On Summer Solstice, you would see the Sun rise on your horizon at the eastern point of the longest track. It would follow the track high in your sky, and eventually set on the western horizon. It would be up for about 17 hours, thus making summertime days long and warm.
The Deer Hunter. This 1978 epic war drama is considered one of the greatest American films of all time â as well as among the most controversial. Most of the controversy stems from the depiction of the Vietcong using Russian Roulette to torture American POWs.
The maddest movie ever: Why Apocalypse Now is the finest film of modern times. Standing in a steamy, rainswept jungle in the Philippines, the film director Francis Ford Coppola, a man known for a volatility that sometimes verged on madness, was screaming in incandescent rage at one of his stars, the wild and wacky Dennis Hopper.