Word: sinatras
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...snorting wildly, he spun me around in a patently unpleasant manner, grunting "Ummm, yuk yuk, a fresh one, yuk yuk!" I was just about to try vomiting in self-defense when someone pre-empted me by incapacitating my assailant with a wide swing of one of her suede Nancy Sinatra boots. As he slumped forward, I fell safely to the pavement and ran as fast as I could...
...held for the 125,000 tickets--some free--available for five events: Operation Sail, a procession of tall ships up the Hudson River; a fireworks show; a Boston Pops concert; a sports celebration featuring stars like Olympic Champion Dorothy & Hamill; and an entertainment spectacular with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Lionel Richie. The lottery was the idea of David Wolper, producer of Liberty Weekend and of the opening and closing ceremonies at the 1984 Olympics. Order forms can be obtained for $1 by writing Liberty, P.O. Box 2021, Murray Hill Station, New York...
...Katharine Hepburn, Tracy's co-star in nine movies and his real-life love for more than 20 years, until his death in 1967. The evening featured her new documentary on Tracy (which will be on PBS this week). Following the recollections of such Tracy admirers as Frank Sinatra, Robert Wagner and Sidney Poitier, the 76-year-old Hepburn grinned broadly as she read off a list of Tracy's attributes, recorded when he first entered the academy: "Proportions -- good. Physical condition -- very good. Personality -- sensitive but masculine...
...Muffy from the short-lived television sit-com Square Pegs. Due to the poor screenwriting talents of Ezra Sacks, poor Terry is given a rather confused character make-up: she tells Hector that her father is a decorated Army flier but spins tales of her parents' opening for Frank Sinatra in Vegas for the erstwhile Jack. No explanation of these inconsistencies is ever provided. She's clearly a runaway, but from whom or what is unclear. In a rather impassioned speech to Jack, on whom she's predictably developed a school-girl crush, she whines that he has "options," albeit...
DIED. Nelson Riddle, 64, composer-orchestrator whose rich, driving arrangements were individually fitted to the styles of such pop greats as Judy Garland, Nat Cole, Linda Ronstadt and, most memorably, Frank Sinatra; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. Riddle also composed for TV (his Theme from Route 66 was a pop hit in 1962), and his score for the 1974 film The Great Gatsby won an Oscar...