The Corner (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
re: Blithe Spirits No More? []What Jonah said. Renewal is in the air. This was a hard political year (nevermind a hard year, period). We're all exhausted. But we are at a new beginning. Conservatism needs to reinvigorate people — minds and hearts. I think a lot of us are looking forward to the work ahead, arduous though it may be, always happy warriors.
The Corner (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Feh. Double feh, I say. Feh and fie! National Review has always been about politics and culture. Ditto NRO and mega-ditto The Corner. The problem at hand is that these have been very, very, very political times and as the virtual water cooler of the Right, the water cooler talk has been disproportionately political. I have no doubt the blithery -- whether that's a word or not -- shall resume and redouble...
Madame Arcati (Free subscription) | 28/11/2008
Madame Arcati can scarcely believe that Rupert Everett is to star in the Broadway revival of Blithe Spirit , the Noel Coward play in which I was born. Angela Lansbury will play me, the "dotty medium" (I may sue). Rupes is Charles. Seasoned Arcatistes will be amused by his casting for he has featured a number of times on this blog, recently as the once-wearer of a cockring which chipped...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
Has The Corner lost that first, fine, careless rapture? Are we no longer blithe spirits? One reader thinks so. This follows my referring to NRO as "an essentially political website" in an earlier post. We are essentially political, of course, but the devil is in the word "essentially." My reader: Mr. Derbyshire -- I am a long time, formerly enthusiastic reader of The Corner ... Recently...
The Stage (Free subscription) | 26/11/2008
... Harry’s dead wife makes an unscheduled but telling appearance at the start of the second act, a blithe spirit who quietly vanishes through the panelled walls.The choric chants of a quartet of dotty aunts and complacent uncles are played absolutely straight by Una Stubbs, Anna Carteret, William Gaunt and Paul Shelley, between them also creating treasurable moments of comedy. But the...
