To say nothing of the fact that Linda was eight years Porter's senior and well, looked mature and matronly, unlike Ashley Judd.
De-Lovely had me gnashing my teeth the whole way, but actively squiriming when they portrayed Linda's miscarriage, which they had coming while JUBILEE was just opening. (As far as I know, there's not a lot of information on when or even if she really did ever have a miscarriage.) First, because Linda would have been about 52 at the time--not completely impossible for a pregnancy, but rather unlikely. But more because they had Cole trying to console her, blithely suggesting an around-the-world tour to cheer her up. Um, the Porters (and maid and valet and cronies) and Moss Hart had just returned from such a cruise only six months before, on which Hart and Porter wrote Jubilee. Yet they had the character suggesting it like a spiffy new notion.
This showed such an abysmal lack of research skills, I munched popcorn in fury for the rest of the film.
Laura |
