Word: sinatras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MOST MISLEADING ENDORSEMENT "He gives Sinatra a run for his money." --Richard LaGravenese, the film's director...
Although the powers that be, from the President to Frank Sinatra, prayed for another saint, the public was happy either way. Hating a Liston was just as much fun as respecting a Patterson, and just as painful for the victim-challenger. In brilliant sketches of the archetypes, Remnick suggests Liston was trapped in his badness--people wanted him to be a bum forever--while Patterson lived in constant fear of not being good enough...
Thus, high in the air, where the names of Frank Sinatra, Henny Youngman and Engelbert Humperdinck once flaunted their charisma above the throngs of tourists, where the mysterioso and much lifted faces of Siegfried and Roy stared down from between the white tigers whose diminutive, fluffy clonelets fill a whole shop on the ground floor of the Mirage, high art has descended on the desert with a palpable clang. It had to come. It has come. Art abhors a vacuum, and if Las Vegas hasn't earned a name for being culturally underoxygenated, what place in America...
...conventioneers in his Venetian. The initial $1.2 billion phase, set to open next April, will feature 3,000 luxury suites, a convention center second only to Chicago's in size, and a pricey shopping mall with a 1,200-ft. canal running through it--on the site of Frank Sinatra's old haunt, the Sands...
...Toronto marketing executive and real estate heir who recently placed a full-page ad in Variety soliciting investors for his as yet unmade film, Princess Diana Saves the World. It is the story of how the dead title character rounds up other "good angels" (including Frank Sinatra and J.F.K.) and staves off global destruction. "Imagine Diana sitting at God's knees like a little girl--that's the first scene," Gallo explains. "This is a monster. This will sink Titanic." He clearly has a vision. I have a vision of my own: a democracy of moving images. Not everyone...