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KING COLE.(profile of Cole Porter)
From 1940, a Profile of Cole Porter
On October 24, 1937, Cole Porter went out for a horseback ride at the Piping Rock Club, in Locust Valley, Long Island--one of those swank playgrounds whose names he liked to rhyme in song and which signalled his fully paid-up membership in the Elegentsia. In the woods, the skittish horse, which the forty-six-year-old Porter had been warned against riding, shied and fell on him, crushing both his legs. According to Porter--a story that William McBrien, the author of "Cole Porter: A Biography" (1998), finds "difficult to believe"--he passed the excruciating hours while he waited to be rescued composing the lyrics to an elusive ...
- Cole Porter: Through Thick and Thin.(Arts&Entertainment)
- Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY) October 9, 2000 700+ words
...emotionally challenged age more than Cole Porter. Porter was the master of what...Society's You're Sensational: Cole Porter in the '20's, '40's...CD follow up to Ridin' High: Cole Porter in the 1930's. Although this...
- COLE PORTER: A BIOGRAPHY.(Review)
- Magazine article from: American Scholar STEIN, JACOB March 22, 1999 700+ words
COLE PORTER: A BIOGRAPHY By William McBrien. Knopf...like Lorenz Hart or Ira Gershwin or even Cole Porter. I had played Ethel Merman belting out...record player. I had tried my hand at Cole Porter-type lyrics, and friends had told me...
- Culture: Porter's progress; Christopher Morley looks at the incomparable...
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) September 21, 2004 700+ words
...creator, responsible for both music and words, is Cole Porter. Cole Porter, born in small-town Indiana (a good quiz question...a bore on account of his excessive drinking. Yet Cole Porter's music has an elegance of style comparable with...
- Artists open songbook from both ends.(Entertainment)(The versatility of Cole...
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) July 31, 2005 700+ words
...Bob Keefer The Register-Guard Cole Porter's music swings both ways. Even...Stephen Sondheim and, of course, Cole Porter. "I decided I would rather spend...don't think it's a typical Cole Porter melody," she says. "But if...
- A Cole Porter de-light.(Entertainment)(The Shedd focuses in on America's...
- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) July 31, 2005 700+ words
...lucky few didn't, anyway. When Cole Porter sat down at the piano and composed...will truly live up to its name: "Cole Porter Night and Day." OFAM's examination...while pinned under the horse. Cole Porter Night and Day will have its own...
- COLE PORTER WAS A SMALL-TOWN BOY AT HEART.(Preview)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) May 16, 1991 700+ words
...intriguing - if lesser known - side to Cole Porter, the brilliant songwriter whose...business. "The first time I met Cole Porter (in the '50s), it was at a...party, and the host said to me: 'Cole Porter wants to meet you,'" recalls...
- True to Cole Porter in his fashion.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Lawson, Terry July 16, 2004 700+ words
...Kevin Kline had been tapped to play Cole Porter in the musical portrait "De...was much confusion on the part of Cole Porter," says Kline, laughing. "Maybe...Cocks came up with this idea of Cole Porter's life as a kind of musical review...
- Cole Porter's Greatest Songs Performed by Music's Greatest Singers on New...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire April 29, 2004 700+ words
...biography of legendary composer Cole Porter. Also this summer, some of the...are heard on THE VERY BEST OF COLE PORTER (Hip-O/UTV/Verve/UMe...Williams and others. THE VERY BEST OF COLE PORTER offers itself as an original...
