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...event was not only made for TV but marketed over ABC for the tidy sum of $2.2 million, about a fifth of the Inaugural bash's entire cost. Saturday evening's gala for the President, featuring longtime Reagan Pal Frank Sinatra as master of ceremonies, was broadcast in edited form an hour after the live presentation at Washington's Convention Center...
...innate taste, no question about that," says a former aide. "She has great instincts--and great blind spots. Sometimes she gets glamour, class and notoriety all mixed up." Frank Sinatra, whom she calls "Francis Albert," became an almost monthly White House visitor. When her aides suggested she invite Opera Star Frederica von Stade to perform at a state dinner in 1982, the unsure First Lady ordered them first to "check it out with Frank." Nancy also saw quite a lot of her rich bachelor friend Jerry Zipkin, a full-time Manhattan partygoer whom she has called "a modern-day Oscar...
...Reagan was the second most admired woman. Even more important to the return of her equanimity, the high-pitched criticism quieted: the recession was ending and her posh style no longer seemed so callous. But the First Lady also changed tack, remodeling her public persona. The Reagans still see Sinatra and invite the likes of Dynasty Star Joan Collins to state dinners, but Zipkin and his dandyish ilk have been much less in evidence. The President's wife has devoted more time and effort to earnest, conventionally First Lady-like endeavors...
...show, is selling shares in the Donny Osmond Entertainment Corp. (DOEC). The company will have the rights to three years' worth of Donny and Marie reruns and will produce movies, television and theatrical events. Donny pledges to spend 60% of his time on company business. Like Sinatra, Osmond will be known as the Chairman of the Board. In addition, he will hold the title of vice president of creative control. Interested fans can be known as the stockholders...
...name is Sinatra, and he considers himself the greatest vocalist in the business," remarked the bandleader Harry James, alternately amused and astonished by the young singer he hired in 1939. The crooner turned out to be a shrewd self-appraiser, and what he said about himself 45 years ago still stands. In Sinatra: An American Classic (Random House; 251 pages; $29.95), Music Critic John Rockwell deftly analyzes the Chairman of the Board's technical proficiencies, and his examination of Sinatra recordings of One for My Baby is a nice combination of a scholar's observations...