Thai food and Cole Porter - a combination highly recommended.

For those of you with the taste to appreciate truly glorious music, and cleverness and sophistication of the type simply not seen anymore, a bit of pimpage...

De-Lovely

Go see it. I mean, yesterday. I haven't seen a film so rich and tasty and fascinating since...well, I don't know. This kind of thing comes along so rarely in films. Five'll get you ten it'll go out with hardly a whisper, such are the cretinous appetites of the moviegoing masses.

If the thought of a film that is both honest and fantastical, filled with gorgeous design, interesting characters, and scored to some of the most sumptuous music ever written, holds the slightest interest for you, then do yourself a favor and DON'T MISS THIS ONE!

Besides which, the sight of Elvis Costello as a 20's bandleader singing Let's Misbehave just has to be seen to be believed. (And yes, he acquits himself magnificently!)

It's De-Lovely - Robbie Williams
Let's Do It (Let's Fall In Love - Alanis Morrisette
Begin The Beguine - Sheryl Crow
Let's Misbehave - Elvis Costello
Be A Clown - Kevin Kline, Peter Polycarpou and Chorus
Night And Day - John Barrowman and Kevin Kline
True Love - Ashley Judd and Tayler Hamilton
What Is This Thing Called Love? - Lemar
I Love You - Mick Hacknall
Just One Of Those Things - Diana Krall
Anything Goes - Caroline O'Connor and Chorus
Experiment - Kevin Kline
Love For Sale - Vivian Green
So In Love - Lara Fabian and Mario Frangoulis
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Natalie Cole
Blow, Gabriel, Blow - Jonathan Pryce, Kevin Kline, Cast and Chorus
In The Still Of The Night - Kevin Kline and Ashley Judd
You're The Top - Cole Porter

There's also a great rendition of What A Swell Party This Is! that didn't make it onto the album.

Remember how in Amadeus the music was both commentator on the action and a character in the story? The same thing holds here - the music is not just a soundtrack, working in the background to help tell the story. It actually takes part in the tale. As well it should, this being a film about a man who by his own admission couldn't express himself in normal speech anywhere near as well as he did in song.

Oh, and Kevin Kline not only sings, he plays piano himself in all his scenes. It's hard to describe how important that is. It adds a spontaneity that's unmatched, on the order of watching an action movie where the actor do their own stunts.

Anyway - brilliant, bloody brilliant, and well worth every second you'll spend. And stay through the credits - you won't want to miss a single note!