Word: sinatras
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...SINATRA...
...star-studded entertainment, politics and theatrical pizazz. The script called for Orson Welles to growl out passages from John Donne between scenes of labor union rallies in Chicago and West Germany; President Reagan and a dozen other heads of state to deliver speeches; and a New Jersey native-Frank Sinatra-to sing Ever Homeward, in Polish. According to the ICA, the program aimed to "reflect the widespread international concern for the plight of the people of Poland." ICA Director Charles Wick, who once worked as an arranger for the late Tommy Dorsey's band, dreamed up the project shortly...
...Most foreign broadcasters elected not to air the program. Even among the foreign leaders who indulged the U.S. requests for videotaped messages, enthusiasm was not unanimous.* Said an aide to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher: "She didn't know she was going to be on with people like Sinatra." An aide to French President François Mitterrand was more derisive: "It was pure show business, and demeans the idea of showing solidarity with the Polish people...
Jukeboxes played the tune for generations of American teenagers, who fed them coins to hear Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra and the Beatles. Those music machines, though, are going the way of the malt shops that housed so many of them. Industry experts say that by the end of the '80s the brightly lit boxes may be only a memory. The number of coin-operated players has already shrunk from more than 500,000 in 1976 to some...
...Yorkers-1,000 freebies and 5,000 paid-squelched through hock-deep gutter slush into the theater. There was a satisfactory array of the famous on hand, and the famous-for-being-famous, somewhat too swaddled against the cold to glitter: Arlene Francis, Paul Simon, Norman Mailer, Mrs. Frank Sinatra, Adolph Green, Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Andy Warhol, Christopher Walken and Liza Minnelli. It is important at such events that especially celebrated ladies be whisked quickly through the crowd before the groundlings can become unruly in their worship, and Nastassia Kinski, one of the film's stars, wanly beautiful...