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Once, the boxed sets were regatherings of material previously scattered in a variety of places. But we're way past that now. Take the just-released Sinatra in Hollywood (Reprise/Turner), a six-disc anthology of Frankie's film singing. It is no small accomplishment that its producers persuaded the movie studios who hold the rights to this material to allow a raid on their vaults. Some of what the producers found--a few songs from an abortive cartoon version of Finian's Rainbow, Soliloquy from Carousel, a film Sinatra walked out on--is interesting, if not top-notch, Frank...
...From Here to Eternity? Almost all the great movie songs (and there are plenty here) arrive in inferior versions--no surprise when you remember that Sinatra would do 10, even 20 takes in a studio to get something right for one of his records, hardly the standard on Hollywood sound stages...
DIED. DEE DEE RAMONE, 50, over-the-top punk-rock pioneer who co-founded the hypernoisy Ramones; of a suspected drug overdose; in Hollywood. Born Douglas Colvin, the volatile bassist and songwriter admitted to a long history of drug use in his autobiography, Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones (2000). His death came three months after the Ramones were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame...
DIED. LEW WASSERMAN, 89, the last of Hollywood's legendary movie moguls, who headed up MCA, the parent company of Universal Pictures, for four decades; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Wasserman worked nights as a movie usher in high school. After impressing an MCA executive while promoting talent for a Cleveland nightclub, Wasserman was hired and went on to represent such clients as Marilyn Monroe, Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Stewart. Fiercely protective of his stars, Wasserman kept Clark Gable's drunk-driving arrest and Betty Grable's premarital pregnancy out of the papers. He revolutionized the film...
...crime families in America, of throat cancer; in a prison in Springfield, Missouri. Gotti, who had a proclivity for money and women, was a smooth-talking, scrupulously clad gangster christened the "Dapper Don" for his fashion sense. He took over the Gambino crime syndicate in 1985 after masterminding a Hollywood-style slaying of its boss, Paul Castellano, with the help of his head honcho, "Sammy the Bull" Gravano. Gravano turned state witness and testified against his boss; Gotti got a life term in prison on multiple racketeering and murder charges. DIED. TAHSEEN BASHEER, 77, spokesman for Egyptian Presidents Gamal Abdel...