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Through marriage, friendship and patronage, the Duke of Wellington, the Roosevelts, Wallis Simpson and Winston Churchill (whose christening robes are still on display) made up the Leslies' inner circle and were frequent guests. But by the '60s, inheritance taxes had eroded the castle's fortunes, and its complexion began to change. Desmond Leslie, an experimental musician, set up a nightclub in the grounds. Called Annabel's on the Bog (named after the famous society nightspot in London's Mayfair), it attracted the likes of Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull...
Poniewozik never mentioned that A Christmas Story was narrated and written by Jean Shepherd, who based the film on his memories of growing up in Indiana. Shepherd was the author of many books and is fondly remembered by millions for his brilliant radio monologues in the 1950s and '60s. He deserves credit for the movie. Vince Treacy, WASHINGTON...
...question, however, is how well data from the 1960s really represents American women today. Back in the '60s, induced abortions were illegal in the U.S. It's possible that some women in the study had abortions but denied it - even to their doctors - or claimed to have miscarried. That makes the data harder to interpret. Illegal abortion techniques of the day, moreover, were no doubt cruder than abortion procedures today, and they may have caused more permanent damage to the reproductive system...
...others were the The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price in 1964 and The Omega Man with Charlton Heston seven years later. Matheson is a prolific, influential writer of horror and sci-fi novels, short stories and films, from Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe movies of the '60s to the seminal '70s TV films Duel (Steven Spielberg's first feature) and The Night Stalker and the '90s films What Dreams May Come and Stir of Echoes, based on his novels. Some of Matheson's TV fables - the Twilight Zone story about the gremlin on the airplane wing...
...influence he had on the sound of the 1950s and '60s earned him the nickname "the father of rock 'n' roll," but Ike Turner was more infamous as the abusive husband of his raspy-voiced wife Tina Turner. Still, Ike was the mastermind of the duo's seminal, sex-soaked Ike and Tina Turner Revue. Ike first got the attention of record VIPs with his muscular, thrashing guitar on Rocket 88, his 1951 album with Jackie Brenston. Then, after a teenage Tina grabbed the mike at one of his shows, he changed course; for nearly two decades, the pair upturned...