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. 

Hole In The Wall, from Dalton to Dayton

The actual Hole-in-the-Wall is the pass located in the Big Horn Mountains of Johnson County in northern Wyoming made famous in Western crime history, lore, and movies. The site was used in the late 19th century by the Hole in the Wall Gang, a group of cattle rustlers and other outlaws which included Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch which consisted of Butch Cassidy (aka Robert Leroy Parker), the Sundance Kid (aka Harry A. Longabaugh), Elzy Lay, Tall Texan, "News" Carver, Camilla 'Deaf Charlie' Hanks, Laura Bullion, George "Flat Nose" Curry, Harvey "Kid Curry" Logan, Bob Meeks, Kid Curry's brother Lonny Curry, Bob Smith, Al Smith, Bob Taylor, Tom O'Day, "Laughing" Sam Carey, Black Jack Ketchum, and the Roberts Brothers, along with several lesser known outlaw gangs of the Old West. Jesse James was also mentioned to have visited the Hole-in-the-Wall hideout. The Dalton Brothers (there were 13 of them) were part of the crew too.  The middle Dalton brother William M. "Bill" Dalton also had a career as an outlaw, but he rode with the Wild Bunch. The Dalton Brothers' gangs were related through their mother to the Younger brothers, who rode with Jesse James. The Daltons were active later than and independently of the James-Younger Gang.

The 1880s-1890s' outlaws and desperados met at a log cabin in the Hole-in-the-Wall country which has been preserved at the Old Trail Town museum in Cody, Wyoming. The cabin was built in 1883 by Alexander Ghent.

In present-day Dayton, Ohio, the Hole in the Wall is located next to Ned Peppers Bar, the site of the death of the gunman who had just killed 9 in the streets surrounding Ned Peppers Bar and the Hole in the Wall.

(Intriguingly, in the realm of syncs, Leonardo DiCaprio plays a character named "Rick Dalton" in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood. Also, there is a Dalton, Ohio, the boyhood home of Christopher Kirkpatrick, one of the founding members of NSYNC. A dive bar in Georgia is called Mike's Hole in the Wall. The Hole-in-the-Wall was a popular saloon and underworld hangout in what is now the South Street Seaport, Manhattan, New York City, during the early-to-mid-19th century.)

The name Ned Pepper is based on the character of the same name played by Robert Duvall in the 1969 film, True Grit, starring John Wayne and Kim Darby. Outlaw "Lucky" Ned Pepper is the head of a gang of outlaws hold up in a Hole-in-the-Wall type of situation in Indian Territory (modern-day Oklahoma). Pepper is killed with a long shot by a young Texas Ranger, La Boeuf, using a Sharps rifle. (In the 2010 remake of True Grit, Ned Pepper is played by Barry Pepper.)

By coincidence, "El Paso," the name of the Texas site of this week's other major mass shooting, means in Spanish, literally, "the pass."

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It has been a week of chaos, and a confusing wave of emotions. Some "celebrity" comments have gone haywire in the wake of the shootings. 

Joe Biden, 76, the vice president under former President Barack Obama and current Democratic presidential candidate, on Sunday evening while addressing attendants of a fundraiser in California, referred to the mass shooting as "the tragic events in Houston today and also in Michigan the day before."

During a Monday (8/5/2019) address from the White House, President Donald Trump, 73, shared condolences for the victims "in Toledo," mixing up the Ohio city with Dayton, where nine people were killed and dozens more were wounded on Sunday morning. 

"May God bless the memory of those who perished in Toledo," the president said toward the end of his speech. "May God protect them."

People seemed willing to give both of them a pass, although victims' families and residents of Dayton were not so forgiving.

Astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson decided to respond to this moment of national tragedy with a tweet stating "Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data." He said we lose more people to medical errors, flu, suicide, and car accidents than to homicide via handguns. The reaction to his statement was seen as insensitive. There have been others.

In the midst of all of this, we all have had to come to grips with the events, and try to place them in context.

For example, please read, "Holy Toledo!" by Andrew W. Griffin. 

A candle sits among other objects at the makeshift memorial outside Hole in the Wall Bar.

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Zak Bagans (upper left hand corner), the Ghost Adventures lead investigator, on 7/25/2019, purchased the house connected to the Manson murders. Bagans obtained the Waverly Ave residence that was owned by Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, the 8/10/1969 victims of the Manson Family.

Update: The shooter was Connor Betts, 24. He was killed by police.

Dayton #RedPeppers #MassShooting: A victim publicized as “Megan Betts, 22” was identified as the sister of the gunman. But the person actually was #JordanCofer, the self-described transgender brother of Connor Betts. (Source.)

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I have been given permission to reprint, in its entirety, the following comments from "Anita Ladaprarez."

Take a moment to read this and take in another's point-of-view of the events.

This is a picture [at the top] of the front of the bar from the Dayton shooting. Apparently there are two bars at the scene, with slightly varying addresses. One is "Ned Peppers," which appears to be now frequented by black people. I gathered this from thread discussions somewhere, where there was also a comment about how a consequence was that fewer white people were going there. As an aside, i've been wondering if Betts (assuming he was The and the Sole shooter) did not target his sister bc of the race of her boyfriend, who i've read was present, and either shot or killed. 

The other bar is called "Hole in the Wall," which is hard not to regard as fun and games black magical punning. This is certainly a feature in some of these events, and that's what i was saying when the almost certainly fraudulent shooting at the "Paradise" California "Borderland" country/cowboy bar occurred. That event seemed to imply larger issues in the american political zeitgeist, as well as coinciding with the Paradise fires (command and control, sleight of hand, misdirection?)...and i wondered if it might have been a kind of twilight language indication of future events along the southern border. I said so, then, or wrote it. This form of operational, memetic language and signage plumbs and exploits common fare symbols and the like. I feel all of this is the sort of thing Ole Dammegard is getting at in his work. This might be why corporations of such obvious, dominant psychological resonance are consistently used: Wal-Mart/Starbucks/Nike/NFL. There is also the legitimate question of Wal-Mart's performing some adjunct role to the state, in terms of FEMA-type centers during disasters, etc. Along these lines, the question of drills always now has to be entertained. 

But i'm writing this just for the idle exercise of getting down and into other people's thinking certain details you could describe as "twilight linguistics" and occult signatures. Repeat numbers, numbers of established significance, calendar dates, obvious memes like "piles of memorial shoes" that evoke the Holocaust and are visually very effective. (Consider that the Holocaust is arguably an example of "what happens when governments/states are paralyzed by inaction...") And I'd suggest that the prominence given in on-scene coverage to the Hooters restaurant near the scene of the Wal-Mart "slaughter" (now the unanimous go-to descriptor for the "13 hours of Terror.") is probably significant, especially considering it looks like Hooters has at some point rebranded somewhat recently. Their owl is highly recognizable now, rather more like a logo than the original icon-sign, if you will. It actually resembles Drake's Ovo-whatever owl, which he in turn lifted from The Bohemian Club. Anyway, it seems to me that the Kennedy maiden's death served as augury, or inauguration for these dire events. The Master Number of her death, 22, is echoed in the 22 age of the slain sister of Conor Betts. They resonate further with one another these book-ends, in that they are both Family: Betts is the alleged killer's own sister, and Kennedy can only ever identify in the minds of Americans as "family." Family to the routinely slain princes and royalty of Camelot. I'll repeat myself by saying that i had already considered Kennedy's unusual death, as well as the burning of the "Crowley" Boleskine house, as dark and contextual phenomena. That was before i noticed that one of the only two squad cars shown in major coverage's aerial footage from in front of the Kennedy compound following her death, was Car Number E237.

(Law enforcement vehicles at the Kennedy compound following RFK's granddaughter's death.)

The current death toll for El Paso is 22. 

El Paso is supposed to have been the 250th city to have been struck by a "mass shooting." The next day in Dayton, the shooter is said to have had 250 rounds when he attacked in "the Oregon District." 

The address of the Ned Peppers bar is 419 E. Fifth. The owner of the bar, last name Schaefer, was nicknamed "Cowboy" and happened to die on 4-19, just a few months ago, at age 60. For drastic memetic appeal, the front of Hole in the Wall, also owned by Schaefer, was plugged with several bullets, as seen in the pic. Cowboy the proprietor was fond of wearing a white hat. Some researchers have long held that a twilight, secret war is waged along generational lines, between "white hats and black hats," or the cowboys and indians. I do know that there is a crafty para-political war going on and it's become hotter in recent years. The Scalise shooting and Grenfell Tower burning both on Trump's first in-office birthday, and the loose Nukes Hawaii mass-texts, and the Republican congressional train derailing, and the unsettling death of Scalia, and the Epstein Affair: all these things should logically be seen as elements or expressions of this secret warfare. The Maryland Naval Yard shooting some years ago also has that feel. But what are the odds that such a (black magically familiar, with its crude puns and lexical high-signs) particularly-named bar would be the scene of this second-in-two-days shooting, and that its owner would die a few months ago, on a day that matches his business address? This might well sound like speculative foolishness to many people, but they would probably all of them be unfamiliar with the many precedents for this kind of methodology. Ole Dammegard is hip, and so is anyone who felt something was strange about the "Absolute Terror" signs (or whatever precise language it was) on the London Buses, on 7/7...which were situated very close to the Tavistock Institute. 

As i've also said repeatedly, their often seems to be conscious nuggets of Christian symbolism or just references in many of these events or whatever we wish to call them. Even allowing for cultural bias in the designation of people and place names, many of the particulars and the perps in these stories resonate Christ and Christianity. The name "Crusius" almost certainly is a derivative of Cross or "crux." Its utter uncommonness is interesting, and is a name only possessed by long-dead Protestant theologians, as far as i can tell. One flagrant example of this is the name Cruz from Parkland, and it's of added peculiarity, perhaps, in that case, when one considers that county's demographics. "Schaefer" means "shepard." Conor is the first name of the Dayton alleged shooter, and it means "dog." Patrick is the first name of the El Paso alleged shooter, and it means "noble, patrician." I suppose that's interesting, at least. 

Some folks have pointed out that there was a 666-day span between Las Vegas and the Garlic Festival. Coverage of that case often included no less than three separate mentions of the number 19. Those who are deeply into this seeming, weirdly reliable numbers matrix have discovered that one of this weekend's shootings came 911 days after Obama's 666 months on earth. 

I simply feel that those who are looking to patterns that in fact contain augury are on the right path. Personally i thought we were going to be in for it this summer based on the man who burnt himself to death at Ellipse Park, wearing a USA basketball jersey. And that the ensuing drama was going to be supernal-themed, maybe epic, surely involving the concerns and forces of the zodiac and the larger cosmos. I felt it meant that things were going to get hot Politically. And those people who have connected these late events to the absurd blackout in that high occult staging grounds of a city, New York, (as opposed to old York, with its old clubs) are also probably on the right path. How within any semblance of reason could NYC get a blackout on the 42nd anniversary of its last epic blackout, and this new one affects "42,000" people, and its area of effect constantly intoned and reported as including 42nd street? The number to explain everything, indeed. Some people on YT, at least, felt that this blackout was ominous augury, simply bc that 1977 blackout (and there rises the specter of ol Aleister C once again, a sort of patron saint to NYC, even since he roamed its streets as a propagandist for British Intelligence in advance of WWI, so unwanted by Americans. Until they had been tricked by various psy-ops and violent para-political operations at sea.).....bc that blackout preceded and involved the Son of Sam killings. So some people expected there to be mass shootings soon, etc.. I'm sure that i've left something of coy numerical significance out. (Remember in this vein of dreaming, the Beyonce Super Bowl "allegedly half-timeshow-induced" half-blackout, plunging One Half of the stadium into the dark.) 

But i can inform you that Netflix, another corporation doing its game part, produced one of their True-Crime docus on that incident with the pizza deliverer who got his head blown off by a device in a totally bizarre circumstance. The cop car arrived on the scene of his demolition had an interesting squad car designation, easily viewed from the aerial footage. It's number was the exact same as the date of the event itself. This was only an attempt to discuss or highlight esoteric data points: there is plenty of a more staid, forensic nature to make your nose wrinkle over this weekend's events.

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"We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us!" ~ Magnolia, 1999. 

In 1969, the media sounded a decidedly anti-hippie drumbeat.

And they promoted the messages left by the Manson Family.

We have been told by books such as the above that Charles Manson ordered up a spate of murders to jump-start a racial Armageddon that would lead to him running the country. Manson called for a war against black Americans by racists, a movement that he referred to as "Helter Skelter." He ordered his followers to kill Hollywood whites and put the blame on California blacks. Some have rejected Vincent Bugliosi's theory, and feel Manson was merely out to steal money.

August 9, 1969.

August 10, 1969.

In the meantime, while Roman Polanski left his wife Sharon Tate alone in 1969, he was in London to work on the film, The Day of the Dolphin. After the tragic events of August 9, fifty years ago, Polanski abandoned the project. The resulting cryptopolitical movie, changed from the book’s simple nonfiction-based John C. Lilly plot (who was tied to rumors of CIA work with his dolphins), appeared as Mike Nichols’ 1972 motion picture.

(The film is produced by Joseph E. Levine, the great-uncle of my friend Philip Levine, an intellectual astrology author. It is amazing how close these dots can fall sometimes.)

See also:

Charles Manson, Sharon Tate, and Wayne Maunder (11/12/18)

A Charles Manson Curse? Luke Perry Dies (3/4/19)

Once Upon A Time in Hollywood's Death Ripple (7/27/19)

Tarantino's Manson Family, Hippies, Actors' Children, and Child Actors (7/29/19)

Cielo Means Sky: Texas Mass Shooting & Manson Family Murders (8/3/19)

Now Dayton. Countdown to 8/9/19.

Cielo Means Sky: Texas Mass Shooting & Manson Family Murders

The crime scene at 10500 Cielo Drive, where Sharon Tate and others were found dead in 1969.

One long establishing shot in Once Upon A Time In Hollywood prominently features a street sign reading Cielo Drive, which is the street on which Roman Polanski and Sharon Tate's home was located. It serves as a chilling precursor of the shocking murders discovered there on August 9, 1969.

Roman Polanski was in London working on a movie, The Day of the Dolphin (produced by Joseph E. Levine). "The film version was originally going to be directed by Roman Polanski for United Artists in 1969, with Polanski writing the script. However, while Polanski was in London, England, looking for filming locations in August 1969, his pregnant wife, the actress Sharon Tate, was murdered in their Beverly Hills home by disciples of Charles Manson. Polanski returned to the United States and abandoned the project." Source.

The movie The Day of the Dophin was inspired by the work of John C. Lilly, who works for the government (the CIA?) to communicate with dolphins. In the film, after the dolphins are kidnapped from the Lilly character (played by George C. Scott), an investigation by an undercover government agent for hire, Curtis Mahoney (Paul Sorvino), reveals that the Institute is planning to further train the dolphins to carry out a political assassination by having them place a magnetic limpet mine on the hull of the yacht of the President of the United States.

Dr John Cunningham Lilly (January 6, 1915 – September 30, 2001) was an American physician, neuroscientist, psychoanalyst, psychonaut, philosopher, writer and inventor. He was a member of a generation of counterculture scientists and thinkers that included Ram Dass, Werner Erhard and Timothy Leary, all frequent visitors to the Lilly home. He often stirred controversy, especially among mainstream scientists. Lilly gained renown in the 1950s after developing the isolation tank.

It is generally acknowledged that at least one of Lilly's dolphins died by suicide. Source.

One of the Manson Family killers was Tex Watson. Another was Susan Atkins. According to group member Atkins, the Family believed Manson was a manifestation of Jesus and that his prophecies of an imminent, apocalyptic race war were real.

It turns out that today's mass shooting in Texas also involved a warped racial motive.

On August 3, 2019, "Cielo" is thrust into the news again. At the Cielo Vista Mall in El Paso, Texas, an active shooter, using a long gun, shot and killed multiple victims, including young children. Multiple people were shot and killed at the Walmart, in the parking lot, and at nearby mall on Saturday afternoon. Twenty-two victims were taken to area hospitals. As of Saturday night, August 3, 2019, the death toll is stated to be 20 dead, and 26 injured, as of 9:00 PM Eastern.

A 21-year-old suspect is in custody. El Paso Walmart gunman reportedly identified as 21-year-old Patrick Crusius. Social media sources are identifying him as a white supremacist, Trump supporter, who shot and killed 18+ people today at a Walmart in El Paso, and who was handcuffed peacefully & alive. He has posted a manifesto stating he was against "race mixing."

The Cielo Vista Mall is a shopping mall in El Paso, Texas, located on El Paso's east side, at Interstate 10 and Hawkins Blvd., and features five anchor stores operating under four brand names, and 134 specialty stores. Playing at the Cinemark Cielo Vista Mall 14, Once Upon A Time In Hollywood at 3:30pm, 7:10pm, 10:45pm, today.

The meaning of the name “Cielo” is "sky," or infrequently, “heaven.” It is moved from Spanish to English, in usage.

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For the record:

10050 Cielo Drive is the street address of a former luxury home in Benedict Canyon, a part of Beverly Crest, north of Beverly Hills, California, where the Charles Manson "family" committed the Tate murders in 1969.

The residence had been occupied by various famous Hollywood and music industry figures. In 1994, the house was demolished, a new house was constructed on the site, and the street address was changed to 10066 Cielo Drive.

The original house was designed by Robert Byrd in 1942 and completed in 1944 for French actress Michèle Morgan. It was extremely similar, but not exactly identical, to the house which sat on its own plateau directly below 10050, 10048 Cielo Drive, which was often called the Twin House. They were originally built on land called The Bedrock Properties and were built at the same time.

The French country-style structure was located on 3 acres (1.2 ha) a private drive on Cielo Drive in Benedict Canyon, an area west of Hollywood in the Santa Monica Mountains that overlooks Beverly Hills and Bel Air. The hillside structure faced east and featured stone fireplaces, beamed ceilings, paned windows, a loft above the living room, a swimming pool and a guest house, and was surrounded by thick pine and flowering cherry trees.

Michèle Morgan, French actress for RKO Radio Pictures, had architect Robert Byrd design and J. F. Wadkins build the luxury home resembling an early 19th-century European style farmhouse. The house was completed in 1944, with an address of 10050 Cielo Drive. Beverly Hills, California. By the end of World War II, Morgan had returned to France and in 1946 Lillian Gish moved in with her mother while filming Duel in the Sun (1946).

Rudolph Altobelli (1929-2011), a music and film industry talent manager, bought the house for $86,000 in the early 1960s (equivalent to US$720,000 in 2018) 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 Jan. 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 wife 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 for the next 20 years. During an interview on ABC's show 20/20, he said that while living there, he felt "safe, secure, loved and beauty." He sold the property for $1.6 million in 1989 (equivalent to $3.2 million in 2018).

The final resident of the original house was the musician Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails. Reznor began renting the house in 1992 and set up a recording studio there. This studio, dubbed "Pig" (sometimes called "Le Pig") in a reference to murderer Susan Atkins' writing "Pig" in Tate's blood on the front door of the house, was the site of recording sessions for most of the Nine Inch Nails album The Downward Spiral (1994). Reznor moved out of the house in December 1993, later explaining "there was too much history in that house for me to handle."

Reznor made a statement about working in the Tate house during a 1997 interview with Rolling Stone:

“ While I was working on Downward Spiral, I was living in the house where Sharon Tate was killed. Then one day I met her sister. It was a random thing, just a brief encounter. And she said: "Are you exploiting my sister's death by living in her house?" For the first time the whole thing kind of slapped me in the face. I said, "No, it's just sort of my own interest in American folklore. I'm in this place where a weird part of history occurred." I guess it never really struck me before, but it did then. She lost her sister from a senseless, ignorant situation that I don't want to support. When she was talking to me, I realized for the first time, "What if it was my sister?" I thought, "F**k Charlie Manson." I don't want to be looked at as a guy who supports serial-killer bulls**t." I went home and cried that night. It made me see there's another side to things, you know? It's one thing to go around with your d**k swinging in the wind, acting like it doesn't matter. But when you understand the repercussions that are felt ... that's what sobered me up: realizing that what balances out the appeal of the lawlessness and the lack of morality and that whole thing is the other end of it, the victims who don't deserve that. ”

Reznor took the front door of the house with him when he moved out, installing it at Nothing Studios, his new recording studio/record label headquarters in New Orleans.  Nothing Studios was sold and the façade of the building was changed. The front door Reznor moved from 10050 Cielo Drive is currently preserved in the possession of the owner of the building.

Altobelli, who lived there from 1969 (3 weeks after murders) to 1989, demolished the house in 1994 and built a replacement home called Villa Bella. The replacement home has a new street address of 10066 Cielo Drive. The owner of the property as of 2013 is Hollywood producer Jeff Franklin. The new property does not resemble the residence in which the Tate murders occurred.

A Charles Manson Curse? Luke Perry Dies

Charles Manson lived from November 12, 1934 to November 19, 2017. He died from cardiac arrest resulting from respiratory failure and colon cancer. His impact will live on in Quentin Tarantino's forthcoming movie, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, about the Manson Family.

The Charlie Manson character will be played by Australian actor Damon Herriman (pictured above). The film is set to be released on July 26, 2019. (The film was originally scheduled for release on August 9, 2019, to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Tate–LaBianca murders.)

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Is there a Manson curse unfolding as the film moves towards release? First there was the death of Burt Reynolds, and now Luke Perry.

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 was set to play Scott Lancer (read "Wayne Maunder") in the Tarantino film, has 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.

As I mentioned in an earlier posting, the Luke Perry character he was to play, Wayne Maunder died of a heart attack on November 11, 2018. The 1960s-1970s real-life actor Wayne Maunder lived next door to Sharon Tate.

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Perhaps we better watch the health of the other actors/actresses scheduled to be in Tarantino's forthcoming film.

Some have noted that the Al Pacino character in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is wearing Roger Stone glasses.