It’s great. “Blue Moon” was not, on the face of it, a ridiculous song. It was decades old by the time the Marcels got to it. Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart had written it for a never ...

chiding Rodgers for “pandering” to audiences with sentimental romance. He aspires to more emotionally complicated work, which “Blue Moon” certainly is — the movie at least, the song not ...