time capsule / july 28, 1973

AT THE MOVIES, Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider share an erotic Last Tango in Paris. Director Bernardo Bertolucci's film will be one of the last legitimate flicks to bear an X rating before it becomes a scarlet letter synonymous with porn. ON TV, Sanford and Son follows All in the Family in the Nielsens. Star Redd Foxx (left, with costar Demond Wilson) got the lead after a producer saw him as a junk dealer in the movie Cotton Comes to Harlem. IN MUSIC, Chicago's Chicago VI tops the charts. The band will have five more releases with Roman numerals before its 1978 album Hot Streets. AND IN THE NEWS, three U.S. astronauts set off on the then-longest journey into space, linking their Apollo craft with the Skylab space station. In 1979, Skylab would fall to the ground, Chicken Little-style, after breaking up in the atmosphere.