TAIPEI, Taiwan -- Still think Taiwan cinema is all about dark, existential auteur pieces with stationary camera and almost no dialogue as embodied by Hou Hsiao-hsien, Tsai Ming-liang andEdward Yang? Think again. After years of industry and public debate, many of Taiwan's new production compan...
Lady Day and the rest. He made them come alive not just as musicians but as flesh-and-blood people. He wrote with such sensitivity about their lives. He showed how smart they were, and how they moved through the world with such grace and commitment. He got at the heart of the emotion...
Which is very different from the autumn of 1932, when a lot of key Cole Porter associates tired of "Night And Day" within 16 bars. His publisher Max Dreyfus heard the bass notes under the first line of the verse and decided the song would never catch on. His buddy Monty Woolley stuck ...