1950s

FRIDAY, June 9, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- The disadvantage in U.S. life expectancy began in the 1950s and has worsened over time, according to a study published online June 1 in the American…

The prosperity of the ’50s is fertile ground for designers. An outbreak of pocket handkerchiefs and princess dresses followed the success of Mad Men in 2007. The popularity of Happy Days and…

Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City – running for the Palme d'Or at the ongoing 76th Cannes Film Festival – is set in the mid-1950s in the middle of American desert. The place is also known as…

‘Please Baby Please’ Aimed squarely at fans of John Waters and Pedro Almodóvar, the arty oddity “Please Baby Please” is the kind of cinematic fetish object that should entice anyone who…

Walter Mirisch, the last of three Mirisch brothers who produced or oversaw production of a string of highly regarded films in the 1950s and ’60s, including best picture Oscar winners “The…

BRUCE R. MILLER LOS ANGELES -- Billy Crudup’s father was a salesman, but he wasn’t very good at it, his son says.“For him, it wasn’t selling,” the…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain For more than half a century, researchers around the…

Vin Scully was all over my living room floor for a few months, and I couldn’t have been more thrilled.To be truthful, it wasn’t Scully himself sprawled on the carpet. My husband was…

Years after he stepped away from the game of basketball, Bill Russell’s complicated relationship with the city where he spent his career continued to burn so deeply that he decided to skip…

Despite common concerns that the social fabric is fraying, cooperation among strangers has gradually increased in the U.S. since the 1950s, according to research published by the American…