The King of Comedy
Mark writes: Our peerless film columnist Kathy Shaidle died a fortnight ago. To mark her passing, I've picked out a few personal favorites of mine from her movie columns over the years. This was her first essay for SteynOnline - a kind of response to my take on Jerry Lewis and one of his most famous roles: On the occasion of Jerry Lewis's death, Mark Steyn looked back at the comedian's "beautifully detailed performance of a very general idea of late 20th-century celebrity," playing late-night talk show host Jerry Langford in Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy (1982): As Langford's first fateful encounter with stalker and stand-up comic manqué Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) fitfully winds down [at the end of the opening scenes above], ... |
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The Mark Steyn ShowGreat-Power Theme-Park
Welcome to the weekend edition of The Mark Steyn Show - in which Mark offers some thoughts on the alleged American "inauguration" and on the downfall of Canada's viceroy, and reflects on the differences between the US and Westminster systems. We have a bloodcurdling poem from Robert Browning, a few words on the loss of republican virtue, and a brand new edition of The Hundred Years Ago Show, with starving Russians, murdered composers, and bisected magician's assistants... Steyn on FoxA Statue Still Stands
Mark and Tucker on an untoppled Teddy - and a society's need of history Laura's LinksPresident Harris and Her Sidekick Joe
Laura Rosen Cohen on the inauguration of President Kamala Harris (and that other guy), Big Tech monetizing your menstruation, and the emasculation of a prince... Topical TakeUnpardoned
Mark and Tucker on Julian Assange, the Deep State's revenge, and McConnell's threats The Mark Steyn ShowFor the Record
In these final hours of Donald Trump's presidency, The Mark Steyn Show looks back over a turbulent last year and how it came to this... Steyn on FoxThe Absence of Opposition
Mark made a rare end-of-week appearance with Tucker to discuss the incoming administration's commitment to "healing" and "unity" Steyn's Song of the WeekBette Davis Eyes
For the last week at SteynOnline we have been mourning the death of our dear friend Kathy Shaidle, and, as sometimes happens along the way at such times, a certain song lodged in my brain... Shaidle at the CinemaShaidle Among the Stars
An anthology of favorite Kathy Shaidle insights on some of the players who caught her beady eye The Mark Steyn ShowPrescriptions and Proscriptions
Mark considers the elimination of opposition and the rise of political violence. Plus a Shelley poem to stir the blood, and a Song of the Week that's just what the doctor ordered... Shaidle at the CinemaKathy's World
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Kathy Shaidle, a dear friend and our peerless movie essayist... On the TownDon Black: The Sanest Guy in the Room
Steyn talks to Don Black about his bestselling memoir The Sanest Guy in the Room, in whose success Mark played a small but not unimportant part On the TownDon Black: The Sanest Guy in the Room part two
The conclusion of Mark's conversation with Don Black about his bestselling memoir The Sanest Guy in the Room. In Part Two we hear Don's songs as recorded by everyone from Matt Monro and Shirley Bassey to Queen and Eminem... The War on Free SpeechThe Costs of Mann Delay
Michael E Mann, loser, liar, scofflaw and deadbeat Mann vs SteynFootball and Hockey
The Corner post that launched a lawsuit... |
A Clubman's NotesThe Death of Art
Here's the thirteenth episode of our current Tale for Our Time: Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's tale of life in a 24/7 surveillance state. No chance of that, right? In tonight's episode Winston Smith goes on a date - which requires a degree of cunning: He was a bit early. There had been no difficulties about the journey, and the girl was so evidently experienced that he was less frightened than he would normally have been. Presumably she could be trusted to find a safe place. In general you could not assume that you were much safer in the country than in London. There were no telescreens, of course, but there was always the danger of concealed microphones by which your voice might be picked up and recognized; besides, it was not easy ... A Clubman's NotesHate Week Highlights
Episode Twelve of Mark's serialization of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four A Clubman's NotesOranges and Lemons
Part Eleven of Mark's serialization of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four A Clubman's NotesHatless Among the Proles
Part Ten of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four A Clubman's NotesThe Evidence of Your Eyes
Welcome to Part Nine of this month's totally escapist Tale for Our Time - George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. It's nothing like anything happening today, so need to worry about it... A Clubman's NotesAnything That Matters
Episode Eight of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four A Clubman's NotesThe Age of Facecrime
Part Seven of Nineteen Eighty-Four, a tale that is almost too timely A Clubman's NotesThe Culling of Words
Part Six of our latest audio entertainment - a bit of escapism all about a society where the citizen is observed twenty-four hours a day for signs of thoughtcrime. So nothing to do with our world then... A Clubman's NotesDamnatio memoriae
Part Five of George Orwell's classic portrait of a society obsessed by thoughtcrime and wrongthink - Nineteen Eighty-Four A Clubman's NotesThe Thirteenth Hour
Welcome along to our forty-fifth audio adventure in our series Tales for Our Time. As I mention in my introduction, this one has been requested on and off over the years, and I resisted. But cometh the hour, cometh the dystopian novel... A Clubman's NotesThe Elphbergs - with a Word on the Rassendylls
Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor... |
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