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Contents 1 Shakespeare 2 Linda Lee Thomas 3 French Foreign Legion 4 List of Musicals 5 Well-Known Songs - 1932 6 "bisexual flings"? 7 "end of a battle with emphysema" ??? 8 yale songs

[edit] Shakespeare

• (cur) (last) . . 07:07 Nov 2, 2002 . . Ortolan88 (bit more, dunno whyyou took shakespeare out, so i put him back in)

I took it out because 1) it's mentioned in the Kiss Me, Kate article, 1a) it's slightly irrelevant, and 2) I think it reads better without it; the two parenthesized things right after each other are awkward. It really doesn't make that much of a difference, since the article still needs a lot of work, so I'll just leave it there for now :) -- Merphant

[edit] Linda Lee Thomas

i dont know how to fix it, but someone should fix the link to Linda Lee Thomas as it now directs one to the tango page.

She now has a brief article instead of that bizarre "tango" link. Even beguine would have been more appropriate! - Nunh-huh 06:19, 7 Aug 2004 (UTC)

[edit] French Foreign Legion

There are somethings I've read recently (like the bio on coleporter.org [1] ) that claim that Cole never really was in the French Foreign Legion, but it was a story he maintained throughout his entire life. How does one one go about what seems like a popular but incorrect fact like this?

[edit] List of Musicals

Do we not have a comprehensive list of musicals he wrote? There must be one floating around...will try to procure

• Actually, we do -- the 'well known songs' section is organized by musical, with the name of the musical coming first.
  • I think thats an odd way to organize it kindof, but whatever...perhaps each musical should be ear marked as a theatre piece as the films, etc. are for clarity Zephyrprince 21:38, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Well-Known Songs - 1932

Gay Divorce Broadway theatre production premiered in 1932, with Cole Porter songs After You and Night and Day. Gay Divorcee film premiered in 1934, including some new songs, not listed in this article. I have corrected the entry for (1932) Gay Divorce, in this article, accordingly. -- LiniShu 04:09, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

Does the early 90's series of benefit/tribute recordings (Red Hot + Blue, Red Hot + Rap, etc. deserve mention under this topic? 207.69.137.6 02:59, 28 May 2006 (UTC)lasalle202

[edit] "bisexual flings"?

What does it mean to say (as the article currently does) that Porter had "bisexual flings"? Logically, wouldn't that require at least three people (or four, if it's going to be "bisexual" for all participants)?

Shouldn't that be "homosexual flings"? Because none of the people with whom Porter is listed as having affairs are women.

[edit] "end of a battle with emphysema" ???

The article reads:

"The operation followed the death of his beloved mother in 1952 and the end of his wife's battle with emphysema in 1954."

For the sake of those with neither ESP nor an M.D. nor, perhaps the article should rephrase this to clarify whether his wife recovered form emphysema or died from it.Daqu (talk) 00:07, 10 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] yale songs

While we do sing Bulldog all the time, I have never sang nor heard anyone sing Bingo Eli Yale. I'm on the marching band, so I've heard more fight songs than the usual student. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.36.54.121 (talk) 05:29, 17 February 2008 (UTC)