Wednesday, March 23, 2011

1976 Posters for The Man Who Fell To Earth Implausibly Glamorous!

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This poster from the 1976 Nic Roeg film The Man Who Fell To Earth - starring Bowie as an "extraterrestrial who crash lands on Earth seeking a way to ship water to his planet" - looks incredibly glamorous today .

What must it have been like back in mid 70s London?

Answer: Like an alien had arrived!

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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Lovely Spike Milligan anecdote.

✒More on Spike Milligan. Jim McLean emails: "I was in Spike's office in the mid- 60s with Dominic Behan. Someone in the office asked him what was the population of London. Spike opened the window, looked out and started counting, 'one, two, three …'"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/mar/19/simon-hoggarts-week-japan