ROSEMARY'S BABY, the novel(s), the film, (now) the miniseries

I've seen it! Possibly even when it first aired.

I could be wrong, but I thought there was a subtle Rosemary's Baby allusion in The Night House (which is good most of the way, then gets a little too lofty/metaphysical near the end).

I'm reading Michael Newton's BFI book that came out a couple of years ago, which I didn't know anything about till a friend gave it to me for Christmas this year. So I'm going to throw on the Criterion DVD to bring in the new year. To 2023--the Year One!

i was once chatting to a photographer very active on the same beat as me in the 80s (jazz and african music) and he spoke knowledgeably at length about the story being ENTIRELY BASED ON FACT and was in fact made as an attempt to get an important truth out into the world (possibly about the pope? this guy was something of a hippie-era conspiracy theorist and you never knew where a conversation would take you before you successfully edged away: in another he lovingly described the number of turds the queen received every week in the mail) (not sure how he knew this unless he was also posting them…)

tbf he was a nice enough guy personally and professionally an excellent photographer

and was in fact made as an attempt to get an important truth out into the world

All of them witches--it's a fact.

The book was okay. I read the coffee-table book mentioned above a few years ago, also Ed Sanders' Sharon Tate biography, so most of the background here I knew. The analysis was all over the place. He draws an interesting connection--never thought of it before, thought it seems obvious--between the baby and Kubrick's star-child. One new thing to me was that that's Mia Farrow herself singing the lullaby.