Word: sinatra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school she felt trapped. "My whole body felt like it was on fire, like every pore was open and there was glass tubing in it." She listened to Coltrane and Sinatra, and invented daydreams about Arthur Rimbaud, the French mystical poet, whose portrait reminded her of Dylan. For several years she was a Jehovah's Witness; later she dipped into Oriental religions. As a teenager, she drew furiously, then turned to calligraphy and finally to poetry. Says she: "Art takes the primitive and pumps it up real high from the heart to the intellect. Those who are illuminated...
...worker for Kennedy' are entirely contrived. My relationship with Jack Kennedy was of a close personal nature and did not involve conspiratorial shenanigans of any kind." She said she met Kennedy in Las Vegas in 1960 at a party given by "a friend." The friend was Singer Frank Sinatra; one former Kennedy aide understood that Sinatra and J.F.K.'s brother-in-law, Peter Lawford, owned a piece of a nightclub where Judy once worked as a hostess. A month after she met the President, Sinatra brought her together with Giancana, who later introduced her to Roselli. Both gangsters...
LAMPPOST REUNION. A visceral bar-buddy reunion on the order of That Championship Season. The hero, possibly patterned on Frank Sinatra, is given tigerish animal magnetism by Gabriel Dell...
...five songs going at once," he says with satisfaction. Beside the piano is a typewriter to which Paul, a 60-words-a-minute typist, turns to do the lyrics. It is the same machine on which he has tapped out such solid gold hits as My Way for Frank Sinatra, She's a Lady for Tom Jones and (You're) Havin' My Baby for himself. Recently he wrote something for New York, too: "I'm on my way back home to New York City/ On my way to where I used to be/ To leave...
That is the essential theme of Lampost Reunion by Louis La Russo II, and it is a first play of some consequence. The reunion is in a bar. The hero is Fred Santoro (Gabriel Dell), whose career and fame resemble Frank Sinatra's. He and his henchman (George Pollock) drift into a haunt that Santoro shared with a gang of cronies (mostly Hoboken, N.J., Italian-Americans) some 20 years before...