Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fame and talent, he built on them, and in the end beat time itself. Not only does his music define the time and temper of the American decades in which it was made, but his singing moves those songs out of time into something indistinct, everlasting. In Sinatra's music, there is no past tense...
...could say he was the greatest, and that's right. But that doesn't say enough. There's nothing you can call him that doesn't in some way sell him short. Except Sinatra...
...Brown Derby last week. Actually, these days it's just the Derby. Hollywood's old watering hole is now a swing club. That's '90s swing--Panama hats and cocktail dresses plus cell phones and plastic. Smoke and libido still hang in the air. So does the spirit of Sinatra. "Obviously," says Tammi Gower, one of the joint's owners, "Sinatra was the epitome of cool." On the night after the great man died, the Derby observed a moment of silence. Then Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers bit into...
...Sinatra is gone? Sinatrismo lives...
...while. He survives as the last word in a hipster style all the more fascinating for its plain links to squaredom. The minute that grunge thing came along, circa 1990, you knew it was only a matter of time before Sinatra and the Rat Pack came back into fashion. Uncombed hair and flannel shirts cried out for a counterattack of sharp dressing and flip courtliness with women. Thus "lounge music," cool and dressy, then swing music, hot and dressy, plus a bar scene where lounge lizards aren't dinosaurs anymore. Then the film Swingers, about two guys making their...