Esoteric Brezhnevism

  Two weeks ago, in “ The Merrick Connection Revisited ”, I discussed the fascinating interconnectivity of the Tate-LaBianca and Kennedy assassination nexuses – and readers are advised to acquaint themselves with the arguments I present in that essay before proceeding. Last week, I analyzed the Manson-Kennedy-resonant subtext of Roman Polanski’s 1988 thriller Frantic , and now I intend a similar approach to 1971’s Macbeth , the first film Polanski completed following the Tate-LaBianca massacres. “Polanski's first celluloid hero after that grizzly [i.e., grisly] night is a man who is delivered into the world via a bloody cesarean section performed with a sharp knife,” notes G. Greene-Whyte, writing at The Manson Family Blog , also observing that, “The director flashes a baby being removed from his mother’s womb across the screen twice during the film.” “I feel like Polanski punished himself with this project,” Greene-Whyte concludes: The self-harm never stops. Polanski assaults hi...

In my popular 2017 article “ Israel, Manson, and Vampirism: The Freaky Life of Laurence Merrick ”, I discussed the intriguing figure of IDF veteran, Zionist activist, stage and film director, and actors’ school proprietor Zev (or Zeev or Zehev) Lahav, who switched his name to the less ethnically obtrusive Laurence Merrick at some point after moving to California in an apparent bid to liken himself to a well-known Broadway producer, David Merrick [1]. He was also one of the founders of Independent Screen Producers, Inc., a distribution exchange “covering the 13 Western states and wholly owned by the producers.” [2] Serving as a human dot connecting Sharon Tate and the Manson Family, Merrick is surprisingly little-known – which, in itself, is worthy of note. Five years ago, with a cursory search, I was able to find comparatively little information on the Israeli enigma, but some interesting additional tidbits have come to my attention since then, perhaps justifying a second look. Born ...