If you’ve never taken the time to think about how society grooms cult leaders like Manson, or if you just like fascinating stories of Hollywood’s dark underbelly, You Must Remember Manson is a can’t-miss series.
The series also explores the lives of the many Hollywood players who were directly or indirectly linked to the Manson Family, from Doris Day, whose son became Manson’s best path to success, to cult filmmaker Kenneth Anger, who collaborated with Manson Family member Bobby Beausoleil for his outsider short film “Lucifer Rising.” The 12-episode series revisits the making of Manson and homes in on the turbulent two years leading up to the infamous, brutal murder of seven people, including actress Sharon Tate, by members of the Manson Family. Now, in the wake of Manson’s death, the Panoply podcast network has released the Manson season of You Must Remember This as its own podcast: You Must Remember Manson. The podcast series, written and hosted by Karina Longworth, delved into sides of Manson that rarely get discussed today: his early life, his dreams of Hollywood stardom, his ability to manipulate his way into favor with Hollywood’s elite - usually offering the bodies of his female followers in exchange for the notice. In fact, for a heady time between 19, Manson was something of a Hollywood insider, primed to coast his way to music industry success.
Grande is Italian for large, venti means twenty, and trenta is thirty.
If that pairing of concept and subject seems surprising, it’s because Manson’s personal connections to Hollywood, its influence on him, and his manipulation of its culture have been largely written out of his legacy as a fringe megalomaniacal cult leader. Schultz traveled to Italy for the first time in 1983 and fell in love with the the romance and theater of coffee, according to the Starbucks website. In 2015, the podcast You Must Remember This, which explores “the secret and/or forgotten histories of Hollywood’s first century,” dedicated an entire season to Manson, who died on Sunday. Schultz returned to Milan in 2018 to open the first Starbucks in Italy.One of the best cultural examinations of the late Charles Manson in recent memory just became its own series. (Did you know? The trenta actually comes in at 31 ounces, and can only be used for for iced beverages.) Why not follow this logic and apply names that are evocative of English terms to the remaining two sizes? The less-familiar venti and trenta may help consumers forget the cost-or calorie count-of what they are about to drink. Grande is Italian for “ large,” venti means “twenty,” and trenta is “thirty.” Why isn’t the 16-ounce size sedici (Italian for “sixteen”) instead? Perhaps because grande conjures associations with the English grand. Schultz traveled to Italy for the first time in 1983 and fell in love with the “the romance and theater of coffee,” according to the Starbucks website. But let’s face it, “I’d like a short” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it as the sizes based in Italian do. Little-known fact: the size is still available. When venti came along (to meet popular demand), Schultz dropped the short so as not to crowd the menu boards. Interestingly, the tall was not always the smallest drink size-and customers who requested ever-larger drinks may be partially responsible for its name.Īt his first coffeehouse, Il Giornale, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz offered three sizes: short (8 ounces), tall, and grande.
The result arguably encourages a consumer to think a little less about the size of his or her beverage as well as the size of the bill. Tall sounds like small but means something close to the opposite.
This designation by the coffee company is considered by many to be a classic instance of corporate language manipulation. Case in point: how many times have you or a friend said, “I’d like a venti latte” without pausing to consider what venti actually means? Why is a tall … so small?įirst of all, here are the size options you can find at Starbucks: tall (12 ounces), grande (16), venti (24), and trenta (31). When you reflect on all the symbols, gestures, and phrases that bombard your everyday existence, you may find a panoply of simple words that are missing a definition.