Steyn’s Song of the Week
Monday, 08 February 2010
Song of the Week #156
by Bobby Charles
See You Later, Alligator
After 'while, crocodile
See You Later, Alligator
After 'while, crocodile
Can't you see you're in my way now?
Don't you know you cramp my style?
Notwithstanding the confident assertion of a remarkable number of dictionaries, the phrase predates the song. "Alligator" is jazz rather than rock slang....
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Steyn on Culture
Monday, 01 February 2010
A couple of years back, I wrote:
The other night at dinner, I found myself sitting next to a Middle Eastern Muslim lady of a certain age. And the conversation went as it often does when you're with Muslim women who were at college in the sixties, seventies or eighties. In...
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Steyn on Books
Monday, 01 February 2010
Rajendra Pachauri, the cricket-loving climate-profiteering Nobel Peace Prize-winner with a carbon footprint almost as big as Al Gore's, heads up the IPCC, the global climate-change racket whose "settled science" is getting less settled by the minute. It seems an odd moment for Dr. Pachauri to branch out into bodice-heaving fiction:...
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Steyn on Stage and Screen
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
When Gene Hackman was 13, his father, an Illinois newspaperman, walked out on his family. As he drove off, never to be seen again, he gave a casual, enigmatic wave that Hackman has never forgotten. "It was so precise," he said. "Maybe that's why I became an actor. That one...
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Steyn on People
Monday, 18 January 2010
Today - November 18th - would have been Johnny Mercer's one hundredth birthday. You can hear part one of our centenary podcast here, and also read my thoughts on Goody Goody, Blues In The Night, Hooray For Hollywood, and Midnight Sun. But this is what I have to say about Mercer...
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Ave atque vale
Thursday, 04 February 2010
HAPPY WARRIOR
from National Review
I was overseas when Senator Edward Kennedy died, and a European reporter asked me what my “most vivid memory” of the great man was. I didn’t like to say, because it didn’t seem quite the appropriate occasion. But my only close encounter with the Lion of...
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