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Steyn on Stage and Screen

MICHAEL COLLINS

Friday, 12 March 2010

By popular demand, SteynOnline is launching a weekend movie column, picking out a pertinent picture or two from the last century or thereabouts that you might prefer to a trip to the multiplex. Just ahead of St Patrick's Day, here's Liam Neeson in the 1996 biopic of the Irish nationalist...

Ave atque vale

THOMAS BARNES, R.I.P.

Thursday, 11 March 2010

Three years ago, I was invited out to Berkeley, of all places, as the 23rd Admiral Chester W Nimitz Memorial Lectures. I was the first foreigner to be asked to serve as the Nimitz Lecturer, and I regarded it as a great honor. One of my hosts for my stay...

Steyn’s Song of the Week

THE CONTINENTAL

Sunday, 07 March 2010

Song of the Week #160 by Con Conrad and Herb Magidson Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, toward the climax of a complicated plot, standing nonchalantly on a balcony in the unlikely English seaside resort of "Brightbourne" overlooking a spectacular art deco terrace of impossibly glamorous dancers: FRED: Not a bad tune. What is it?...

Steyn on People

THE UPPER-CLASS DOWNER

Tuesday, 02 March 2010

Jim Geraghty drew attention to this poll over in his fiefdom, and it's certainly worth a look: CNN Poll: Anti-Incumbent Fever At Record High Wasn't that the headline in the Oct. 24, 1917 edition of the Winter Palace Court Circular? Despite CNN's best efforts to present this as bad news for incumbents...

Steyn on Culture

GLACIALLY MOTIVATED

Tuesday, 02 March 2010

Whenever I write about “climate change,” a week or two later there’s a flurry of letters whose general line is: la-la-la can’t hear you. Dan Gajewski of Ottawa provided a typical example in our Dec. 28 issue. I’d written about the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit’s efforts to “hide the...

Steyn on Books

DOMINICK DUNNE'S LAST PARTY

Tuesday, 02 March 2010

Dominick Dunne died last August and with uncharacteristically bad timing—a day after Ted Kennedy. According to the New York Times, the family wanted to delay announcing his death until the Teddy ululations blew over. But, with the media diving headlong into a vat of mawkish drivel about “The Last Lion”...

THE STEYNONLINE HIT PARADE

Mark's most popular Songs of the Week

1) HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS (1946)

2) EDELWEISS (1959)

3) TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME (1908)

4) SOLILOQUY (from Carousel) (1945)

5) SEND IN THE CLOWNS (1973)

6) BUTTONS AND BOWS (1947)

7) AUTUMN LEAVES (1945)

8) MACK THE KNIFE (1928)

9) THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT (1939)

10) THERE'LL ALWAYS BE AN ENGLAND (1939)

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