Mark Steyn

This morning, many woke to the shocking news of the sudden death of US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina). He apparently died at his home in DC shortly after returning from a trip to Ukraine. As club member Josh Passell observes over in our clubhouse: Lindsey Graham died yesterday, apparently of a heart attack. We held him in low esteem here, but I'd like to remember him at perhaps his best: opposing the "high-tech lynching" of Brett Kavanaugh during his confirmation.

If you missed today's Serenade Radio edition of Steyn's Song of the Week, here's a chance to catch it at SteynOnline. Mark tells the story of one of the most beautiful melodies ever written. Andrew Lloyd Webber joins Steyn to sing its praises, and Einzi Stolz, widow of Robert Stolz, recalls dinner with Franz Lehár, who always ordered the set menu. Click above to listen. ~This airing of our Serenade Radio Song of the Week is a special presentation of The Mark Steyn Club.

During filming of We're Not Dressing, a 1934 musical comedy that came out a month before Carole Lombard ascended into the top rank of screwball comedy heroines with Twentieth Century, her co-star Bing Crosby discovered that the actress had a rather extreme reaction to her one notable phobia. As recalled by Gary Giddins in Bing Crosby: A Pocketful of Dreams: The Early Years 1903-1940, Crosby had to slap Lombard in one scene.