Kosiński was friends with Roman Polanski, with whom he attended the National Film School in Łódź, 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.

Journalist John Taylor of New York Magazine believes Polanski was mistaken.

A film adaptation in 1971 titled The Tragedy of Macbeth was directed by Roman Polanski and executive-produced by Hugh Hefner.

** Followers of Charles Manson murder Sharon Tate, ( who was eight months pregnant ), and her friends: Folgers coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Wojciech Frykowski, and Hollywood hairstylist Jay Sebring at the home of Tate and her husband, Roman Polanski, in Los Angeles, California.

Married to film director Roman Polanski in 1968, Sharon was eight-and-a-half months pregnant when she was murdered in her home, along with four others, by followers of Charles Manson.

Polanski was planning The Fearless Vampire Killers, which was being co-produced by Ransohoff, and had decided that he wanted the red-headed actress Jill St. John for the female lead.

A perfectionist, Polanski had little patience with the inexperienced Tate, and said in an interview that one scene had required seventy takes before he was satisfied.

Although friends later said he was devastated, he befriended Polanski and remained Tate's closest confidante.

Polanski later commented that Sebring was a lonely and isolated person, who viewed Tate and himself as his family.

Polanski returned to the United States, and was contracted by the head of Paramount Pictures, Robert Evans, to direct and write the screenplay for Rosemary's Baby, which was based on Ira Levin's novel of the same name.

One of the all-time bestsellers, the film version was highly publicized and anticipated, and while Tate acknowledged that such a prominent role should further her career, she confided to Polanski that she did not like either the book or the script.

During the shooting of Valley of the Dolls, Tate confided to Parkins that she was " madly in love " with Polanski.

An edited version of The Fearless Vampire Killers was released, and Polanski expressed disgust at Ransohoff for " butchering " his film.

Polanski was dressed in what the press described as " Edwardian finery ," while Tate was attired in a white minidress.

The Polanski house was often full of strangers, and Tate regarded the casual atmosphere as part of the " free spirit " of the times, saying that she did not mind who came into her home as her motto was " live and let live ".

Tate and Polanski had visited it several times, and Tate was thrilled to learn it was available, referring to it as her " love house ".

Emmanuelle Seigner ( born 22 June 1966 ) is a French actress, former fashion model, and singer, also known as the wife of Academy Award winning Polish director Roman Polanski, and for her roles in The Diving Bell and the Butterfly ( 2007 ), and Frantic ( 1988 ).

Polanski was due to return on August 12 in time for the birth, and he asked Frykowski and Folger to stay in the house with Tate until then.

On Wednesday, August 13, Tate was interred in the Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, California, with her son, Paul Richard Polanski ( named posthumously for Polanski's and Tate's fathers ), in her arms.

His 1979 film Tess was dedicated " For Sharon ", as Tate had read Thomas Hardy's Tess of the d ' Urbervilles during her final stay with Polanski in London, and had left it for him to read with the comment that it would be a good story for them to film together.

In July 2005, Polanski successfully sued Vanity Fair magazine for libel after it stated that he had tried to seduce a woman on his way to Tate's funeral.

In the Polanski film, Deneuve first portrayed the character archetype for which she would be nicknamed the " ice maiden.

The island was used during the filming of The Ghost Writer, as an alternate location for Martha's Vineyard, due to travel restrictions on the film's director, Roman Polanski.

Brody won the Oscar for Best Actor and Polanski the one for Best Director.

James Freedman, a. k. a ' The Man of Steal ', created the pickpocket sequences for the 2005 film Oliver Twist directed by Roman Polanski.

Another long-standing example is Roman Polanski whose extradition California has pursued for over 20 years.

The case was notable because Polanski was living in France as a fugitive from U. S. justice, and never appeared in the London court for fear he would be extradited to the U. S. Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, responded, " I find it amazing that a man who lives in France can sue a magazine that is published in America in a British courtroom.

The next day, Polanski left for London to begin work on a new film.

Hatami made it clear to the stranger that this was the Polanski residence, and suggested that perhaps the person he was looking for lived in the guest house.

Harris wrote a screenplay of his novel Pompeii for director Roman Polanski.

They co-wrote a script and Polanski announced filming for early 2008, with Nicolas Cage, Pierce Brosnan, Tilda Swinton, and Kim Cattrall starring.

In spite of his incarceration, he oversaw post-production from his house arrest and the film premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in February 2010, with Polanski winning the Silver Bear for Best Director award.

Harris and Polanski later shared a César Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

Harris is currently writing a new film for Polanski.

In 1982 she eventually emigrated to the U. S. where she has specialized in playing European temptresses since her feature debut opposite William Hurt in Gorky Park ( 1983 ), for which she was recommended by Roman Polanski.

A March 1967 article about Tate in Playboy magazine began, " This is the year that Sharon Tate happens ..." and included six nude or partially nude photographs taken by Roman Polanski during filming of The Fearless Vampire Killers.

In 2005, Vanity Fair was found liable in a lawsuit brought in the UK by film director Roman Polanski, who claimed the magazine had libelled him in an article published in 2002, and written by A. E. Hotchner.

The article recounted a claim by Lewis H. Lapham, editor of Harper's, that Polanski had made sexual advances towards a young model as he was travelling to the funeral of his wife, Sharon Tate, in August 1969, claiming that he could make her " the next Sharon Tate ".

Polanski later admitted that he had wanted Tate to star in the film and had hoped that someone would suggest her, as he felt it inappropriate to make the suggestion himself.

The show was adapted from Roman Polanski's 1967 movie The Fearless Vampire Killers, and initially directed by Polanski himself.

Polanski himself makes a cameo as a spoon player among a trio of street buskers.

His cinematographer, Douglas Slocombe, was quoted by Ivan Butler in his book, The Cinema of Roman Polanski, as saying, " I think he ( Roman ) put more of himself into Dance of the Vampires than into another film.

Carrying the wardrobe, the two encounter a series of hostile events, including being attacked by a group of youths ( one of whom is played by Polanski himself ).