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Move over James Bond and let Fantomas terrorize the world’s richest men.
I have been watching the 1960s Fantomas movies with Jean Marais - one of France’s best known leading men and a man who is as camp as camp gets - as the famed face-changing bad man battling it out with France’s [...]
In The Great Railway Bazaar, published in 1975, best-selling travel writer Paul Theroux described Bangkok as “a hugely preposterous city of temples and brothels”. More than thirty years later, first time visitors to the City of Angels could be forgiven for thinking that Theroux’s analysis is as valid today as it might have been then, in [...]