Night and Day

Even Ernest himself would probably have fled Key West's Hemingway Days celebration -- a week of raucous tourists and swaggering Papa pretenders that sends locals into hiding. Thus the low profile assumed by Gideon Lowry, playing his weekly piano gig at a quiet hotel, fighting his daily urge for a drink. That's where Asia -- just Asia, like Madonna -- finds him. Beret-clad, with lips the color of a plum, she glides into Gideon's world on the breathless end of a classic tune. She's left her a...