MONDAY 5 AUGUST 2019FACTS ON FICTION
Tarantino’s latest film, ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’, is awash
with pop culture references, as you would expect. Bruce Fretts has the
glossary on all you need to know
Leonardo DiCaprio plays a fictitious TV star in 1969 LA (Sony Pictures Releasing)
It’s no coincidence that the title Once Upon a Time in Hollywood evokes, to quote the New York Times
review, “bedtime stories as well as a pair of Sergio Leone masterpieces”.
Quentin Tarantino’s latest movie, set in 1969 Los Angeles, mixes fictitious characters with actual
celebrities, TV series, films and landmarks of the era, as it tells the story of Rick Dalton (Leonardo
DiCaprio), an invented TV star, and his equally made-up stunt double, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt).
In Tarantino’s alternate reality, Rick lives in Benedict Canyon on Cielo Drive, next door to Sharon Tate