Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beverly Hills. Khrushchev was welcomed by President Eric Johnston of the Motion Pictures Association, who had visited Khrushchev in Russia, and by 20th Century-Fox President Spyros Skouras. The Premier sat down for lunch between them. Mrs. Khrushchev, carrying a bouquet of bird-of-paradise flowers, sat beside Frank Sinatra, opposite Bob Hope and David Niven. Before them stretched a glittering panorama of jewels, dyed hair and suntans of a Hollywood movie colony so complete that even Eddie. Liz and Debbie were in the same room. Greek-born Spyros Skouras and Khrushchev got into a bumbling, emotional, unscheduled debate about...
...gambler about the passing hours, and fur shops stay open until 3 a.m. (a big winner might be in the mood to buy), but it would all get pretty dull without the shows. To hold the customers' attention, the gaudy hotel nightclubs rely on big old names (Sinatra, Dietrich, Tucker), but they also reach out for newcomers. Last week new acts got a big play in the neon-painted desert...
...Preston and Bernstein are among the names that loom large, along with a promise of more prime-time news shows than before. Even ABC. generally content to ride the wave of the future buoyed up by an oversupply of westerns and private-eye programs, will weigh in with Crosby. Sinatra et al. in some 30 specials. Only apparent problem so far: with one scheduled practically every other night, a "special" may not seem special by season's end. If a new word is needed, the networks can always reach back a few seasons to a quaint, half-forgotten label...
Tony Manetta (Frank Sinatra) is a nogoodnik of a widower, a sort of amiable gonif (the names have been changed, but the characterizations are still Jewish). He is about to lose his sweaty hold on a two-bit Miami Beach hotel, but Big Shot Frankie. looking to turn a fast buck, spends his time trying to promote grandiose business ideas, romancing a far-out bongo-banging broad who lives at the top of the stairs, and treating his eleven-year-old son like a grownup. Faced with eviction, Frankie calls on his apoplectic brother (Edward G. Robinson), a rich...
...young widower, Sinatra gives a kind of bubble-gum snap to his role, and delivers just about as much substance. Young Eddie (The Music Man) Hodges is fine as the child who plays gin rummy with his father at 4 o'clock in the morning. As the feverish businessman who cannot fathom the playboy's vagaries, Edward G. Robinson has an intonation and gesture to fit every line-and all the best lines are his. To a cab driver who cynically returns a ten-cent tip: "What'sa matter, you don't need a dime...