Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frank Sinatra might have crooned last week after asking the Nevada Gaming Control Board for a gaming license so that he can become a consultant to Caesar's Palace. He once had an operator's license but lost it in 1963 because of his reputed association with Chicago Mafia Don Sam ("Momo") Giancana...
Board Chairman Richard Bunker reminded Sinatra about his conversation that year with Edward Olsen, then chairman of the State Gaming Commission, which was recorded in a memo. "Listen, Ed," said Sinatra, when told that he was being investigated. "I haven't had to take this ... from anybody in the country, and I'm not going to take it from you people." When Olsen warned that the singer might be subpoenaed to testify, Sinatra said: "You just try and find me. And if you do, you can look for a big, fat surprise." Was that a threat...
...have transcended thin scripts. People don't go to a musical for the story; they want Show Tunes, and that is where Woman of the Year falls shortest of all. Fred Ebb and John Kander, who did Cabaret. Chicago and the film New York, New York (which included Frank Sinatra's new theme song), wrote the lyrics and music, creating an inoffensive score without a single memorable tune. It's standard Broadway muzak, which cries out for a powerful voice--at least--to enliven the proceedings...
...place in which to settle. Rock really is not his neighborhood; his fur-lined melodies and forthright sentimentality make him stand out among rockers like a Coupe de Ville at a demolition derby. Diamond has been a smash act in Las Vegas, but he is neither as smooth as Sinatra, as cloying as Wayne Newton nor as annoying as Steve Lawrence...
...this difficulty about categorization and definition sometimes gives even Diamond pause. "I fell between two musical generations," he admits. "I love Sinatra and Eddie Fisher. Yet I really loved the Beatles." The only folks who don't seem at all confused-or at least don't care if they are-are the millions of fans who have given Diamond, by his own reckoning, 20 platinum and gold albums and over 30 hit singles, including 1978's You Don't Bring Me Flowers, a duet with Barbra Streisand. Diamond loyalists right now are making their...