“Is this one of those avant-garde things?” a dying Cole Porter (Kevin Kline) warily asks Gabe (Jonathan Pryce), a sort of Ghost of Musicals Past who appears out of the ether to shepherd the composer ...

THE LOWDOWN: A stylishly clever biopic of Cole Porter, America's premier musical composer and lyricist. Despite snide reviews and the buzz that it's a bore, "De-Lovely" -- the movie about Cole ...