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From the archives of You Must Remember This, Karina Longworth presents her hugely popular series, “Charles Manson’s Hollywood.” It chronicles the murders committed by followers of Charlie Manson in the summer of 1969, and how the lurid crime and its aftermath were inseparable from the show business milieu in which they occurred. Originally released in 2015. For more great Hollywood stories, subscribe to the You Must Remember This podcast.
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Once called “the miracle on the beach,” Synanon began in the 1960s as an experimental rehab facility in Santa Monica, California with a radical claim: It could cure heroin addiction. Before long, it would make an even bolder claim: It could cure any of your problems. All you had to do was move in. What started in a house on the beach, soon spread t…
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Alternate Titles for this Episode: All Dawns Must Die, To All the Dawns I've Loathed Before, White as Heck, Let's Have a Seance, Come Back to the Five and Dime Vera Adare Vera Adare, Impotent Shadow Son, Luke Casteel Thinks Arden Should Chill, Vera's Name is a HOSANNA, Semen on the Rocking Chair, Hush Hush Sweet Audrina, and -the one that really su…
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Your intrepid recappers return! Jules has performed a great sacrifice for all of us, by reading Whitefern, the revolting "sequel" to the V.C. Andrews masterwork of southern gothic horror, My Sweet Audrina. Though the book nearly destroyed her health and her sanity, Jules persisted. Much like Dawn, this is basically a celebration of misogyny, object…
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The trials of the Manson family became a kind of public theater which a number of current and future filmmakers found themselves caught up in. Joan Didion bought a dress for a Manson girl to wear to court, Dennis Hopper visited Manson in prison, and a young John Waters attended the trial and took inspiration for his legendary film, Pink Flamingos. …
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After the murders, Manson moved his family to the depths of the California desert. There, even before they were finally apprehended by the law, their utopia started to fall apart. Hollywood was in the process of being changed by Dennis Hopper's Easy Rider, a film shot partially in the same desert where Manson was now hiding. The Family and their fl…
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Roman Polanski was in London the night his pregnant wife was murdered in their home. He returned to Los Angeles, devastated, to find himself wanted for questioning in a crime which the LAPD, initially, had no idea how to solve. Originally released in 2015.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices To learn more about listener da…
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Over the course of a single weekend, half a dozen hippies massacred seven people. This episode includes disturbing details about very violent crimes. Originally released in 2015.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy L…
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While trying to launch her own acting career, Sharon Tate fell in love with, and eventually married, Roman Polanski, the hotshot Polish filmmaker who had his first massive American hit in the summer of 1968, Rosemary’s Baby. Originally released in 2015.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices To learn more about listener data …
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In the first of two episodes about the Manson Family’s most famous victim, we’ll trace actress Sharon Tate’s early years, her romance with celebrity hairdresser Jay Sebring, and the on-set affair that changed the course of Tate’s life and career. Originally released in 2015.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices To learn mor…
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The first person to go to jail for a Charles Manson-associated murder was Bobby Beausoleil, a charismatic would-be rock star who had put in time as a muse to Kenneth Anger -- child actor-turned-occultist experimental filmmaker and author. Originally released in 2015.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices To learn more about …
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Charles Manson became convinced his best chance at rock stardom was impressing Terry Melcher, a record executive who had made stars out of The Byrds, who was also Doris Day's son and Candice Bergen's boyfriend. Originally released in 2015.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices To learn more about listener data and our privac…
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After wearing out his welcome at Dennis Wilson’s house, Charlie Manson moves his family to Spahn Ranch, a dilapidated Western movie set where the cult starts preparing for Helter Skelter, Manson's made-up apocalypse inspired by The Beatles. Originally released in 2015.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices To learn more abou…
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In part three, we’ll talk about Charlie Manson’s arrival in Los Angeles, discuss Dennis Wilson’s life and the role he played in enabling Manson’s rock n’ roll delusions, and explain how The Beach Boys came to record a song written by Charles Manson. Originally released in 2015.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices To learn …
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In part two, we trace Charlie Manson's life from his birth to a teenage con artist, through multiple stints in reform schools and prisons, and finally to San Francisco circa 1967, where Manson began to try out his guru act on the local hippie kids. Originally released in 2015.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices To learn m…
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You Must Remember Manson explores the murders committed in the summer of 1969 by followers of Charles Manson. In part one, we’ll talk about what was going on in the show business capital that made Charlie Manson seem like a relatively normal guy. Originally released in 2015. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices To learn mo…
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