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MIDWEEK MOVIES
SINGER & DANCER
Elia Kazan and Donald O'Connor
THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FENCE
Give what peace a chance?
ISRAEL ASPER
1932-2003
Election night
HASTA LA VISTA, GRAYBY!
Is it likely that Californians have got themselves all whipped up with the Recall Fever just to install another rent-a-hack like Lieutenant-Governor Cruz Bustamante? Or will they figure, what the hell, let's go all the way and take a flyer on Arnie? Everything about this race - from the compressed schedule to the multiple candidates - favours him.
~ Steyn in The Sunday Telegraph, August 10th 2003
LOSERS: GRAY, CRUZ ...AND THE L.A. TIMES
The only bottom that's an issue in this election is Gray Davis', and on Tuesday all it will be feeling is the electorate's boot.
~ Steyn in The Daily Telegraph, October 4th 2003
PLUS
A STATE TOO FAR
The corruption of citizenship
BOTTOM FEEDER
The LA Times goes readable
~ and check out the high and lows in our
CALIFORNIA RECALL COMPETITION
REQUEST OF THE WEEK
BARN STORMING
Fred Tuttle, 1919-2003
OCTOBER ONLY!
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Stay tuned for all the winners in our first ever...
CALIFORNIA COUNTDOWN COMPETITION!
Gray's out, Arnold's in - and we're working round the clock to identify the winners of the SteynOnline recall [More...]
THE KING OF THE COACH PARTIES
Harold Fielding, 1917-2003
Harold Fielding died on September 27th after a long and hugely successful career in the West End theatre. Forty years ago, he was the [More...]
ISRAEL ASPER
1932-2003
Izzy Asper, the man whose purchase of The National Post set off the chain of events discussed below, died suddenly on Tuesday morning. It would be foolish of [More...]
BIG GOVERNMENT GOES TO POT
Wanna score some government dope? In Canada, the courts recently ruled that patients suffering from AIDS, cancer and other diseases were entitled to enjoy the benefits of [More...]
**** ***, *******!
It was another asterisk-studded gala of four-letter favourites in Park Lane this week. As always, I was at the Grosvenor House for the Riskie Awards, the premier award for the foul-mouthed [More...]
SINGER & DANCER
Donald O’Connor and Elia Kazan: one danced, the other sang – to the Feds. They’ve nothing in common other than that they died in the same week. But together they’re [More...]
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WESLEY CLARK DOUBLE BILL!
Desperately seeking none of the above
Clark is not the new Dean
General impression
Here's Wes! (Policies to follow.) [More...]
HENRY GOES TO BAGHDAD
Two recent productions of Henry V neatly illustrate the difference between British and American theatre. The first, at the Royal National Theatre, has been a hot ticket in London [More...]
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