Word: sinatras
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Impersonators of Pee Wee Herman, Cliff Claven, Joe Pesci and Frank Sinatra--who sang the 1950s classic "You've Got Me Under My Skin"--also took part in the 40-minute ceremony...
...with the rather humourous lyrics, "If you leave me, take your dog with you... and you pooper scooper too... scoop you way back to your mama's house." Diddley then joked, "If I was in Vegas, I'd have to sing it like this" and slipped into a witty Sinatra imitation singing "I'm calling it quits, no more Kibbles and Bits..." Blues with a sense of humor...
Welles had the star quality of some tribal monster-god. Ten pounds at birth, he just kept growing, especially the head, Churchillian even in youth. But he had more. Before Sinatra, Welles was the Voice: "softly thunderous," Irish actor Micheal Mac Liammoir called it, "like a regretful oboe." Intimate, intimidating, sonorous, it almost mooed with mellowness...
...five minutes of adenoidal lyricism known as Adelaide's Lament made Vivian Blaine a White Way legend, so linked to the character of the warmhearted show girl who spoke Runyonese that she was the only lead from the original run to appear in the 1955 movie (opposite Frank Sinatra as the altar-averse Nathan Detroit...
...played hooky so many times to see Sinatra. If it wasn't for that I would be a doctor today instead of a cook." --Hoboken, New Jersey restaurant owner and Frank Sinatra fan Joseph "Sparky" Spaccavento, on the occasion of Sinatra's 80th birthday yesterday...