Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...months after the singer's death, the FBI has released its 1,300-page Frank Sinatra file to the public. With Ol' Blue Eye's affinity for gangsters already well known, much of the file's content--his various connections with Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, Sam Giancana and a list of assorted mobsters--comes as little surprise...
...file also contains a few shockers. One of the newly released FBI memoranda from 1955 contains allegations that Sinatra, the future Ronald Reagan confidante, was a member of the Communist Party. According to another, the singer tried to bribe his way out of the draft, and claimed he was neurotic in his psychiatric evaluation...
Luciano also led the trend in gangster chic. He lived large, in a suite at the Waldorf Astoria. Expensive and elegant suits, silk shirts, handmade shoes, cashmere topcoats and fedoras enhanced his executive image. There was always a beautiful woman, a showgirl or a nightclub singer on his arm. Sinatra and actor George Raft were pals...
Eventually, a deal was reached that included deportation--Luciano had never become a citizen--and he was sent to Italy in February 1946. He surfaced months later in sunny, pre-Castro Cuba. Lansky, Sinatra and other pals paid visits--so many, in fact, that the press took note, and in February 1947 the U.S. Bureau of Narcotics learned of Luciano's reappearance in the Americas. U.S. authorities claimed that he planned to headquarter a worldwide drug-smuggling operation in Cuba. Lucky was again packed off to Italy...
...play Eleanor Rigby on the album. Didn't you learn from Frank Sinatra that covering Beatles songs is a mistake...