That’s not true. Have you forgotten The Agony and the Ecstacy, with Charlton Heston as Michaelangelo? It’s hard to get less gay than Charlton Heston.
And, of course, that should be The Agony and the Ecstasy.
Didn’t he write “I’d Get A Kick Out of You, But I’m Afraid I’d Fall Flat on My Face?”
plnner – may I bear your children, pls.?
I’d Get A Kick Out of You (But I’m Afraid I’d Fall Flat On My Face)
-C. Porter
My story is so sad that you’d bawl
But with only one leg I continually fall.
The only exception I know is the place
Where I’m out on an empty street, looking for a place to go have a pee
Then I hobble, slip, trip, and fall
Wearing my prosthetic brace.
I get no kick from nice shoes
The hurdles, they don’t thrill me at all
So tell me why should it be the case
That I’d get a kick out of you (and fall flat on my face).
Some like the 100 yard dash.
I’m sure that if I took even one step
Id fall in a humbling disgrace
But I’d get a kick out of you (and fall flat on my face).
I get a kick every time I come over to your place
I get a kick though it’s clear to me, I’m going to end up flat on my face.
I get no kick from outer space
Flying too high with some gal in the sky
Is my idea of nothing to do
But I’d get a kick out of you (and fall flat on my face).
I must admit that I am puzzled about this flick…the main moviegoer audience is the 16-25 year old age group…who in this group has a frikkin CLUE about WHO Cole Porter was? For that matter, how many people UNDER the age of 65 know who he was? That said, it looks like a rreasonably entertaining movie…I may see it when it goes on the $2.00 night circuit. 
We saw it this afternoon, so spent only 6.50 per ticket, and it was well worth that price. (Our movie-rating system uses -signs instead of stars.)
It does start a little slow, it does have some fairly cliche dialog and scenes, but overall, we found it very enjoyable. I mean, c’mon, how can you not enjoy listening to Cole Porter songs for two hours?
Critics often have their heads up their bum. Look, it’s not the greatest musical ever made, it’s not the greatest bio pic ever made, but we thought it was quite good, very enjoyable.
Phew!
Thanks for letting us know, Dex. Your word and the fact that Owen Gleiberman gave it a B+ in Entertainment Weekly – I can go back to looking forward to it.
Well, OK, New Yorkers, you up for it sometime after work next week? I have a feeling we’d better see it as soon as possible . . .
(P.S. great song, plnnr, I must get to work on the lyrics for “Let’s Miscast Films.”)
You got it, Eve! It’ll be a pleasure to see it with somebody like you. I’ll listen to my KMK and Anything Goes albums to get ready.
I knew who he was when I was a kid, but my parents were the type who’d play classical and musical theater albums on the stereo during dinner. I think that if kids could be dragged into the theater they’d be amazed at how many tunes they know, just didn’t know were by Porter.
Is next weekend (the 10th or 11th) a possibility?
After y’all see it – and I’m with Dex, if you think you’d enjoy it, you will – come on over to this thread to share your reactions.
Eve – I’m lookin’ at you.
Not for me, sadly. I may dash out and see it sometime after work this week.
I love living in the flyover states, culturally bereft folk that we are. Still waiting for it to open, even the cool indie art house places don’t have a projected date yet. 
Why does everybody forget the scene early on in Night and Day when a female co-worker asks Cole Porter why he doesn’t seem interested in women or marriage, and all Porter can do is hem and haw and laugh nervously as he stares into his lunchtime sandwich? Ladies and gentleman, what do you think that means? Given the strictures of the Production Code at the time, that’s about as far as you could get in the 1940s before the Production Code Office would admonish the producers that no hint of “sex perversion” would be allowed.
From what I read in Entertainment Weekly, it opened in about 20 theaters and did very well, pulling in strong numbers. There is hope yet for a wider viewing.
Piper’s Alley and River East 21 are in “heavily gay neighborhoods”?? Sez who and how can you/they tell? We go to both theaters ALL the time and have never noticed anything gayer than normal about them.
I’d give De-Lovely a B. The music was brilliant (especially Sheryl Crow’s “Begin the Beguine”) and the story and acting were good. It would have gotten a higher rating from me if not for that “angel showing Porter his life” intrusion. It didn’t work for me, but everything else did.