Steyn’s Song of the Week
Monday, 07 July 2008
Song of the Week
by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II
I guess he’ll call me
The old man
I guess he’ll think I can lick
Ev’ry other feller’s father –
Well, I can!
Father’s Day is coming up, and this is the great song about fatherhood: the "Soliloquy" from the 1945 Broadway hit Carousel, Rodgers and...
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Ave atque vale
Monday, 07 July 2008
HAPPY WARRIOR
from National Review
If you want the short version of where Hollywood went wrong consider a famous Charlton Heston line and its reprise a third of a century later. “Take your stinkin’ paws off me, you damn dirty ape!” snarls astronaut George Taylor in Franklin J Schaffner’s original Planet...
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Steyn on People
Monday, 07 July 2008
HAPPY WARRIOR
from National Review
Of late I’ve been having some sport with a fellow called Oscar van den Boogaard. He’s a novelist over in Europe, and, while I’m not the most assiduous reader of Continental fiction, my eye was caught by an interview he gave to the Belgian newspaper De...
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Steyn on Stage and Screen
Monday, 07 July 2008
An enduring Hollywood icon, James Stewart, star of Harvey and Hitchcock, was born one hundred years ago today:
James Stewart was a nervous flyer. Commercial airlines made him jittery, he wouldn’t touch chartered flights, and, inveigled into a Cessna during bad weather on a publicity tour for It’s A Wonderful...
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Steyn on Culture
Monday, 07 July 2008
Four score and seven years ago … No, wait, my mistake. Two score and seven or eight days ago, Barack Obama gave the greatest speech since the Gettysburg Address, or FDR's First Inaugural, or JFK's religion speech, or (if, like Garry Wills in The New York Review of Books, you...
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Steyn on Books
Monday, 07 July 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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