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RICK DALTON—Once he had his own TV series, but now Rick’s a washed- up villain-of-theweek drowning his sorrows in whiskey sours. Will a phone call from Rome save his fate or seal it? CLIFF BOOTH—Rick’s stunt double, and the most infamous man on any movie set because he’s the only one there who might have gotten away with murder. . . . SHARON TATE—She left Texas to chase a movie-star dream and found it. Sharon’s salad days are now spent on Cielo Drive, high in the Hollywood Hills. CHARLES MANSON—The ex-con’s got a bunch of zonked-out hippies thinking he’s their spiritual leader, but he’d trade it all to be a rock ’n’ roll star. HOLLYWOOD 1969— YOU SHOULDA BEEN THERE COLUMBIA PICTURES PRESENTS A FILM BY QUENTIN TARANTINO LEONARDO DICAPRIO BRAD PITT MARGOT ROBBIE IN ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD MARGARET QUALLEY TIMOTHY OLYPHANT JULIA BUTTERS DAKOTA FANNING BRUCE DERN AND AL PACINO TECHNICOLOR ® PRODUCED BY DAVID HEYMAN SHANNON MCINTOSH QUENTIN TARANTINO WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY QUENTIN TARANTINO Dedication This book is dedicated to My Wife DANIELLA and My Son LEO Thanks for creating a happy home from which to write in. ALSO To all the actor Old Timers who told me tremendous stories about Hollywood in this period. And it’s because of them that you hold this book in your hands now. Bruce Dern * David Carradine * Burt Reynolds Robert Blake * Michael Parks * Robert Forster and especially Kurt Russell Contents Cover Title Page Dedication Chapter One: “Call Me Marvin” Chapter Two: “I Am Curious (Cliff)” Chapter Three: Cielo Drive Chapter Four: Brandy, You’re a Fine Girl Chapter Five: Pussycat’s Kreepy Krawl Chapter Six: “Hollywood or Bust” Chapter Seven: “Good Morgan, Boss Angeles!” Chapter Eight: Lancer Chapter Nine: “Think Less Hippie, More Hells Angels” Chapter Ten: Misadventure Chapter Eleven: The Twinkie Truck Chapter Twelve: “You Can Call Me Mirabella” Chapter Thirteen: “The Sweet Body of Deborah” Chapter Fourteen: “The Wrecking Crew” Chapter Fifteen: “You’re a Natural-Born Edmund” Chapter Sixteen: James Stacy Chapter Seventeen: The Medal of Valor Chapter Eighteen: The Name Ain’t Jughead Chapter Nineteen: “My Friends Call Me Pussycat” Chapter Twenty: Sexy Evil Hamlet Chapter Twenty-One: Lady of the House Chapter Twenty-Two: Aldo Ray Chapter Twenty-Three: Drinker’s Hall of Fame Chapter Twenty-Four: Nebraska Jim Chapter Twenty-Five: The Last Chapter Acknowledgments Copyright About the Publisher Chapter One “Call Me Marvin” The buzzer on Marvin Schwarz’s desk Dictaphone makes a noise. The William Morris agent’s finger holds the lever down on the box. “Is that my ten-thirty you’re buzzing me about, Miss Himmelsteen?” “Yes it is, Mr. Schwarz,” his secretary’s voice pipes out of the tiny speaker. “Mr. Dalton is waiting outside.” Marvin pushes down the lever again. “I’m ready when you are, Miss Himmelsteen.” When the door to Marvin’s office opens, his young secretary, Miss Himmelsteen, steps in first. She’s a twenty- one-year-old woman of the hippie persuasion. She sports a white miniskirt that shows off her long tan legs and wears her long brown hair in Pocahontas-style pigtails that hang down each side of her head. The handsome forty-two-year- old actor Rick Dalton, and his de rigueur glistening wet brown pompadour, follow behind her. Marvin’s smile grows wide as he stands up from the chair behind his desk. Miss Himmelsteen tries to do the introductions, but Marvin cuts her off. “Miss Himmelsteen, since I just finished watching a Rick Dalton fuckin’ film festival, no need to introduce this man to me.” Marvin crosses the distance between them, sticking out his hand for the cowboy actor to shake. “Put ’er there, Rick.”

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