hit “The Green Door” by Jim Lowe.
KHJ
The actual AM radio station is heard throughout the movie, with a spotlight on the DJs the Real Don Steele
and Robert W. Morgan.
Kid Colt Outlaw
Marvel’s Wild West comic book can be found in Cliff’s trailer.
Lady in Cement
The 1968 Frank Sinatra-Raquel Welch mystery plays on the screen at the once-functioning but now-closed
Van Nuys Drive-In.
Lancer
This was a 1968-70 CBS western that in Tarantino’s telling books Rick as a guest villain. On set he meets
the stars James Stacy and Wayne Maunder, who played brothers in this tale of ranchers (and are here played
by Timothy Olyphant and Luke Perry). Rick also crosses paths with a wise-beyond-her-years young actor
named Trudi Fraser (Julia Butters), who may be inspired by Jodie Foster, a guest on Gunsmoke and other
TV series as a child in that era. The patriarch of Lancer, Andrew Duggan, is glimpsed on the cover of a TV
guide.
Land of the Giants
The producer Irwin Allen’s 1968-70 sci-fi TV show is said to have cast Rick in an episode.
The Mamas and the Papas
Members of the “California Dreamin’” band – including Michelle Phillips (Rebecca Rittenhouse) and Mama
Cass Elliot (Rachel Redleaf) – attend a party at the Playboy Mansion. Folger also sings along to the group’s
1966 hit “Straight Shooter”.
Manson family members
Several real-life acolytes of Charles Manson are depicted. Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme (Dakota Fanning),
who appears as Spahn’s bedmate, tried to assassinate President Gerald Ford in 1975. Susan “Sexy Sadie”
Atkins (Mikey Madison) and Patricia “Katie” Krenwinkel (Madisen Beaty) were convicted of participating
in the Tate murders. Credited only as “Flower Child” in the movie (where she’s played by Maya Hawke,
daughter of Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke), Linda Kasabian served as a lookout on Cielo Drive and later
testified against her co-conspirators. Other real-life members include Catherine “Gypsy” Share (Lena
Dunham), and Dianne “Snake” Lake (Sydney Sweeney). Pussycat (Margaret Qualley), who flirts with Cliff,
appears to be a figment of Tarantino’s imagination.
The Night They Raided Minsky’s (United
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