Happy retirement to 'Headless body in topless bar' headline writer

The writer of one of the most famous newspaper headlines of all time - "Headless body in topless bar" - has retired after 40 years with the New York Post. Vincent A Musetto, pictured here, "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, which gets a chapter all of its own in Steven Cuozzo's book It's Alive! How America's oldest paper cheated death and why it matters . But Musetto told staff it wasn't the favourite of his many headlines. He preferred "Granny executed in her pink pajamas." He joined the tabloid - now owned by News Corporation - when it was a left-wing daily, and he has spent the last 25 years as its film editor. So what was his favourite movie? Wouldn't you know - it's Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless , which includes that wonderful scene where aspiring journalist Jean Seberg is shown on a Paris street selling, not the Post, but the New York Herald Tribune. Source: New York Post