throngs of press. The chairman of Paramount Pictures had arranged a suite for Polanski on the studio lot—a place where he could avoid the prying eyes of the press, and the killers, too, if they were out to get him. But before he arrived at Paramount, Polanski had his car stop at a Denny’s parking lot for a hushed conversation with Kaczanowski. Bugliosi never reported this in Helter Skelter. The media never knew about it. To me, it was something to explore.
