The creepy 1968 trailer for Roman Polanski’s iconic horror movie “Rosemary’s Baby”, referenced in the opening pages of Chanel Bonfire. Parts of the film were shot in and around the Dakota in Manhattan, where we lived in ” … our rather large and wonderfully spooky apartment…”.
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“We had been living in the Dakota, the late nineteenth-century, neo-gothic apartment house at the corner of Seventy-Second Street and Central Park West, for about a year and a half. And while I would later think of the place – the setting for the film “Rosemary’s Baby” and the future and final home of John Lennon – as a glamorous backdrop for my mother’s tumultuous second marriage and divorce, at the time it was just our rather large and wonderfully spooky apartment, in which I was about to find myself awakened by my mother’s rescuers.”
Chanel Bonfire