Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With Elvis just discharged from the Army and hotter than a radioactive yam-his new record, Stuck on You, is boiling with sales, and shooting began last week on his new movie, G.I. Blues-Parker is busier than ever filling out deposit slips. This week on ABC-TV, Frank Sinatra and his fellow clansmen are welcoming Elvis home-and the gesture is costing Frankie $125,000. This time the Colonel will accept a check, but he usually prefers cash-in advance. Las Vegas' gaudy New Frontier once pleaded that its check was as good as anyone...
Actor Harvey is sometimes fairly effective as a sort of marked-down, sterling-bloc Sinatra. The lines are often smart enough (stripper complaining of the bald old men in her audience: "It's like playing to an egg box"). But why should so much effort and ability have been expended to make a bad imitation of a Hollywood movie...
...sideburns were gone, but otherwise it was the same old Elvis, and he had RCA Victor crowing about a record 1,275,077 advance orders of his first postmilitary disk, Stuck on You. Already on TV tape was a slight spectacular that Elvis recently made with Crooner Frank Sinatra for a trifling $125,000. He could expect more petty cash from Stuck on You and its memorable lyrics. Sample: Ah'm gonna stick like glue-stick because Ah'm stuck on you, Ah'm gonna run ma fingers through yer long black hair-An' squeeze...
...Immoral!" blustered Russia's Nikita Khrushchev, after he saw a cabaret scene from the $6,000,000 cinemusical during his visit to Hollywood (TIME, Sept. 28, 1959). Encouraged by Critic Khrushchev's generous prerelease publicity and confident of the picture's substantial "production values"-Frank Sinatra, Shirley MacLaine, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan, Todd-AO, and some fulgid color photography-Fox decided to release Can-Can as a reserved-seat ($1.50-$3.50) attraction, and expects it to do as well as Gigi did on the same basis. Unhappily, many U.S. moviegoers will discover that Russian standards in these...
What's more, the characters and the plot have got pretty well snarled up in the camera. Star Sinatra plays a Parisian avocat with the usual lively avocation, but his tired voice and gestures may suggest to moviegoers who have seen his recent films that Sinatrophy is setting in. Star MacLaine, who with better direction has handled herself like an American Kay Kendall, seems little better in this picture than a female Jerry Lewis...