CHAMPAGNE WISHES

And dreams of all that is good and wonderful.

Happy New Year! In honor of the yearly calendar turnover here you see four lovely 1977 shots of Swedish actress Anita Strindberg, one of the queens of ’70s European cinema, as well as of our website. We’ve watched Strindberg locked down in prison in Women in Cellblock 7, seen her redefine the meaning of untamed bush in The African Deal, get slithered on by Florinda Bolkan in Lizard in a Woman’s Skin, be mysteriously tormented in Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, gush tears down her perfect cheekbones in Who Saw Her Die?, and get voodoo freaky in Tropic of Cancer. She made more than twenty films. We shall not be tiring of her soon.

These photos were published in a few places. We grabbed one of ours from the Italian magazine Playmen, and the other three from the Spanish mag Interviu. The text at top says merely “Anita’s toast,” as in to make a toast. There’s another we didn’t include that describes her as the Swedish Grace Kelly. Well, in our book she’s better than Kelly, because she’s wet and naked. We love how she starts with a Champagne glass, but by the end has transitioned to guzzling from the bottle. At that point she’s the other kind of toast. Well, the text suggests it, claiming she actually got drunk. We’d call that PR, but if she got loaded, good for her, because upending the bottle for the last dregs is exactly how we’ll do it tonight. Here’s to 2025.

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HISTORY REWIND

The headlines that mattered yesteryear.

January 22

1946—CIA Forerunner Created

U.S. president Harry S. Truman establishes the Central Intelligence Group or CIG, an interim authority that lasts until the Central Intelligence Agency is established in September of 1947.

January 22

1957—George Metesky Is Arrested

The New York City “Mad Bomber,” a man named George P. Metesky, is arrested in Waterbury, Connecticut and charged with planting more than 30 bombs. Metesky was angry about events surrounding a workplace injury suffered years earlier. Of the thirty-three known bombs he planted, twenty-two exploded, injuring fifteen people. He was apprehended based on an early use of offender profiling and because of clues given in letters he wrote to a newspaper. At trial he was found legally insane and committed to a state mental hospital.

January 21

1950—Alger Hiss Is Convicted of Perjury

American lawyer Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury in connection with an investigation by the House unAmerican Activities Committee (HUAC), at which he was questioned about being a Soviet spy. Hiss served forty-four months in prison. Hiss maintained his innocence and fought his perjury conviction until his death in 1996 at age 92.

January 21

1977—Carter Pardons War Fugitives

U.S. President Jimmy Carter pardons nearly all of the country’s Vietnam War draft evaders, many of whom had emigrated to Canada. He had made the pardon pledge during his election campaign, and he fulfilled his promise the day after he took office.

January 19

1915—Claude Patents Neon Tube

French inventor Georges Claude patents the neon discharge tube, in which an inert gas is made to glow various colors through the introduction of an electrical current. His invention is immediately seized upon as a way to create eye catching advertising, and the neon sign comes into existence to forever change the visual landscape of cities.

January 19

1937—Hughes Sets Air Record

Millionaire industrialist, film producer and aviator Howard Hughes sets a new air record by flying from Los Angeles, California to New York City in 7 hours, 28 minutes, 25 seconds. During his life he set multiple world air-speed records, for which he won many awards, including America’s Congressional Gold Medal.