Ave atque valeThe Indispensable Man
It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of Rush Limbaugh, a giant of American broadcasting, a uniquely talented performer, and a hugely generous man to whom I owe almost everything... This Ole House
Welcome to a brand new audio adaptation of Mark Steyn's Passing Parade - a new weekly feature here at SteynOnline, every Saturday. We start today with Mark's musings on the art of the obit, followed by some thoughts at Calvin Coolidge's grave site, and then the story of Stuart Hamblen... Ave atque vale 2020
Steyn looks back at some of those who left us in 2020 Tightly Argued on the Bench, Not So Much Off
Steyn on Ruth Bader Ginsburg and a republic of judges. Pink Shorts and Shimura
From a Japanese comedy legend to the most improbable Star Wars merchandising opportunity, Mark remembers those lost to ChiCom-19 Squash and Sumo
From James Bond's dialect coach to refugees fleeing Isis, the victims of the Chinese Coronavirus Jewels and Goals
Steyn remembers some of those lost to ChiCom-19 A Not So Happy Warrior
A sad end for Mike Adams - and the silence of the "silent majority" From Longleat to Amity Island
Mark remembers some of those lost to ChiCom-19, from a hippie marquess to Yogi Bear's girlfriend Bucky Stopped Here!
Mark remembers the smiling seven-string guitarist Bucky Pizzarelli The Warmographic Novelist who Got #CO-Tooed
Rajendra Pachauri and the strangely sexualized world of the climate change jet-set THE SWEDISH HUMMINGBIRD
The Swedish actress Lena Nyman died last Friday at the age of 66 - forty years after her blaze of international notoriety. This essay is adapted from Mark Steyn's Passing Parade: For a brief moment, Lena Nyman was the most famous Swedish female on the planet, and her svengali the most famous Swedish male. Before Björn Borg, before Benny and Björn from Abba, before ...well, hang on, let me have a think – ah, yes, before Sven-Göran Eriksson, former manager of the England soccer team, before all those famous Swedes, there was Vilgot Sjöman. In the late Sixties, he loomed large – not in the same sense as Anita Ekberg and Bibi Andersson but in the same general vicinity. Sjöman made a movie called Jar är nyfiken - gul, or I Am Curious (Yellow), ... Tough-Skinned and Big-Hearted
Mark remembers his fearless colleague, Christie Blatchford Bean There, Done That
Just a few weeks after his appearance on The Mark Steyn Christmas Show, Orson Bean dies in a terrible road accident Revenge on Reality
Mark salutes some old friends and acquaintances Ave atque vale 2019
From congressmen to caliphs, dog lovers to hamster eaters, those we lost in 2019 The Best of Times
From Hello, Dolly! to Mame, Mack & Mabel to La Cage aux Folles, a Broadway showman - and an unexpectedly long life Playmate of the Half-Century
The "lawmaker" who declined to read the laws he made ...but did read Playboy Having Your Yellowcake and Making Bush Eat It
Major Wanke and an even more major one The Rubber Hits the Road
The man who shattered the jewel of Africa A Titan Has Fallen
Tal Bachman reflects on the loss of longtime music manager Elliot Roberts. The Brother Who Blew It
The quality of Morsi Every Dog Should Have His Day
Mark talks pictures and pooches with Doris Day The Rain Maker
Steyn celebrates the last of the Golden Age directors, the man who gave us Singin' in the Rain and Charade: Stanley Donen Ave atque vale 2018
Here's my take on some of those who left us these last twelve months - from furniture salesmen to superhero godfathers to make-believe presidents, first ladies to Bond girls to Pigeon sisters... Break a Leg
William Goldman, storyteller" and teller of stories about telling stories... Monsieur le Pseudo-Président
Bernard Landry, the separatist who couldn't separate Infamy and Ongar
The man who gave us the all-time greatest Carry On gag and the plot of a worldwide phenomenon Keeping the British End Up
Confessions of a window cleaner - and a double-O secret agent... The Gripes of Roth
Novel, memoir, and source material The Pleasure of His Company
Mark pays tribute to a great interviewer and a radio legend Ave atque vale 2017
Steyn salutes some of those who left us these last twelve months The Girl in the Swimming Pool
Mark remembers Christine Keeler and the Profumo affair Boom and Bust
Mark remembers actor and playwright Sam Shepard The Son of the Man who Put the Saud in Saudi Arabia
Steyn on the spawn of Ibn Saud, both in the nursery and geopolitically On the Receiving End of the Hockey Stick
Mark remembers Chris de Freitas, a man of science and a man of principle The Impresario
Steyn remembers the late Roger Ailes, founder of Fox News "That's Not How We Do Things in Australia"
Bill Leak, the great cartoonist of The Australian, died of a heart attack in the early hours of Friday morning. He was 61. Like Andrew Bolt, I feel not only terrible sadness at his premature death, but also anger and resentment. Bill Leak was not gunned down at his office, like the writers and artists of Charlie Hebdo, nor did a murderous Somali axman break into his home, as happened to Kurt Westergaard, one of the Danish Mohammed cartoonists, nor did he have his last public appearance shot up by a killer jihadist, as did the Swedish artist Lars Vilks. But, as much as any of those, Bill was a target of what he called (at right) "the Cartoonists Hit List" and the wider war on free expression that has rampaged across the west this last ... A Glorious Rain
Mark remembers the late Debbie Reynolds, on-screen and off- Going Solo
Mark remembers George Michael's rhymes and reason The Full English
Mark remembers the writer AA Gill. A Monster and his Suck-Ups
Fidel Castro's presidential term lasted, gosh, an awfully long time, as The New York Times reminded us:
That's one way of putting it... Times to be Happy, Times to Get Through
Mark and Tim Rice on the late Bobby Vee Happy Easter from the Religion of Peace
The price of being a moderate Muslim A Principled Man in a Corrupted Field
I was very saddened to hear of the death of Professor Robert M Carter, one of my co-authors on Climate Change: The Facts. Bob had a heart attack at his home in Queensland and never recovered consciousness. He was an indispensable voice in the battle for climate sanity... Bumpers and Grinders
Ol' Dale pulls it out for Slick Willie The Riches in Rags
E L Doctorow at the dawn of the American century Flower Power
Remembering Theodore Bikel, who introduced the last song Rodgers & Hammerstein ever wrote Man of Letter
Mark remembers Wayne Carson, who gave us "Always On My Mind" and "The Letter" Brollies and Dollies
Hard to imagine at the start of yet another dreary summer of superheroes at the multiplex, but once upon a time "The Avengers" didn't mean lurid musclebound rubber-nippled Übermenschen battling malevolent Norse gods across a hole in the time-space continuum over the streets of Manhattan, but an urbane middle-aged toff and a catsuited Carnaby Street dolly bird bantering their way across Swingin' London. That other "Avengers" was a big hit in the US. It was, indeed, the last British telly show to play in primetime on one of the Big Three American networks (ABC). Thereafter, the upscale Brit hits were confined to PBS, and the lowbrow stuff was snapped up by Yank producers for local adaptation - see everything from "Three's Company" and ... He Stayethed.
Mark remembers Stan Cornyn, master of the lost art of liner notes Rush's Right-Hand Man
Mark remembers the great Kit "HR" Carson A QC in the Windy City
Eddie Greenspan, QC died in his sleep last week at his winter pad in Arizona. He was only 70, although he seemed older to me. Canada's most celebrated criminal lawyer, he had made his name very young, and kept it until the end. I didn't know him well, and, indeed, on the last occasion I saw him (or, to be more precise, he saw me), in the lobby of the King Edward Hotel in Toronto, he cut me dead. (I was talking with someone, and didn't actually notice, but so it was reported to me afterwards.) The point of our dispute was the trial in 2007 of my old boss and Greenspan's sometime client Conrad Black, who was charged by the United States Government with ...well, no one could really explain exactly what he was supposedly guilty of, but he ... Chicken Supremo
The longest-serving mayor in Boston's history was no friend of free speech Palace Intrigue
One of the odder episodes recounted in my new book The [Un]documented Mark Steyn is my dinner at Buckingham Palace on the eve of the referendum on the Australian monarchy. A man whose political fortunes helped shape the republican movement died today at the age of 98. Gough Whitlam was a controversial Aussie Prime Minister who was even more controversially transformed into an ex-Prime Minister... Beam Him Up!
The improbably coiffed James Traficant, former congressman and jailbird, died at the weekend. He rated a mention from me in the course of my disquisition on "Beam me up, Scotty!" in Mark Steyn's Passing Parade... Chemistry Lessons
James Garner was one of those actors who was watchable in almost anything, even commercials. He had great sexual chemistry, which is why his leading ladies loved working with him... When the Bongos Fall Silent...
Mark remembers Broadway's archetypal tough old broad, and a characteristic encounter... Brill Cream
Mark remembers Gerry Goffin and the pop hits of New York's Brill Building Barn Stormer
Mickey Rooney died last Sunday at the age of 93, and I didn't want the SteynOnline week to end without a word about him. Aside from anything else, and as ridiculous as it sounds, we share a musical director... For Valour
Australia honours its 100th Victoria Cross recipient A Coconut War Without Shells
Cockatoo-plumed colonial memories from the South Pacific Slipper of the Yard
Great Train Robber Ronnie Biggs - and his nemesis... Peter O'Toole, RIP
Birther of Arabia? Canada's Chief Censor
Mark remembers Jennifer Lynch, Chief Commissar during his battles with the Dominion's thought police Don Wade, RIP
Remembering a legendary Chicago morning man The Anti-Declinist
Margaret Thatcher, 1925-2013 Doug Christie, 1946-2013
Ezra Levant remembers an all too rare Canadian free-speech lawyer Related: Bernie and the Bully Bloggers Pajama Nights on Broadway
A SteynOnline audio special to mark the 60th birthday of The Pajama Game Hilton and Lana
Remembering a great critic, editor, and the man who gave Mark his first regular job in American media Hitchens ObservedFrom our friend John O'Sullivan: Sometime in the early 1970s, Frank Johnson, later editor of the British Spectator but then a young parliamentary correspondent, came into my room at the Daily Telegraph and began waxing enthusiastic about a newcomer to Fleet Street, one Christopher Hitchens, with whom he had dined the previous night... Tony Blankley RIP
Tony's death is a particular shock to those of us who enjoyed his company on the NR cruise just a few weeks ago. He was his usual convivial self, and fully engaged in the 2012 campaign season. THE DONG IS ENDED, BUT THE MALADY LINGERS ON
Kim Jong-Il, 1942-2011 MONKEYING AROUND
Bert Schneider, 1933-2011: 'Nam, coke, and the Golden Age of Oscars END OF THE RHODE
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