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Did Tate actually visit a cinema alone to watch one of her movies


Did she?
Or was that just something QT came up with?

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It was something QT did himself, with a date, when True Romance came out. However, it wouldn't surprise me if Sharon Tate, and just about every other actor & filmmaker did this. Wouldn't you? Sounds fun!

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I can definitely imagine Tate seeing one of her movies in the cinema with a date/friend, but alone?
A pretty woman like her being all by herself in Los Angeles, and later being revealed to the crowd as the star in the movie they just watched? That's just begging to get murdered/stalked.

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I know I would.

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I read that the late actor Robert Forster (Jackie Brown) was spotted at a theater watching his own performance in the 1998 remake of Psycho. Interestingly, he was spotted at the Village Theater in Westwood -- across the street from the Bruin theater in Westwood(where Tate sees HER movie; "Pendulum" is playing at the Village.)

Tarantino's real life experience also took place at the Bruin. He was "only" the writer of "True Romance," so he couldn't prove he was IN the movie, like Tate. But he showed his driver's license to match it up to the writer's credit on the poster.

At yet still ANOTHER Westwood Village theater (the Avco -- I think it is gone now) I saw "Carrie" at a late night showing in 1976 and a major actor was in there alone watching it: Jon Voight. He wasn't in it, though.

Note: In the 60s and 70's, the movie theaters in Westwood Village(in West LA next to the UCLA campus) largely replaced the more crummy Hollywood Boulevard area theaters as "the theaters where the stars go." In recent years, it seems that Westwood Village has lost its charm as a movie district -- college kids and movie stars have other ways to see movies these days.

PS. He did it more as a "work assignment," but Clint Eastwood was famous for wearing a cap, beard and sunglasses and entering theaters to watch his films with an audience. This was in the 70's when he was younger and more a movie star than a director.

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i would totally do that.

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My question is, why did no one recognize her?

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She was not a big star at that time.

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It's a bullshit premise but fine in Tarantinoland.

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I think that was something QT came up with. On the other hand, who knows?

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