Why is Cole Porter so immortal?
Ashley: He’s a genius, definitely a genius. In our contemporary pop culture, people are really fascinated by people’s life stories and Cole’s lyrics were so explicit. They were incredibly witty, extremely intelligent, they at times were of the highest order of poetry, but all the while they were extremely personal, and really are on the razor’s edge of what he was experiencing of life at that given moment. They described both internally and externally what was happening in his life and that’s part of why I think they were so wonderful and still timely. TeenHollywood: Did you learn anything interesting from reading biographies on Cole and Linda? Ashley: Cole always revered his mother and she was always a strong person in his life, to the point that I think the father figure receded significantly, and Linda was seven years older than Cole and without a doubt he looked to her for approval. He never considered a song finished until Linda approved of it. His songs filled over 800 trunks and
