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...Ratti's own factory in 1958, the company was among the first to consolidate all the steps of silkmaking under a single roof. Some of Ratti's original paisley designs still hang framed there. Over time, Ratti became one of the largest silk manufacturers in Italy, and in the '70s and '80s the biggest names in fashion?Valentino, Chanel, Yves Saint Laurent?came calling...
...Back in the '70s, the director Robert Aldrich outlined distinctions between New York and L.A. police. In the Big Apple, he said, the cops are basically in it for the money, knowing that bribes and kickbacks will put their kids through college. L.A. cops, Aldrich said, are honest, crusading and sadistic: they get their charge from pulverizing the ones they tab as bad. Ludlow, who has a Patton-size flag outside his home and whom another cop calls "L.A.'s deadliest white boy," fits into this latter category. "We're the police," he tells a greener officer (Chris Evans...
...style of films like “The Flicker,” but that the humor was aggressive and discomfiting. In response, Conrad said, “It’s a matter of change, which I like, but also of different contexts and different aims. In the 70s, I became pretty frustrated with the way that the film community seemed to be pursuing aesthetic goals that had been already explored… It seemed relevant to carry the formal aims of structuralism to its logical conclusion.”The films of Conrad and Losier certainly draw together elements...
When sound came in, Hollywood substituted talk for action. And when action films returned in the '70s (in part because of the success of Bruce Lee's Hong Kong epics), the stuntman system was firmly in place. Most stars of today's Hollywood action pictures, cosseted in visual effects, barely need to exert themselves...
...sounds a little sleazy and desperate, it meshes perfectly with the sleazy and desperate era of the subprime-mortgage fiasco, credit crisis and housing bust. If the economy of the '70s is back, the show seems to say, then let's bring back the mores of the '70s! Throw a key party--this time with house keys...