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Steyn's Song of the Week
Rock Around The Clock
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Six decades ago - April 12th 1954 - a chubby-faced kiss-curled man pushing 30 with a backing group named after a theory published in Synopsis Astronomia Cometicae in 1705 went into the recording studio at the Pythian Temple on West 70th Street in New York and sang a song written by a man born in the 19th century: One, two, three o'clock, four o'clock rock! Five, six, seven o'clock, eight o'clock rock! Nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock rock! We're gonna Rock! Around! The Clock tonight... ...
Mark at the Movies
Kill Bill, Volumes 1 and 2
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Ten years ago this month Quentin Tarantino unveiled the second part of his Kill Bill double-bill. He wasn't making a lot of movies in those days. Kill Bill was his first picture since Jackie Brown six years earlier. I'm not the biggest fan of Tarantino, and I think he's almost incapable of engaging you in narrative drama rooted in real characters, but Kill Bill has moments that have stuck with me over the years...
Ave atque vale
Barn Stormer
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Mickey Rooney died last Sunday at the age of 93, and I didn't want the SteynOnline week to end without a word about him. Aside from anything else, and as ridiculous as it sounds, we share a musical director...
Steyn on Culture
Degrees of Separation
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The courage of Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and the cowardice of Brandeis University
On the Town
Every Dog Should Have His Day
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April 3rd 2014 is Doris Day's (official) 90th birthday. We're marking the occasion with her signature song, and Mark's celebration below of her long life and a career divided between pictures and pooches:
Doris Day's first public performance was in kindergarten, in the olio to a minstrel show. The olio was a sort of warm-up to the main bill, and, in the late Twenties in Cincinnati, little Doris was supposed to do a recitation which began...
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