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Drowning in Lies
If you're swimming in Germany, beware of predatory redhead hausfraus...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Nice'n'Easy
If you missed today's Serenade Radio edition of our Song of the Week, here's a chance to hear it at SteynOnline. I offer it in tribute to one half of a great writing team, who died on Thursday in California. Alan Bergman was ninety-nine and I was reasonably confident he would make it to his centenary in September. But it was not to be. Alan and his late wife wrote lyrics together for two-thirds of a century, and, after Marilyn's death three years ago, her widower went back to doing something he hadn't done since the 1950s: writing songs without her. Their catalogue includes lyrics for blockbuster movies, classic albums, the Top 40 singles chart, including "The Windmills of Your Mind", "The Way We Were", "You Don't Bring Me Flowers", "It ...
Mark at the Movies
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday May 28th
Guest host Melissa Howes fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members around the planet...
Shaidle at the Cinema
Pather Panchali
Upon the centenary of Satyajit Ray, we present our late friend Kathy Shaidle's take on his 1955 classic Pather Panchali...
Steyn on Culture
The Prisoner of Windsor
A remote fantastical kingdom far from Europe's chancelleries of power... An unpopular monarch on the eve of his coronation... A ruling class of plotters and would-be usurpers... ...and a gentleman adventurer on holiday. No, not Ruritania in the nineteenth century, but the United Kingdom in the twenty-first...
The War on Free Speech
Mannsplaining
Steyn and Simberg respond to Mann's demand that he and his lying lawyers should not have to pay sanctions...
Ave atque vale
Avalon with Carol Welsman and Russell Malone
Mark remembers a dear friend of the Steyn Show musical family, the guitarist Russell Malone...
The Bachman Beat
Tal Bachman: Cancelled by Popular Demand: My Final Rugby Installment
Tal Bachman wraps up his epic series...
Laura's Links
And the Living's Easy
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...
Rick's Flicks
The Day the Earth Stood Still: The Spaceman Slaps Our Wrists
There was a small renaissance in science fiction movies in the early '50s, aside from the space operas and creature features, there were politically resonant, big budget titles like Robert Wise's The Day the Earth Stood Still. How and why science fiction films took themselves seriously isn't hard to understand if you just look at the headlines from the moment the film began production to after it hit theatres. Screenwriter Edmund North was working on the script for the film in the first two months of 1951, at the beginning of the first full year of the Korean War. The year began with Chinese and North Korean forces capturing Seoul, and on January 11th a report was delivered to U.S. president Truman by the National Security Resources Board ...
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