Cole Porter

...stars have signed others over the centuries. Winston Churchill, Stephen Spielberg, Orson Welles, John Paul Getty I, Omar Sharif, Cole Porter, Roger Moore and Harold Lloyd all have their names on vats. Hughes and Motion both chose Oloroso...

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Today's Highlight in History: On Nov. 21, 1934, the Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes," starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, opened on Broadway. In 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In...

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Richard Maibaum's play deals with the suffering of a German-Jewish family under the Nazi regime. 1934 With words and music by Cole Porter, Anything Goes opens tonight at the Alvin Theatre. The cast includes Ethel Merman, William Gaxton and...

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...of Merman's sheer, undeniable importance to both the history of twentieth century entertainment and the iconic composers like Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin and Jerry Herman, who wrote songs just for her." The program...

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...creating the much-heralded "Shearing sound." Shearing invites McPartland to play along with him on an unusual rendition of Cole Porter's "I've Got You Under My Skin," which he prefaces with, "I made an attempt to have it sound a little...

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...of its history - from Sam Lord, the "Regency Rascal" who wrecked boats and kept his wife in a dungeon, to the Thirties, when Noel Coward and Cole Porter arrived with a crowd of Bright Young Things, leaving the Wall Street Crash behind them, and...

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...syncopated. It was a astounding feat of technical prowess, but more importantly, it provided an ideal emotional conclusion to the Cole Porter standard. </p><p>Hamilton's work was always surprising but never intrusive or...

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The Great Performers: Cole Porter Sings "You're the Top" An Internet hub for moderates, centrists, and independents, with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, and right

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...songwriter and author Alec Wilder called Mercer an 'outdoor writer,' not like a sophisticated 'indoor' writer like Larry Hart or Cole Porter. Indeed, his songs speak of bucolic things like trains and whistles and birds. He was capable of the...

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...Porter MORE ON 'Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter' Hitching a Star to the Stardom of Cole Porter Forty-five years after his death, Cole Porter has never truly left town. His songs are a staple of Manhattan's cabaret scene:...

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