At the office holiday party the other night, the newly controversial song “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” came up on the playlist. I explained to my publisher that the 1949 Oscar-winning song – which composer Frank Loesser had actually written five years earlier and performed with wife Lynn Garland as a kind of calling card at parties – has come under fresh scrutiny in the #MeToo era for its lyrics and the way they’re performed.
Read MoreA mural tribute to Dean Martin in his native Steubenville, Ohio. The crooner’s 1959 cover of the newly controversial “Baby, It’s Cold Outside” is heating up the charts again.