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This week sees the release of Sinatra and Sextet: Live in Paris, a time trip to a swinging 1962 show taken from recently discovered master tapes. Also in the works for 1994 is a sequel to Duets, and though his singing partners have yet to be confirmed, prospects range from Axl Rose to Luciano Pavarotti...
...Sinatra is not content with rummaging through the vaults or using high- tech studio tricks. Despite his embarrassing lapses and hints of health problems, the singer presses on with a concert schedule that takes him on the road for a week or so every month, with three dates still planned for March...
Even a devoted admirer like deejay Jonathan Schwartz, though, maintains that the functioning is increasingly hollow. The act is done by rote now, says Schwartz, who is the host of Sinatra-oriented radio shows six days a week on % New York City's WQEW-AM. "The process is so machinelike: the limo drive, the placing of the tuxedo on his body by his dresser, the sip of alcohol, the psychological procession of ritualistic movement, the depth of his solitude in the middle of it all, the elaborate moat that surrounds his heart and soul -- to say it's an American...
Kelley believes that Sinatra is well aware of his diminished resources, his stumbling onstage, his heavy reliance on TelePrompTers for the lyrics to his old standbys. "He can fool a lot of people," she says, "but he's not so far gone that he can fool himself...
...Sinatra, however, scoffs at the notion of slowing his pace, much less retiring. "((My wife)) Barbara would like me to spend more time at home, but I tell her to pack some things, bring the puppies, and we go," he said in last week's communication with TIME. "You write for a magazine -- I tour. It's what I do, what I enjoy doing...