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Watched Night and Day the on my commute.
It is the wonderful biography of Cole Porter. If Cole Porter had been a straight man, taken under the wing of a kindly law professor at Yale law, who eschewed financial assistance from friends and family determined to achieve success on his own. A man who selflessly went to find in support of the French in WWI and opened his first stage production on the evening the Luisitania was sunk.
In other words, a wonderful biography of a man who didn't exist (all of those things are key moments in the film but untrue). He did write a lot of songs though, and I even recognized a few of them.
Oh, he is also a man who apparently looked like he was 40 when 21 at Yale. I was impressed that they didn't really do much of anything to youthify or age Cary Grant through the couple decades shown in the movie.
But then I got to thinking about The Good Shepherd out in theaters now. This movie covers 22 years and most Matt Damon and Angelina Jolie have only the subtlest of changes in that time. I saw Damon last night on Inside the Actor's Studio and he talked about how Robert De Niro (the director of the movie) hates make up and feels that it is more likely to take you out of the movie while if you're into it the lack of overt aging won't be a problem for the audience.
For The Good Shepherd he was right. For Night and Day not so much.
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