Word: sinatras
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...They are two actors stowed away on a '40s-ish ocean liner, ever scurrying from a British stage star who wants them arrested, gelded, dead. Also onboard are a deposed queen (Isabella Rossellini), a gay tennis player (Billy Connolly), a Teutonic chief steward (Campbell Scott) and a suicidal, sub-Sinatra crooner (Steve Buscemi, in the film's funniest turn...
...Colleagues in the newsroom say I watched his performances with the reverence of a bobby-soxer at a Sinatra concert, and on some level, they're right. I loved that he constantly surprised me, not just with his antics, but with his candor and his wit. I loved the way he scratched his nose when he was uncomfortable. I loved to watch his brain work, never able to predict what he would do next...
...Frank Sinatra and his cronies Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford and Joey Bishop established a form of bourgeois hedonism that once again, since Sinatra's recent death, has become an object of fascination. Unfortunately, the timing of the film is the best thing about it. Despite some flashes of style, particularly in set design, it's an oddly dutiful account of Sinatra's life during this period. The story is familiar; the actors (Ray Liotta as Sinatra, Joe Mantegna as Martin) fail to generate electricity, and the script contains some real embarrassments. Would J.F.K. really have compared Marilyn...
...going to believe that?" Bishop wonders. "But I give you some bulls__ story about a fight, and you'll believe that in a minute." He's right. I was half-expecting the anecdote to end with Sinatra calling the girl a hooker and tossing her over the rail himself (let's say there's a pool below). Is my version better? Bishop sighs. "I don't understand why honesty doesn't prevail...
MUGGED. BARBARA MARX SINATRA, 71, widow of Frank Sinatra; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Mrs. Sinatra was strolling home from dinner with friends when, according to Beverly Hills police, three men "used physical force" to wrest approximately $17,000 in cash and valuables from the victims. No one was seriously injured...