March 4, he died of complications from it. He was 52 years old. (See the CNN obit here.)

Wayne Maunder, the star of 1960s TV Westerns who inspired the Luke Perry character in Quentin Tarantino’s film, died of cardiovascular disease November 11, 2018, in Battleboro, Vt., a Vermont Department of Health spokesperson confirmed to Variety. He was 80.

The 1960s-1970s real-life actor Wayne Maunder lived next door to Sharon Tate. 

Maunder was born December 19, 1937, in New Brunswick, Canada, and was raised in Bangor, Maine. Following high school, he had stretches in the U.S. Navy and tryouts for baseball teams like the Milwaukee Braves and the Pittsburgh Pirates. Later, Maunder caught the acting bug and studied under Stella Adler in New York City.

In Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, the relationship between actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double/best friend Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt) is directly modeled on the friendship between Burt Reynolds and stuntman-turned-director Hal Needham, both of whom are now deceased.

Quentin Tarantino has called this film his "love letter to Hollywood," the old Hollywood, the glory days, the star systems that giveth and taketh away.

There are stars, stories of stars, and fictions of stars in this film. It is a motion picture of actors, acting and not acting, growing old, and hippies. How many of these faces will die, sooner than later?

Steve McQueen, Bruce Lee, and Fumio Demura.

Auburn, Maine, native Breanna Wing, Edward Little High School graduate of 2007, where she played field hockey, lacrosse and acted in the drama club, plays the hitchhiker Cheyenne who Sharon Tate (Maggie Robbie) picks up in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood.

movie Manson Family hippies

vs

the real Manson Family

Tate Killers: Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, and Patricia Krenwinkel.

Sharon Tate and Nancy Kwan training with Bruce Lee.

Sharon Tate and Roman Polanski

Sharon Tate and the other targets of the Manson family -- Jay Sebring, Abigail Folger, and Wojciech Frykowski -- depicted here are obviously all real people, as were Manson himself and his followers Tex Watson, Susan Atkins, and Patricia Krenwinkel, and Linda Kasabian, the latter of whom became a cooperating witness at trial but is shown in the movie as fleeing before the crimes begin. (Ditto Dakota Fanning as Manson follower Squeaky Fromme.) Obviously, the fates of all the aforementioned people differ greatly in real life than what transpired in the film.

Unless you’re brand new to the planet Earth, yes, Bruce Lee was a real guy, the greatest martial artist-star of his time (arguably, of all time). Lee is depicted in the film, by Mike Moh, during his time starring as Kato on The Green Hornet. And, yes, he really did train Sharon Tate in karate when she was co-starring in the Dean Martin spy spoof The Wrecking Crew.
Homeland’s Damian Lewis plays Steve McQueen in one scene set at the Playboy Mansion. McQueen, like Rick Dalton, began as the star of a TV western about a bounty hunter — Wanted: Dead or Alive —before he became a movie star and pop culture icon thanks to films like The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt, and The Great Escape, which Rick fantasizes about starring in instead of McQueen at one point.
Timothy Olyphant and the late Luke Perry also play real people in the movie. Yes, Lancer was a real TV series and the actors they play — James Stacey and Wayne Maunder — were real. The last shot we see of Olyphant in the film, driving off on his motorcycle, is also a harbinger of the tragic fate that lay in store for Stacey (he lost two limbs and his girlfriend was killed in a motorcycle accident when they were hit by a drunk driver).
Also real? The TV series The FBI that Rick films a guest spot on as the bad guy of the week.
The Mamas and Papas’ Michelle Phillips and Mama Cass pop up during the Playboy Mansion scene.
With his silver mane and oversized glasses, Al Pacino's Marvin Schwarzs appears to be patterned after legendary Hollywood talent agent Lew Wasserman. Source.

Quentin Tarantino celebrates Hollywood with the people and the music, in many ways like Peyton Reed  did with the technicolor of Hollywood in Down With Love.

Tarantino did his homework. I thoroughly enjoyed Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. But I do predict, in addition to those connected to the film who are deceased, a few more people will soon die in the wake of this film. There is a feeling with this movie of a "death ripple."