World's most famous headline writer (and film buff) retires

The man who wrote one of the most famous newspaper headlines of all time

has retired after 40 years with the New York Post. Vincent Musetto "was given an affectionate send-off by his colleagues" last week.

He was running the paper's newsroom in 1983 when he wrote the lauded front page heading, But Musetto told his colleagues that it wasn't the favourite of his many headlines. He preferred "Granny executed in her pink pajamas."

Musetto has spent the last 25 years as the Post's film editor. So what was his favourite movie? It's Jean-Luc Goddard's Breathless, which includes that wonderful scene where aspiring young journalist Jean Seberg is shown on a Paris street selling, not the Post, but the New York Herald Tribune.