The Human League were due to give Kitec a taste of 1980s synth-pop nostalgia on Thursday. Before joining the group, Philip Oakey (below) was working as a hospital porter with no inclination towards a musical career. He was approached purely because he 'already looked like a pop star'. Later, Oakey's avant-garde hairstyle became a trademark of the band, famous for hits such as Don't You Want Me and Fascination. The severe fringe he adopted in 1982 was a copy of that of the 'replicant' Rachael in the film Blade Runner ...
Despite being a box-office flop - the film grossed a mere US$6 million on its opening weekend - Ridley Scott's rendering of a dystopian Los Angeles set in 2019 (which the director wanted to resemble 'Hong Kong on a very bad day') has become a cult classic. The film was nearly shelved when the production company withdrew funding and would not have seen its rain-soaked light of day had it not been for 11th-hour investor Run Run Shaw ...
The 103-year-old has achieved much in his career. In 1976, Time eulogised, 'Shaw Brothers' films, produced at Shaw's Movietown, shot in Shawscope color and shown in 143 Shaw-owned theaters, attract 250,000 people a day from Hong Kong to Jakarta.' Television Broadcasts, which Sir Run Run co-founded in 1967, grew into one of the top five television producers in the world, based on output. The British acknowledged his philanthropic work with a knighthood in 1977 and 'Uncle Six' is a member of London club White's ...
Established in 1693, White's is one of the world's oldest gentlemen's clubs. With a membership made up of the rich and idle, the club quickly became a notorious gambling house, described by Jonathan Swift as the 'bane of half the English nobility'. When it moved to its current location, in St James' Street, in 1778, a hierarchy among members was established by a 'throne' set at the table in front of the main window. The man who first occupied this covetable seat was the most socially influential in all of London, Beau Brummell ...