1970s

20-Year Reunion With Delinquent Friends: Re-Watching 'The Bad News Bears'

J.L. Sirisuk | Posted 05.15.2012

J.L. Sirisuk

Re-watching The Bad News Bears, I was reminded of my tomboy roots, my need for adventure and laughter, and the importance of doing things with authenticity and humor.

My Sassoon Moment

Lea Lane | Posted 05.10.2012

Lea Lane

Reading of Vidal Sassoon's death, I remembered with much fondness and wonder that time in England when I lived on Wild Hatch. I could see myself sitting in the candlelit salon on the High Street, emerging with the odd, experimental hairstyles.

Gay Writers Give Birth To A 'Child Of The '70s'

Kergan Edwards-Stout | Posted 05.03.2012

Kergan Edwards-Stout

Michael Vaccaro and Terrence Moss are attempting to capture the spirit of the 1970s in a new Web series, Child of the '70s. The two recently met with me to discuss this shared love of the '70s and how it helped inspire their new series.

Tribeca 2012 Diary: The Playroom Director Julia Dyer

Dan Persons | Posted 05.07.2012

Dan Persons

Capturing a period when innocence was under assault on all fronts, director Julia Dyer (Late Bloomers), shooting from a script by her sister Gretchen, tells a tale old and young facing uncertain futures, not all of them with a suitable measure of grace.

Romney Says He Will "Restore" America... But, to What?

Paul Abrams | Posted 04.12.2012

Paul Abrams

Mitt Romney, whose business experience enabled him to be 47th in the nation with respect to job growth when he was a one-term governor of Massachusetts, has told us that he is going to "restore" America.

Kill List: An Interview With Ben Wheatley

Farihah Zaman | Posted 04.15.2012

Farihah Zaman

The charming and hilarious Ben Wheatley spoke to me about growing up afraid in the '70s, co-writing the script for Kill List with his wife, Amy Jump, and why being chased by a horde of naked people is so damn scary.

PHOTOS: A Vintage Look At Life In South Florida

Posted 12.23.2011

Before high rent and blaring reggaeton chased them farther north, retirees once populated the pink sidewalks of Miami Beach and communities like Centu...

Garland Jeffreys: The King of In Between (and I)

Caroline Vella | Posted 01.16.2012

Caroline Vella

I first heard the Garland Jeffreys' tune "Roller Coaster Town" on my local radio station WFUV and I was instantly taken. It led me to dig deeper into his new album, The King of in Between, and I found it was just as good a ride from beginning to end.

PHOTOS: Studio 54 Reopens For 'One Night Only'

Posted 12.19.2011

Studio 54 opened its doors for "One Night Only" on Tuesday and celebrities from Cameron Diaz to Clive Davis came out for the special event hosted by S...

Blame Wall Street, Not Boomers

Leonard Steinhorn | Posted 12.07.2011

Leonard Steinhorn

We like to think that our economic woes are unique to our time, that ours is the first era in which our democracy seems broken. What we need is a little perspective. And a little understanding of who's responsible.

The Man With The Long Black Hair

Dori Hartley | Posted 01.23.2012

Dori Hartley

As the years went by, I thought less and less about him. Until a few days ago, when he wrote me.

D.B. Cooper: FBI Unlikely To Find Print Match In Hijacking Case (EXCLUSIVE)

Geoffrey Gray | Posted 10.02.2011

Geoffrey Gray

D.B. Cooper was one hygenic getaway artist. Aboard the flight he hijacked and jumped out of 40 years ago, Cooper was extremely cautious about, if not obsessed with avoiding, leaving his fingerprints on anything he touched.

Still Crazy After All These Years: The Reagan Legacy and the Debt Ceiling "Crisis"

Peter Birkenhead | Posted 09.24.2011

Peter Birkenhead

The reality-inverting summer of 1981 laid the foundation for a dissociative political culture that nothing yet has been able to shake, and we're all paying the price.

Flashback New York

Melissa Terzis | Posted 09.11.2011

Melissa Terzis

People who love New York City often have a very specific time they link to their love affair. My own love affair with New York was born shortly after I was -- in the 1970s.

PHOTOS: Some Of The Best Fashion Ads From The '70s

Huffington Post | Emily Singer | Posted 09.10.2011

You're probably well aware that 1970s-inspired duds are among this season's biggest trends (see here, here, here, here and here for proof). On our hun...

Remembering Black L.A.

Linnie Frank Bailey | Posted 08.24.2011

Linnie Frank Bailey

There is a dearth of historical stories on black life in Southern California. Looking back, one might wonder -- what was every day life like for black Angelenos thirty or forty years ago?

New Documentary On The Genius And Insanity Of Bobby Fischer

Dan Lybarger | Posted 08.05.2011

Dan Lybarger

By the time he died in 2008, Bobby Fischer had proven that chess was more than a simple board game. His takedown of world champion Boris Spassky from ...

Annals of the Overrated: Lady Gaga and The Tree of Life

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.27.2011

Marshall Fine

Last week I saw Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. Then I saw Lady Gaga on SNL. And I had the same reaction to both: Why are there so many people out there willing to declare this stuff great art?

Lost 1970's NYC Footage: 'I've Been Held Up Twice!' (VIDEO)

Posted 06.12.2011

ANIMAL posted this video of stock footage from 1970's New York. The New York of crime, graffiti, the fiscal crisis, Abe Beame, Son of Sam -- a time th...

Nixon Now!

George Kenney | Posted 06.11.2011

George Kenney

After a tough week, I collapsed in my leather recliner and drifted into a reverie. It smelled of wax, polish, sweat and stale cigar smoke. A voice spo...

That Seventies Show

Tory Burch | Posted 05.28.2011

Tory Burch

The Seventies are often referred to as the decade that taste forgot. This is unfair, and for anyone who really loves fashion, it's just not true. To designers, the decade is a goldmine of fashion inspiration.

Child of the '70s Real Chocolate Thin Mint Cookies

Miranda Levenstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Miranda Levenstein

Growing up in the 70's I was unfortunate enough to have parents who, with the exception of Upstairs, Downstairs, didn't watch television--which wa...

Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood (Part 4)

Shawn Amos | Posted 05.25.2011

Shawn Amos

Hollywood in the 1970s was the last place you'd expect to find a store selling cookies and milk. Unless it was a front for a drug dealership.

Farrah Fawcett's Iconic Swimsuit

Norma Kamali | Posted 05.25.2011

Norma Kamali

Farrah could have worn anything and that poster would still have been a success. How lucky for me she had my swimsuit in her bag.

Cookies & Milk: Scenes From a '70s Hollywood Childhood (Part 3)

Shawn Amos | Posted 05.25.2011

Shawn Amos

Lots of people had the munchies in 1970s Hollywood. My father's cookies were the perfect opener to every pitch meeting, every break in production.