Do You Hear What I Hear?
Some years ago, the late Mort Shuman, a marvelous composer and one of the first generation of rock'n'roll songwriters, took me to lunch. Mort had written "Why Must I Be A Teenager In Love?" and "Can't Get Used To Losing You" and a bunch of stuff for Elvis, including "Mess O' Blues", "Suspicion" and "Viva Las Vegas". But, like most successful music biz types, he wanted to talk about what he was doing next. So, after the usual pleasantries, he slid across the table a script bearing the title Save The Last Dance For Me - after his Number One hit for the Drifters. "It's a musical," he said, "about the Cuban missile crisis." Now I generally subscribe to Tim Rice's rule - that, if somebody says wow, what a great idea for a musical, it almost ... |
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Mark's Week in ReviewA Se'nnight of Steyn, December 7-13
In case you missed it, here's how the last seven days looked to Mark Mark at the MoviesPassing Pleasures
Steyn on two contrasting takes on office romance at Christmas The Mark Steyn ShowThe "Leader" of the "Free" World
Mark over a month ago: "There's a coup comin' on." The Supreme Court on Friday: "Big deal." The Mark Steyn ShowSafe Harbors and Pious Ears
Mark surveys the scene near and far, from the Granite State to the Wuhan water park. He takes in the Texas Supreme Court case and Big Tech's sudden reverence for Safe Harbor Day, and the prospect of Chinese troops in Canada. All this plus Martin Luther, Lord Tennyson and the Pogues... Topical TakeMonsieur Butterfly
Sometimes the honey trap's packing a little more than you expect Steyn on FoxQuantum of Swalwell
China sinks its Fangs in Laura's LinksChina's Friends in High Places
Laura Rosen Cohen on China's dangerous influence game, transgender "chestfeeding", and the New Middle East... Topical TakeA Bureaucracy for Life
An executive branch that disdains its head The Mark Steyn ShowSeven Days in Shenanistan
Mark contrasts a brazen Democrat Party with a craven GOP and an unrestrained China with a locked-down west. There's also another flashback from The Hundred Years Ago Show, featuring the man with the hook, the man with the Nobel Peace Prize and the man who wants you to win one for the Gipper. And in an extended edition of Last Call Steyn remembers his fellow Rush guest-host, Walter Williams... Steyn's Song of the WeekThey Didn't Believe Me
The song that's the daddy of them all Shaidle at the CinemaIkiru
Kathy Shaidle takes a look at Kurosawa's Ikiru, about an ill Japanese bureaucrat's quest for meaning as he nears the end of his life... Clubland Q&AFull of It in Fulton
Mark answers Steyn Clubbers' questions on election fraud, Covid, Christmas, commercials and risk-averse Republicans The Mark Steyn ShowHitler of the Week
Mark looks at this month's Hitler, last month's Hitler, the constitutionally permitted degree of electoral fraud, and through it all the sound of raucous laughter coming from the Politburo. There's also another edition of The Hundred Years Ago Show, with an old-school State of the Union, a moonshine shootout, the sound of one hand clapping in Mexico, and a withdrawal from the League of Nations. And we take five with Swedes, Jamaicans and Stevie Wonder... Steyn on FoxGood Cop-Defunder, Bad Cop-Defunder
The alleged "divide" between the Democrats' "moderates" and radicals Steyn on the AirThe Outliers of the Outliers
The return of the King of Cable - and other statistical phenomena Steyn's Song of the WeekLuck Be a Lady
Mark celebrates a classic showtune on its seventieth birthday Steyn on FoxThe Shenanigan Express
Trump, Georgia, fraud ...and the disaster to come Steyn on FoxSteyn in for Tucker on Black Friday
Mark guest-hosts "Tucker Carlson Tonight" The Mark Steyn Weekend ShowOf Sleep and Slough
An anthology of some favorite Mark Steyn Show poems of recent months: From the Fall of Rome and of Constantinople to the joys of sleep, life's rich variety is all here... Steyn's Song of the WeekAvalon - with Carol Welsman and Russell Malone
A live-performance video edition featuring two of our favorite guests - singer/pianist Carol Welsman and guitarist Russell Malone 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 NotesBig Mo Comes to the Mountain
Welcome to the final installment of our latest Tale for Our Time - P G Wodehouse's adventure into media and mobsters in pre-Great War New York, Psmith, Journalist. After last night's accompanying illustration, Steyn Clubber Martha, from the beautiful British Columbian capital of Victoria, found herself wondering: Is that pppppptarmigan mocking Biden and his orthopaedic boot? Very much enjoying Psmith's adventures. Thank you Mark.! We trust no dreary contemporary political resonances can be drawn from tonight's photograph, Martha. Thank you for your kind words, but, alas, all good things must end. Tonight's concluding episode of Psmith, Journalist begins with the final showdown between our hero and a graft-addicted New York Alderman-to-be: ... A Clubman's NotesPtarmigan and Palmist
Welcome to the penultimate episode of Psmith, Journalist, a bit of post-election almost-escapism from P G Wodehouse... A Clubman's NotesThe Battle of White Plains
Part Seventeen of Psmith, Journalist, a bit of post-Election Day escapism by P G Wodehouse A Clubman's Notes"I Dare Not Hope to E'er Be Thine"
Episode Sixteen of Psmith, Journalist - P G Wodehouse's odd blend of Wodehousian whimsy and social conscience A Clubman's NotesLatin in Manhattan
Welcome to Part Fifteen of a rather unusual P G Wodehouse caper, in which an upper-class English chappie takes on the slum landlords of the New York tenements... A Clubman's NotesA Rose by Any Other Name Would Sing as Sweet
We continue our voyage through the murky sewers of a corrupt New York in P G Wodehouse's Psmith, Journalist A Clubman's NotesAn Alderman's Ambition
The thirteenth episode of Psmith, Journalist, P G Wodehouse's tale of an Old Etonian who finds himself among two of the seamier underbellies of New York - gangland and the media... A Clubman's NotesA Regular Whoop
Episode Twelve of Psmith, Journalist by P G Wodehouse A Clubman's NotesThe Ragtime Restaurant
Part Eleven of Psmith, Journalist, a most unusual blend of Wodehousian whimsy and gritty documentary realism of the mean streets of New York... A Clubman's NotesA Twist in the Tale
Part Ten of Psmith, Journalist - a bit of Wodehousian whimsy with a dash of Noo Yawk social realism... A Clubman's NotesGetting Busy
Part Nine of Psmith, Journalist, P G Wodehouse's account of a gallant press amidst the graft and corruption of New York a little over a century ago... A Clubman's NotesOh, You Kid!
Episode Eight of P G Wodehouse's account of an Englishman in New York in the years before the Great War: Psmith, Journalist... A Clubman's NotesRemember Me to Herald Square
Part Seven of Psmith, Journalist, a rare combination of Wodehousian whimsy with a dash of social conscience... A Clubman's Notes"Cozy Moments Cannot Be Muzzled!"
Part Six of our respite from the woes of the world each night: Psmith, Journalist by P G Wodehouse A Clubman's NotesNo Square Deals in the East
Part Five of our post-election escapism among the lowlifes of New York, as seen by P G Wodehouse - Psmith, Journalist... A Clubman's NotesAn Englishman in New York
We've received a deluge of emails from Mark Steyn Club members asking Mark, for our next Tale for Our Time, to eschew anything dark and dystopian and instead give us something cheery and escapist... A Clubman's NotesThe Elphbergs - with a Word on the Rassendylls
For this year's summer entertainment, Mark's contemporary inversion of Anthony Hope's classic The Prisoner of Zenda: The Prisoner of Windsor... |
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