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Front page of The Sun (20 June 2022)     I.    Some commentators seem to imagine that Britain is returning to the 1970s, pointing to rising...

Mr Watson - come here - I want to see you ... These days, when everyone and their dog has a smartphone, the idea that an old-fashio...

When I was little, one of the things I loved to do was walk with my big sister to the phone box on Straight Road, where she wen...

Portrait of the Artist Aged 3 ( pris juste après une coupe de cheveux ) When I was very young, one of my favourite things to do...

20th century boy (c. 1973) I.  1977 - the year of punk - may have been of crucial importance in shaping my tastes, attitudes, and...

The decadent aristocrat Des Esseintes, whose retreat into an increasingly perverse and artificial inner life is depicted with such br...

Tony Curtis and  Roger Moore  as Danny Wilde and Brett Sinclair: a fine bromance I'm very grateful to True Entertainment ...

Bruce Forsyth Death Mask   Treating life as a good game ,  good game  and always putting his best chin forward (a gesture s...

One of the things that I most looked forward to as a young child was the arrival of a man at the door: the milkman, the postman, the ...

James Garner (1928 - 2014)  as Jim Rockford in The Rockford Files The Rockford Files is one of those '70s American TV shows th...

Film poster by renowned Italian artist Arnaldo Putzu (1927 - 2012) One of the films that made happy as a child was shown yesterday ...

As a child, I was never much interested in building complex models of planes and ships and certainly wouldn't describe myself as ...