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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...antiabortion documentary The Silent Scream so worried the Universal Press Syndicate, Doonesbury's distributor, that the artist agreed to withdraw it. Trudeau was back in the headlines (and his strip briefly out of several papers) last week for giving a black eye to Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Ol' Black Eyes Doonesbury Vs. v Sinatra | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...series, Trudeau depicted Sinatra as a vulgar-mouthed pal of mobsters, undeserving of the Medal of Freedom recently given him by Reagan. The most debated strip quoted a citation that accompanied an honorary degree Sinatra received last month from New Jersey's Stevens Institute of Technology. The final panel carried a mid-1960s photo of Sinatra with Aniello Dellacroce, who was described as an "alleged human . . . later charged with the murder of Gambino Family Member Charley Calise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Ol' Black Eyes Doonesbury Vs. v Sinatra | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...newspapers that carry the strip, about half a dozen, including the Los Angeles Times, canceled the Sinatra series, despite assurances that Universal's libel lawyers had reviewed the cartoons. A dozen other papers, among them Long Island's Newsday, refused to run the Dellacroce installment on the grounds that the caption failed to point out that Dellacroce had been acquitted of the 1974 killing. Editors at the New York Daily News, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Chicago Tribune blue- penciled mention of the Calise murder. The Daily News, for example, simply called Dellacroce "underboss of Gambino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Ol' Black Eyes Doonesbury Vs. v Sinatra | 6/24/1985 | See Source »

...silly and sweet and they were girls and they were feminine and sexy. I just saw myself in them, my funniness and my need to boss people around and at the same time be taken care of. My girlishness. My knowingness and my innocence. Both. And I remember Nancy Sinatra singing These Boots Are Made for Walkin' and that made one hell of an impression on me. And when she said, "Are you ready, boots, start walkin'," it was like, yeah, give me some of those go-go boots. I want to walk on a few people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Now: Madonna on Madonna | 5/27/1985 | See Source »

Iacocca's life is not loaded with leisure. At Sinatra's house in Palm Springs he did see A Passage to India ("Too long"), and he is reading two books by fellow best-selling Italian Americans--Mario Puzo's The Sicilian and Leo Buscaglia's Loving Each Other. But in addition to doing the New York Times crossword puzzle, his main hobby seems to be hypochondria. After learning of an acquaintance's death not long ago, he shook his head and said gravely, "I've got to start guarding my health." In fact his health is under pretty tight security...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Spunky Tycoon Turned Superstar | 4/1/1985 | See Source »

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