Mark and Larry Adler on an enduring song from an almighty flop...
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Many people ease into Halloween by watching a scary movie or two. They might be classicists and opt for Universal horror like James Whale's Frankenstein films or Tod Browning's 1931 Dracula. Gentle souls might opt for a haunted romance like The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, while cineastes will choose Kubrick's The Shining or William Friedkin's The Exorcist. Millennials who think they invented irony will go straight to the Scream franchise or horror comedies like Zombieland or Shaun of the Dead. I want to take you to hell. More specifically a Japanese hell, as imagined in Nobuo Nakagawa's cult classic Jigoku, which was given the Criterion treatment nearly twenty years ago, putting a once hard-to-find film in a context that includes Japanese new ...
On this week's episode of Mark Steyn on the Town, we mark the spectacular last act of Al Jolson's long career, including a word from his godson and our first venture into the world of suspended animation. Plus our Sinatra Sextet...
I can't decide whether this is the sort of ad you run when your internals show you're done and you've got nothing to lose, or when it's way closer than anyone ever expected and just needs one extra push...
If you missed today's edition of Steyn's Clubland Q&A live around the planet, here's the action replay. This week's show covered a range of topics from the shutdown of the government in the U.S. to the crackdown on conservatives in the rest of the world...
Mark takes questions from Steyn Club members live around the planet...
Mark celebrates a quintessentially American song, and wishes he could find a five-and-ten-cent store to find a million-dollar baby in...
To which polling station do you go to vote out Larry Ellison or Tony Blair?
Because they made the mistake of sabotaging his escalator and then his prompter, the President of the United States opened up a supersized can of geopolitical whup-ass on the UN General Assembly this week...
Your America Alone thought for the day...
Today's episode was filmed live on the Mark Steyn Iberian Cruise with three of our special guests: Sammy Woodhouse, Samantha Smith and Allison Pearson...
Welcome to Part Eight in our new audio adaptation of a favourite book among SteynOnline readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It. Thank you for all your kind comments about my first ever self-narration of this prescient tome. Chris, an upstate New York Steyn Clubber, writes: You know, its so good to review this stuff again at 20 plus sodding years ago. I admit at the time that the great Gerald Ford quote ('As Gerald Ford likes to say when trying to ingratiate himself with conservative audiences, "A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take away everything you have."') just washed over me as craziness, though I wouldn't disagree. Now, 20 years on, we should just retitle Marks book The ...
Welcome to Part Seven in our new audio adaptation of a favourite book among SteynOnline readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It.
Welcome to Part Six in our new audio adaptation of a favourite book among Steyn readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
Welcome to Part Five in our new audio adaptation of America Alone. In this week's episode, we start by surveying the demographic scene worldwide...
Here we go with Part Four of our new audio adaptation of a favourite book among Steyn readers: America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
Welcome to Part Three of Mark's boffo bestseller on demography and its discontents...
Welcome to Part Two of Mark's new audio serialisation of his bestseller America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It...
Part One of Mark's audio adaptation of his demographic blockbuster...
On this week's episode we mark the centennial of singer-songwriter Dory Previn, and take a longish stroll back to the nineteenth century with her husband André and Frank Sinatra. Plus a diverse range of performers from Tony Bennett and Ann-Margret to Alan Cumming and Diane Keaton...
On this week's episode, Mark plays songs from the Continent and from the Commonwealth and (adding a third C) goes all contrapuntal. Plus, as a postscript to last week's show on the songs of Herbert Kretzmer, he presents a special Sinatra Sextet - Kretzmer's Sinatra, or Herbie's Frankie...
Mark celebrates the centennial of a great songwriter - Herbert Kretzmer, best known to millions of theatregoers around the world as the lyricist of Les Misérables...
A live Song of the Week with the irrepressible Peter Noone and Herman's Hermits and a great pop song by Les Reed and Geoff Stephens...
Welcome to the conclusion of our seventy-third Tale for Our Time: The Final Problem by Arthur Conan Doyle...
Welcome to the seventy-third audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time...
A remote fantastical kingdom far from Europe's chancelleries of power... An unpopular monarch on the eve of his coronation... A ruling class of plotters and would-be usurpers... ...and a gentleman adventurer on holiday. No, not Ruritania in the nineteenth century, but the United Kingdom in the twenty-first...