A magnificent new coffee table book, ‘The Making of Quentin Tarantino ’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood ’ by author Jay Glennie, arrives in stores this week. For fans of the movie it’s a must-have behind-the-scenes look at Tarantino’s classic revisionist history of the Manson family murders. The film is also the director’s love letter to a bygone Los Angeles era, a lost world of louche glamor, with actors, directors, hippies, and hustlers roaming the city’s studio lots, canyons, and hills .

Tarantino was a fan of Glennie’s work having read his definitive accounts of ‘The Deer Hunter’ and ‘Taxi Driver’ and personally asked for the “Jay Glennie treatment,” a deep dive into what he calls his favorite movie. In this exclusive excerpt, we go inside the casting auditions of the Manson famil

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