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Of Coronas and Korans
Steyn surveys the scene from avocados to apostasy...
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La Vie en rose
The story of Édith Piaf and what was, at the time, a most unPiaf song...
Mark at the Movies
The Apartment
One of Steyn's favorite Christmas movies - and oddly topical
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
Too Stupid Even for CBS News?
Brain-Dead Brennan on how free speech caused the Holocaust...
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...
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Re-Civilizing Civilization
Laura Rosen Cohen rounds up the Internet...
Rick's Flicks
Mrs. Miniver: The Best Propaganda Money Could Buy
When the 15th Academy Awards kicked off at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub at the Ambassador Hotel on the evening of March 4, 1943, MGM's Mrs. Miniver was up for a staggering dozen nominations, and ended up walking away with six, including top of the marquee trophies for best picture, director, actress, supporting actress and screenplay. Greer Garson gave a record-setting six-minute acceptance speech; the next longest was given by Hilary Swank in 2000, winning best actress for playing what we'd now be obliged to call a trans man in Boys Don't Cry. Mrs. Miniver was up against The Magnificent Ambersons, Orson Welles' troubled sophomore film, whose reputation is far brighter today than it was at the time, while the rest of the best picture field ...
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