CHAP Spring 24: The Silver Jubilee Edition

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This year marks 25 years of publication for the Chap Magazine. Gracing the cover of our Silver Jubilee edition is David Niven, an inspiration to this publication since its inception in 1999. Inside, we look at other Silver Foxes such as Cary Grant, Stewart Granger and Patrick Macnee. And who are the silver vixens of the silver screen? Our in-depth investigation includes the careers of Anne Bancroft, Barbara Stanwyck and Jane Fonda. We also meet a real-life silver lady who may not appreciate being called a Silver Vixen – Lindsay Duncan – who shares her views on ageing actors and playing an ex-policewoman in Channel 4’s True Love series. The last 25 years of anarcho-dandyism are the subject of Torquil Arbuthnot’s history of The Chap, from its days as the manifesto for tweedy revolutionaries demanding lapsang souchong in MacDonalds to a copy of The Chap appearing on the dashboard of a Daimler belonging to the villain in Midsomer Murders. John Nettles may have outstayed his welcome on the streets of Midsomer, and we look at other television detectives who refused to retire like Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. At the other end of the criminal world, we assess the new production of The Talented Mr Ripley with Andrew Scott in the lead. Alexander Larman chronicles the last decade of David Bowie, who once had a dress made by swinging sixties tailor Mr Fish, a subject for our sartorial section. We also meet the filmmakers of a documentary about the Scala Cinema, while Society of Salome visit the newly restored Leighton House in London in their Victorian and Edwardian finery. All this plus Am I Silver?, Dr. William Price, literary recluses, 25-not-out in Cricket and Silver Jubilee railways.