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...Parenthetically, there are those who say that the political content of rock is in the music, not the words. I really don't understand what that means. Although the associations we have with rock are more revolutionary than those we have with Montovani or Frank Sinatra, to say that the music itself is innately more radical seems like cultural chauvinism...
Oscars were also given to GlendaJackson in Women in Love for best actress, Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion for the best foreign film and Woodstock for the best feature documentary. Special awards were given to Orson Welles, Ingmar Bergman, the Beatles, Lillian Gish and Frank Sinatra...
...Sinatra going to follow all that? His abdication announcement last week said he looked forward to contemplation, "writing a bit" and "perhaps even to teaching." The rest of the six-paragraph statement, released to Suzy, a syndicated gossip columnist and sometime Sinatra girl friend, was an apologia pro vita sua. After sermonizing on the brotherhood of man, he summed up his three-decade career: "Fruitful, busy, uptight, loose, sometimes boisterous, occasionally sad, but always exciting." Why did he want out? Because "there has been little room or opportunity for reflection, reading, self-examination and that need which every thinking...
...weren't called groupies then, and all they did was swoon. In the years since the 1940s, the kid put on weight-and threw it around like no other performer before or since. He was the Chairman of the Board of all show business. But last week Frank Sinatra, at 55, announced "effective immediately, my retirement from the entertainment world and public life...
There was no elaboration on Sinatra's pedagogical plans. Pressagent Jim Mahoney said: "I don't know of any professorship, but he may be open for one." It is questionable how long a mercurial and sleepless man like Sinatra can be happy as a professional dropout, ruminating and writing. The penultimate paragraph of his statement refers to a "breather" rather than complete retirement. As Bob Regehr, an executive of Sinatra's recording company, said last week: "I have yet to recall an entertainer who stayed in retirement. A great artist is a great artist. How many times...