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It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film

and the way it shaped our thoughts

on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps here again with Scott Tobias and Genevieve Koski. Tasha

Robinson's currently revisiting her days as a TV stuntman by visiting an old movie ranch. We

hope to see her again soon. Last episode, we looked back at 1968, LA from the perspective of

1975, but discussing the Hal Ashby

film, Shampoo. This episode, we're looking at 1969, Hollywood, as seen from the perspective of

2019, in a film made by someone who spent his childhood years in 60s, L.A. The news that Quentin Tarantino

was making a movie at least partly about the murder of

Sharon Taint and her companions on August 8th, 1969, a film set to be released near the 50th

anniversary of the murders, no less, inspired trepidation in some quarters. Was there a tasteful

way to approach this story? And, if so, was Quentin Tarantino, the filmmaker to do it?

Tarantino, after all, had spent the 21st century making variations on violent revenge movies,

and his previous film was the especially grim, The Hateful Aid.

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