Stay tuned for a Manson Family Christmas!!!

Thinking a little more about Manson, specifically what people in Hollywood he'd have been in contact with.  As I've said, the problem with this is that only a very small percentage of people there are famous but they have all sorts of contact with the famous which we can't see.  But looking it up on Wikipedia, we see...

Phil Kaufman, a music producer.  His first job was working for the Rolling Stones during Beggar's Banquet [the one with "Sympathy for the Devil"] and was jailed for drugs where he met Charlie.  He also did something strange, stealing Gram Parson's dead body to burn and bury it at Joshua Tree National Monument.  He'd done bit parts in movies, most notably Spartacus, which I've suspected for a while was a major leftist sign.  Kaufman was a Manson Family member for a while and got Charlie a music audition with producer Gary Stromberg at Universal Studios where the known recorded music was made.  Frank Zappa's song "Why Does It Hurt When I Pee?" is about him.

Well, that's quite a mix of connections to famous people and people who deal with famous people, right out of that.  The theft of Parson's body became a 2003 movie which Christina Applegate was in?  Why would Kelly Bundy be hanging around scum like that???

Manson babysat the kids of Al "Grandpa Munster" Lewis, a devout leftist.  There's Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys whom we know about, he picked up some of the Family girls as hitchhikers and took them to his place, they called Charlie who moved in and ruined the house so much that Wilson left.  Wilson also paid for more recording sessions.

Wilson would have been able to introduce him to people although the only ones we know about are those who were involved in the murders.  Terry Melcher was producer for the Byrds and was Doris Day's son.  The Byrds included David Crosby and Gram Parsons.  Melcher would also co-write "Kokomo" with John Phillips and others.  Phillips was definitely into child-sex and this song was the first huge hit the Beach Boys had in ages and the last one ever.  It was done for a Tom Cruise movie.  I have no idea if it was really a hit, record sales weren't counted accurately until the early 90s.

I really don't want to look into Roman Polanski at the moment, but he'd just made a documentary with Mia Farrow about the filming of Rosemary's Baby.  And where's that movie gone?  Nominated for a bunch of awards and won several, it was a hit and... does anyone remember it?  It came out the same year as 2001, Planet of the Apes, along with Romeo and Juliette and The Odd Couple.  Most of them had sequels, spin-off and the Shakespeare adaptation had a naked underage girl and was shown in my junior high school.  The Graduate, Producers, The Green Berets, Inspector Clouseau, Barbarella, Charly, the Lion in Winter, Yellow Submarine, Candy, Love Bug, Head, Oliver...  Even I've seen some of these movies and I know them all by reputation or impact on others.  Still, just because nobody's interested in a devil worshipping movie by a child rapist, it doesn't mean that the movie industry hasn't followed its example.

So the Rolling Stones, Frank Zappa, popular actors and musicians, CSN&Y, Tom Cruise, a long-loved child rapist and Mrs. Frank Sinatra/Woody Allen's FWB.  Not to mention Axl Rose's obsession which is what made me start thinking about Manson in the first place.  He wasn't that far from L. Ron Hubbard or Jim Jones. [well, Jones seems to have been in northern California at the time and didn't move to San Francisco until almost a decade after the Manson murders.]  Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails bought 10050 Cielo Drive, obsessed with Manson (and Axl Rose was obsessed with Reznor.)

Why do I think about this stuff?  I have no idea.  Do you?  If you do, let me know.