This spring, I went to see Chinatown in a theater for the first time since its release, on June 20, 1974. The movie was headlining at the annual TCM Classic Film Festival on Hollywood Boulevard. Inside, every seat in the huge IMAX theater was taken. When Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway kissed for the first time, they filled the towering screen with every bit as much star power as Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall did in Hollywood’s golden
The Australian author Helen Garner’s first novel, Monkey Grip, published in 1977, and her third, Children’s Bach, published in 1984—both recently reissued in the United States—are considered classics in Australia, and they really are fantastic books. They’re also likely to freak you out. This is not because they’re full of sex and drugs—who worries about that anymore?—but because they seem nonchalant, even indifferent, to a truth we hold sacred today, which is that children should be shielded
The French serial killer dubbed ‘The Serpent’, who is linked to the murder of at least 20 backpackers across Asia in the 1970s and 80s, was photographed in London last week, just days before a new documentary about his life and crimes airs on Channel 4 tonight.
Charles Sobhraj, now 79, was released after serving 20 years in prison in Nepal in December 2022 for the murder of two backpackers in Kathmandu.
The criminal, who still denies he took the
Syria, Iran and Afghanistan are considered high-risk for Westerners to visit today – but when one European travelled around them in the 1970s, he discovered ‘heaven nearly everywhere’.
Dutch native Frank van den Berge, 73, took incredible photographs of his time in these countries, showing Afghanistan before the Taliban, Iran in an era when people dressed in a ‘Western style’ and landmarks that have since vanished – such as the Buddhas of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, destroyed by the Taliban
Having a glass or pint of your favourite tipple may make you less steady on your feet than it did a decade ago.
For the alcohol content of beer, wine and cocktails has surged in recent years.
It prompted a senior doctor this week to urge Brits not to get behind the wheel after just one alcoholic drink because they have become so strong.
Larger glass sizes, powerful New World wines and craft beers, are all to blame for booze
Michael MacCambridges „The Big Time“ spult zurück in die 70er Jahre, als auffällige Persönlichkeiten und fesselnde Rivalitäten den Sport in Massenunterhaltung verwandelten.
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They are snapshots of a bygone age when foreign holidays were adventurous, exotic and simply had to be recorded with a postcard to home.
Millions of beach, street, hotel, matador and flamenco dancer postcards washed through the British postal system every summer as tourists discovered the Spanish Costas and revelled in sun, sangria and souvenirs in the 1970s.
A treasure trove of postcards sent from Spain has just emerged and with it a fascinating glimpse of a culture in which
A collection of rust bucket ‘classic’ cars is tipped to sell for over £200,000
We were flying from Tel Aviv to New York on a September day in 1970. I had turned twelve in June, and my sister Catherine would turn fourteen in December. We were flying alone because our mother lived in Israel and our father lived in America. We boarded at six o’clock in the morning, but instead of landing in New York that evening, we ended up as hostages in a desert in Jordan. Our plane was one among several hijacked
