Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretty good shape, but the man was unconscious and needed artificial respiration, was carted home on a stretcher and put to bed. Friends were astonished when he got up at 7 o'clock sharp the following morning and started on his day's work. But then, Frank Sinatra was not in Hawaii to drown. He was there to establish that he is not only a bang-up movie star and the top vocalist in all the world, but also to launch a new career as a film director...
...Sinatra is 48 years old, and it is his first time out on a job to which he brings no technical experience. But he has always had what it takes to come out on top-wherever the game, whatever the odds...
...internally and battle externally until they are driven to declare a truce. But the hard-won armistice ends in mutual and inevitable annihilation. Defined by the director as "an integrated picture," its stars are 17 Japanese actors who cannot speak English,* 18 Americans who insist that they can, and Sinatra's singing son-in-law, Tommy Sands (married to Sinatra's daughter Nancy). The old man himself steps in front of the camera to play a small part as a boozing, brawling Navy pharmacist, runs back behind it crying "Perfect! Cut!" after completing a scene...
...joke, yuk, yuk. The boy needed a little publicity, and we were just giving him a hand. So said the three defendants who were accused of kidnaping Frank Sinatra Jr. Said the jury, after only 6 hrs. 53 min. of deliberation: guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty, guilty. Six counts for two, five for the other, and the judge was obviously prepared for the verdict. One of the kidnapers managed to wangle a delay in sentencing, but the other two got the book and the bibliography both: life imprisonment, plus 75 years...
Many police forces have elaborate electronic departments. Clandestine eavesdropping has featured increasingly in big-time legal battles, including the Bobby Baker hearings in Washington and Frank Sinatra Jr.'s kidnaping case. Not too unhappily, Andrew J. Palermo, chief investigator for Boston's Central Secret Service Bureau, allows: "Nobody is safe anywhere...