Marlin Marynick, author of the recently released "Charles Manson Now", is co-authoring a new book, with Michal Milstein, titled "Undisclosed - Secrets of the AIDS Epidemic".  The book is scheduled for launch December 1st, in LA, for the 30th Anniversary of "World AIDS Day".

"For the past fifteen years, author Marlin Marynick has been employed as a registered psychiatric nurse in prisons and hospitals. He has worked in many areas of psychiatry with violent offenders and the mentally-ill. Marlin is currently part of the crisis response team in Regina, Saskatchewan.  He also has a deep interest in philosophy and spirituality and has travelled the planet to meet some of the world’s greatest thinkers". 

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Starship Shares a TLB-Related Excerpt From the Book:

"Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY and the Lost Story of 1970", by David Browne. Copyright 2011

Starship provides some background/bibliography:
Browne is a writer for Rolling Stone magazine.
For this book, he apparently had access to Rolling Stone's vast archives of information, including previously unpublished interviews which he mentions quite a bit. The bibliography for this book cites 48 other books, HELTER SKELTER among them. Additionally he cites a number of articles, two of which are relevant here:

1)  A Washington Post Article (whose abtract I cannot get to paste correctly), titled "Beatle Asked to Testify at Tate Trial", published Oct 29, 1970
The defense wants John Lennon of the Beatles to testify in the Sharon Tate murder trial on whether one of the group's songs could have inspired Charles Manson to violence.

2) A New York Times article, titled "Tate Jury Denied Death-Site Visit; Judge in Trial of Manson Bars After-Dark Trip" By Earl Caldwell, January 19, 1971, Page 29.
[ DISPLAYING ABSTRACT ]
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18 -- The Tate-La Bianca jury interrupted its deliberations today with a surprising request for permission to make an after-dark visit to the sites of the murders for which Charles M. Manson and his women co-defendants are being tried.
Browne also claims as primary source materials interviews he conducted in person, by phone, or over email between November 2008 and September 2010. Relevant here is that he lists Nils Lofgren Danny Kortchmar, Dan Richter, and Vincent Bugliosi as people he interviewed during this time.
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As Charles Manson stared at him, an "X" mark freshly carved into his forehead with a razor blade (the infamous swastika came later), "Vincent Bugliosi prepared to tell the world why Manson had convinced some of his followers to kill. Bugliosi knew some in the legal community would think the sad-eyed deputy district attorney of Los Angeles County was crazy. But now, in the Hall of Justice on the morning of July 24, the first day of the State of California vs. Charles Manson and six of his follow­ers, Bugliosi knew the time had arrived to tell the world that the Beat­les indirectly had something to do with it.
 
Rumors about the connection between Manson and the Beatles had first circulated in February, when an unnamed source in the District At­torney's office told the Los Angeles Times that prosecutors in the case were examining a possible link between the killers and the White Album. The story spread when it was picked up by the New York Post the following day. As laid out by the source—not Bugliosi, who denied talking to any­one in the media before the trial had begun—the idea seemed too fan­tastical to be true. Manson envisioned a coming war between blacks and whites in which only Manson and his followers would survive. The best way to inaugurate the war was to slaughter a bunch of white people in Los Angeles and make it appear as if African Americans had committed the crimes.
 
The story only grew stranger as it continued. To Manson, the entire tale was laid out in the White Album. He interpreted "Honey Pie" (which beckoned someone to "sail across the ocean") as the Beatles’ message to him. "Happiness Is a Warm Gun" was a communiqué to blacks telling them to prepare to rise up and fight; "Blackbird" sup­posedly served the same purpose. The war itself would be called "Helter Skelter," another song on the record; the battle was laid out in the chaotic noise of "Revolution 9." In another supposed sign of his bond with the Beatles, Manson claimed he'd renamed Susan Atkins "Sadie" long before the album's "Sexy Sadie." On it went—all of it, according to Bugliosi's theory, culminating in the grisly murders the previous Au­gust of eight-months-pregnant actress Sharon Tate, coffee heiress Abi­gail Folger, hairdresser Jay Sebring, writer Wojiciech Frykowski, teenager Steven Parent, and supermarket executive Leno LaBianca and his wife Rosemary.
 
When the Times and Post stories emerged, the prevailing feeling was disbelief; Rolling Stone ran a skeptical commentary on the reports. But Bugliosi was convinced after two Family members, Brooks Poston and Paul Watkins, told him separately about Manson's consuming obsession with the album.
 
In the valleys and canyons of Los Angeles, Manson's ties with rock and roll were well known; he'd spooked plenty in the music community. Two years earlier, he and members of the Family had crashed at the home of Beach Boy Dennis Wilson; Wilson went so far as to oversee demos of Manson singing his own songs. One of them, "Cease to Exist" (retitled "Never Learn Not to Love" by Wilson), wound up on a Beach Boys album. Returning to his apartment one day, Danny Kortchmar, James Taylor's lead guitarist, found his place ransacked, guitars and equipment gone. Later, Kortchmar heard the Family may have been re­sponsible; Manson, he heard, dispatched members of his flock to rob musicians' homes so Manson would have the gear necessary to fulfill his fantasy of being a rock star. Manson had also been angry with record producer Terry Melcher, who'd expressed interest in recording an album of Manson's songs until he saw the dark side of the diminutive cult leader. Melcher had previously lived at the Cielo Drive house where the Tate murders were committed.
 
Near Neil Young's home in Topanga Canyon, everyone knew about Manson. While staying in the house of David Briggs, Young's friend and producer, Nils Lofgren heard the stories about Manson's crew and saw the weapons Briggs and his friends were storing in case they came by. One day, Lofgren and Bobby Morse, one of Briggs' roommates, went to Briggs' home to pick up something for a session. "Oh, no, it's that crazy bitch," Morse said, gesturing at a girl in front of the house, standing be­side a car with a flat tire. The girl asked to see another of their room­mates. "He's not here," Morse said curtly. "You gotta get out of here." They quickly replaced her tire, but when the girl insisted on staying, Morse told her she couldn't. "They're bad people," Morse told Lofgren after she left, "and we don't want 'em here." Months later, when Manson and Family members were arrested on charges of murder, Lofgren rec­ognized the girl as one of the accomplices.
 
The chilly repercussions extended to the U.K. Just before the mur­ders, Dan Richter was living at the home Lennon had owned before Tittenhurst. Afraid the Lennons were next in line and that the killers might discover where he lived, the Richters moved, at Lennon and Ono's invi­tation, to Tittenhurst.
 
In his opening statement in court, Bugliosi hardly minced words when relaying his theory. "The evidence will show Manson's fanatical obses­sion with 'Helter Skelter,' a term he got from the English musical group the Beatles," he told the jury. "Manson was an avid follower of the Bea­tles and believed that they were speaking to him across the ocean through the lyrics of their songs." To bolster his case, Bugliosi entered the White Album as evidence, along with a door from Spahn Ranch (where the Family had been living) on which "Helter Skelter" had been scrawled. The lyrics to the songs were read into evidence.
 
To Bugliosi's surprise, no public outcry greeted his theory. Leaving the courtroom that day, no reporters besieged him to ask for further details. He didn't know whether to be shocked or not. Bugliosi himself never heard from any of the Beatles or their representatives. Even if the public, press or his fellow lawyers thought he was insane, the jury made it clear it took his theory seriously. During the trial, they requested a stereo for the delib­eration room along with their own copy of the Beades' two-LP set.
 
For a moment, the Beatles themselves were almost pulled into the case when Manson's defense team sent a writ to Lennon to testify. "We feel he may want to explain the lyrics," a member of the team told the As­sociated Press. Reached for comment by the press, Apple spokesman Derek Taylor was pithy as always. Requesting Lennon's presence at the trial, he said, was "like summoning Shakespeare to explain Macbeth." Be­sides, he added, it was McCartney, not his former band partner, who wrote "Helter Skelter." The plan ran aground when Manson's lawyers couldn't find a way to physically administer summonses to each Beatle. Apparently, none of them knew that, during the jury-selection process that began in mid June, Lennon was in their very city, undergoing pri­mal scream therapy.
 

Five months later, Rolling Stone's Wenner asked Lennon about the trial and Manson's interpretations of some of his songs. "He's balmy, he's like any other Beatle kind of fan who reads mysticism into it," he said of Manson. "... I don't know, what's 'Helter Skelter' got to do with knif­ing somebody? I've never listened to the words properly, it was just noise." The trial and the association was just another death knell for his former band.

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 "Click" below to view a video interview of the Author... David Browne.

Starship - Book review #2:

"The Color Of Night", by Madison Smartt Bell

Alright, now this book I can almost confidently characterize as literature!
The Color of Night, I believe, might be a very interesting and enjoyable read for many of the Manson Case blog followers out there...especially those who can't see ever granting parole to any of the murderesses because they believe that they are evil through and through...

Because Mae, who narrates the story, is indeed evil...at least she does lots of evil things...even years removed from being a member of The People which is the thinly disguised fictionalized version of the Manson Family. Imagine that Sadie escaped from the authorities during the Spahn Ranch raid and remained at large up until at least 2001, a couple of months after the 9/11 attacks happened. That's your protagonist, a black jack dealer working in a Nevada casino, living in a trailer park out in the desert, hunting coyotes (or not) until the early morning hours.

Mae discovers that Laurel, her special lover from the old days, is in NYC, seeing her in the footage of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Mae can't get enough of the violence of 9/11. She makes a loop tape and watches it over and over again...reveling in the deaths of so many as they are sprung out of the buildings as a result of the planes slamming into them.

The Author

And perhaps Mae can't help being so evil...after all it was her brother who repeatedly raped her when they were both young teenagers, and their parents, her mother especially, aren't exactly the greatest influences either. Sound familiar?

So If you choose to read this book, and I hope you will, perhaps it might enlighten a discussion or two about what we think about the survivors of the Manson Family...what they must be like today, and also whether we feel differently about those women who have been in prison for 40 years or so now.

And the LA Times has a much better review than I could ever do here:
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/12/entertainment/la-et-book-20110411
Thanks Starship!!  Great Review!!

Pulp Fiction meets Requiem for a Dream?

Sick City: A Novel by Tony O'neill

This is a comletely fictitious tale (no new "facts" here folks)... but, the book has recieved 100% positve feedback from 13 "raving" reviewers on Amazon... so, if you're into this kinda stuff... it may be a fabulous read. 

In short: "Aging, drug-snarfing rent-boy Jeffrey inherits one hell of a hand-me-down from his suddenly dead ex-cop lover: a 16mm film featuring Sharon Tate at the center of an all-star Hollywood gangbang. Checking himself into rehab, Jeffrey meets Randal, a meth-using son of movie-industry royalty, and the two of them plot to fence the film. For them, this is honest work, but their utter lack of willpower means they keep shooting themselves in the foot (and arm, leg, and neck)". http://www.amazon.com/Sick-City-Novel-Tony-Oneill/dp/0061789747/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1310165608&sr=8-1
Book Submitted by Shak El!  Thanks Shak El!

"Click" Below to read a few really positive reviews....

Katie says:  This just in!!  A new book about Sharon Tate will be released in January 2012. 
It's called "Restless Souls: The Sharon Tate Family's Account of Stardom, Murder and a Crusade".  It is authored by Brie Tate (Patti Tate's daughter) and Alisa Statman (Patti's best friend).  It is based largely on a book that Paul Tate was working on (but was never published)... on Doris Tate's notes regarding her feelings, about what happened to Sharon... and, on Patti's notes, about what really happened.  This book is a long time in the making, and should be a good read. Stayed tuned for more details!!  http://www.amazon.com/Restless-Souls-LP-Familys-Account/dp/0062107291
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Inyo County Courthouse completed 1921 - Courtesy Eastern California Museum

After three previous courthouses were lost to earthquake and fire, Inyo's fourth and current courthouse was built to resist both.  The region's only example of monumental Neoclassical Revival public architecture, this courthouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998 in recognition of its "integrity of feeling and association".  It was here in Independence, that 24 members of the Manson Family were jailed in 1969 for possession of stolen vehicles and property.  Within days of his preliminary hearing, Charles Manson was indicted in the Tate murders and transferred to Los Angeles.

Below: Page 220 - "Manson in his Own Words" - Nuel Emmons

"Blood Family"... previously published as "Trial By Your Peers", was written by TLB juror William Zamora... 507 pages.  According to Pristash and MattProkes... the book was not a must-read. 
I found it interesting however, that Zamora actually wrote the book, during the trial... talk about a first-hand, fresh source. LOL  The book can be found on Amazon (link below) starting at $4.32, through $55.96... quite a disparity huh?  Most copies are under ten bucks however... and according to MP, the book can probably be found readily in bargain bins. LOL  This one has a price tag of $1.95. : ) 
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0890832110/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&qid=1307127187&sr=8-1&condition=used

Vincent Bugliosi has written another book.  "Divinity of Doubt: The God Question" 

Evidently, he's taking-on God now. 

The book essentially revolves around Bug, proving God doesn't exist.

Bugliosi was a skilled lawyer in his day. 

Love him, or hate him, he won 105 of 106 felony cases as a prosecutor, which included winning 21 out of 21 murder cases.

Unfortunately, it seems over the years, his mind has deteriorated in direct converse proportion to his ever-growing ego. 

Evidently, Bugliosi believes he's a master on every subject now.

 

Even a championship Boxer, must know when to hang-up his gloves.  If he fights too long, and too old, he'll make a fool of himself.  It's time Bugliosi, the champ of yester-year, hangs-up his gloves. 

A legal consultant great.  A theologian? ... not so much.