03-05-2016, 07:16 PM
"KosiÅ„ski was friends with Roman Polanski, with whom he attended the National Film School in Åódź, and said he narrowly missed being at Polanski and Sharon Tate's house on the night Tate was murdered by Charles Manson's followers in 1969, due to lost luggage. His novel Blind Date discussed the Manson murders.[4] KosiÅ„ski was also friends with Wojciech Frykowski and Abigail Folger. He introduced the couple."
Kosinski also wrote (many would say plagiarized) the book Being There, which was the basis for the classic Peter Sellers film of the same name. The finale of the movie is interesting:
Peter Sellers was also, of course, in the TV movie A Carol for Another Christmas, written by Rod Serling and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the co-writer of Citizen Kaneand uncle of RFK's press secretary Frank Mankiewicz.
Kosinski also wrote (many would say plagiarized) the book Being There, which was the basis for the classic Peter Sellers film of the same name. The finale of the movie is interesting:
Peter Sellers was also, of course, in the TV movie A Carol for Another Christmas, written by Rod Serling and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the co-writer of Citizen Kaneand uncle of RFK's press secretary Frank Mankiewicz.
“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.â€
― Leo Tolstoy,
― Leo Tolstoy,