Word: sinatra
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weren't called groupies then, and all they did was swoon. In the years since the 1940s, the kid put on weight-and threw it around like no other performer before or since. He was the Chairman of the Board of all show business. But last week Frank Sinatra, at 55, announced "effective immediately, my retirement from the entertainment world and public life...
...loom ahead. TV's own Emmy show always finds fresh ways to embarrass the medium, and though little has leaked about next month's Oscar cast, there is reason to take faint heart: the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award will be given, with a straight face, to Frank Sinatra...
...turnout befitted the tariff. Surveying the crowd, Ring Announcer Johnny Addie declared that "everybody is here tonight." He was almost right. At ringside were Astronauts Alan Shepard, Stu Roosa and Edgar Mitchell, Senators Hubert Humphrey and John Tunney, Ed Sullivan, Andy Williams, Ethel Kennedy, Bullfighter El Cordobes, Frank Sinatra, Dick Cavett, Danny Kaye, Bill Cosby, David Frost, Michael Caine, Woody Allen, Burt Bacharach-to cite a few. Then there were the costumes, which ranged from brocaded tuxedos and sequined capes to tangerine jumpsuits and mink-trimmed robes. Salvador Dali had one look at the proceedings and pronounced them "surrealistic...
Married. Nancy Sinatra, 30, kittenish pop singer (These Boots Are Made for Walking); and Hugh Lambert, 40, TV choreographer; both for the second time; in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Cathedral City, Calif. The wedding was held on Papa Frank's birthday, explained Nancy, "since Daddy likes to give things away on his birthday...
...eleven other oldies, such as "Night and Day," "Stardust," and "Bye Bye Blackbird," all sung off-key and with a remarkable lack of expressiveness, against a background of lush 1940s Big Band arrangements. The total effect of the record is to make you realize what a great singer Frank Sinatra is within that genre. Ringo's singing is a good standard by which you can learn to appreciate almost any singer, even whoever is the second worst. Sentimental Journey is so ludicrous that it will be worth buying for a goof, once they start selling the overstock...