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Keeping It Simple
It's not that complicated...
Steyn's Song of the Week
I Get A Kick Out Of You
Mark on a Cole Porter classic...
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
A Baroness on Barrenness
Mark remembers P D James, and a remarkably prescient novel
The War on Free Speech
A Very Low Bar...
How low can the DC Bar go?
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
Ice Cream, You Scream
Greetings one and all and welcome back to another fresh batch of Laura's Links. The sun is still shining and there's a lovely breeze and I'm glad I have some daytime hours to put the finishing touches on this week's column. It is definitely feeling like fall in these parts. The weather really changed on a dime, and there's a definite back to school vibe in the air. I actually always loved September and all the back to school activities both when I was in school myself and then with my kids. I loved getting the school supplies, getting a new lunch box and spending hours on the phone with friends consulting one another about our fabulous outfits for the first day of school. I'm so old I remember dragging the phone cord right into my bedroom ...
Rick's Flicks
Dirty Movie: Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest
Faye Dunaway is famously unwilling to talk about playing Joan Crawford in the notorious 1981 biopic Mommie Dearest, a film that she claims damaged her reputation by grafting her portrayal of Crawford to her own cinematic persona and professional reputation. Which is shame since it is possibly her greatest performance – it's definitely her most audacious – and dominates clip reels of her career whenever she's in the news. Whatever Dunaway thinks about it, her Joan Crawford will take top billing in any video career summary in some future obituary. Defenders of Joan Crawford insist that Dunaway's indelible performance – as much if not more than the tell-all memoir written by her daughter, on which the film is based – damaged Crawford's ...