What is it about Glenn Close that forces Hollywood to go to extremes? She’s seen as either the wild-haired, wilder-eyed sinner (“Fatal Attraction,” “101 Dalmatians”), or the blue-eyed, blond-tressed ...

“Paradise Road” begins at a posh soiree at Singapore’s Raffles Hotel, one of the great outposts of British colonialism. On the bandstand, the singer moans torchily through “Mad About the Boy,” and at ...