It's delightful, it's delicious...

I watched De-Lovely last night, which is a biopic about Cole Porter that came out in 2004. I knew absolutely nothing about Porter except that he wrote "Night and Day" and "Anything Goes," and was otherwise well-regarded as a Broadway/jazz standard composer in the first half of the twentieth century. Now, of course, I know much more. I was iffy on the "Cole Porter's ghost and the director of a musical based on his life talk about the musical as it goes on" structure, but by the end I had warmed to it. Actually, I thought it was a bit reminiscent of Copenhagen, which is one of my favorite movies.

I also have new respect for Porter as a lyricist. Holy crap, those lyrics are awesome! He must have been, like, a living rhyming dictionary or something. And even more impressive, the rhymes almost never sound forced. First they're surprising, and then when you think about them for a second, you realize how inevitable they were. Obviously he was, you know, not a bad composer either.

The "unconventional" love story was not bad either, although admittedly the entire movie was basically an excuse to feature as many Porter songs as possible, and I was totally okay with that.

Since I'm on the topic, have a link to this very cute ensemble skating number to one of the songs from the movie ("Let's Misbehave"). Charleston and tap dance on skates! Yes!