Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beginning, Arthur Krim, the United Artists studio boss who was also national finance chairman of the Democratic Party, was skeptical about this volatile blend of satire and surrealism -- until Frank Sinatra, the film's star, persuaded President John F. Kennedy to give his blessing to the project. Candidate opened in the fall of 1962, to mixed reviews and soft box office. "We had both sides of the political spectrum mad at us," says George Axelrod, who fashioned a terrific screenplay from Richard Condon's scathing comic apocalypse of a novel. "In Paris Communists picketed outside a theater on the Champs...
CANTON, N.Y.--Frank Sinatra and Peter Ciavaglia have something in common: they both love New York...
This week, however, in a PEOPLE magazine story written by Celebrity Biographer Kitty Kelley (His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra), Exner claims that during 18 months in 1960 and 1961 she carried envelopes between Kennedy and Giancana, who was then the head of the Chicago Mafia. Exner, 54, claims that she arranged some ten meetings between Kennedy and Giancana, one of which, she speculates, was an attempt to win votes for J.F.K. in the 1960 West Virginia presidential primary. Exner suggests that Kennedy's later dealings with Giancana may have concerned the CIA's collaboration with the Mafia...
Tchaikovsky conducted there, 16-year-old Jascha Heifetz astonished its audiences, Arthur Rubinstein made his U.S. debut upon its stage. Yet classical concerts are only a part of Carnegie Hall's history. Audiences have been harangued by Winston Churchill, diverted by Lenny Bruce and serenaded by Frank Sinatra, who observed that "performing in Carnegie Hall is like playing in the Super Bowl." These and many more celebrities make dazzling reappearances in Richard Schickel and Michael Walsh's Carnegie Hall: The First 100 Years (Abrams; 263 pages; $49.50), a valentine by two TIME critics who are manifestly in love with...
Which gets me to thinking. Frank Sinatra celebrated his birthday earlier this week. He's 72. Ol' Blue Eyes. The Chairman of the Board. The man who saved Shecky Greene's life with two words: "Enough, boys...