BBC documentary from 2005, Sinatra: Dark Star. Talks about his ties to the mob and other juicy stuff...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iM7EikOnVo
Thanks to this thread, I checked out Kitty Kelley's book from the library today.
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BBC documentary from 2005, Sinatra: Dark Star. Talks about his ties to the mob and other juicy stuff...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iM7EikOnVo
Thanks to this thread, I checked out Kitty Kelley's book from the library today.
sorry to go so far back in the thread for this post. From all I have read I would have to disagree that he was Bipolar. He was badly behaved...arrogant, selfish, and cruel but not Bipolar. He ran with a "rough" crowd and behaved accordingly. That doesn't make him mentally ill although a case could be made for Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Great book, I've read it a few times. Check out Tina Sinatra's book as well, very good read. I'm sure the truth about Sinatra is somewhere between those two books, very complex person.
This is true. He's played psychotic but I don't believe he's ever played your garden variety asshole.
I will respectfully disagree here. I think Carrey is a good comedic actor but I didn't like any of his dramatic roles.
That link to the yahoo story is dead. I forget the name of the casino. Was it the Sahara? My boyfriend has been there. I saw a short film about it on Youtube when they decided to close it. I thought it was terrible. It's a piece of history. Now I really wish I could have gone there knowing it was reputed as haunted. I would have loved to have seen Zak Bagans and the Ghost Adventures crew investigate it. I would love to see Zak provoking the ghost of Frank Sinatra and getting bitch slapped by him. LOL!
100 today.
If there was anything Frank Sinatra enjoyed more than a stiff glass of Jack Daniels, it was blowing out the candles on his birthday cake each and every year.
http://www.people.com/article/frank-...100th-birthday
HB Frank! I just watched "From Here to Eternity" last nite. love that movie. I love hearing his Christmas songs and I like his version of New York New York
Never cared for the Rat Pack, but they could sing.
dead 20 years ago today - his music seems passe today
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-e...-a8350386.html
Passé? Compared to the lyricists of the Great American Songbook, the songwriters of the last 40 years are (with some exceptions) largely illiterate. The old Tin Pan Alley guys had Shakespeare pounded into their heads whether they liked it or not, and we can all be thankful when we hear compositions like this one from Irving Berlin
Behold the way our fine feathered-friend
His virtue doth parade.
Thou knowest not, my dim-witted friend,
The picture thou hast made.
Thy vacant brow and thy tousled hair
Conceal thy good intent.
Thou noble, upright, truthful, sincere,
And slightly dopey gent,
You are:
(Chorus)
My funny valentine
Sweet, comic valentine
You make me smile with my heart.
Your looks are laughable, unphotographable,
Yet you're my favorite work of art.
Is your figure less than Greek?
Is your mouth a little weak?
When you open it to speak, are you smart?
Don't change a hair for me,
Not if you care for me,
Stay, little valentine, stay!
Each day is Valentine's Day.