The striptease superstar’s new lingerie range sparks musings on fashion, celebrity and the inherent emptiness of much of the neo-burlesque scene.

The striptease superstar’s new lingerie range sparks musings on fashion, celebrity and the inherent emptiness of much of the neo-burlesque scene.
Hollywood’s greatest sex symbol puts some va-va-voom into the British seaside resort’s illuminations in 1959.
New Year’s greetings from the stars and pin-up girls of vintage Hollywood.
A collection of our greatest festive articles and galleries.
The golden age of spooky seasonal Hollywood publicity shoots.
It’s time for another vintage VHS (and Betamax) video catalogue from the early days of home video, this time from mega-conglomerate CIC.
The classic era of the Hollywood publicity machine’s efforts to make Valentine’s Day as glamorous as it could be.
Sophia Loren was not the only woman to be upstaged by the extraordinary Mansfield body in 1957.
The release of the trailer for the revival of an exhausted franchise is not a major cultural event.
The terrible writer who is directly responsible for every major movie being formulaic rubbish.
The dubious rewards that come from screenwriting competitions and the ‘expert’ readers employed to examine your work.
You can’t have sex symbols with the ‘sex’ – and once the Hollywood legends have died, that brings up all sorts of questions that people prefer not to think about.