The Party She Didn't Come Home From
Programming note: If you missed today's audio episode of Steyn's Song of the Week on Serenade Radio, you can hear the re-run at either 5.30am Monday UK time (Monday afternoon in Oz) or 9pm Thursday UK time (Thursday afternoon in the Americas). Wherever you are on the planet, simply click the button at top right here. In Mark's September edition of The Hundred Years Ago Show, a movie star's party goes wrong and takes out a Hollywood celebrity; war rampages on between Russians and Romanians, Turks and Greeks, Spaniards and Berbers, but peace breaks out between the United States and Canada; a European army is humiliated by Islamic tribesmen; an Indian nationalist discards barristerial dress for a loincloth; and a fertilizer explosion levels a ... |
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This weekend would have been the ninetieth birthday of Anthony Newley. I regret that he is not around to celebrate it as his great writing partner Leslie Bricusse has done. Newley was a prodigious talent, admired by our friend Don Black, who speaks movingly about him here, and by the late David Bowie. Bricusse & Newley belonged to a London musical tradition that got more or less obliterated and forgotten in the unprecedented global phenomenon of Evita, Cats, Les Miz, Phantom and the other West End blockbusters of the Eighties. I myself have been prone to over look them, as my old confrère from the opening-night aisle seats, The Guardian's Michael Billington, has observed en passant: In his excellent 1997 book, Broadway Babies Say ... Ave atque valeBeam Them Up
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Our Saturday movie essayist Rick McGinnis is out this week, so we hope you'll forgive my brief return to guest-hosting. The new Bond film is a year-and-a-half late, having been clobbered by Covid, Chairman Xi finding that you don't really need to waste time with shark tanks and piranhas or tying him to a table and cranking up the laser beam: The easiest way to dispatch 007 is just to get Boris et al to impose a worldwide shelter-in-place order. But Bond has now dodged all that, and busted out in time for next week's big opening, only to discover that the director, a man called Cary Fukunaga, is out there dismissing Sean Connery as a guy who basically "rapes" his women. One of the reasons 007 is the longest-running series in film history - ... Steyn's Song of the WeekTry a Little Tenderness
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