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Rick's Flicks
Best Years of Her Life: Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story
The 13th Academy Awards – the ones where The Philadelphia Story was nominated in six categories – were the first held with sealed envelopes to keep the winners secret. For the very first awards in 1929 at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel the winners had been announced three months in advance; there were only 270 people in attendance, the ceremony only lasted fifteen minutes and it wasn't broadcast. For the next decade the Academy did its best to make the awards an event, but they announced the winners hours before the ceremony and in 1939 the L.A. Times published a leaked list of winner before the event had even started. This is when Price Waterhouse was brought in to count ballots and oversee the security around the sealed envelopes and, ...
Politics & Current Affairs
The Ground We Surrendered
This news is too sad. From Old Dominion University in Virginia: The victim of the terrorist attack at Old Dominion has been identified as Lt. Col. Brandon Shah-- who was a Professor of Military Science and the leader of the university's ROTC program. He was a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Operation Enduring Freedom, and Atlantic...
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Grand Prince of War
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday March 11th
Mark fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet...
Politics & Current Affairs
Your Kingdom for a Horse
Would the condition of our own civilisation be any worse had it been governed by cardboard cutouts this past quarter-century?
Politics & Current Affairs
Week Two Begins
America is a "proposition nation", yea, even if the proposition is a suicidal one...
Steyn's Song of the Week
Wichita Lineman
Mark celebrates the all-time greatest love song about a guy who works for the utilities company...
A Clubman's Notes
The Impermanence of Dominance
As we begin a second week of shock-and-awe, there is an increasingly pronounced spring-of-2002 vibe to much of the "conservative" commentary. All the things they're saying about Trump, Hegseth and Rubio, they once said about Bush, Rumsfeld and Powell...
Rick's Flicks
Class Action: Julie Christie and Alan Bates in The Go-Between
Rick McGinnis on the film version of L P Hartley's novel The Go-Between...
On the Town
Hello Girls
Mark celebrates the sesquicentennial of Patent # 174,465 to Alexander Graham Bell with a dip into a century's worth of telephone songs...
Politics & Current Affairs
Dead Man Warring
Meanwhile, the war goes on: ~HEADLINES TO PONDER: Greece to Exhume 150 COVID-19 Graves After Bodies Fail to Decompose I think the plan is to raise an Army of the Undead to take Iran....
The Mark Steyn Audio Show
Magnificent Madness
In case you missed Steyn's Clubland Q&A, here's the action replay...
Clubland Q&A
Live Around the Planet: Wednesday March 4th
Mark fields questions from Mark Steyn Club members live around the planet...
Politics & Current Affairs
Property of Allah
The "war on terror" and the greatest strategic error of our time...
A Clubman's Notes
The Elements of Power
Taking out far-flung ayatollahs as Muslims fill Times Square to pray to Mecca...
Politics & Current Affairs
It's Still the Demography, Stupid
Twenty years ago this month - January 2006 - The Wall Street Journal and The New Criterion published the first draft of what would become the thesis of my bestselling book, America Alone...
The Mark Steyn Show
The Best of Eva
Keir Starmer's Islamised Home Office bans a favourite Steyn Show guest...
Tales for Our Time
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...
A Clubman's Notes
Infested by Fanatic Easterns
In tonight's penultimate episode of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, Cavanagh surveys the scene from his friend's window...
A Clubman's Notes
It's So Peaceful in the Country
In tonight's episode Cavanagh gets an opportunity to recuperate from his travails in Warwickshire...
A Clubman's Notes
A Night Most Strangely Still
In episode twenty, Cavanagh and the girl with the violet eyes are hot on the trail of Hassan...
A Clubman's Notes
A Jewish Gentleman in the Village
In episode nineteen, Cavanagh and the girl with the violet eyes abandon the perfumed metropolis for the bracing fresh air of (then) rural Kent...
A Clubman's Notes
Thoroughly Familiar with the East
In episode eighteen, the girl with the violet eyes offers to help Cavanagh track down Hassan of Aleppo...
A Clubman's Notes
Reduced to Skulking
On Episode Sixteen of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper, the focus is not only on Hassan of Aleppo, but on Cavanagh and Bristol's other opponent, the legendary cracksman Earl Dexter. ..
A Clubman's Notes
London Crumbles
In episode fourteen Cavanagh has yet another visitor at the door...
A Clubman's Notes
Yellow Silk and Hashish
In episode thirteen of Sax Rohmer's Mohammedan caper, thriller abducted hero awakes in a heady environment...
A Clubman's Notes
Incredible Feats
Here is Part Twelve of Sax Rohmer's Mohammedan caper. We begin with Cavanagh immobilised...
A Clubman's Notes
Follow That Tram!
In episode eleven, our protagonist's quiet nocturnal stroll is suddenly interrupted...
A Clubman's Notes
Sordidly Western, Mystically Eastern
In episode ten our protagonists find themselves in one of the less salubrious parts of the Waterloo Road, where dwarves are dropping from the sky...
A Clubman's Notes
A Tree Pruner in the Burton Room
Welcome to Part Nine of Mark's narration of a Mohammedan caper by Sax Rohmer from 1914...
A Clubman's Notes
Slipper and the Yard
In episode eight, the usual suspects are already beginning to gather...
A Clubman's Notes
Venomous in its Death Throes
In episode seven our protagonist gets to the nub of the issue...
A Clubman's Notes
Darting Dwarves
In episode six of our yarn, another night full of "dark business" from the Middle Ages is about to begin...
A Clubman's Notes
Islam Comes Knocking
In episode five, the forces of the Prophet manage to get the better of Scotland Yard's finest...
A Clubman's Notes
Smiting the Infidel
In episode four, Scotland Yard is concerned that an Islamic terror cell is on the loose in London:
A Clubman's Notes
The Box Trick of Mohammed
In Part Three of our serialisation of The Quest of the Sacred Slipper by Sax Rohmer, Cavanagh suspects someone is trailing him...
A Clubman's Notes
A Souvenir of Mecca
In episode two of Sax Rohmer's tale, an Englishman has returned to London with something the Mohammedans are very anxious to recover...
A Clubman's Notes
Hands Off
Welcome to the seventy-ninth audio entertainment in our series Tales for Our Time. Sax Rohmer was at one point one of the biggest-selling authors in the world - and then the arbiters of our culture decided to eighty-six his most famous creation...
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