Archives for February 26, 2020

Howard Keel sings Cole Porter’s “Where Is the Life That Late I Led?” in the 1953 film version of Kiss Me, Kate:

(This is the latest in a series of arts- and history-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“The particular charm of marriage is the duologue, the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone till death breaks the record. It is this back-chat which, in the long run, makes a reciprocal equality more intoxicating than any form of servitude or domination.”

Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave