The first Spider-Man talks about 57 years in Tinseltown

Veteran actor Nicholas Hammond on old Hollywood, working with Tarantino and DiCaprio

American Australian actor Nicholas Hammond played director Sam Wanamaker in the film Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood (2019). ST PHOTO: JOEL CHAN
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Once Upon A Time... In Hollywood (2019) actor Nicholas Hammond remembers the summer of 1969 - when the hippie followers of cult leader Charles Manson murdered pregnant actress Sharon Tate, the wife of film director Roman Polanski, in her Los Angeles home.

The incident, in which five people were killed, sent shock waves across American culture.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on February 19, 2020, with the headline The first Spider-Man talks about 57 years in Tinseltown. Subscribe