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Even though I am only 16, I am a gigantic Sinatra fan. Some people find it hard to believe that a high school student would listen to someone as "dull and old" as he. That was exactly how I felt until about a year ago, when I discovered the hip coolness that Frank and his Rat Pack buddies displayed in their heyday. When I broke up with my girlfriend a few weeks ago, I went into my room, turned out the lights and listened to In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning...for an entire night. Even with...
...recently listened to a marathon session of Sinatra's recordings. It was a revelation: hundreds of songs seemed to belong only to him. His diction was crystal clear, no slurring, no swallowing of words. His singing was pure, no pyrotechnics. The focus was on the words. But what really set Sinatra apart was his ability to inhabit a song. When Frank Sinatra sang, you felt he had lived what he was telling you. No other artist so disappears into the lyrics. DIANE DANIELLE Berkeley, Calif...
...will remember Sinatra as an arrogant, offensive bully. He treated the fans who made him with contempt, refusing even to acknowledge them. As the singer and his burly entourage walked through a Honolulu hotel lobby, I saw Sinatra's bodyguards shove fans aside when they approached. Sinatra's voice was made of gold. The man behind it was a monster. ALAN L. LIGHT Iowa City, Iowa...
With "The Voice" Sinatra was able to convey the one emotion that singers of my generation, and even my parents' baby-boomer generation, were never able to achieve: the pathos, bittersweet joy, hurt and exhilaration of love. ROBBY BUEGLER Sacramento, Calif...
...returning to her office at 3:30 a.m. for a champagne toast with her staff. She compared her surprise victory to the Academy Award her husband Ernest Borgnine won for Best Actor in 1955. "When Ernie was up for Marty, the odds were against him. He had Frank Sinatra, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy and James Dean, who had just passed away. So, many years apart, we shared an experience in our industries," she said. The FiFi will sit in the Borgnine home media center, next to Ernest's Oscar...