From 'Rick Dalton: American Hamlet' by Silas Haslam, first published in the January 1987 edition of Playboy and collected in Eminent Nixonians:
"What turned public opinion against Dalton, in the end, was his star role in LA Vengeance, the tawdry 1974 thriller where he recreated, Audie Murphy-style, his greatest personal act of heroism. It could have tarnished more than one star had Sharon Tate agreed to star as herself. As it was, the success of her role as Nancy in…