Sharon Tate
TMZ: Video Player (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Get out your Ouija boards -- we got a séance going on!
TMZ: Video Player (Free subscription) | 08/09/2008
Get out your Ouija boards -- we got a séance going on!
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
Filed under: Comedy , Awards , Other Festivals , Trailers and Clips , Stars in Rewind At the age of 83, Tony Curtis is getting some film festival love. Jam! reports that the legendary actor will receive a lifetime achievement tribute at the Montreal Film Festival, which runs from August 21 to September 1. In honor of that, I thought it would be nice to go back some years and see old-school Tony. Since...
No Smoking in the Skull Cave (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
SacredScoop.com (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008 | US
Manson Girl Susan Atkins Will Not be Released. I wrote earlier about the case of Manson Girl Susan Atkins who is dying of cancer, has lost a leg, and who is paralyzed on one side, and how she wanted to be released to die at home since she only has a few months left to [...]
Politik Ditto (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
In a unanimous decision yesterday the California Parole Board denied a request for compassionate release by convicted murderer Susan Atkins, now 60, and supposedly dying with three months to live: The petition for Atkins' release ignited debate about what mercy is appropriate, particularly considering the grisly crimes for which she was convicted. With the rejection by the panel, the process is effectively...
PR-Inside.com Entertainment News (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
A woman convicted of murdering actress Sharon Tate in 1969 has launched a desperate bid for freedom, after learning she has just six months to live. Susan Atkins was part of the infamous Manson Family cult, which brutally slaughtered Tate at the Los Angeles home she shared with director husband Roman Polanksi. Atkins stabbed Tate and scrawled [...]
Emerging Writers Network (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
Another one that I've had for some time, Keyhole Issue 3 (Spring 2008). Keyhole has burst onto the scene and has been amazingly reliable for a new journal, this being their third issue this year, as they're well on their...
Bloodthirsty Liberal (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Signs of the apocalypse? I don’t want no stinkin’ signs—I want the Four Horsemen themselves ridin’ up and asking directions to Armageddon. Imagine opening up a newspaper and reading the following four paragraphs: In late 1969, the American news media carried graphic reports of a gang, dispatched by its charismatic leader Charles Manson, brutally [...]
InsureBlog (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008 | Other
Remember Charles Manson? The Helter Skelter killer and his gang made infamous for the slaying of Sharon Tate and others in 1969. Most of his "family" are still in jail, including Susan Atkins . Her story has taken a different twist of late. Seems she has brain cancer which has paralyzed her right side and led to the amputation of a limb. So how much has her treatment cost so far? About $1.4 million....
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Winner To Take Home the Coveted Jackie Robinson Award COLUMBUS, Ga., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Pitchers with incredible talent dominate the finalists as four hurlers are among the five players nominated for the fifth annual Aflac National High School Player of the Year Award, given to the country's top prep baseball player. The Player of the Year recipient will be presented with the Jackie Robinson...
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newslett (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
Writing in the Tampa Bay Online web site and the Tampa Tribune newspaper, Sharon Tate Moody offers some sound advice about disaster planning for genealogists. She writes: I have a zillion paper files and notebooks full of old correspondence (from pre-e-mail days) and copies of so many deeds and wills that I'll be 90 before I find time to scan all of them.
Mission & Justice (Free subscription) | 07/26/2008
Phillip Adams; The Australian, 26/7/08; Some of the juiciest tidbits in this column came from a chat with Jeff Sharlet, a contributing editor to Harper’s and Rolling Stone who has been studying the Family for years. For a detailed dossier, read his book The Family: Power, Politics and Fundamentalism’s Shadow Elite; UQP. The Family. A comforting [...]
Providentia (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
In a unanimous decision by the California Board of Parole, terminally ill Susan Atkins will not be allowed a compassionate release. Atkins, now 60, is serving a life sentence for her role in eight murders stemming from role in the...
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Charles Manson followers Leslie Van Houton, Susan Atkins and Patricia Krenwinkel Today a California sTate parole board denied Charles Manson follower and convicted murderer of Sharon Tate and her baby “compassionate release.” If you recall, Atkins was the killer who wrote the word “PIG” in Tate’s blood on the front door of the home shared by the [...]
Blogger News Network (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Anyone that was around in 1969 would remember the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others during the Manson deranged killing spree. Susan Atkins admitted to cutting Sharon Tate’s throat while Tate begged her not to hurt her unborn child. Now Atkins has requested a release from prison. She is reportedly dying from [...]