The film was endorsed by Sinatra and produced by his daughter, Tina Sinatra. It was directed by James Steven Sadwith and stars Philip Casnoff, Olympia Dukakis, Bob Gunton, Gina Gershon and Marcia Gay Hardon. The story is both exciting and engaging because it is an extremely candid account ...
240-pounder sporting a handlebar mustache, who has been described by his own daughter as being a dead-ringer for Tony Soprano, could blend in unnoticed in such a quaint hamlet. But, according
New Jersey, the only child of Italian immigrants Natalina “Dolly” Garaventa and Antonino Martino “Marty” Sinatra. Sinatra weighed 13.5 pounds (6.1 kg) at birth and had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left cheek, neck...
Even Sinatra’s professional triumphs were enough to get him reported to the FBI: The file begins not with an account of his Mob ties, but with a letter that complains about the “shrill whistling sound” produced by Sinatra’s fans. “How easy it would be for certain-minded manufacturers...
Apart from sharing President Kennedy’s bed, Marilyn and Jackie both had affairs with his brother, Bobby. Jackie’s affair with Bobby, in the years following Jack’s assassination, has only recently been revealed by C David Heymann in his biography RFK . ‘SocialiteMary Harringtonwas staying at...
The no-holds-barred biography of the Rear Window beauty comes on the eve of the 25th anniversary of Grace's death in a car crash at the age of 52.She had been driving from her country home to Monaco with her daughter Princess Stephanie when she suffered a stroke, causing her Rover to...
Earl Wilson.Sinatra: An Unauthorized Biography, New York: MacMillan Co., 1976. Judith Exner,My Story, New York: Grove Press, 1977. John Rockwell,Sinatra: An American Classic, New York: Random House, 1984. Anthony Summers, “JFK, RFK, And Marilyn Monroe: Power, Politics And Paramours?,”...
“It’s a conspicuous album. And a deeply problematic one,” says author James Kaplan, whoseSinatra: The Chairman, the second installment of a definitive two-volume biography, will be published Oct. 27. “Conspicuous” is a good adjective forTrilogy— less so for Sinatra’s ...
Once an agreement is set with the studio to allow Zarken to make his picture and Lewis Zarken agrees that he can mold Elsa in the image of Lylah and cast her in an epic biography about the lost screen goddess and her tragic mysterious death, we meet the mouthy studio head ' Barney She...
The photographs, by Phil Stern, some before never published, feel as insider-outsider as Talese was. “I was never part of his inner circle, but for some reason Frank trusted me,” Stern wrote. Stern photographed Sinatra and Mia Farrow, a happy blur; Sinatra and his daughter Nancy, just...