Steyn’s Song of the Week
Sunday, 16 November 2008
Song of the Week
by John Barry, Leslie Bricusse and Anthony Newley
We've been marking the arrival of A Quantum Of Solace in US cinemas over this last week at SteynOnline, and it seemed appropriate to round things out with a song - a Bond song, that is. Bond songs are a...
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Steyn on Culture
Friday, 14 November 2008
HAPPY WARRIOR
from National Review
Before we close the book on this election season, let me quote one of the most dispiriting asides on the subject. Daniel Craig, the star of the new James Bond movie The Audacity Of Solace – no, wait, A Quantum Of Hope - was being interviewed...
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Steyn on Stage and Screen
Tuesday, 11 November 2008
Just ahead of the latest entry in the franchise, A Quantum Of Solace, I thought we'd look back at a couple of earlier Bond films. You can read my take on Die Another Day here, but here's my thoughts from the Speccie on the debut of the last 007, Pierce...
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Ave atque vale
Wednesday, 05 November 2008
Michael Crichton, 1942-2008
Michael Crichton was a man of formidable intelligence and boundless curiosity. The two don't go together quite as often as they should. For years, when I picked up his latest novel, I'd find myself sighing, "Of course." The books had the inevitability of all the truly great...
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Steyn on People
Friday, 14 November 2008
Just before the big summer hiatus, I wrote this column for National Review, which we never got around to posting on line. Its observations about the weakness of the Obama candidacy still seem relevant:
The conventional wisdom on the Clintons was promulgated by my then senator, Bob Smith of New Hampshire,...
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Steyn on Books
Friday, 14 November 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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