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Monday, August 26, 2019

Theory about Cliff Booth in Tarantino's "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood"

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Did Once Upon A Time In Hollywood 's Cliff Booth really kill his wife? Quentin Tarantino's 9th film largely ties things up quite ...
Saturday, August 17, 2019

"Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties" by Tom O'Neill

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There's at least two 'points' to the story of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood . The first is stopping the murder of Sharon Tat...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

Helter Skelter vs Chaos: Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties

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Joan Didion famously said that the Sixties ended on August 9, 1969, with the murders of Sharon Tate and six others at the hands of the so-...
Saturday, August 10, 2019

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, self-referential with a gigantic heart behind it

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Tarantino’s latest film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood feels more focused on the adventures of fading TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCap...
Monday, August 05, 2019

Tarantino's self-critique in "Once Upon a Time In Hollywood", Kate Bosworth to play Sharon Tate

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Rick Dalton's existential crisis is first set off when the agent Marvin Schwarz (Al Pacino) tells him that his streak of playing vill...
Friday, August 02, 2019

Transgressive as hell: Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Hippie Trip

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There's no way the LSD-drug culture of the hippies in the 60s didn't lead to the cultural downfall in the U.S. Prior to that, the...
Thursday, August 01, 2019

Historical deviation in Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

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Joan Didion, in an essay first published in 1973, described the Hollywood of that era as “the last extant stable society,” and Tarantino’...