Steyn on Stage and Screen
Wednesday, 14 May 2008
All this week at SteynOnline, we're marking the tenth anniversary of Frank Sinatra's death, beginning with this appreciation, plus Sinatra live, and Sinatra the voice. A few days after he died, I wrote this Spectator column about Sinatra's film career. He was a memorable actor - and, as Sammy Cahn liked to...
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Steyn’s Song of the Week
Monday, 12 May 2008
Song of the Week #98
by Ervin Drake
When I was seventeen
It Was A Very Good Year...
He had more very good years than most of us, and they've continued in the last ten, too. Not all icons survive death: I think of Leonard Bernstein or Bob Fosse, both at their...
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Steyn on People
Monday, 28 April 2008
Michelle, ma belle: these are words that go together well. She looks fabulous, like a presidential spouse out of some dream movie – glossy hair, triple strand of pearls, vaguely retro suits that subtly remind you she’d be the most glamorous First Lady since Jackie Kennedy.
Michelle, “fear”, “cynicism”, “corporate America”,...
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Steyn on Books
Friday, 18 April 2008
In The Village Voice the other week, the playwright David Mamet recently outed himself as a liberal apostate and revealed that he's begun reading conservative types like Milton Friedman and Paul Johnson. If he's wondering what he's in for a year or two down the line, here's how Newsweek's Jonathan...
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