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Steyn on Culture

MOUSEKETEERS

Friday, 30 October 2009

I met Flemming Rose, the editor at Jyllands-Posten who commissioned the Mohammed cartoons, in London last year, so I was interested to know the kind of people who want to kill him: Two men from Chicago who went to military school in Pakistan face terrorism charges for allegedly targeting the Jyllands-Posten...

Steyn’s Song of the Week

MERCER MONTH

Thursday, 05 November 2009

Song of the Week #145 An audio celebration of Johnny Mercer All this month at SteynOnline we're marking the centenary of one of the most successful and prolific of American songwriters, born November 18th 1909. We'll be observing the anniversary in our traditional Song of the Week format on the next four...

Steyn on Stage and Screen

INTERVIEW WITH THE VAMPIRE

Friday, 30 October 2009

Mark’s Movie Vault HALLOWEEN HORRORS Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire, adapted by Anne Rice from her own novel, appears to be a sort of vampiric version of Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin — you remember, the paean to gay parenting which led to Clause 28 or Section 29 or Stalag...

Steyn on Books

PAYING FOR OUR SINS

Thursday, 29 October 2009

Seven and a half years ago, a girls’ school in Mecca caught ﬁre. Many of the pupils were able to escape the burning building, but unfortunately they ran straight into the hands of the mutaween, Saudi Arabia’s “religious police,” who flayed them for having fled the conflagration without first putting...

Steyn on People

ROMAN'S LEGIONS

Saturday, 10 October 2009

As the feminists used to say in simpler times, "What part of 'No' don't you understand?" Quite a lot, if the reaction to Roman Polanski's arrest is anything to go by. I didn't know, for one thing, that, if you decide to plow on regardless, the world's artists will rise as...

THE STEYNONLINE HIT PARADE

Mark's most popular Songs of the Week

1) HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS (1944)

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

3) SOLILOQUY (from Carousel) (1945)

4) THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC (1862)

5) BUTTONS AND BOWS (1947)

6) AUTUMN LEAVES (1945)

7) SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES (1933)

8) THE LION SLEEPS TONIGHT (1939)

9) GUESS WHO I SAW TODAY (1952)

10) MONSTER MASH (1962)

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