![GARDEN OF EARTHLY DELIGHTS](/images/headline/7003.png) Markov plants vivid ideas in readers' heads. ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_01.jpg)
Remember the side trip to France we mentioned? Today you see the first of our acquired items, an issue of the cinema and television magazine Ciné-Revue, which was based in Belgium and published throughout Europe and the French speaking world. This one appeared today in 1975, and who is that on the cover other than Margaret Markov, a favorite star of bad U.S. exploitation movies of the era? We've seen her hanging out in the woods before. Remember this shot? The cover and centerfold of today's magazine, like that previous image, were made by Italian lensman Angelo Frontoni, who photographed scores of international actresses during the ’60s and ’70s. You've seen his work often on our website: check here, here, and especially here. He does a bang-up job with Markov, bringing to mind mythical gardens and similar fertile places. Inside the magazine are celebs such as Valerie Perrine, Anne Libert, Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Marion Davies in a tinted shot, and on the rear cover John Phillip Law shows that he dresses to the left. That one's mostly for the Pulp Intl. girlfriends, but everyone should have a scroll and enjoy. ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_02.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_03.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_04.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_05.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_06.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_07.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_08.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_09.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_10.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_11.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_12.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_13.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_14.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_15.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_16.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_17.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_18.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_19.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_20.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_21.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_22.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_23.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_24.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_26.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_25.jpg) ![](/images/postimg/garden_of_earthly_delights_27.jpg)
![WILD WILD WEST](/images/headline/1126.png) Live by the gun, die by the gun. ![](/images/postimg/wild_wild_west_01.jpg)
The sci-fi thriller Westworld—for which you see a rare Japanese poster above—was sourced from a novel by Michael Crichton and uses the same idea he would later update for his novel Jurassic Park—i.e. the attractions at a high-tech amusement park go awry and start slaughtering the guests. One of those robotic amusements is played by Yul Brynner, who is programmed to start fights then, inevitably, be shot down by Westworld guests after croaking, “Draw! It’s all fun and games at first, but when a computer virus attacks the park’s robots Brynner returns from the repair shop pissed-off and harboring a notion to ventilate the customer who killed him twice. As compelling as this set-up seems, Westworld isn’t flawless. While Brynner is excellent as the villain and James Brolin is adequate in a supporting role, lead actor Richard Benjamin seems to be sedated, and Crichton, who directed, somehow manages to give the whole project the feel of a television movie. The stuntwork is partly to blame for this. Crichton makes ample usage of hoary gags like the candied glass bottle shattered over the head and the balsa wood chair smashed across the back, even though more sophisticated approaches were being utilized at the time in other, better films. But we recommend Westworld anyway, and we absolutely love the poster—it's appearing here for the first time on any website, and it's definitely in our top ten, even if the movie isn't. Westworld premiered in Japan today in 1973.
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The headlines that mattered yesteryear.
1945—Churchill Given the Sack
In spite of admiring Winston Churchill as a great wartime leader, Britons elect
Clement Attlee the nation's new prime minister in a sweeping victory for the Labour Party over the Conservatives. 1952—Evita Peron Dies
Eva Duarte de Peron, aka Evita, wife of the president of the Argentine Republic, dies from cancer at age 33. Evita had brought the working classes into a position of political power never witnessed before, but was hated by the nation's powerful military class. She is lain to rest in Milan, Italy in a secret grave under a nun's name, but is eventually returned to Argentina for reburial beside her husband in 1974. 1943—Mussolini Calls It Quits
Italian dictator Benito Mussolini steps down as head of the armed forces and the government. It soon becomes clear that Il Duce did not relinquish power voluntarily, but was forced to resign after former Fascist colleagues turned against him. He is later installed by Germany as leader of the Italian Social Republic in the north of the country, but is killed by partisans in 1945. 1915—Ship Capsizes on Lake Michigan
During an outing arranged by Western Electric Co. for its employees and their families, the passenger ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan due to unequal weight distribution. 844 people die, including all the members of 22 different families. 1980—Peter Sellers Dies
British movie star Peter Sellers, whose roles in Dr. Strangelove, Being There and the Pink Panther films established him as the greatest comedic actor of his generation, dies of a heart attack at age fifty-four.
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