Friday Night

[nightdog_barks]

So we were watching this very unmemorable biopic -- De-Lovely, the life of Cole Porter, with Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd as Cole and Linda Porter. And in one musical sequence, there's this very handsome, open-faced young man, smiling and full of life, singing Night and Day in rehearsals with Cole. And I'm looking through the IMDB entry, and ...

... it's John Barrowman. *g*

Damn, he was good.

Comments

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

For real? I'll have to look for that.

The musical numbers in this movie were pretty good -- Natalie Cole did a great version of Every Time You Say Goodbye, but overall it was a really forgettable film.

ETA that here it is! (http://www.amazon.com/Swings-Cole-Porter-John-Barrowman/dp/B0002YLDN2/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1265434188&sr=1-7)

[sabra-n.livejournal.com]

I, uh...may or may not have the De-Lovely soundtrack. :P I find it to be a mixed bag, but "Night and Day" doesn't bother with any BS and just lets the song shine, so it's definitely one of the good tracks.

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I don't think any of the songs were helped by being stuck in such a lifeless movie. We came in in the middle, so we missed some of the numbers. I did like Sheryl Crow's version of Begin the Beguine.

There are some really terrific covers on the Red Hot + Blue (http://www.amazon.com/Red-Hot-Blue-Tribute-Porter/dp/B000008JUM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1265436195&sr=1-1) tribute CD, especially Lisa Stansfield doing a smokin' Down In the Depths (On the 90th Floor).