Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...making music for young girls to swoon to still work. They date all the way back through New Kids, the Jackson Five and the Monkees to the Beatles, who in their earliest, cuddliest incarnation were the progenitors of this sort of thing--if you don't count Frank Sinatra or Franz Liszt or probably some medieval troubadour no one remembers...
Refined files I don't have the space to get into right now, but they mostly concern aesthetic offenses, and you're probably not cultivated or genteel enough to appreciate them anyway. Besides, the Sinatra files are all raw. Very...
...unsavory tabloid put it. Again, the baselessness of this charge can be quickly deduced from its failure to jibe with what we know of Francis Albert's character. Leaving aside for the moment the question of how the Rat Pack may have gotten its name, consider: If Frank Sinatra had been angry at communists, would he have sneakily tattled on them? Of course not. He and his pal Jilly Rizzo would have headed for the nearest saloon where the dirty reds hang out, picked out the smallest and beat the living daylights...
What then do we conclude about Francis Albert? Two things. One, that he sinned frankly and naturally, which is why he was called Frank Sinatra. Two, our dead celebrities are too valuable a resource to be squandered. As currently constituted, the FBI is not up to the job. Louis Freeh must be replaced immediately--by Matt Drudge...
...EVENING WITH THE RAT PACK (TV Land) This amazing artifact tape captures Sinatra, Martin and Davis in 1965, at the height of their joint fame. With Johnny Carson as emcee, the avatars of cool sing for typical burgher fans. Frank is a bit stiff, but Dean performs with oozing plushness, while Sammy winces at some racial cracks...