Photo Comparison of the Week, Sharon Photo Sites, Elvira and Sharon, Sharon as Janet Trego

Here is our photo comparison of the week:

I've noticed that Actress Amanda Seyfried has that Sharon Tate style every now and then.  Also, be sure to check out the cover of Elle--the one that only subscribers get!--it has a photo of Amanda with a very early type Sharon hairdo.   Here are some other examples:

Here are some Sharon photo sites I found.  Sorry but the first one has commericals. :(

http://www.devotedpics.com/gallery/sharon-tate-pictures/

http://www.fanpop.com/spots/sharon-tate/photos

Here is a web mention of Sharon and Elvira (Cassandra Peterson):

http://joycestake.blogspot.com/2010/09/happy-birthday-cassandra-peterson.html

And here is another blogger that mentions Janet Trego fondly.  Thanks to Melissa for this:

http://www.liketelevision.com/blog/2009/09/sharon-tate-as-janet-trego.html

Quote of the Week, A Fan Dedication in Photos, Keira Knightly in the March Elle Magazine and more

Here is the quote of the week:

Sharon's friend actress Mary Winters:

"When I think of Sharon, I remember all the happy memories, so loving, vulnerable, and very disciplined when it came to her career. She was very family orientated; we'd often drive to Palos Verdes Estates
and have dinner with them. She was especially close to her mother. Sharon evoked a kind of warmth. Everybody felt very protective towards her. I guess we lived at the Hollywood Studio Club for about six months, then Sharon took an apartment on Fuller street in the building that Richard Beymer's mother managed."

Here is a lovely 3 part photo series on Sharon from a fan:

http://xmaniac.net/?p=102

On the top of the page see Especial Sharon Tate - Parte 2 and there is a 3 as well.

Keira on the Elle cover for March.

Sharon Tate look-a-like, Keira Knightly appears on this month's March edition of Elle magazine.  She has appeared on Elle before and I found a quote from her that was interesting:

Asked if the Oscar nomination for "Pride and Prejudice" had changed her life?

Knightly: "For ages and ages, everybody was going, 'Oh, she's just a pretty face.  She absolutely can't act.'  And I was going, 'Well, maybe they're right; I don't know.'  So that (Oscar nod) at least shut them up for a while."

This is the magazine that the quote comes from.

This reminds me of some of the people who have said the same thing about Sharon.  'Oh, she's just a beautiful face, she never could act.'  I really genuinely think that had Sharon lived, she could have proven all these people wrong too.  But, unfortunately, we'll never know.  I think she did well in the films she did make, don't get me wrong.  But I think she would have really shown us so much more.  She certainly was on her way up and out of the contract with Ransohoff so she could do more classy films like "Tess" to showcase her acting talent.

Here is Andrea's page of montage videos of Sharon:

http://www.onetruemedia.com/otm_site/my_shared?z=409241fe839fff14f2ea96&utm_source=otm&utm_medium=text_url

Be sure to check them out. 

Emmanuelle Seigner Defends Husband, Samantha Geimer Takes New Position in Case, Polanski Being Compared to Nazis??? and More

This comes from The Washington Post site: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010012103180.html

Wife says Polanski is 'marvelous' husband

By ELAINE GANLEY - The Associated Press

Thursday, January 21, 2010; 4:42 PM

PARIS -- Film director Roman Polanski's wife said she "understands perfectly" that women have been shocked by the 32-year-old sex case revived by her husband's sudden arrest in Switzerland.

But she added in an interview with Elle magazine appearing Friday that in the 1970s, when the crime occurred, society viewed sex and drugs in a different light.

"My personal truth is that Roman is a marvelous husband and man," said actress Emmanuelle Seigner, 43. "He is an impeccable man and I have nothing to reproach him for."

The 76-year-old Polanski, who has two young children, is fighting extradition to the United States. The director was initially accused of raping a 13-year-old girl after plying her with champagne and a Quaalude pill during a 1977 modeling shoot. He pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual intercourse, then fled to France on the eve of sentencing in 1978.

"My husband never believed he was above the law. The proof is that he pleaded guilty...," she said.

Polanski was arrested in Switzerland on his way to a film festival in September. He was jailed for more than 60 days before being placed under house arrest Dec. 4 in Gstaad, Switzerland.

The woman who was the child victim at the time, Samantha Geimer, is supporting a motion by Polanski's lawyers urging that the director be sentenced to time served then - 42 days in a California prison for psychiatric evaluation.

Geimer's attorney, Lawrence Silver, faxed that position to other lawyers Wednesday, asking that Polanski be sentenced in absentia.

The director's wife said the 1970s were a "crazy time."

"The relationship to drugs wasn't the same, the relationship to sexual liberty and permissiveness neither," she said. "Today, public opinion has considerably evolved on the subjects."

Seigner described her personal horror after her husband's arrest.

She said she has had the impression of "falling into a well like Alice in Alice in Wonderland," and that each day the fall has been "slow and regular ... and this long fall won't stop."

Switzerland has not yet decided whether to honor the extradition request.

More of that interview is here:  http://www.theage.com.au/world/polanskis-wife-defends-him-over-sex-charges-20100122-mooo.html

Here is what Samantha Geimer is saying and wanting to do with the case now:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/01/victim-in-roman-polanksi-rape-case-expected-to-testify-on-his-behalf-in-la-courtroom.html

Here is what the prosecutors had to say about the above:

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9629187

Polanski being compared to German Officers/Nazis?

I found this strange conversation that apparently appeared on the radio not too long ago (link: http://sweetperdition.wordpress.com/2010/01/20/awn-2009-year-in-review/) :

Sharon daVanport: I’ll tell you something that really caught my attention; I think it’s pretty controversial: Roman Polanski. He’s probably most famously known as Sharon Tate’s husband—Sharon Tate was one of the victims in the Manson murders. He’s been a fugitive for 30 years. They’ve been pretty split in Hollywood; he’s got a lot of pretty big Hollywood stars who have backed him, and said that they should just drop these charges.

He actually was charged with statutory rape, I guess in Los Angeles. He’s been on the lam for 30 years and was finally caught, and some people are protesting and saying: “Oh, they should drop the charges” just because it’s been 30 years. If he wasn’t Roman Polanski, would people be doing that? He had sex with a 13 year old: I don’t think so. Hello?

Tricia Kenney: It’s the same thing with those German officers. I don’t care how many years have gone by, and how old you are now. What you did was still wrong and you still should be held accountable for that.

Sharon daVanport: Right. And I was really surprised at some of the people in Hollywood who were saying: “We need to just drop these charges.” They’re trying to say that even the victim says she just wants to move on. Well, a lot of victims do. They just want it to be done with it; but it’s not up to them. It’s the law, and I think that he should be prosecuted. I really do.

Sorry but comparing Polanski to german officers or Nazis???  I think that's pushing the envelope a bit much (and I'm being sarcastic here), don't you? 

And saying that the victim's voice means nothing??? 

If it hasn't been bad enough that most of these people do not actually know the details of the case, now we hear this???

Here's to hoping that the Geimer and Polanski will have the upper hand!

I reported on Dennis Hopper the other day. I still do not know if Sharon and Roman knew him but here is the latest on him:

http://specials.msn.com/A-List/Dennis-Hopper-divorce.aspx?cp-searchtext=%20dennis%20hopper%20divorce