Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...election night an impatient Democrat picked up a telephone and called Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel, hoping to persuade the Vice President of the U.S. to concede. Soon he was screaming at a switchboard operator who refused to put him through: "But this is Frank Sinatra...
...than with any since the politically conscious 1930s. On the Republican side, Actor George Murphy was often called on to warm up audiences for Nixon, and Nixon's final four-hour telethon involved answering questions fed to him by Lloyd Nolan and Robert Young. On the Democratic side, Sinatra's Clan (mercifully kept out of public sight most of the time) had a brocade-vested interest in the election because of Actor Peter Lawford's marriage to John Kennedy's sister, Pat. The Clan is now buffing its cuff links and ordering gowns for the inaugural...
Citizen Kane Feeling. Clansman Dean Martin began to put out word that President-elect Kennedy was going to appoint him "Secretary of Liquor." Sammy Davis Jr., a convert to Judaism, had other ambitions: "Sinatra will be Ambassador to Italy," he said. "I'm hoping for Jerusalem, but I'll be lucky if I get Kenya." Some of Hollywood's other post-mortems last week were turning into post toasties as many echoed the comment of Democratic Writer-Producer-Director Dore Schary: "I don't know who can stave off this rush of professional showmen into politics...
Ocean's 11. This laughing gasser about an attempt by Frank Sinatra and his lout troupe (Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford et al.) to rob five Las Vegas casinos is slapdash slapstick, but that's the way the kookies rumble...
Ocean's 11. Frank Sinatra's off-screen clansters (Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis Jr.) as their usual tough-talking, gamboling selves ham up a Las Vegas robbery with enough foolishness to make it look like...