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Sharon Tate
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A brief excerpt from the book Sharon Tate Campaign Plan MMXX
© 2018 Michael A. Walker
"The plan envisions an end state where there is severance of the linkage between Manson and Sharon Tate in the American psyche. At a minimum, the American public should know Sharon Tate more for whom she is and not what was done to her, and that is where promotion of the common good comes into play. The resources to accomplish this task exist. This girl, Sharon Tate, was born one day; she grew up and lived for a while. She loved boys, got married and was expecting, but one day her life was taken by someone. Stunned by the savagery, people lost association with her life and the joy that she brought to others. This also happens to other people in the world but not nearly in the same manner. In Sharon’s case there are a lot of presentable pictures, many of which she probably would not mind people seeing. Can you help? That is all I wanted to say."
Sharon Tate
Playing the character "Odile de Caray"
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Sharon Tate on Acting Roles

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Sharon Tate
Fair Use 17 USC 1701Planning Factors for Leveraging the Raw Power of Sharon Tate Multimedia
A brief excerpt from the book Sharon Tate Campaign Plan MMXX
© 2018 Michael A. Walker
"Never before seen candid images of Sharon are surfacing that open up new possibilities for campaign planners. The preponderance of this captured media-rich content occurred in both the movie studio and on location in Italy, Aquitaine, England and the United States. There is also historical value appearing within many of Sharon Tate’s images that can intensify public interest or provide for the basis of happier messaging. Sharon Tate’s visual portfolio is chock full of positive, endearing subject matter. Despite these resources, Sharon’s story still has not yet been told in a way such that it alters the American perception of her in a happier direction. The most historic imagery of Sharon Tate is taken from film shoots and stills at the Château de Hautefort in Aquitaine. This massive 17th century “Sun King Louis XIV” period château was just completing a decades-long renovation in 1965 as shooting for the movie Eye of the Devil commenced, and then nearly destroyed from a devastating fire only two years after filming completed."10 
_________________________________________________________________10 Filmways Pictures (1966). Eye of the Devil. IMDb title tt0061634.

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Sharon Tate
Fair Use 17 USC 1701Learning About Sharon Tate as a Person
An excerpt from the book Sharon Tate Campaign Plan MMXX
© 2018 Michael A. Walker
"The question is how we can know Sharon is an introspective person with a higher degree of certainty. There is a clue given to us in a rare 1966 interview of Sharon taken from the interior of the Château de Hautefort where she remarked 'The full-time job is to learn your craft and also to try to keep yourself what you really are.' We now know from this that Sharon was an actress that drew lines and did not permit the profession to dictate what her core personal values were going to be. Nothing is clearer than Sharon’s determination to live life with the weightier matters of honoring her parents, marriage, and the bearing of children taking precedence. Sharon knew what mattered most in her life despite pressure from many directions to violate her conscience on matters of ultimate importance."

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Sharon Tate
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An excerpt from the book Sharon Tate Campaign Plan MMXX
© 2018 Michael A. Walker
"One metric is the number of movie productions dedicated to telling only the story of Sharon’s life versus the number of movie productions rehashing Sharon’s death. We can take a closer look at how this metric would have to be set up in order to measure in a way that tells us something. There are four possibilities for a Sharon Tate screenplay focus: 1) Sharon’s life, 2) Sharon’s life and death together, 3) Sharon’s death, 4) Sharon’s future had she lived. Any production that couples Sharon’s life and death together would fall into the steady state category."

Sharon Tate from Baby to Woman

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Sharon Tate
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An excerpt from the book Sharon Tate Campaign Plan MMXX
© 2018 Michael A. Walker
"In light of what transpired, has Sharon Tate’s dignity remained intact? If her dignity is in question, is it salvageable? As far as her murder is concerned, Sharon lost her dignity because of it, her killers evaded paying the ultimate price, and we are left with a paradox. From every other indication as discussed throughout the following pages, the answer to questions regarding the feasibility of repairing Sharon’s dignity is “yes” on all counts. However, there are identifiable problems to overcome. Technically, this is a qualified yes at this point in time."


Sharon Tate Photoshoot

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Sharon Tate
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Never Rely Upon the Word of a Convicted Murderer

An excerpt from the book  Sharon Tate Campaign Plan MMXX
© 2018 Michael A. Walker

"This case easily puts Mr. John Q. Public into a position of thinking he can only rely upon the word of a convicted murderer to know what happened and who did what. There is a solution in situations where the basis has to be something other than the only living eyewitnesses and this is the situation in this case. After much thought, the only sound basis would be the physical evidence. This seems to be difficult to comprehend or accept by most people because they are romantically inclined. That is to say, they have come to over-rely on human relations to the exclusion of all else. Also, we cannot expect the murderers to recall the eye color of the people that they murdered one by one even though they looked into the eyes of these people. The most we could hope for would be that the murderers noticed perhaps light or dark colored eyes in this example of perception processing variance. What is left from the entire process can still never become a basis. There are several examples of this over-reliance on romantic inclinations worth noting in this case. In one instance, the police insisted that it had to be someone that knew the victims at the crime scene. In another later instance, the criminals were not so bad anymore and should be released because they mellowed out. In both of these examples, romanticism got to the point that it clouded judgment. Romantic inclination is where nearly everyone goes awry. People get sucked into this case on account of its frequent romanticizing. To be clear, the overriding problem with that prevailing attitude is that the only possible eyewitnesses for reconstructing how the murders in this case occurred were the convicts themselves because everyone else other than the murderers died at the scene of the crime. There remains only one way of acquiring a valid basis."

This is the announcement for the forthcoming book:Sharon ...

This is the announcement for the forthcoming book:

Sharon Tate Campaign Plan MMXX  The Result of a Deliberative Process that Contemplates a New Dawn in Hollywood
© 2018 Michael A. Walker
ISBN: 978-0-9996737-1-3
This book is in the post-production phase and is available for pre-orders in several different formats (Hardcover, paperback, eBook, audio book). Available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Books-A-Million

Pre-orders for the paperback and hardcover versions of the book began October 31, 2018. The first orders will ship or otherwise distribute in alternate formats on January 1, 2019.


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“In 1969 the nearly nine months pregnant celebrity Sharon Tate loses her life and the life of her unborn child horrifying hundreds of millions of Americans. Only 26 years old when she died, the story of Sharon’s life becomes of less public interest than learning about the hippie lives of her murderers. Despite this, Sharon possesses a formidable arsenal of relatively unseen visual media for planners to work with. In the ensuing decades the justice system suspends the death penalty for premeditated murder, the country embraces a culture of death, people idolize the murderers and their crimes, and cinema as well as major media caters to growing demand for the depraved because an unchecked system allows it. The development of an ambitious campaign plan whose end state reintroduces active measures into the cinematic enterprise ignores and displaces Manson Family murderers in the American psyche with Sharon's life story by exposing the culture of death as an absurdity. The book details flexible options that reverse the present situation by reintroducing Sharon Tate to the American public. The plan envisions a new dawn in Hollywood and promotion of the greater good.”


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Who was Sharon Tate as a Person?

An excerpt from the book  Sharon Tate Campaign Plan MMXX
© 2018 Michael A. Walker

"One of the first attempts at a more comprehensive Sharon Tate biography for the general public occurred in May of 2000. In Greg King’s book – which is at times venerable and at times apologetically exploitative – he mentions[1] that Sharon Tate usually carried with her a copy of Will Durant’s book The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers[2]when going on long voyages abroad. Durant’s brief introduction includes the following related philosophical concept that Secretary Donald Rumsfeld would later amplify regarding how the formal planning process begins to tackle wicked problems: 'Philosophy is a hypothetical interpretation of the unknown or of the inexactly known in the front trench in the siege of truth.' What we can say from this biographical detail about Sharon is that she was a self-disciplined reader well able to navigate abstract, conceptual subjects with her introspective intellect. Images of Sharon seem to almost exude this introspective personality of hers. The ability to differentiate between the known and unknown with increased fidelity leads to the development of assumptions that allow the planning process to go forward."


[1] King, G. (2000). Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders. Barricade Books Inc. Fort Lee, New Jersey, United States. ISBN: 978-1569801574.[2] Durant, W. (1961). The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Greater Philosophers. Simon and Schuster, New York, New York, United States. ISBN: 978-1299781481.

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 Sharon Tate
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Excerpt from the Introduction© 2018 Michael A. WalkerLet me introduce you to a Sharon Tate that people are not much familiar with.
Sharon worked in the acting profession, amassing an enormous amount of imagery from photographs, television, and movies during her life. Taken together as a visual portfolio, Sharon’s media arsenal is a formidable force to be reckoned with should somebody go all-out. Not nearly enough has been accomplished in definitively presenting Sharon’s life despite the resources to do so. In the American psyche, Sharon Tate remains increasingly overshadowed by the evermore lurid portrayals of her murder. For me, this alone is enough to cause some reflection on the entire situation.
The power of media for good or evil is one of the greatest problems of our time. Media in all of its various forms became a cultural battlespace once robust computerization occurred within our society. There was no corresponding set of active control measures applied to the emerging cyberspace domain which assimilated all forms of media content into its bottomless pit. For lack of foresight, cyberspace was a botched transition that among other things did not have security in mind. This particular security deficiency issue would eventually drive up costs and dilute much of the benefit. There are some other ill effects worth noting as well.
Due to the striation of visual media involved in the case, this is how the Sharon Tate problem set presents itself to us today. The question is how to proceed. The first order of business would be to reflect on the problem for a while and conduct serious research with further focus on where question marks pop up as they are encountered. The next step would be to assemble the research into some kind of logical order, capture and organize the various reflections in one place, and see if and how a narrative would emanate from the collection. This would all be done before initiating a more formalized deliberative planning process.

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Excerpt from the Foreword
© 2018 Michael A. Walker
"Each page of Bugliosi’s book1 was worse than the page before. I was able to fill in some blanks to the whole story depicted in the television movie, and was at least getting a view of the bigger picture. Along with these impressions, I noticed there was still scant information about Sharon Tate as a person after completing my comparative analysis between Bugliosi's book, the television movie, and a book written by one of the murderers. Sure, there was some basic data presented in Bugliosi's book such as retracing some of Sharon’s steps prior to the murder and some rather vague, overgeneralized information as to her personality. As time went by there was news about releasing Sharon’s murderers from prison which was not an entirely unexpected development. However, it caused alarm about the rate of decline going on within our justice system. I sensed that something had to be done about it by the old guard that would come out of retirement, step in, crack some knuckles, and restore public confidence in the institution. For convicts, there were only four possibilities: 1) Wrongly convicted, 2) Activists making conscientious sacrifices, 3) Mental cases, or 4) Just plain evil persons."

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1 Bugliosi, V. & Gentry, C. (1974), Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, New York, United States. ISBN: 978-0393322231.
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