1960s Pop Culture

  Eugene Luther Gore Vidal didn’t like many people, an attitude which rarely extended to himself. He wrote essays, books, plays and screen...

  His pomposity was tolerable given the profundity of his theories. Just the way he’d tuck in his chin with a slow wag of the head.   Your...

  “I have been in the highest and the lowest and both places are empty.” - Nico   Why even ask—Who is Nico — she that was born Christa ...

  Just a wisp. Short and skinny. A boy’s haircut. Awkward poses. Lesley Hornby. A most unlikely fashion model yet perfect for a time and p...

She appears delicate. Her skin, almost translucent. Feminine and maternal. There is an innocence in the deep-set eyes, watchful but wistfu...

  “Oh, Jack.” Brett said, “we could have had such a good time together.” “Yes,” I said. “Isn't it pretty to think so.” -           L...

Rarely have performative and athletic aptitudes intertwined with such fluency. When we first noticed him, around the Liston fight, we notice...

  A crime of the heart? Zannone. A beautiful Mediterranean island. Italian. Warm waters ebb and flow. Overhead, an azure sky. In the 60s, ...

  Strategic sex You walked into the party like you were walking onto a yacht Your hat strategically dipped below one eye Your scarf ...

  Born Peggy Ann Freeman (1945-79), in Detroit. Later, by her own hand, she becomes Donyale George Tyger Luna. 6’2”. Slim. Her parents mar...

  "The cocaine problem in the United States is really because of me. There was no cocaine before Easy Rider on the street. After Easy ...

  The beauty of detachment Born 1934. At first it she was Nina Magdelena Møller. From Denmark. Then, after marrying Frederik Jan Gustav Fl...

In the 1960s, she looked like smart fun. Not so much sensual as kinetic... C’mon, catch up, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever... The promis...

    Gertrude Stein, reflecting on her childhood home in Oakland, California, famously said, ‘There is no there there’. When considering ...

  Author Ian Fleming (1908-64) lived with the insouciance and bad behaviour reserved for those who have resigned themselves to an early de...

  Perhaps it is the sublime performance of her face. Her perfect nose… violet/blue eyes that turn whatever color you want. Beauty is an ac...

  “Well, there's this man... and I don't know exactly what he wants out of me, or anything like that. But he took care of me… When...

Princess Margaret became a little manic at receiving such approval of her musical abilities, and she started wriggling around in her crinoli...

  Whether he lacked the talent or time to develop into a great poet remains unclear. Much of Jim Morrison’s brief life is obscured—perhaps...