De-Lovely

[WiCkEDrOcKS]

De-Lovely#0

Posted: 7/5/04 at 11:10pm

How was this movie? It got mixed reviews but audiences are loving it. What did you guys think?

[Broadwaybaby614]

re: De-Lovely#1

Posted: 7/5/04 at 11:21pm

Haven't seen it, but I bought the soundtrack today and I suggest you go get it.

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[Matt_G]

re: De-Lovely#2

Posted: 7/5/04 at 11:22pm

https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=213854&boardname=off&dt=070504105018https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=213854&boardname=off&dt=070504105018>https://forum.broadwayworld.com/readmessage.cfm?thread=213854&boardname=off&dt=070504105018

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[Qfan]

re: De-Lovely#3

Posted: 7/6/04 at 1:15am

i listen to my soundtrack everywhere still waiting for it in miami

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[chasing_rainbows43]

re: De-Lovely#4

Posted: 7/6/04 at 6:56am

Saw this last nite....
On the whole, not bad. It would have been worlds better if they would have spent a lot less time setting up how they were telling the story, and just told it. Once they stopped all that cross-cutting for a while it was fine.

[mominator]

re: De-Lovely#5

Posted: 7/6/04 at 9:14am

I am so looking forward to this movie! I just love Kevin Kline does he sing some of the tunes?
B

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[StickToPriest]

re: De-Lovely#6

Posted: 7/22/04 at 6:09pm

Just saw this the other night and it was Outstanding. It could have been better, but it was amazing...and Kevin Kline deserves and Oscar nomination, for sure. He does sing in the movie mominator, but despite his having a great voice, he 'lessens' his singing to be more authentic, for Cole Porter was not a vocalist.

I love the soundtrack to the movie (I especially love Jonathan Pryce's and Chorus' rendetion of 'Blow, Gabriel, Blow' and Natalie Cole's 'Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye')

I also highly recommend 'Ella Fitzgerald Sing the Cole Porter Songbook'....the definitive Cole Porter Album, in my opinion.

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[Unknown User]

re: De-Lovely#7

Posted: 7/22/04 at 6:29pm

If anybody can get to Stratford Ont. (2hrs SW from Toronto), get there and see "Anything Goes"

[StickToPriest]

re: De-Lovely#8

Posted: 7/22/04 at 6:30pm

Which reminds me, Caroline O'Conner sure did look and sound A LOT like Ethel Merman while singing 'Anything Goes' in "De-Lovely"...it was eerie....

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[sabrelady]

re: De-Lovely#9

Posted: 7/22/04 at 6:38pm

While I understand a bio pic must take some liberties for purposes of time & interest, to eliminate so many major elements of Porter's life is a real detraction from the story. HIS MOTHER! ( tip to Torch Song!) His time @ Yale. The staging was odd & inconsistant. I found myself thinking of Cyrano "oh SIR! What you COULD have said!"
I did like some of the songs tho "Be a CLOWN" was plain off. Updated On: 7/22/04 at 06:38 PM

[StickToPriest]

re: De-Lovely#10

Posted: 7/22/04 at 6:40pm

Well, I didn't consider it so much a bio-pic as the telling of Cole and Linda's life together and love for each other. It begins with their first meeting, after all...

"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."

The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.

[sabrelady]

re: De-Lovely#11

Posted: 7/22/04 at 6:47pm

Perhaps someone else can check me on this (paging MargoC.) but my memory is that Linda Lee wasn't actually a divorcee. but a widow. Her husband died of chronic alcoholisim while the divorce was proceeding & that is where she got her $$$. Updated On: 7/22/04 at 06:47 PM

[brdwaybaby17]

re: De-Lovely#12

Posted: 7/22/04 at 7:24pm

"If anybody can get to Stratford Ont. (2hrs SW from Toronto), get there and see "Anything Goes" "

No kidding... hilarious rendition. The girl who was in Jane Eyre on Broadway... Elizabeth something or other is in it. I can't remember her name, but I figure some of you guys might know her. Sorry, that was way off-topic.

[Gothampc]

re: De-Lovely#13

Posted: 7/22/04 at 11:26pm

Actually it wasn't technically a "bio pic". The idea of the story is to show how Porter's wife influenced his music and his life. That's why the story starts with their meeting rather than earlier. I didn't like the "This Is Your Life" motif, I thought that it interrupted a wonderful story and was too much narration.

As I mentioned in another thread, I want to point out a mistake. In the Kiss Me Kate sequence, they are rehearsing "Another Op'nin, Another Show" and Porter (Kline) tells Miss Morison (Patricia Morison who played Lili/Kate) he can't hear her. But I believe that song was not sung by Patricia Morison, it was sung by black actress Annabelle Hill who played Hattie

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[sabrelady]

re: De-Lovely#14

Posted: 7/23/04 at 11:11am

I believe u are correct Goth but again- adjustments for interest- Porter c/o to the leading lady vs complaining to a 2nday peripheral character makes for a better story/conflict /element. Other little issues, there was like ONE servant in the house ( brief shot of chauffer) when they had a full household maids cooks butlers and I KNOW full time male nurses for Porter's care. But I guess it seems more "romantic" if it seems like its just the 2 of them. Still I wish people wouldn't mess w the reality!!