The Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps (1968)

Happy Birthday Charlie Chaplin 16. April 1889 - 25. December 1977

The Vietnam War 1 November 1955 - 30 April 1975 (19 years, 5 months, 4 weeks and 1 day)

On March 8. 1965, 3500 US-Marines land in South Vietnam. Around 1968 already more than half a million. 1973 US Troops withdrawal, 1975 North and South Vietnam were reunified. Over 2 Mio. people died, including 60.000 US-Soldiers.

It’s said that the Vietnam war ended a lot myths, the myth of a clean war, heroic soldiers and the invincibility of the USA.

Girls Group portrait of prostitutes in the Shimpuro Brothel, Yokohama, possibly by Kusakabe Kimbei

“Rabbit’s Moon” (1950/1972), directed by Kenneth Anger (fantastic music)

Charlie Chaplin and Merna Kennedy in “The Circus” (1928)

Brenda Lee - Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree (1958)

Nancy Reagan and Mr. T (1983)

Robert Downey Jr. in “Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree” (1995)

Edwyn Collins - A Girl Like You (1995)

Francoise Dorleac in “La peau douce/The Soft Skin” (1964)

Patsy Cline with band in Lorton (1957)

“At The Coconut Grove” by Ralph Barton. Two pages from the 1928 book “Caricatures of To-Day” caricaturing silent film stars of the day.

NYC in the 1960’s

Anne Bancroft