Word: sinatra
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Readers will readily identify "the King," Singer Harry Orlando, as Frank Sinatra. With that discovery, all public interest in Morton Cooper's novel should wane-although it probably won't. The author and his publisher have aimed it confidently at the bestseller list, although Cooper's literary defects and unerring tastelessness would fill an office wastebasket. Orlando is an unmitigated bore tirelessly indulging his libido, yearning to become head of the White House's Cultural Exchange program-a prize ultimately denied him. The book is so bad that Bennett Cerf of Random House, who used...
Bing Crosby and Bob Hope have had one for years, Andy Williams gets his next year, Dean Martin is lined up for 1969, and Frank Sinatra is so anxious to acquire Hollywood's latest status symbol that he doesn't even bat an eye at the $175,000 price tag. Well what is it, for heaven's sake? Nothing less than their own golf tournament, with the boys and their pals putting up the cash and getting the whole thing named after them. It's all two-bit Nassau, though, compared with what Jackie Gleason...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Cole Porter's Can-Can (1960), starring Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan and Juliet Prowse...
...Nancy Sinatra-the "Mini Mata Hari" [May 5]: No voice, no talent, not attractive, a college dropout, already divorced, but in her favor an illustrious Hollywood name. And you have the nerve to tell us that "she can claim to have made it on her own." Come off it, TIME. Had she been born Nancy Smith or Nancy Sumatra, she'd be working at Woolworth...
Casting about for a paisan whose image and reputation were untouchable, the year-old American-Italian Anti-Defamation League reached into the pack and pulled out Frank Sinatra, 51, to be its national chairman in a campaign to convince the nation that not everyone of Italian descent is a capo mafioso. "It is an honor," said Frank in Miami Beach, where he is shooting a gangster flick called Tony Rome. "To me, any type of discrimination is anti-American...