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...Agnew will need more help than that from his friends. What friends? "Well," says one former aide, "there's Frank Sinatra." Agnew and Sinatra dined with two other people at Chicago's classy, brassy Pump Room a few weeks back (total tab: $150), and the aging crooner is asking members of his crowd to contribute to the cause. Sinatra is also acting as agent for the book that Agnew plans to write some day, and is said to be asking $500,000. So far, no takers...
...Blue Eyes Is Back: Frank Sinatra (Reprise; $5.98). Though somewhat skimpy in length (Side 2 is barely 15 minutes long), this first album since Sinatra's supposed retirement abounds with all his old graces: the infallible sense of just how much is enough, the crafty building to one climactic moment per song, the right way with the right word, and the impeccable taste in material (notably in choosing Stephen Sondheim's Send in the Clowns and four lilting ballads by Joe Raposo...
...Raymond Chandler every time I turn on the television. In Perry Mason reruns, in Frank Sinatra as Tony Rome, Peter Falk as Columbo, or brand new episodes of Cannon there are elements of Philip Marlowe. Somehow, (using Bogart, perhaps as media image, because we watch television now for the same kind of entertainment our parents looked for in the movies 25 years ago) someone has turned Marlowe into the average American, leading the slightly above average American life. And therefore into a cultural hero, because you should only be slightly above average. Marlowe is more viable than Ford...
...Eternity. This academy award winner is cheap stuff as romantic narrative, but the acting and the characterization make it worth watching. It's a subdued 1940's version of Easy Rider (the lonely outcast line et. al.). Montgomery Cliff is superb, and one could almost learn to like Frank Sinatra from this flick. By the way, this is the role that Sinatra got due to mob pressure when his career was at its low point. Midnight on Channel...
...Manchurian Candidate. Frank Sinatra in a thriller about a Communist secret agent who was brainwashed by the Chinese after his capture in the Korean War. Brattle. 5:15, 9:35. --L.R.C...