![]() ![]() "You know then, that I have other interests," he says. One night in Paris, they put their cards on the table. It would appear from "De-Lovely" that on many nights Porter was free, and yet Linda Lee Porter was the love and solace of his life, and she accepted him as he was. It's the wrong game, with the wrong chips Though your lips are tempting, they're the wrong lips They're not her lips, but they're such tempting lips That, if some night, you're free Then it's all right, yes, it's all right with me. ![]() ![]() "De-Lovely" not only accepts Porter's complications, but bases the movie on them his lyrics take on a tantalizing ambiguity once you understand that they are not necessarily written about love with a woman: (If you seek to find how rare, compare this film with "Night and Day," the 1946 biopic which stars Cary Grant as a resolutely straight Porter, even sending him off to World War I). "De-Lovely" is a musical and a biography, and brings to both of those genres a worldly sophistication that is rare in the movies. ![]()
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