Ave atque vale
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:
Fidel Castro had held on to power longer than any other living national leader except Queen Elizabeth II.
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 Ãœbermenschen 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
You see this guy?
Mark presents Part Two of his salute to Hal David, lyricist of "This Guy's In Love With You", "I'll Never Fall In Love Again", "Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head" and many more, who died on Saturday at the age of 91
You can read Part One here
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 Observed
From 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
Roger Williams, 1924-2011
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