Ok, I was right, the Steyn book is nowhere near as good as the Mordden. How big an anti-PC bug does Steyn have up his ass? Huge apparently, and it just comes out in these utterly gratuitous asides (And I haven't decided if they are more or less annyong than his Big Duh ones. If you're reading a book about musicals, surely you know from Annette. I mean, I don't even need to add the Funicello!) He has some sort of problem with feminists in the university, or rather he has no freaking idea what they do. Yes, yes of course it's all Madonna analyses! Plus he makes one reference to Marianne Faithfull for seemingly no other reason than to make the Mars Bar punchline. Uggh use other tired rumours PLEASE. I can't even be bother to take on his interpretation of rap partly beacuse I am surprised that people are still in such a snit about it! And what's the point of this line? "These are the illegal immigrants of theatre music, the equivalents of those Nicaraguan babysitters whose cheapness and availability was so appealing to President Clinton's Justice Department." (p300) What? Does anyone care besides Steyn?

So all this weird snippiness makes the book quite un"amusing reading" sorry, New York Times. My eyes hurt from all the rolling they had to do.