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In Salem: In the original “Thomas Crown Affair,” a stuntman for Steve McQueen takes an acrobatic thrill ride in a glider to the film’s title track, “The Windmills of Your Mind.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
We’re as likely to hear a few bars of The Cult’s “Fire Woman” as Joe McPhee’s funky banger “Shakey Jake” or the easy listening blanket that is Mel Tormé’s “The Windmills of Your Mind.”
From Salon • Dec. 14, 2025
Oscar winner Marilyn Bergman, who with her husband Alan wrote the lyrics for ‘The Windmills of Your Mind’ and ‘The Way We Were,’ dies at 93.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 18, 2025
Windmills made of scrap metal spun from imagined cranes.
From Slate • Dec. 16, 2023
Windmills, art, their shared history—they still have a lot in common.
From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman
