Ave atque vale
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...
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Steyn’s Song of the Week
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?...
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Steyn on Stage and Screen
Sunday, 07 March 2010
MARK AT THE MOVIES
THE OSCAR FOR MOST CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS...
All credits and no show
plus: THE OSCAR FOR BEST OSCAR SPEECH
THE SILENT STAR
CLOONEY TUNES
DRESSED FOR SUCCESS
A LAND OF LAWS
and GUNS 'N' POSES
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Steyn on People
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...
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Steyn on Culture
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...
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Steyn on Books
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”...
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