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Brian Stokes Mitchell, star of the current Broadway show Kiss Me, Kate: Frank Sinatra's New York, New York is too obvious. How about the Beatles' Come Together? The song dreams about a place as diverse as New York, but no one can make enough sense out of the lyrics to make a stink about...
...generation as the aunt of actor George Clooney, tells a good yarn. Still the likable girl-next-door, despite life's vicissitudes, she describes how she went from being a schoolgirl in kneesocks in Maysville, Ky., to a Big Band singer, performing with the likes of Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. There were bumps along the way: a failed marriage to the unfaithful Jose Ferrer, addiction to prescription drugs, even a stay in a psychiatric ward. Life got so blurry, she flushed a 7 1/2-carat diamond down the toilet. But Clooney is back in the game now and takes...
...Frank Sinatra b) Ayatullah Khomeini c) Margaret Thatcher d) Billy Graham...
...FRANK SINATRA AND MIA FARROW He was 50; she was 19 But: his friends found it amusing. "I have scotch older than Mia Farrow," quipped Dean Martin...
Though his ability to wrap his voice around a romantic lyric arguably ranked him near Elvis, Sinatra and Lady Day, the pop balladeer (and jazz pianist) Nat King Cole is unfortunately perhaps best remembered today as Natalie's dad. Epstein's insightful new book--best read while listening to Cole's rereleased album The Christmas Song--should remedy things. The biographer sometimes digs too deep into esoterica, spending pages analyzing the lyrics of Straighten Up and Fly Right, for example. But when he recounts the singer's personal struggles, including a shocking 1956 onstage kidnapping attempt by Alabama racists...