Steyn’s Song of the Week
Monday, 13 October 2008
Song of the Week #103
by George and Ira Gershwin
For a 15th century Italian explorer long out of favor with America’s cultural elite, Christopher Columbus sure has a hammerlock on the standard repertoire. Cole Porter put him in the verse to “Just One Of Those Things":
As Dorothy Parker once said...
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Ave atque vale
Thursday, 02 October 2008
Paul Newman, 1925-2008
There were two Paul Newmans: He was a star on screen - one of the last real movie stars, a man who, despite himself, brought glamor to every role. Off screen, he was a rather doctrinaire leftie - a lot of celebrities are, of course, at least when mouthing...
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Steyn on People
Thursday, 02 October 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 Stage and Screen
Thursday, 02 October 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
Thursday, 02 October 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
Thursday, 02 October 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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