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He was an emotionally sensitive
man that night.
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This was a big night for him.
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It was a fabulous event.
The who's who of celebrities were there.
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The night itself was exciting
and a lot of mixed emotions.
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Ladies and gentlemen, frank Sinatra.
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They were talking about
the best pop singer who ever lived.
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For his retirement concert,
Sinatra chose 11 songs
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to represent the story
of his life and career.
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He used the songs to
tell the story of himself,
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and he tells us our
story through his story.
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This is what set him apart.
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Thank you very much.
I'm absolutely thrilled.
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Frank Sinatra is, well, frank Sinatra.
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In 20 years, he has travelled from hoboken
to Hollywood with stops in between.
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The voice has become
one of Hollywood's great stars.
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Recently, after
a comparatively inactive period,
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variety credited him with
the greatest comeback in theatre history.
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He is now one of
Hollywood's hottest properties.
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I can't imagine.
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Hello?
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In 1949, frank Sinatra
is still the crooner.
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The romantic ideal of the young.
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By the '50s, he is a
different kind of a singer,
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and he is a different kind
of screen personality.
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He is a grown-up.
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He is somebody
who sings convincingly of suffering,
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and whom we assume has himself suffered.
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Okay, let's make a record.
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- Let's go.
- Right. Rolling.
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I love recording.
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I think making records is a great fun
of all times because it's current.
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It's right there.
When you finish the recording,
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you blink your eye or your ear,
so to speak, and boom.
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When he gets to capitol, it is a
total picture of adulthood, of maturity.
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And the country responded immediately.
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Women said,
"this is a man you could go to bed with."
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And the men said,
"I'd like to be this guy."
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In the '50s, the Phoenix emerged
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from the ashes of a previous existence.
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And the curly hair and the floppy bow ties
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suddenly gave way to the cavanagh hat
and long loosened tie.
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And this was a change
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that very, very few musical personalities
have been able to accomplish.
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Did Sinatra and Sinatra only
select those songs,
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or did he do it in collaboration with you
and with the producer?
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Sinatra picked his own things.
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So when you hear a frank Sinatra album,
it's a product of frank Sinatra's head.
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You think about only the lonely,
wee small hours of the morning, you know?
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He invented concept albums.
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What he would do is to find a mood,
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and then figure out
what songs reflect that mood.
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And then, when he walked into the studio,
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he was prepared to follow
the arranger's orchestration.
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- Listen, hello?
- Jack must be playing the viola.
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If there are any
popping of 'p's, let's stop.
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Because there were too many of
the 'p's popping in the past dates we did.
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Can you clear those up a little bit?
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I may be one of the few people who
performs in the middle of the orchestra,
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right in the studio.
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And no headphones and not a booth,
a glassed-in booth,
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'cause I need the drive of the orchestra.
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A good arranger is terribly vital
because he is a recording secretary.
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For instance, if you brought a song to me,
and I said, "it's very good,
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"maybe we'll record it."
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Then we'd bring in...
In those days, it was Axel,
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and then we went to Billy may and Nelson,
and then Gordon Jenkins.
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We would sit down
and we would pick the key.
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And I would give him my thoughts on
what the background should be
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from eight measures to eight measures,
and then I would say, "how wrong am I?"
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He would conduct the orchestra sometimes.
That's a lot of fun.
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But if not, say, comfortable with it,
I became accustomed to it.
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Some of it was his need to assert himself.
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That was part of his performance.
He was a showman.
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Sinatra respected Nelson riddle so much,
his musical talent.
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They made something
in excess of 300 songs.
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Three hundred separate arrangements
in the years that they worked together,
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including the song called
I've got you under my skin.
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I stayed up at night
to write that arrangement.
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I remember bringing it to the recording
and everybody was very impressed.
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When they finished the first run-through, the
entire orchestra applauded for Nelson riddle
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and whistled because it was so gorgeous.
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That was according to frank's specifications,
he said, "I want a long crescendo."
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Go, get 'em! Get 'em!
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Thank you.
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The first act was called the daily life
and this act is called love and marriage.
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And since we're doing a little singing here
tonight, mr leader, if you please.
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That period in america
was the greatest growth
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of individual wealth
in the history of western civilisation.
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There was money,
there was money to buy records,
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there was money for kids
to have their own subculture.
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For large numbers of
white middle-class Americans,
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they never had it so good as in the '503.
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But they also knew
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the whole thing could go bust
if the bomb got dropped.
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Let us face without panic,
the reality of our times.
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The fact that atom bombs
may someday be dropped on our cities.
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That is a very awkward,
uncomfortable set of oppositions,
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and it shapes American culture
in the eisenhower era.
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There's a tremendous amount
of economic stability,
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but it is accompanied
by a tremendous amount of ferment.
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We continue our protest.
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We are at war with
the communist half of the world.
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A man is either loyal, or he is disloyal.
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Are you a member, or have you
ever been a member of the communist party?
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Mr McCarthy, do you believe, sir,
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that at least 5,000 American soldiers
have been slaughtered by the reds?
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I shall go to Korea.
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I called the head of the uso.
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I said to him, "I'd like to get over there
and do some shows for these guys."
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Because hope had already been there,
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and then they were sending over
vaudeville actors and that kind of stuff.
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I said, "they need some names over there."
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The next thing I know,
he calls me and said,
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"there seems to be a problem
in Washington, in intelligence
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about your being involved with some youth
organisation and the Roosevelt campaign.
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They're inclined to think that
you're a part of the communist party."
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And I said, "what?
We're going to Washington."
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I said, "I ain't going to
let them off the hook."
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So, iwent in the Pentagon building.
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I was brought in to a sumptuous room.
It looked like ajury when iwalked in.
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There were three or four grey-haired men, all
true military guys, and a plainclothesman.
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He was from what was then the oss
rather than CIA.
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Nobody smiled.
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One guy said to me,
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"you belong to a youth organisation
that you joined."
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I said, "I neverjoined
a youth organisation."
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Witch-hunting. That's what they were doing.
They were witch-hunting.
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Because after that came the blacklist. I
started to get pissed off with these guys.
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I said, "look, gentlemen,
does anybody run a check on me?"
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General kastner explained
that over a period of years,
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many items had appeared in the public press
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which identified mr Sinatra
with the communist line.
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As a result, serious questions existed
as to mr Sinatra's sympathies
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with respect to communism, communists,
and fellow travellers.
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He said this to Sinatra's face.
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I said, "gentlemen, if
you feel that I'm a risk,
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"then you can stick the Korean war
in your ass,
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"and that goes for all of you," I said,
and I got up and iwalked out.
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Fuck you. You think
I'm a risk to my nation?
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Who the hell needs you?
I said, "I don't need you."
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Frank Sinatra invited attention.
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He always complained
that he was unfairly tagged as a commie.
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To his credit, he deftly avoided
some of the more horrible things
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that happened to
entertainers in those days.
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He was mentioned in the infamous
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house on UN-American activities
committee hearings,
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but never called to testify.
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He was just a liberal,
left-wing entertainer,
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who was far ahead of his time
in the positions that he took.
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One of which
was speaking out against racism
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at a time when no one
was speaking out against racism,
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let alone a white crooner
from hoboken, New Jersey.
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Thank you, ladies and gentlemen.
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Here's a couple of people
we've never done on TV before,
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the first gentlemen, mr frank Sinatra.
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People had helped dad,
dad would help other people,
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you know, ascend. It wasn't easy.
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It was most difficult for Sammy
for obvious reasons.
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Sinatra, he did not like segregation.
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He didn't like that black people
were treated as creatures of inferiority.
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He always rebelled against that.
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I really became conscious of segregation
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when I got involved
in the entertainment business.
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I found that going through
parts of the United States,
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travelling constantly,
doing one-nighters with orchestras
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that were comprised of negro musicians,
there were a lot of problems.
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And not only in the south,
but in some quarters in the border states.
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And I began to resent it.
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I think it's vile.
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I think it's the most
indecent way to believe.
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I think that we're all created equal.
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It's wrong. It's just basically wrong.
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Sinatra felt that important to his life
and to his art and to his whole style
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was what he had learned
from black culture and black people.
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He was very, very close
to the African American scene.
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His closeness was never really
fully recognised historically
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because he did that quietly
behind the scenes.
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He opened up more doors
than any other individual,
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black or white, in this business for me.
He set my motion picture salary,
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he also was there for me,
on a personal basis when I needed him.
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And without being asked,
he was always there for me.
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Sammy is now only 29 years old,
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but he has spent
most of his life in show business.
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From Harlem to Hollywood,
with its attendant successes and crisis,
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the worst, about a year ago.
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He was coming back from Vegas in
the latter part of the night after his show
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in order to get some sleep in la and
do a title song for a picture at universal.
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He was coming around
a turn on the highway,
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and two old gals
backed the car out of a driveway,
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and in order not to hit them,
he went across the road, hit a tree.
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The old Cadillac with the egg,
in the middle of the steering wheel.
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You know, the thing used to look like
half of an egg.
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It hit him right in here, and
his eye just popped right out of his head.
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I never said goodbye to anybody.
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Ijumped in my car
and I drove to San Bernardino.
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I flew down there.
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And it's a coloured hospital.
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And I found out later
that they drove around for 40 minutes...
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- To get a hospital that would take him?
- To get a hospital that would take him.
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I went to his place in palm Springs
and recuperated with friends, chums.
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Sammy never learned to swim in his life,
deathly afraid of the water.
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So, I taught him to swim.
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And then I said to him,
"Sam, I'm not a physician,
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"but the loss of your eye
is going to cause you to have an imbalance.
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"I think you ought to
teach me to time step."
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And he was looking from behind the patch.
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Toe, heel, toe, heel, toe, heel.
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Next afternoon, I said to him,
"okay, it's your turn."
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And, you know,
we had trouble for about half hour
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because he was trying to make a move
and he was tilting,
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he was going and tilting the other way.
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I took a guess, I didn't know,
what the hell did I know?
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If your friends rally around you,
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psychologically, there is a time
when that can happen,
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and it picks you up
and gives you the strength you need
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to take that second start.
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The timing is everything and he knew that.
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Frank, you do have a great presence,
there's no question about it.
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You seem to be in command of yourself
and the situation.
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Is that a facade? Do you feel in command?
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Are you ever in a situation
where you feel inadequate?
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I think that happens to me
about 10 times a day.
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No matter where she might appear,
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they all worshipped the face,
the fame, the figure,
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of the world's most beautiful animal.
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It wasn't much of a secret.
Frank had heard about it in New York.
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He knew,
I was dating Luis Miguel dominguin.
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Luis Miguel was the most
famous bull fighter in the world.
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He was still in love with Ava gardner.
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It was the first and only time
that someone else had done the leaving.
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We were sort of reluctant to go.
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I mean, he had been building such a
head of steam for this visit with Ava,
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that it seemed sort of intrusive.
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And she arrived with three or four men,
none of whom spoke English.
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Dressed to the nines, she looked smashing.
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And she and father disappeared
with much giggling and carrying on.
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This was clearly
going to be a romantic night.
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So, after due time, they re-joined us.
Dinner was wonderful.
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And she left the table after
the first course, excused herself.
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And her purse was there
and her gold cigarette box,
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and I guess
I thought she was going to the powder room.
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She didn't come back, she didn't come back,
she didn't come back.
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So, someone went to
check. Well, she'd left.
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She just walked out.
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And when he caught on, it was devastating.
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I mean, devastating.
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When his music
finally evolved into "after Ava,"
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it's got a note of stoicism in it.
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"All right, I've lost you.
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"I got knocked on my ass.
I'm getting up now."
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Why don't you wanna talk about Sinatra?
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Well, I don't wanna talk about Sinatra
because frank and I
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have not had a relationship since 1959.
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I think that's quite a while ago.
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I can't really remember how it all began.
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There must have always been
a special feeling alive
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between frank and me from earlier days.
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Humphrey bogart and Lauren bacall
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are among the better known husband
and wife acting teams in Hollywood.
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Bogie always liked frank.
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He enjoyed his fighting windmills
and frank made him laugh.
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When bogart passed away,
dad was devastated.
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He loved him so much.
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He felt loss harder
than anyone else I know.
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And maybe, it made him
face his own mortality, you know?
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Towards the very end of bogie's illness,
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frank seemed instinctively to be there
at the key moments.
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Having lived the better part of a year
in the atmosphere of illness,
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I guess I not only began to depend
on his presence, but looked fonnard to it.
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I wanted something to look fonnard to. I
hated feeling that my life was over at 32.
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Certainly, he was then at his vocal peak
and was wildly attractive, electrifying.
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In 1958,
he proposed marriage and she accepted.
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They agreed to keep it a secret, but
word leaked out and it hit the headlines.
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Clearly, he thought, I had given it away.
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Foolishly, I was pleading to be forgiven
for something I'd had no part in.
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He couldn't deal with the press,
they were driving him crazy.
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His attitude, remote,
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and under this circumstance,
the pressure was too great.
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He felt trapped.
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- Do you think your boiling point is low?
- Always. Always.
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I've apologised a great many times
in my life, and I will continue to do so.
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Obviously, because
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the blow-ups are
just valves going off here and there.
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I suppose they have to go off.
I suppose it's necessary.
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Needless to say,
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I mean, if I had ended up with Sinatra,
we would have lasted for about 20 minutes.
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The lady is a tramp he did,
as Nelson riddle said,
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with a particular kind of salaciousness
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which fit the image
that he was wearing in 1957.
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Frank was a womaniser.
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He wanted to be in the sack with everybody.
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I think the public is constantly putting
itself in the position of the performer.
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They want to think about him as they
believe him to be, or they'd like to be.
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You think the moral standards have dropped,
lowered considerably in this country?
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Yes, I do.
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Have you had any part to play,
do you think, in that, by any chance?
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I don't believe so.
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What I do with my private life,
having been divorced,
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I don't think lent that much
to the demoralization of a nation.
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Thank you.
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Frank Sinatra was never a fan
of rock music, not at any time.
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Rock 'n' roll was on the ascendancy
and, of course,
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the kind of music that frank was
identified with was on the decline.
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He didn't like the songs,
he thought they were silly.
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He didn't like the rhythms.
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You don't see a danger then that
that little grey-haired couple in 1995
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is going to grab hands
and weep a little tear when they play
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you ain't nothin' buta hound dog,
and say, "that's our song."
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No, I don't think so.
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There is a market for that
and the kids like it fine.
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My kids are the same way,
they buy all of the records.
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Years later,
when I first brought him yesterday,
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he threw it on the floor.
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The Beatles, you must be kidding,
you know?
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So contemptuous, you couldn't believe it.
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Mr Sinatra, over a period of time,
even from your very early days,
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you still carry out this policy
of singing standards.
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Have you found that this has paid off?
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I know that by the sales of our albums,
it's really paid off. It's been marvellous.
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He was such a big artist at capitol.
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And of course, that got him thinking
about maybe doing his own thing
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and starting a record company.
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He was very, very unhappy with the way
then existing labels treated their artists.
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He wanted to create an environment
which would be creatively
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and economically attractive to artists.
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Frank, I understand that you are gonna
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release a new record label out here.
Is that correct?
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Reprise, yes. Reprise records.
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I met with frank's manager,
and he asked me to head up reprise.
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But I also had to get approval from frank.
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Frank was doing the devil at 4 o'clock
with Spencer Tracy.
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And they took me out on the set
to meet him for the first time.
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Well, you can imagine
how anxious and nervous I was.
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And when I walked up on the set,
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there was frank engaged in
an enormous argument with the director.
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I mean, frank in a tantrum
displaying all of his anger
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is scary.
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And I then went on to frank's dressing room
and waited for him.
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And he came in,
and he did, like, a 180-degree turnaround.
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He was up, he was positive,
he was charming.
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He could not have been more excited
about the prospect of the record company.
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And then iwent around,
and I began to talk to all my chums,
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suddenly we had a stable of
names this long. It was crazy.
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Each person who came along with me
had an option to buy their own masters.
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We have on the label
Sammy Davis and mort sahl,
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Joe e. Lewis,
the nightclub comic in the states.
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We started reprise primarily
with a lot of frank's friends.
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People who were out of the big band era,
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who did the same kind of music
that frank did.
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Frank forbade us
to sign any rock 'n' roll artists.
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And so, we were struggling
because we weren't being competitive.
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And finally, I said to him,
"frank, unless we end up signing artists
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"from the rock 'n' roll scene,
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"we are not gonna compete, and I
don't think we will be able to survive."
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And to his credit,
even though he hated that kind of music,
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he had good enough business instincts
to recognise
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that what I was saying had some validity.
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00:35:30,879 --> 00:35:35,801
Elvis, right in the thick of his
up and coming fame was put into the army,
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and that was the welcome back show 1960.
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Elvis, I'll tell you
something, that was great.
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It was great and I'm glad to see the army
hasn't changed you. Wasn't it great?
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00:35:53,319 --> 00:35:56,905
That was the first time I've ever heard
a woman screaming at a male singer.
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Don't you remember me there, Charlie?
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00:36:02,619 --> 00:36:04,496
Excuse me, sir, mr Presley,
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but would you think it presumptuous
of frank if he joined you in a duet?
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Well, yeah, that would be great.
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00:36:09,752 --> 00:36:12,546
And it was a great coup
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to put the heart-throb
of the new generation
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and the heart-throb of the current
generation on television together.
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You do witchcraft, okay?
And I'll do one of the other ones, okay?
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00:36:24,141 --> 00:36:25,851
Nelson?
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We work in the same way,
only in different areas.
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Man, that's pretty.
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We have this notion,
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that when Elvis Presley came along,
the world changed.
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But Sinatra had a really good run
in the early '603.
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Las Vegas, nev.
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00:38:10,789 --> 00:38:14,209
You know why I fly up there so often?
I go to look at money.
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00:38:14,877 --> 00:38:16,211
And here is living proof.
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The place, the sands, the time,
in the wee small hours of.
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Frank put a flavour to that town
and practically made Vegas.
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And because he went, others went.
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00:38:56,335 --> 00:38:58,462
They'd say,
"hey, let's go to Vegas, frank's there."
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There's frank, there's Dean, bing Crosby,
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and somebody... yeah, me.
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00:39:03,759 --> 00:39:06,803
We have frank Sinatra and Ernie kovacs,
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Eddie Fisher, Sammy Davis, Jr.
And Tony Curtis.
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00:39:10,432 --> 00:39:13,644
Every celebrity in the world
and vip was there.
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00:39:13,727 --> 00:39:19,691
They were in Las Vegas on opening night
with their friends on home ground.
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00:39:20,484 --> 00:39:21,610
And it's what
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"the rat pack," or "the clan"
as Sinatra called it, was all about.
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00:39:32,162 --> 00:39:35,332
There was a rat pack prior to
the Sinatra rat pack.
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Humphrey bogart and his cronies,
including Sinatra,
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had been in Las Vegas
for a debauched weekend.
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And Lauren bacall walked in on them after
they had been partying for a few days,
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00:39:46,593 --> 00:39:49,263
and said, "jeez, you
all look like a rat pack."
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00:39:49,346 --> 00:39:51,557
After bogart's death,
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Sinatra drew on that energy and
put together his own coterie of friends.
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00:39:58,105 --> 00:40:00,566
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin,
Sammy Davis, Jr.,
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Peter lawford and Joey bishop.
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00:40:03,819 --> 00:40:07,155
It was dizzying, the glamour of it all.
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00:40:07,281 --> 00:40:08,448
Ladies and gentlemen...
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00:40:08,532 --> 00:40:12,452
When they started to perform,
they were masters of the universe.
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00:40:12,536 --> 00:40:14,329
They sucked the air out of the room.
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00:41:44,211 --> 00:41:46,338
Sing it again! I didn't hear it!
406
00:41:47,130 --> 00:41:49,883
How many more
do you think he is gonna do, Sam?
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00:41:49,966 --> 00:41:54,179
I don't know, but he sure sings good
for a white fella, don't he?
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00:41:54,262 --> 00:41:55,889
Frank doted on Dean.
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00:41:55,972 --> 00:41:57,849
Thought he was
the funniest guy in the world.
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00:41:57,933 --> 00:42:02,979
Dean was like water running downhill.
Cool and relaxed, no ego.
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00:42:04,231 --> 00:42:09,111
This is only a gag, I don't drink any more.
I freeze it now and I eat it like a Popsicle.
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00:42:14,157 --> 00:42:17,119
You know I wanted to say one thing
in all seriousness.
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I feel sorry for you
people that don't drink.
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00:42:20,288 --> 00:42:22,541
I mean it,
'cause when you wake up in the morning,
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that's as good as
you're gonna feel all day.
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00:42:29,923 --> 00:42:31,466
Not only we were on stage,
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00:42:31,550 --> 00:42:34,469
while we were on stage, such notables as
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00:42:34,886 --> 00:42:40,809
rickles, red skelton, Milton berle
all came and got up on stage with us.
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00:42:41,601 --> 00:42:44,938
- The crowd must have gone wild.
- They went crazy.
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00:42:49,484 --> 00:42:53,405
And people, comics from all sorts came to
see what we were doing.
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00:42:53,488 --> 00:42:54,781
We never had a writer.
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00:42:54,865 --> 00:42:57,367
We didn't have anyjokes written for us.
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00:42:57,451 --> 00:42:58,827
It all came together.
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00:43:02,164 --> 00:43:05,292
We always had the room to ad-lib on stage.
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00:43:05,375 --> 00:43:08,336
But for instance,
Dean picking me up, saying...
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00:43:08,462 --> 00:43:12,591
- I'd like to thank the naacp for this wonder...
- Put me down!
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00:43:12,674 --> 00:43:15,218
Well, that was an ad-lib.
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00:43:15,343 --> 00:43:19,264
That night when we came off,
we all turned to each other, I said,
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00:43:19,347 --> 00:43:21,641
"dynamite." frank said, "lock it in."
430
00:43:21,725 --> 00:43:24,019
So, that's how we found the material.
431
00:43:24,102 --> 00:43:26,938
Since our minds were fertile at that time
and everybody was thinking,
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00:43:27,022 --> 00:43:28,940
"what can I do," this, that and the other,
433
00:43:29,024 --> 00:43:31,526
"what can we do to break them up?"
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00:43:32,360 --> 00:43:34,029
If you speak to old timers in Vegas,
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00:43:34,112 --> 00:43:37,491
they all credit the rat pack
with saving the town.
436
00:43:38,074 --> 00:43:41,787
In the mid '503,
Vegas became built up very quickly,
437
00:43:42,037 --> 00:43:45,791
but the tourism
wasn't matching the construction.
438
00:43:45,874 --> 00:43:50,045
And suddenly, there was this big tourist
attraction in Las Vegas, the rat pack.
439
00:43:50,170 --> 00:43:52,756
And these guys
would walk around the casino...
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00:43:52,839 --> 00:43:56,092
The idea you could go to Las Vegas
and maybe
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00:43:56,176 --> 00:44:00,180
Sammy would show up at the riviera
and get on stage with the lounge act,
442
00:44:00,263 --> 00:44:02,766
drew a lot of people to the city.
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00:44:04,267 --> 00:44:06,812
It was also, on a serious basis,
444
00:44:06,895 --> 00:44:09,147
it was the very first time
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00:44:09,231 --> 00:44:13,735
that we saw the decline of racism in Vegas.
446
00:44:20,534 --> 00:44:24,830
At the beginning, you just were
not permitted to play there. Period.
447
00:44:24,913 --> 00:44:29,918
And then eventually,
when the star power became so inordinate,
448
00:44:30,001 --> 00:44:34,673
they knew that they had to begin
to invite black stars to participate
449
00:44:34,756 --> 00:44:37,968
because the revenue was not to be ignored.
450
00:44:39,010 --> 00:44:41,555
But they laid out very strict rules.
451
00:44:45,892 --> 00:44:49,563
Lena home and fats domino
had to eat in the kitchen,
452
00:44:49,646 --> 00:44:51,815
they couldn't go in the casino.
453
00:44:51,898 --> 00:44:55,610
They had to live across town
because it was racist as hell.
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00:44:56,444 --> 00:45:01,157
Frank wasn't having that, so he was
assigning one goombah to each guy.
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00:45:01,241 --> 00:45:05,412
He said, "if anybody looks at them funny,
break both of their legs."
456
00:45:06,788 --> 00:45:12,294
When I found that all of the black performers
were living on the other side of the town,
457
00:45:12,377 --> 00:45:15,046
I began to make noise about it.
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00:45:15,130 --> 00:45:20,051
A few threats like,
"I'll walk, I'll go back to la."
459
00:45:20,135 --> 00:45:24,723
I think a few other entertainers began to
pick up on that, too, and they hollered.
460
00:45:25,849 --> 00:45:29,978
Butlguess I was allowed
the biggest mouth in the town.
461
00:45:30,061 --> 00:45:33,064
When I asked about it, he said,
"any of my negro friends
462
00:45:33,148 --> 00:45:36,985
"have a right to live where they want and
especially if they are bringing in the pokey,
463
00:45:37,068 --> 00:45:39,237
"why shouldn't they live there?"
464
00:45:39,321 --> 00:45:44,200
Frank was always there
to give a boost to our cause.
465
00:45:44,284 --> 00:45:47,579
He stepped to the table
and not only gave money
466
00:45:47,662 --> 00:45:49,539
for the civil rights movement.
467
00:45:49,623 --> 00:45:52,834
Well, he went to the mob
and they gave money because he said so,
468
00:45:53,293 --> 00:45:55,795
that was no secret to anybody.
469
00:45:55,879 --> 00:46:00,967
Even the kgb knew
about the mob and the rat pack.
470
00:46:01,051 --> 00:46:02,218
They boasted about it.
471
00:46:22,155 --> 00:46:25,200
What he said to me was,
"look, did I know these guys?
472
00:46:25,283 --> 00:46:29,162
"Of course I knew these guys.
I worked in saloons in the '303 and '403.
473
00:46:29,245 --> 00:46:30,485
"They were the old bootleggers,
474
00:46:30,538 --> 00:46:33,667
"who were now doing legitimately
what used to be illegitimate."
475
00:46:35,168 --> 00:46:38,797
He kept knowing them because of Las Vegas.
476
00:46:38,880 --> 00:46:40,507
I don't think Sinatra is the kind of guy
477
00:46:40,590 --> 00:46:43,343
who would have loved
hanging around with a dope peddler.
478
00:46:43,426 --> 00:46:47,597
But that old bootlegger,
I think he liked them.
479
00:46:47,681 --> 00:46:51,142
What were the qualities about him
that you liked, frank?
480
00:46:51,226 --> 00:46:55,397
Strange kind of warped sense of humour,
with funnyjokes and...
481
00:46:55,522 --> 00:46:59,567
And a nice guy.
Generous, generous son of a bitch.
482
00:46:59,651 --> 00:47:03,196
You like it? Boom! He'd give you the
ring off his finger, with a sapphire in it.
483
00:47:03,279 --> 00:47:05,907
- They were all like that, all those guys.
- Right.
484
00:47:10,704 --> 00:47:15,667
We were all individually
as big as we were to ever get.
485
00:47:15,750 --> 00:47:20,130
And when we did the summit meetings
while we were working on ocean's 11,
486
00:47:20,213 --> 00:47:23,925
it created something
that the town still takes bows for.
487
00:47:25,927 --> 00:47:28,013
Peter owned ocean's 11.
488
00:47:28,096 --> 00:47:31,766
He found it, brought it to frank,
frank bought it.
489
00:47:31,850 --> 00:47:33,351
You know, that kind of thing.
490
00:47:33,435 --> 00:47:35,437
They knew each other
under contract at mgm.
491
00:47:35,520 --> 00:47:38,398
Mgm, they were friends.
492
00:47:38,606 --> 00:47:39,941
Sergeant ocean?
493
00:47:49,451 --> 00:47:52,203
This is our objective. Las Vegas, Nevada.
494
00:47:52,579 --> 00:47:55,707
Mission, to liberate millions of dollars.
495
00:47:58,043 --> 00:48:00,545
The movies were very disciplined.
496
00:48:00,628 --> 00:48:04,090
These guys came on the set,
nobody blew a line.
497
00:48:04,174 --> 00:48:07,802
The energy was a teenage energy.
498
00:48:07,886 --> 00:48:09,804
It was, "let's have fun."
499
00:48:11,014 --> 00:48:13,266
And then in the evening,
after they did their shows,
500
00:48:13,349 --> 00:48:19,522
they stayed up gambling and playing,
and making the casino guys go crazy,
501
00:48:19,606 --> 00:48:22,275
and never ever sleeping.
502
00:48:22,358 --> 00:48:26,488
All these girls would walk up to us
and give us their room key.
503
00:48:26,571 --> 00:48:28,490
God, it was good.
504
00:48:30,700 --> 00:48:33,495
When the movie was cut together,
he enjoyed it.
505
00:48:33,578 --> 00:48:37,874
He would screen it at his house
over and over again for all his friends.
506
00:48:37,957 --> 00:48:43,421
And he really loved it because this was the
first film that was kind of his production.
507
00:48:43,505 --> 00:48:46,132
I think that's why it was so close to him.
508
00:48:48,093 --> 00:48:52,931
It really did depict america at the time.
509
00:48:53,014 --> 00:48:55,391
Pretty happy, pretty optimistic about,
510
00:48:56,601 --> 00:49:00,396
perhaps a young, beautiful new president.
511
00:49:03,191 --> 00:49:06,694
When he started running for president,
Jack Kennedy came to Las Vegas
512
00:49:06,778 --> 00:49:11,616
to do some fund raising, but ended up
hanging out with Sinatra at the sands.
513
00:49:37,600 --> 00:49:41,354
His grandfather was mayor of Boston.
His father was ambassador to London.
514
00:49:41,563 --> 00:49:46,067
Studied at Harvard, football star,
Navy skipper, newspaper reporter, senator,
515
00:49:46,192 --> 00:49:48,111
married to a most attractive bride.
516
00:50:09,757 --> 00:50:14,095
I met the then senator Kennedy,
517
00:50:14,679 --> 00:50:20,393
and of course, I'd known pat lawford,
mrs lawford, a good many years.
518
00:50:20,476 --> 00:50:24,856
From early on, Sinatra was
introduced to Kennedy by Peter lawford
519
00:50:24,939 --> 00:50:28,109
who was a Kennedy in-law.
This is in the late 19503.
520
00:50:28,985 --> 00:50:32,197
And eventually,
I got to know the rest of the family,
521
00:50:33,114 --> 00:50:37,327
and mr Kennedy, senior,
we became rather close friends.
522
00:50:37,827 --> 00:50:41,247
Consequently, I did what I could
for the election of Kennedy.
523
00:51:16,616 --> 00:51:19,744
The Kennedy motorcade was preceded
by a sound truck playing
524
00:51:19,827 --> 00:51:23,498
frank's revised recording of his hit,
high hopes.
525
00:51:23,623 --> 00:51:27,502
This particular year, you've taken
a very strong stand in favour of Kennedy.
526
00:51:27,585 --> 00:51:30,922
Don't you run a career risk
in taking a political side?
527
00:51:31,005 --> 00:51:33,800
I don't think so, Paul.
Every individual has a right
528
00:51:33,883 --> 00:51:37,762
to say what he thinks and to speak up
for the candidate of his choice.
529
00:51:38,846 --> 00:51:41,599
Dad gets a phone call
from the old man, Joe Kennedy.
530
00:51:41,975 --> 00:51:45,603
He said, "I need a favour,
I'm gonna ask you to give me some help
531
00:51:45,687 --> 00:51:47,647
"in Illinois and West Virginia."
532
00:51:47,730 --> 00:51:50,149
They needed those two states and he said,
533
00:51:50,233 --> 00:51:54,153
"I want you to talk to the
guys that you know, the mob,
534
00:51:54,237 --> 00:51:58,950
"to get the unions in both states
to vote for John Kennedy."
535
00:51:59,033 --> 00:52:03,788
Dad got it and he went off
and called Sam giancana.
536
00:52:05,164 --> 00:52:10,545
As a boss, no one promoted giancana
because they liked his blue eyes,
537
00:52:10,628 --> 00:52:13,298
or his personality, or anything like that.
538
00:52:13,381 --> 00:52:17,343
It was because
he had simply killed enough people
539
00:52:17,427 --> 00:52:21,764
that he moved up through the mob
and eventually got to the top.
540
00:52:22,390 --> 00:52:25,435
He was, in almost every respect, a savage.
541
00:52:27,270 --> 00:52:30,023
The mobster liked to hang out with Sinatra
because he was famous.
542
00:52:30,106 --> 00:52:33,401
And Sinatra liked to hang out with mobsters
because he was a bad boy.
543
00:52:40,325 --> 00:52:43,328
Giancana had a vested interest
in courting Sinatra,
544
00:52:43,494 --> 00:52:47,582
because he wanted to get the FBI
to back off its crackdown in the mob.
545
00:52:49,375 --> 00:52:52,545
All of the goons around giancana,
546
00:52:52,628 --> 00:52:57,091
were all concerned
about pressure from the FBI.
547
00:52:57,175 --> 00:53:01,971
The agents were around there all the time
and were surveilling him night and day.
548
00:53:05,433 --> 00:53:09,687
Sinatra offered a way for them
to get friendly with Kennedy
549
00:53:09,771 --> 00:53:11,856
when he started running for president.
550
00:53:11,939 --> 00:53:16,235
Sinatra liked power
whether it was legitimate or illegitimate.
551
00:53:17,862 --> 00:53:20,573
And Kennedy and Sinatra both liked sex.
552
00:53:21,866 --> 00:53:26,829
It was Sinatra who introduced John Kennedy to
a former girlfriend of his, Judith Campbell,
553
00:53:26,954 --> 00:53:30,333
who we now know became his mistress.
554
00:53:32,627 --> 00:53:35,630
Judy, she was an extremely
beautiful young woman.
555
00:53:35,713 --> 00:53:39,342
There's no question,
she was in the Liz Taylor class.
556
00:53:39,425 --> 00:53:43,763
Among his peers, Jack Kennedy was like,
"oh my god!"
557
00:53:43,846 --> 00:53:46,682
I mean,
Marilyn Monroe would come in to see him.
558
00:53:46,766 --> 00:53:49,394
He was so magnetic, he could get anybody.
559
00:53:49,477 --> 00:53:53,856
It also turns out,
that Judith Campbell was dating
560
00:53:53,940 --> 00:53:55,733
a guy named Sam giancana.
561
00:53:55,817 --> 00:54:00,154
Once you start hanging out with mobsters,
you are inviting attention to yourself.
562
00:54:00,238 --> 00:54:03,658
And once you start hanging out with
mobsters and the man who is to become
563
00:54:03,741 --> 00:54:09,122
president of the United States
simultaneously, this is a problem.
564
00:54:09,205 --> 00:54:13,084
Of course, I called Jack right away.
He would always say,
565
00:54:13,167 --> 00:54:16,212
"don't worry about it,
you have nothing to be afraid of.
566
00:54:16,337 --> 00:54:18,631
"You've never done anything
wrong in your life.
567
00:54:18,714 --> 00:54:21,509
"And you know Sam works for us."
568
00:54:22,468 --> 00:54:24,720
Giancana dispatched an associate
569
00:54:24,804 --> 00:54:28,766
to get local sheriffs and powerful
coal miners' unions to deliver votes
570
00:54:29,642 --> 00:54:31,644
and the election to Kennedy.
571
00:54:32,770 --> 00:54:38,025
January 20th, 1961 saw Washington crowded
with hundreds of thousands of visitors,
572
00:54:38,443 --> 00:54:41,237
here to see mr Kennedy
take the oath of office
573
00:54:41,320 --> 00:54:44,907
administered by the chief justice
of the supreme court, Earl Warren.
574
00:54:44,991 --> 00:54:48,161
Then the new president is congratulated
by vice president Johnson,
575
00:54:48,244 --> 00:54:50,204
and the man he defeated, Richard Nixon.
576
00:54:52,081 --> 00:54:54,667
When the time came
for the inaugural celebration,
577
00:54:54,750 --> 00:54:57,587
no better person could have been chosen
578
00:54:57,670 --> 00:55:01,048
to mount it and to
orchestrate it than Sinatra.
579
00:55:01,132 --> 00:55:03,050
It was very classy.
580
00:55:05,052 --> 00:55:09,765
The Kennedys had a very specific way
of thinking and doing things.
581
00:55:09,849 --> 00:55:11,934
And at one point, dad's friendship,
582
00:55:12,018 --> 00:55:16,022
with Sammy Davis, Jr.,
who was soon to marry may britt,
583
00:55:16,105 --> 00:55:19,358
became a political rub for them.
584
00:55:20,151 --> 00:55:23,654
She was a beautiful white, blonde actress.
585
00:55:23,738 --> 00:55:27,325
And they didn't like
the idea of the interracial marriage.
586
00:55:27,909 --> 00:55:32,038
This is the Kennedys.
You would have thought the reverse of them.
587
00:55:33,164 --> 00:55:34,332
Dad got a phone call.
588
00:55:34,415 --> 00:55:39,879
And he was asked to disinvite
Sammy Davis to the inaugural gala.
589
00:55:40,963 --> 00:55:43,925
And he actually had to do it.
590
00:55:45,885 --> 00:55:49,764
I know we're all indebted to
a great friend, frank Sinatra.
591
00:55:52,725 --> 00:55:55,520
Long before he could sing,
592
00:55:55,603 --> 00:55:59,565
he used to poll a Democratic precinct
back in New Jersey.
593
00:55:59,649 --> 00:56:02,860
That precinct has grown to cover a country.
594
00:56:02,944 --> 00:56:05,655
But long after he has ceased to sing,
595
00:56:05,738 --> 00:56:08,533
he is going to be standing up
and speaking for the Democratic party,
596
00:56:08,616 --> 00:56:11,452
and I thank him
on behalf of all of you tonight.
597
00:56:12,453 --> 00:56:15,998
The son of an immigrant,
dad had risen from the streets of hoboken
598
00:56:16,082 --> 00:56:19,794
to become the biggest
and most powerful star in show business.
599
00:56:19,877 --> 00:56:22,463
It was a moment to savour for a lifetime.
600
00:57:36,203 --> 00:57:38,331
Word got out that the election was fixed.
601
00:57:39,749 --> 00:57:42,543
Republicans were screaming
for an investigation.
602
00:57:44,253 --> 00:57:48,466
Joe Kennedy tells Jack
to appoint Bobby as Attorney General.
603
00:57:51,427 --> 00:57:54,221
He said, "who do you think we are?
We don't fix elections.
604
00:57:54,305 --> 00:57:56,557
"We don't do that kind of stuff."
605
00:57:58,934 --> 00:58:00,436
After the election,
606
00:58:00,519 --> 00:58:05,816
the mob expected frank Sinatra
to get the Kennedys to go easy on them.
607
00:58:05,900 --> 00:58:08,611
Instead, president Kennedy
appointed his brother,
608
00:58:08,694 --> 00:58:11,614
who was an anti-mob crusader
from way back,
609
00:58:11,697 --> 00:58:15,701
as Attorney General,
and the crackdown only intensified.
610
00:58:15,785 --> 00:58:19,413
Would you tell us whether,
if you have opposition from anybody,
611
00:58:19,497 --> 00:58:21,916
that you dispose of them
by having them stuffed in a trunk.
612
00:58:21,999 --> 00:58:23,417
Is that what you do, mr giancana?
613
00:58:23,501 --> 00:58:26,587
I decline to answer because I honestly
believe my answer might incriminate...
614
00:58:26,671 --> 00:58:28,565
Can you tell us anything
about any of your operations,
615
00:58:28,589 --> 00:58:31,258
or do you just giggle
every time I ask you a question?
616
00:58:31,342 --> 00:58:33,070
Decline to answer
because I honestly believe
617
00:58:33,094 --> 00:58:34,679
my answer might tend to incriminate me.
618
00:58:34,762 --> 00:58:38,057
I thought only
little girls giggled, mr giancana.
619
00:58:39,183 --> 00:58:44,355
In the Chicago gangster world, everybody
was just bashing giancana for this,
620
00:58:44,438 --> 00:58:48,442
that he didn't put it all together
properly. He should have had a guarantee,
621
00:58:48,526 --> 00:58:52,321
they weren't gonna appoint
somebody like Bobby Kennedy in there.
622
00:58:52,405 --> 00:58:55,199
Sam giancana and his associates
can be heard on tape
623
00:58:55,282 --> 00:59:01,247
just fuming that Sinatra hadn't made good
on his promise to get the FBI to back off.
624
00:59:01,330 --> 00:59:05,459
Later, these undennorld figures
are fantasising
625
00:59:05,543 --> 00:59:09,588
about assassinating Sinatra,
maybe his friend Dean Martin.
626
00:59:09,672 --> 00:59:13,676
At one point, they talk about poking
Sammy Davis, Jr.'s other eye out.
627
00:59:13,759 --> 00:59:17,471
And one mobster actually fantasises about
628
00:59:17,596 --> 00:59:20,015
throwing a bomb
in the face of Bobby Kennedy,
629
00:59:20,099 --> 00:59:22,244
and says he'd gladly go to jail
for the rest of his life
630
00:59:22,268 --> 00:59:24,395
if he had a chance to do that.
631
00:59:25,563 --> 00:59:28,107
Judith Campbell was associating
with Sam giancana,
632
00:59:28,190 --> 00:59:30,401
so the FBI started watching her.
633
00:59:30,484 --> 00:59:35,573
Then they noticed that not only was she
talking to Sam giancana and frank Sinatra,
634
00:59:35,656 --> 00:59:40,411
at the same time that she was on a fairly
regular basis, calling the white house.
635
00:59:43,164 --> 00:59:46,625
J. Edgar hoover wrote a memo
to Robert Kennedy
636
00:59:46,709 --> 00:59:50,045
that started a chain of events that
caused Robert Kennedy
637
00:59:50,129 --> 00:59:54,091
to finally confront his brother
about, basically,
638
00:59:54,175 --> 00:59:56,927
his relationship with both Sinatra
and Judith Campbell.
639
00:59:57,011 --> 01:00:01,515
And as a result of that,
president Kennedy backed off Sinatra.
640
01:00:03,184 --> 01:00:08,022
There was some reaction among those who...
That...
641
01:00:08,105 --> 01:00:13,152
Apparently, a small group
that's in the anti-Sinatra area,
642
01:00:13,235 --> 01:00:15,946
criticism that perhaps
this was going to hurt Kennedy.
643
01:00:16,030 --> 01:00:20,451
- Did you get any of that?
- No, I must say that...
644
01:00:20,534 --> 01:00:22,328
That sounds rather ridiculous actually,
645
01:00:22,411 --> 01:00:27,458
because nobody imposed themselves
anywhere that I can remember.
646
01:00:27,541 --> 01:00:31,962
I've never been a witness to anything
647
01:00:32,046 --> 01:00:34,340
either visually or audibly.
648
01:00:34,423 --> 01:00:37,218
I've never been aware
of anything like that.
649
01:00:40,262 --> 01:00:43,015
What was ridiculously called "the clan"
650
01:00:43,098 --> 01:00:48,145
were several people
who had only goodness in their hearts
651
01:00:48,229 --> 01:00:51,398
wanting to help if they could, and they did
652
01:00:51,482 --> 01:00:54,527
whenever they were asked to,
which was many times.
653
01:00:54,610 --> 01:00:56,821
And that's about the extent of what we did.
654
01:00:57,404 --> 01:01:00,115
At one point in march of 1962,
655
01:01:01,575 --> 01:01:05,746
Sinatra was supposed to host Kennedy
at his home in palm Springs.
656
01:01:06,247 --> 01:01:09,959
Sinatra actually built
a separate structure for him.
657
01:01:10,084 --> 01:01:12,670
He used to call it "the
little white house." I saw it.
658
01:01:12,753 --> 01:01:15,548
And was so proud, you know.
659
01:01:15,631 --> 01:01:20,427
Suddenly, Jack got cold feet about frank,
660
01:01:20,886 --> 01:01:25,683
and he ended up staying with bing Crosby
in palm Springs, who was a republican!
661
01:01:26,267 --> 01:01:31,021
They said it was due to security factors.
662
01:01:31,105 --> 01:01:33,065
It was some lame excuse.
663
01:01:33,148 --> 01:01:35,651
And dad knew it was Bobby and said so.
664
01:01:35,734 --> 01:01:40,531
And it was pretty clear
that Bobby was looking to sever any ties
665
01:01:40,614 --> 01:01:44,076
with the very people
that helped get his brother in office.
666
01:01:44,201 --> 01:01:48,289
And it was a very low
point in my dad's life.
667
01:01:48,372 --> 01:01:53,127
He felt very hurt, very let down,
very disappointed.
668
01:01:53,252 --> 01:01:57,715
He never blamed Jack for it.
669
01:01:59,592 --> 01:02:04,138
But I think
he thought that there was a betrayal.
670
01:02:04,722 --> 01:02:08,517
It was Joseph p. Kennedy
who was calling the shots.
671
01:02:09,727 --> 01:02:14,231
And he could not depend on
John. F. Kennedy to be the hatchet man.
672
01:02:15,441 --> 01:02:19,361
On the other hand, his third son,
Bobby Kennedy,
673
01:02:19,445 --> 01:02:22,406
was perfectly willing to smile at you
674
01:02:22,489 --> 01:02:25,659
and stick a knife in your stomach
at the same time.
675
01:02:26,452 --> 01:02:30,039
It bothered Jack, too,
because that was a retreat.
676
01:02:30,122 --> 01:02:32,875
The president always had great fun there
because there was a pool.
677
01:02:32,958 --> 01:02:34,084
There were always girls.
678
01:02:34,168 --> 01:02:36,208
If he wanted to smoke a joint,
he could do it there.
679
01:02:36,253 --> 01:02:38,005
It was a real haven for him.
680
01:02:40,382 --> 01:02:42,760
The thing about Kennedy
that's so important,
681
01:02:42,843 --> 01:02:45,095
his love affair was never with women.
682
01:02:45,179 --> 01:02:47,848
It was always with men. Men loved him.
683
01:03:41,568 --> 01:03:46,281
He was being excluded
from the aristocracy of success.
684
01:03:47,449 --> 01:03:49,868
He was frozen out of power.
685
01:03:52,162 --> 01:03:56,250
The very thing that success
is meant to access.
686
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:20,357
What other contradictions, like that?
687
01:04:20,441 --> 01:04:23,193
On the one hand, emptiness.
On the other hand, adoration.
688
01:04:23,277 --> 01:04:27,281
He was as all great stars are.
Incredibly charming.
689
01:04:27,448 --> 01:04:32,077
He was also incredibly wild.
He was incredibly generous.
690
01:04:32,161 --> 01:04:36,623
He was also incredibly dismissive
and tyrannical.
691
01:04:44,715 --> 01:04:46,592
Ai, ai?
692
01:05:22,044 --> 01:05:24,838
That period of the '60s,
693
01:05:24,922 --> 01:05:30,260
it was certainly the beginning
of his entrepreneurial business life.
694
01:05:30,344 --> 01:05:31,678
And he loved it.
695
01:05:32,513 --> 01:05:34,181
What are your interests today?
696
01:05:35,015 --> 01:05:38,018
Well, aside from having
an independent picture corporation,
697
01:05:38,102 --> 01:05:42,397
we have a recording company,
698
01:05:42,481 --> 01:05:44,691
we have
several music publishing companies.
699
01:05:44,817 --> 01:05:48,529
We've gone into a
titanium manufacturing business.
700
01:05:48,862 --> 01:05:53,158
We've recently put together
an aeroplane charter service.
701
01:05:58,205 --> 01:06:01,875
One of the things that define Sinatra
is his inability to stop moving.
702
01:06:07,005 --> 01:06:10,008
He was always on the move.
He was so restless.
703
01:06:10,092 --> 01:06:12,469
12:00, he was bored.
"Let's get on the plane."
704
01:06:12,553 --> 01:06:14,972
His plane would fly to Las Vegas.
"We'll do something there."
705
01:06:22,813 --> 01:06:26,150
I just completed my world tour
on behalf of underprivileged children.
706
01:06:26,233 --> 01:06:29,736
And back home in Hollywood, I've
gone over the films we took on this trip.
707
01:06:29,820 --> 01:06:33,073
Tokyo, Hong Kong, Athens...
It's all very exciting.
708
01:06:49,756 --> 01:06:54,845
In 1962, Sinatra visited many countries
709
01:06:54,928 --> 01:06:58,557
and raised millions
and millions of dollars for charity.
710
01:07:00,434 --> 01:07:04,521
He called himself an
"over-privileged adult."
711
01:07:04,605 --> 01:07:09,193
And he decided it was time
to put something back.
712
01:07:12,279 --> 01:07:15,115
I went to all of the hospitals
for which I've performed.
713
01:07:15,199 --> 01:07:18,327
I went to see the kids.
And that's the biggest...
714
01:07:18,410 --> 01:07:21,330
Actually, that's the biggest kick
of doing this kind of thing.
715
01:07:21,455 --> 01:07:24,249
In all of the nations,
to go to see the children themselves.
716
01:07:31,715 --> 01:07:36,345
International tours happen all the time
and the singers make a lot of money on it.
717
01:07:43,101 --> 01:07:46,813
He didn't make a nickel.
He paid for everything.
718
01:07:48,941 --> 01:07:53,403
There was no scheduled airline that would
take Sinatra to the unlikely places he goes
719
01:07:53,487 --> 01:07:56,240
at the unlikely times he wants to go there.
720
01:07:58,951 --> 01:08:01,954
One of the unlikely places
Sinatra wanted to get to recently
721
01:08:02,037 --> 01:08:04,873
was lorton penitentiary
near Washington, DC.
722
01:08:15,676 --> 01:08:18,011
I remember it like it was yesterday.
723
01:08:19,680 --> 01:08:23,892
We played that prison.
It's was a black prison in Washington, DC.
724
01:08:23,976 --> 01:08:27,938
Frank just wanted to let the white house
know he was in town and didn't say "hello."
725
01:08:28,021 --> 01:08:30,440
And they were so upset, you know?
726
01:08:39,908 --> 01:08:41,994
You ought to say "hello" to my man here.
727
01:08:42,077 --> 01:08:44,621
The count basie,
and his wonderful orchestra.
728
01:08:44,705 --> 01:08:47,040
And mr Quincy Jones. Thank you.
729
01:08:56,675 --> 01:08:59,636
And the musicians loved frank.
They just loved him.
730
01:08:59,720 --> 01:09:02,014
Because he was like
a jazz musician, you know?
731
01:09:12,399 --> 01:09:17,446
Back then, the only singers
that anybody considered a real singer
732
01:09:17,529 --> 01:09:21,950
was the ones that knew how to sing
like a jazz saxophone player played.
733
01:09:34,588 --> 01:09:36,715
You know,
he used to trick me on that all the time.
734
01:09:36,798 --> 01:09:39,801
Sort of see if he could sing it faster
than I could hit those backgrounds.
735
01:09:41,261 --> 01:09:44,014
You know? He'd test me out every time.
736
01:09:54,358 --> 01:09:55,359
Eleven!
737
01:09:57,235 --> 01:09:59,863
I watched him through the years
as he became
738
01:09:59,946 --> 01:10:04,743
more deeply involved with black music.
Certainly with jazz.
739
01:10:04,826 --> 01:10:08,205
And all of the things
that he did in relationship to race
740
01:10:08,288 --> 01:10:11,041
and progressive social agenda.
741
01:10:11,625 --> 01:10:15,170
He did a huge benefit at carnegie hall,
742
01:10:15,253 --> 01:10:17,339
and an evening with Lena horne.
743
01:10:17,422 --> 01:10:21,218
Sinatra at the time,
was filming in Los Angeles.
744
01:10:22,052 --> 01:10:27,140
They wanted him to appear to raise money
for the naacp.
745
01:10:27,224 --> 01:10:32,604
He finally got himself away from the film,
got on an aeroplane and flew to New York.
746
01:10:32,687 --> 01:10:37,275
And from the airport, he went on the stage,
no warm up,
747
01:10:37,818 --> 01:10:40,028
and he sang ol' man river.
748
01:11:03,760 --> 01:11:09,766
I was up in the balcony
and I recognised dr king sitting there.
749
01:11:09,850 --> 01:11:12,644
And he was very moved by this.
750
01:11:31,621 --> 01:11:33,623
Now, you would've considered
751
01:11:33,707 --> 01:11:37,586
they would have had
one of the black operatic stars do it.
752
01:11:37,669 --> 01:11:40,755
But here is frank Sinatra singing this song
753
01:11:40,964 --> 01:11:45,051
and Martin Luther King, he wept.
754
01:12:49,783 --> 01:12:52,202
This concert that they did
was a huge success.
755
01:12:53,328 --> 01:12:57,624
And he declared himself for dr king,
and for our movement.
756
01:12:59,668 --> 01:13:06,091
With this faith, we will be able to
transform the jangling discords of our nation
757
01:13:06,174 --> 01:13:09,052
into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood.
758
01:13:09,135 --> 01:13:13,014
With this faith,
we will be able to work together,
759
01:13:13,098 --> 01:13:17,143
to pray together, to struggle together,
to go to jail together,
760
01:13:17,269 --> 01:13:22,482
to stand up for freedom together,
knowing that we will be free one day.
761
01:13:25,068 --> 01:13:27,228
- Hey, why don't you have a little snack?
- What is it?
762
01:13:27,279 --> 01:13:29,823
We'll have a look at things here.
763
01:13:29,906 --> 01:13:32,343
All right folks, put on your sheets,
and we'll start the meeting.
764
01:13:32,367 --> 01:13:33,785
Come on!
765
01:13:34,411 --> 01:13:37,080
Go bore a few holes in that
and be somebody.
766
01:13:39,207 --> 01:13:43,962
Then there came a time when,
for reasons that we never quite understood,
767
01:13:45,005 --> 01:13:52,012
Sinatra and Joey bishop and Dean Martin
began to do these outrageously racistjokes
768
01:13:52,512 --> 01:13:55,515
with Sammy Davis, Jr. as the brunt.
769
01:13:56,766 --> 01:13:59,853
He's just, you'll excuse the expression,
"a carbon copy."
770
01:14:03,690 --> 01:14:09,863
Sammy Davis, Jr. tap-danced his away
through it and played second banana,
771
01:14:09,946 --> 01:14:12,866
and went into a period of buffoonery.
772
01:14:12,949 --> 01:14:15,702
And the rest of us
were very critical of Sammy
773
01:14:15,785 --> 01:14:20,707
for not resisting and behaving in a manner
that we considered more dignified.
774
01:14:20,874 --> 01:14:23,394
I thought since we're all
on the same label, reprise, we might...
775
01:14:23,418 --> 01:14:25,128
Zelda, Zelda?
776
01:14:25,211 --> 01:14:29,090
Hey, hey, Zelda, look.
I'll go out and I'll drink with you.
777
01:14:29,174 --> 01:14:32,427
I'll go pick cotton with you.
I'll eat oranges with you.
778
01:14:32,552 --> 01:14:35,597
I'll go to schul with
you, but don't touch me.
779
01:14:41,728 --> 01:14:43,188
It was out of step.
780
01:14:43,271 --> 01:14:49,527
But you have to understand that humour,
as offensive as it may have been,
781
01:14:49,778 --> 01:14:54,741
it didn't disturb all of america.
It disturbed the black segment of america.
782
01:14:54,991 --> 01:15:00,830
The rest of white america had its dynamic
with racist behaviour and opinions.
783
01:15:00,914 --> 01:15:03,875
So, it was a country divided.
784
01:15:05,377 --> 01:15:07,587
Ladies and gentlemen,
785
01:15:07,754 --> 01:15:12,092
I give you the next
president of the United States.
786
01:15:40,912 --> 01:15:43,415
Here is a bulletin from CBS news.
787
01:15:47,627 --> 01:15:51,131
From Dallas, Texas,
the flash, apparently official,
788
01:15:51,214 --> 01:15:56,803
president Kennedy died
at 1:00 pm. Central standard time.
789
01:15:56,886 --> 01:16:01,725
2:00, eastern standard time,
some 38 minutes ago.
790
01:16:07,313 --> 01:16:10,817
Vice president lyndon Johnson
has left the hospital...
791
01:16:10,900 --> 01:16:15,238
Dad went to palm Springs after that
and virtually disappeared.
792
01:16:15,321 --> 01:16:17,073
Even I couldn't reach him.
793
01:16:17,157 --> 01:16:20,952
For three days, while the Kennedys
and the nation publicly mourned,
794
01:16:21,035 --> 01:16:24,956
my father grieved alone,
locked away in his bedroom.
795
01:16:31,296 --> 01:16:34,090
Aftennard, he said ofjohn f. Kennedy,
796
01:16:34,174 --> 01:16:37,469
"for a brief moment,
he was the brightest star in our lives."
797
01:17:22,931 --> 01:17:27,185
This is the north lodge of harrah's club,
straddling the California-Nevada border.
798
01:17:27,268 --> 01:17:31,397
From this building, nearly 48 hours ago,
frank Sinatra, Jr. was kidnapped.
799
01:17:31,481 --> 01:17:37,737
Approximately 9:00, or a few minutes
before, there was a knock on the door.
800
01:17:38,071 --> 01:17:40,490
Frank said, "come in."
801
01:17:41,616 --> 01:17:43,910
The fellow entered wearing a hooded parka.
802
01:17:45,078 --> 01:17:46,913
Said he had a package for mr Sinatra.
803
01:17:47,413 --> 01:17:49,916
As he straightened up,
he had a revolver in his hand.
804
01:17:50,416 --> 01:17:53,169
The kidnapping
happened on a Sunday night,
805
01:17:53,253 --> 01:17:56,714
the second week of December.
It was dark and cold and...
806
01:17:56,798 --> 01:17:59,843
My mother came running down
our hallway yelling,
807
01:17:59,926 --> 01:18:01,970
"your brother's been kidnapped."
808
01:18:02,095 --> 01:18:04,073
So, I said, "what do we do?"
She said, "I don't know.
809
01:18:04,097 --> 01:18:07,642
"Your father's just called
and he's on his way to Reno."
810
01:18:08,268 --> 01:18:10,520
I get the chills when I think about it.
811
01:18:10,603 --> 01:18:12,355
I was a basket case.
812
01:18:13,356 --> 01:18:16,651
I get a call the next morning
from Edgar hoover,
813
01:18:17,610 --> 01:18:21,030
- "frank?"
- "yes, sir. Mr director, how are you?"
814
01:18:22,073 --> 01:18:23,233
He said, "I'm fine." He said,
815
01:18:23,283 --> 01:18:26,035
"but I'm pissed off
about these little rat clown bastards."
816
01:18:26,119 --> 01:18:28,279
He said, "we'll get them, frank.
Don't worry about it."
817
01:18:28,329 --> 01:18:31,958
An hour later, I get a call
from Bobby Kennedy saying to me,
818
01:18:33,084 --> 01:18:35,545
"frank, everything's being done.
Just want you to know that."
819
01:18:35,628 --> 01:18:38,065
He said, "we'll get your son back."
He said, "don't worry about it,
820
01:18:38,089 --> 01:18:40,216
"don't have any cares.
We're gonna get him back."
821
01:18:40,300 --> 01:18:42,719
For such a traumatic moment,
822
01:18:43,303 --> 01:18:46,931
did it bring frank
and frank, Jr. closer together?
823
01:18:47,015 --> 01:18:50,768
Their relationship was actually
always very warm and loving.
824
01:18:51,060 --> 01:18:53,229
They were never not close.
825
01:18:53,313 --> 01:18:57,775
But there was something
about the nature of their lifestyles
826
01:18:57,859 --> 01:18:59,611
that kind of kept them apart.
827
01:18:59,819 --> 01:19:02,906
Because he was doing his thing
all the time I was growing up.
828
01:19:02,989 --> 01:19:05,992
And then, when I became an adult,
I was doing my thing.
829
01:19:06,200 --> 01:19:08,578
We do a Sinatra song in every show,
ladies and gentlemen.
830
01:19:08,661 --> 01:19:10,747
I come from a very unusual family, you see?
831
01:19:10,830 --> 01:19:12,516
Did he come to see
your first singing engagement?
832
01:19:12,540 --> 01:19:13,541
Sure.
833
01:19:13,625 --> 01:19:15,960
I was singing with
the Tommy dorsey orchestra at that time.
834
01:19:16,044 --> 01:19:18,630
I had to sing the same songs
that he had made famous.
835
01:19:29,599 --> 01:19:31,601
I was singing I'll never smile again.
836
01:19:31,684 --> 01:19:34,354
I was singing there are such things.
837
01:19:35,438 --> 01:19:38,650
Night and day.
Stuff he did with Tommy dorsey.
838
01:19:40,526 --> 01:19:42,028
Thank you, sir.
839
01:19:46,699 --> 01:19:50,828
The father-son thing
can be difficult at best.
840
01:19:50,912 --> 01:19:55,583
But primarily, as a boy, every one of us,
we need our father.
841
01:19:59,045 --> 01:20:01,965
Dad had been joined in Reno
by his lawyer Mickey rudin,
842
01:20:02,048 --> 01:20:03,633
Jack entratter of the sands hotel,
843
01:20:03,716 --> 01:20:08,262
and Dean elson, special agent
in-charge of the FBI in Nevada.
844
01:20:08,346 --> 01:20:10,014
I had two questions for him.
845
01:20:10,098 --> 01:20:13,518
One was, "would frank,
Jr. do this for the publicity?"
846
01:20:13,601 --> 01:20:15,061
"No, Dean," he says.
847
01:20:15,144 --> 01:20:18,690
"Not because of me, but because
he would never do that to his mother."
848
01:20:18,815 --> 01:20:20,066
The other question was,
849
01:20:20,149 --> 01:20:24,612
"is there any connection or reason
that the mob would want to kidnap him
850
01:20:24,696 --> 01:20:26,906
"to get even with you
or anything like that?"
851
01:20:26,990 --> 01:20:28,992
And he said, "no. There's nothing."
852
01:20:29,075 --> 01:20:32,787
A mob connection made sense,
but the truth was much crazier.
853
01:20:33,496 --> 01:20:37,458
Sane people don't wake up one day
and decide they're gonna raise money
854
01:20:37,542 --> 01:20:42,463
to start a business by kidnapping the son
of the most famous entertainer in the world.
855
01:20:43,256 --> 01:20:44,841
But that's what happened.
856
01:20:45,925 --> 01:20:49,178
The kidnapper's name was Barry Keenan.
857
01:20:49,262 --> 01:20:50,805
He grew up in southern California
858
01:20:50,888 --> 01:20:54,183
and went to high school
with the children of movie stars.
859
01:20:54,267 --> 01:20:57,812
But after some brief business success,
he started drinking heavily,
860
01:20:57,895 --> 01:21:00,773
and got hooked on percodan
and other pain killers.
861
01:21:00,940 --> 01:21:04,068
After losing all of his money
and most of his mind,
862
01:21:04,152 --> 01:21:06,612
he panicked and hatched a kidnapping plot.
863
01:21:10,408 --> 01:21:13,995
He looked in his old high school year book
for wealthy people he knew.
864
01:21:14,328 --> 01:21:18,082
He spotted Nancy Sinatra
and then settled on her brother.
865
01:21:19,375 --> 01:21:23,212
Frank Sinatra would offer $1 million
to get his son back.
866
01:21:23,296 --> 01:21:27,717
But Keenan would only ask
for exactly $240,000.
867
01:21:28,468 --> 01:21:33,431
In his fevered mind, Keenan imagined
it was a loan he would ultimately pay back.
868
01:21:36,934 --> 01:21:39,312
At 9:26 pm. On the 10th,
869
01:21:39,395 --> 01:21:43,316
dad was instructed to go to a gas station
in Beverly Hills.
870
01:21:43,399 --> 01:21:46,986
There, another phone call ordered him
to have a courier bring the money
871
01:21:47,070 --> 01:21:51,491
to a phone booth in
Los Angeles international airport at 11 pm.
872
01:21:52,867 --> 01:21:54,202
We get out there.
873
01:21:54,285 --> 01:21:58,081
We got there long before
I was supposed to be there.
874
01:21:58,164 --> 01:22:00,750
And finally he said,
"go back to your wife's house."
875
01:22:00,833 --> 01:22:05,171
He said, "and we'll call you at some time," I
don't know, a half hour, an hour and a half.
876
01:22:05,254 --> 01:22:09,550
Hesam, "we'll tell you
where you'll bring the money."
877
01:22:10,009 --> 01:22:13,179
When the phone would ring,
everybody would freeze.
878
01:22:13,262 --> 01:22:15,932
Dad would answer all the phones.
879
01:22:16,015 --> 01:22:20,436
Dad listened. He was... didn't speak much.
He asked to talk to his son.
880
01:22:21,562 --> 01:22:24,357
"I want my son. I wanna talk to my son."
881
01:22:24,440 --> 01:22:28,528
It was surreal.
It was unbelievably weird and surreal.
882
01:22:28,611 --> 01:22:33,407
I remember hours fleeting by.
None of us slept. Mom never slept.
883
01:22:33,491 --> 01:22:36,369
I remember the satchel of money coming in.
884
01:22:36,911 --> 01:22:38,538
In the pre-dawn hours of this morning,
885
01:22:38,704 --> 01:22:43,960
a courier dropped $240,000
in small bills at a service station
886
01:22:44,043 --> 01:22:47,130
on Wilshire boulevard
in Beverly Hills, here.
887
01:22:47,213 --> 01:22:50,466
At the same time,
a car stopped on the San Diego freeway
888
01:22:50,550 --> 01:22:52,426
up here near Mulholland drive,
889
01:22:52,510 --> 01:22:57,473
and blind-folded frank Sinatra
was set free after 48 hours as a captive,
890
01:22:57,557 --> 01:23:00,977
most of that time
spent in the trunk of his kidnapper's car.
891
01:23:01,060 --> 01:23:03,813
Frank, Jr. was released
not too far from his home.
892
01:23:03,896 --> 01:23:06,941
Each time a car came by,
he would duck in behind a hedge.
893
01:23:07,316 --> 01:23:10,736
Finally, he saw a patrol car that
covered the neighbourhood of bel air.
894
01:23:10,820 --> 01:23:13,281
He hailed him down
and told him who he was.
895
01:23:13,364 --> 01:23:16,075
The officer put him in the trunk
and drove to the house.
896
01:23:17,076 --> 01:23:21,164
So, when the door opened, two men,
apparently FBI, opened the door.
897
01:23:21,247 --> 01:23:25,168
And about that time, mr Sinatra
came walking from the living room.
898
01:23:25,251 --> 01:23:27,837
I said to mr Sinatra,
"Frankie's out in the trunk of the car."
899
01:23:27,920 --> 01:23:29,255
And I said, "he's okay."
900
01:23:29,380 --> 01:23:32,425
And hejust looked and hejust...
I mean, he was real serious.
901
01:23:32,508 --> 01:23:34,677
And he said, "well,
let's get that trunk open."
902
01:23:34,927 --> 01:23:38,472
And he jumped out of the trunk
and they embraced.
903
01:23:38,556 --> 01:23:42,810
And my mother... I don't know.
She let out a sound I'd never heard before.
904
01:23:43,102 --> 01:23:48,274
Actually, his first words when he saw me was,
"I'm sorry". That's exactly what he said.
905
01:23:48,357 --> 01:23:50,943
Which threw me down on the ground.
906
01:23:51,068 --> 01:23:53,613
I was scared.
I was a little bit nervous, naturally,
907
01:23:53,696 --> 01:23:56,032
but the only thing I could do
was hope for the best.
908
01:23:56,115 --> 01:23:59,452
Mrs Sinatra, when did you first know
he was safe?
909
01:23:59,619 --> 01:24:01,913
I never knew that he
was safe until I saw him.
910
01:24:01,996 --> 01:24:04,099
How do you feel now?
How do you feel now, mrs Sinatra?
911
01:24:04,123 --> 01:24:06,500
Just beautiful, thank you.
And may we be excused?
912
01:24:06,584 --> 01:24:08,961
When will you get back to work, frank?
913
01:24:09,045 --> 01:24:11,547
We don't know that.
We're keeping him home for a while.
914
01:24:11,631 --> 01:24:13,400
Sorry, sir. I'm not at Liberty
to release that information.
915
01:24:13,424 --> 01:24:14,926
Mrs Sinatra...
916
01:24:15,009 --> 01:24:18,512
Fellas, do you mind if we go now
because iwanna feed him.
917
01:24:18,596 --> 01:24:19,680
Okay.
918
01:24:53,506 --> 01:24:56,175
Young frank was...
919
01:24:56,259 --> 01:25:02,765
For the first time, it seemed to me,
he was just so struck by
920
01:25:02,848 --> 01:25:06,352
the efforts that had been involved
in getting his release.
921
01:25:13,859 --> 01:25:18,197
He was trying to thank his father
in his own way.
922
01:25:18,698 --> 01:25:22,910
And that awkward thing that I think
fathers and sons sometimes have,
923
01:25:23,035 --> 01:25:26,455
frank not quite knowing
how to reply, but...
924
01:25:27,206 --> 01:25:29,333
"You know, well, son, you know.
925
01:25:29,417 --> 01:25:33,045
"What else would I do, you know.
I mean, you are my son."
926
01:25:42,179 --> 01:25:45,558
More often than not,
you refer to your dad as "frank Sinatra"
927
01:25:45,641 --> 01:25:47,768
rather than "my father" or "dad."
928
01:25:47,852 --> 01:25:49,145
He's two people.
929
01:25:49,228 --> 01:25:52,606
The professional is Sinatra
as everyone knows him.
930
01:25:52,690 --> 01:25:55,776
The personal, the side at home is "father."
931
01:25:56,736 --> 01:25:59,572
And this, I believe, shows a respect.
932
01:26:07,872 --> 01:26:11,375
This is the continuing
story of Peyton place.
933
01:26:19,300 --> 01:26:22,136
Starring Mia farrow as Allison MacKenzie.
934
01:26:23,971 --> 01:26:25,389
- Ready?
- Yep.
935
01:26:26,349 --> 01:26:27,850
- Hello.
- Alex?
936
01:26:27,933 --> 01:26:29,560
- Mia?
- It's Mia, yes.
937
01:26:29,810 --> 01:26:33,856
So, tell me... describe if you would,
the first time you met frank.
938
01:26:33,939 --> 01:26:39,195
I was at fox studios and
I was making a TV series, Peyton place.
939
01:26:39,278 --> 01:26:44,784
I was, I think I was on roller skates
when I noticed a big set was opened.
940
01:26:44,909 --> 01:26:46,410
And I saw a train.
941
01:26:46,535 --> 01:26:49,580
And somebody tapped me on the shoulder
942
01:26:50,498 --> 01:26:54,335
and said, "do you wanna come
and say hello to frank Sinatra?"
943
01:27:02,134 --> 01:27:05,638
And iwent up, and he was sitting
on a chair and he was very sweet,
944
01:27:05,721 --> 01:27:09,016
and he got up and I dropped my purse.
945
01:27:09,892 --> 01:27:13,062
Everything went rolling every which way.
946
01:27:13,145 --> 01:27:17,817
My retainer on his shoe, tampons.
I mean, just mortifying.
947
01:27:17,900 --> 01:27:20,945
And I was scrambling to grab everything.
948
01:27:21,028 --> 01:27:25,366
And he asked if I wanted to go
to a movie with him the following night.
949
01:27:29,620 --> 01:27:31,747
It was a movie that he himself had directed
950
01:27:31,831 --> 01:27:33,499
called none but the brave.
951
01:27:33,666 --> 01:27:35,793
And I don't remember much about the movie.
952
01:27:35,876 --> 01:27:39,672
What I remember was that at some point,
he held my hand.
953
01:27:42,508 --> 01:27:46,512
I didn't know what to do
because I immediately started sweating.
954
01:27:48,180 --> 01:27:53,394
It was such a quandary, that I mentally
amputated from the wrist down.
955
01:27:55,813 --> 01:27:58,649
And when the lights went on, he said,
"did you like the movie?"
956
01:27:58,732 --> 01:28:01,527
And I'm like, "yes, I loved it."
957
01:28:01,944 --> 01:28:05,072
And he said
did iwanna come to palm Springs?
958
01:28:05,489 --> 01:28:07,700
And I heard myself saying,
959
01:28:07,783 --> 01:28:10,828
"I don't have my pyjamas or my toothbrush
and I have this cat."
960
01:28:10,995 --> 01:28:14,123
He just started laughing and he said,
"how about this?
961
01:28:14,206 --> 01:28:18,544
"I will send the plane for you tomorrow,
you can bring your cat."
962
01:28:49,909 --> 01:28:53,704
Mia had gone to my high school
two years earlier.
963
01:28:54,163 --> 01:28:56,749
I liked her very much.
Dad liked her very much.
964
01:28:59,460 --> 01:29:02,129
Dad was looking at 50 and not loving it.
965
01:29:02,213 --> 01:29:08,052
Mia was looking for the father she never
had. It's really kind of textbook, you know.
966
01:29:10,930 --> 01:29:16,769
At the time of their first meetings,
I think they were very private.
967
01:29:19,688 --> 01:29:21,732
I found him irresistible.
968
01:29:21,815 --> 01:29:25,569
Those weekends that we were together,
I would be working,
969
01:29:25,653 --> 01:29:27,905
and I would come to palm Springs.
970
01:29:27,988 --> 01:29:31,825
We had these wonderful weekends
where we took walks
971
01:29:31,909 --> 01:29:34,870
on the desert roads where his house was.
972
01:29:34,954 --> 01:29:40,584
The way I saw it,
there was this person that was so shy.
973
01:29:41,293 --> 01:29:45,422
You can see it in pictures sometimes
when you see him looking at me.
974
01:29:45,506 --> 01:29:47,216
We were both shy people.
975
01:29:48,092 --> 01:29:50,135
When I look back, the best of times,
976
01:29:50,219 --> 01:29:55,849
because I was sort of a secret,
except to a very few people in his life.
977
01:29:57,101 --> 01:30:01,480
So, there was this frank
and then there was another version.
978
01:30:25,963 --> 01:30:28,507
In la, there was the older crowd.
979
01:30:28,591 --> 01:30:31,260
You know rosalind Russell
and there was claudette colbert.
980
01:30:31,343 --> 01:30:37,766
And it was very respected members
of the la artistic community.
981
01:30:38,767 --> 01:30:40,769
In Las Vegas,
these people who would show up,
982
01:30:40,853 --> 01:30:42,646
I didn't know them from anywhere else.
983
01:30:42,730 --> 01:30:45,774
And they came
and they called women "broads."
984
01:30:45,858 --> 01:30:49,111
They only related to each other, the men.
985
01:30:49,194 --> 01:30:51,822
They told jokes,
and they drank and they gambled.
986
01:30:51,905 --> 01:30:53,907
And I did meet mafia people.
987
01:30:54,408 --> 01:30:58,954
If the evening went on late enough,
he mightjust say, "let's go to London."
988
01:30:59,038 --> 01:31:02,666
And he would call his pilot,
and next thing, we'd be in an aeroplane.
989
01:31:02,750 --> 01:31:05,419
I learned to bring my passport to dinner.
990
01:31:09,548 --> 01:31:14,511
Before he made a record
or before he opened in Las Vegas,
991
01:31:14,595 --> 01:31:17,222
he would stop smoking for six weeks.
992
01:31:17,723 --> 01:31:20,309
And he wouldn't drink, he wouldn't smoke.
993
01:31:21,435 --> 01:31:24,688
We would fly up to Vegas, we never drove.
994
01:31:24,772 --> 01:31:30,527
Then he would go in the bathroom
and hang his tux on the shower curtain
995
01:31:30,611 --> 01:31:33,197
and turn the bath on hot,
996
01:31:33,280 --> 01:31:37,576
so the steam would come up and
take any wrinkles out of his tuxedo.
997
01:31:38,160 --> 01:31:42,790
And then, before the show,
he would breathe over the sink
998
01:31:42,873 --> 01:31:45,834
with steaming water
and a towel over the back of his head
999
01:31:45,918 --> 01:31:47,586
just to clear himself up.
1000
01:32:04,937 --> 01:32:08,982
A lot of the songs he sang in Vegas
were the standards.
1001
01:32:09,066 --> 01:32:11,902
You know, Chicago,
the kind of swinging songs.
1002
01:32:11,985 --> 01:32:15,030
But I liked the ballads best by far.
1003
01:32:15,406 --> 01:32:19,326
And I know every time he sang them,
he was 100% present.
1004
01:32:32,548 --> 01:32:34,550
I remember him telling me that
1005
01:32:34,633 --> 01:32:37,928
he would never sing songs
that were popular at that time.
1006
01:32:38,011 --> 01:32:41,598
What kind of fool am I? And he
said, "I would never sing that song."
1007
01:32:41,765 --> 01:32:46,186
Hesam,
"because I can't sing what I can't feel."
1008
01:33:12,337 --> 01:33:16,258
He thought it would be fun
to go on a cruise along the cape.
1009
01:33:19,762 --> 01:33:22,598
And the next thing you know,
all around this ship,
1010
01:33:22,681 --> 01:33:26,143
were all these dinghies
and everybody with cameras.
1011
01:33:27,352 --> 01:33:29,563
I was fairly prepared for that.
1012
01:33:29,646 --> 01:33:32,566
People saying, "well, come up on deck,
we wanna take your picture."
1013
01:33:32,649 --> 01:33:35,861
Fine, I got up and I let them take
my picture and spoke to people.
1014
01:33:36,695 --> 01:33:39,031
But then it got way out of hand.
1015
01:33:39,281 --> 01:33:42,951
It became a scandalous thing
because he was this swinger.
1016
01:33:43,035 --> 01:33:44,828
And I was in a TV series,
1017
01:33:44,912 --> 01:33:48,624
playing this very young
high school kid, like, 15-16.
1018
01:33:54,046 --> 01:33:58,050
Could I rip off my philosopher's beard
and put on my battered grey fedora
1019
01:33:58,133 --> 01:33:59,802
with the press credentials in the band
1020
01:33:59,885 --> 01:34:02,721
and ask you,
are you going to marry Mia farrow?
1021
01:34:03,889 --> 01:34:06,683
Well, I can't answer that to begin with,
1022
01:34:06,767 --> 01:34:08,602
and I don't think
we're gonna use this anyway.
1023
01:34:08,685 --> 01:34:10,729
But I really can't answer it.
1024
01:34:27,162 --> 01:34:29,998
And we got married in the sands hotel.
1025
01:34:30,082 --> 01:34:35,754
And we cut the cake and frank said, "let's
go outside. There's press out there."
1026
01:34:36,421 --> 01:34:39,758
And he said, "we give them a picture
and then they'll leave us alone."
1027
01:34:40,509 --> 01:34:43,428
And honestly, we never
were left alone again.
1028
01:34:58,402 --> 01:35:05,075
My problem only arose when they married
without telling us, the children.
1029
01:35:05,158 --> 01:35:07,744
It shouldn't have been a shock.
1030
01:35:07,828 --> 01:35:10,956
It should have been
something we were a part of
1031
01:35:11,039 --> 01:35:13,959
whether we agreed with it,
or believed in it or not.
1032
01:35:14,334 --> 01:35:19,631
The truth is none of us really did,
and I don't think dad thought so for long.
1033
01:35:20,257 --> 01:35:26,054
I think Mia, who was younger,
but very strong and career-driven
1034
01:35:26,138 --> 01:35:28,807
had faith that everything would work out.
1035
01:35:28,891 --> 01:35:33,812
I think it was pretty obvious pretty
quickly that it was not going to work out.
1036
01:35:50,579 --> 01:35:55,918
When I met frank,
girls were in miniskirts and hair was high.
1037
01:35:56,001 --> 01:35:57,920
Eye makeup was heavy and...
1038
01:35:58,003 --> 01:36:01,340
That was one part of the '60s.
The middle part.
1039
01:36:03,425 --> 01:36:08,055
And obviously,
that wasn't my mode of being or dressing.
1040
01:36:11,892 --> 01:36:14,311
And then there was the Vietnam war.
1041
01:36:14,978 --> 01:36:18,565
It's no small thing,
the impact it had on people my age.
1042
01:36:33,789 --> 01:36:38,293
And there came the hippie garb
and a different way of being.
1043
01:36:39,336 --> 01:36:44,341
Which was a huge wave
that changed the youth of the nation.
1044
01:36:48,387 --> 01:36:51,556
Frank felt himself very distanced from
1045
01:36:51,640 --> 01:36:55,602
their ideology, their
attire, the whole thing.
1046
01:37:00,983 --> 01:37:04,194
My dad did not approve of looking divided.
1047
01:37:04,277 --> 01:37:07,239
You've gotta support the soldiers.
You must support the veterans.
1048
01:37:07,322 --> 01:37:08,490
He didn't want the war.
1049
01:37:08,573 --> 01:37:12,119
But if you're in it,
then we gotta do what we gotta do.
1050
01:37:12,202 --> 01:37:17,749
Fundamental world war I and ii philosophy.
And he'd lived through both.
1051
01:37:18,417 --> 01:37:21,753
Clearly, he did not embrace the change.
1052
01:37:22,087 --> 01:37:24,965
It was way different
when girls looked like dolls.
1053
01:37:25,048 --> 01:37:26,925
That, he could be comfortable with.
1054
01:37:27,009 --> 01:37:29,469
But when girls looked like Janis joplin,
1055
01:37:33,223 --> 01:37:35,267
he seemed uncomfortable with that.
1056
01:37:48,947 --> 01:37:51,033
This was anathema to him.
1057
01:37:52,701 --> 01:37:56,288
Perhaps, he thought, it would destroy
the fabric of the country he loved.
1058
01:38:03,587 --> 01:38:07,174
We just came up against walls.
1059
01:38:07,841 --> 01:38:11,678
Just inability to communicate
after a certain point.
1060
01:38:13,972 --> 01:38:15,140
Yes, doctor.
1061
01:38:15,223 --> 01:38:17,601
- Mrs woodhouse?
- Yes.
1062
01:38:17,684 --> 01:38:20,228
Thank you, thank you for calling me.
1063
01:38:20,312 --> 01:38:25,192
So, when Rosemary's baby came,
I gave him that script.
1064
01:38:25,275 --> 01:38:28,111
And he was reading it and I said,
"what do you think?"
1065
01:38:28,236 --> 01:38:30,238
And he said, "I can't
see you in that part."
1066
01:38:30,322 --> 01:38:33,575
Unusual kinds of drinks and capsules.
1067
01:38:33,658 --> 01:38:37,079
The baby's due on Tuesday.
Remember you told me June 28th?
1068
01:38:37,162 --> 01:38:39,182
- Well, I want you to deliver it.
- Mrs woodhouse...
1069
01:38:39,206 --> 01:38:43,085
But he said, "if you wanna do it,
it's just a little horror movie."
1070
01:38:43,168 --> 01:38:45,378
Hesam,
"you know, you gotta be in the detective.
1071
01:38:45,462 --> 01:38:49,674
"We're gonna be doing this big movie at fox
with Lee remick and him."
1072
01:38:50,342 --> 01:38:53,136
And so, that was what was gonna happen.
1073
01:38:54,513 --> 01:38:58,600
The director Roman polanski,
he would do his set-ups.
1074
01:38:58,683 --> 01:39:02,604
If you look at that movie, they're truly
masterful and they're not off the cuff.
1075
01:39:02,687 --> 01:39:06,149
He didn't just do your, you know,
1076
01:39:06,233 --> 01:39:09,903
group shot, two-shot, over-shoulder
and close-up.
1077
01:39:10,487 --> 01:39:16,910
It took longer than frank wanted it to take
and the detective was moving ahead.
1078
01:39:17,244 --> 01:39:22,457
And I had this horrifying feeling.
I was in every shot and what would I do?
1079
01:39:22,541 --> 01:39:26,920
And he said, "you show up when you're
supposed to show up for the detective."
1080
01:39:27,003 --> 01:39:30,340
"And if you don't," he said,
"I don't think we have a relationship."
1081
01:39:30,423 --> 01:39:33,969
Did it all come to a head
when she was doing Rosemary's baby?
1082
01:39:34,052 --> 01:39:36,429
That had nothing to do with
what we were doing.
1083
01:39:36,513 --> 01:39:39,391
No, my beef there was with Bobby Evans.
1084
01:39:39,891 --> 01:39:42,060
My secretary comes in
with an urgent message.
1085
01:39:43,353 --> 01:39:46,231
"Frank Sinatra's on the horn.
He must speak with you."
1086
01:39:46,481 --> 01:39:49,901
So, I put him on the speaker phone.
He wasn't crooning.
1087
01:39:50,610 --> 01:39:53,196
"Evans, is that you?" "Yeah, frank."
1088
01:39:53,280 --> 01:39:57,242
"Pick the fucking phone up.
I don't like being on no speaker."
1089
01:39:57,325 --> 01:39:58,910
I picked the phone up.
1090
01:39:58,994 --> 01:40:01,079
"I'm pulling Mia
from your fucking picture, Evans,
1091
01:40:01,163 --> 01:40:03,498
"if she ain't finished by November 14th.
1092
01:40:03,582 --> 01:40:06,668
"She's starting in my picture on the 17th,
got it straight?"
1093
01:40:06,751 --> 01:40:08,104
"Frank, you don't understand something.
1094
01:40:08,128 --> 01:40:10,714
"We're not gonna be finished
till mid-February."
1095
01:40:11,590 --> 01:40:16,094
"Then she's quitting. Got it clear, Evans?
Don't fuck around with me.
1096
01:40:16,178 --> 01:40:19,806
"We go back too far. She's my old lady.
She'll do as I tell her."
1097
01:40:19,890 --> 01:40:21,810
Before I can say anything,
he hangs the phone up.
1098
01:40:22,267 --> 01:40:25,812
And then, one day,
his lawyer appeared on the set
1099
01:40:25,896 --> 01:40:30,275
with an envelope, a big envelope,
brown envelope full of papers.
1100
01:40:30,358 --> 01:40:33,904
And he said,
"Mia, I've the papers for you to sign."
1101
01:40:34,279 --> 01:40:38,158
I'm like, "what papers?"
And he said, "the divorce papers."
1102
01:40:38,241 --> 01:40:40,327
And that's how I found out.
1103
01:40:41,786 --> 01:40:44,206
And I signed every single paper
without reading it.
1104
01:40:44,289 --> 01:40:47,209
And I just was crying so, so hard.
1105
01:40:50,795 --> 01:40:53,632
I don't know how I finished the day.
I don't know how I did.
1106
01:40:56,843 --> 01:41:00,555
I was in such emotional pain
and I just wanted to climb out of that.
1107
01:41:00,639 --> 01:41:02,390
So, I went to India.
1108
01:41:29,167 --> 01:41:32,754
That's life was a title that...
He was very good about it.
1109
01:41:32,837 --> 01:41:34,172
He sang it a lot.
1110
01:41:35,799 --> 01:41:39,344
He didn't always want to,
but the public demanded it.
1111
01:42:04,160 --> 01:42:08,164
One day, there was some dinner
where they were giving an award
1112
01:42:08,248 --> 01:42:10,834
to Sinatra about something.
1113
01:42:10,917 --> 01:42:15,255
And one of the speakers that night was
a marvellous actor named charlton heston.
1114
01:42:16,256 --> 01:42:18,758
And Chuck heston got up on the stage,
1115
01:42:20,176 --> 01:42:26,057
and he said, "every song this man sings
in essence is a four-minute movie."
1116
01:42:45,243 --> 01:42:46,536
Did you get any on you?
1117
01:43:13,355 --> 01:43:15,440
Nobody stays hip forever.
1118
01:43:15,774 --> 01:43:19,152
Introducing the 6th dimension.
1119
01:43:23,823 --> 01:43:27,786
There had been the most radical
kind of sea change in the culture.
1120
01:43:28,953 --> 01:43:33,792
Nobody in popular music
was able to make that kind of transition.
1121
01:43:33,875 --> 01:43:36,628
You either accepted that you were older...
1122
01:43:36,711 --> 01:43:37,751
How'd you like it, ladies?
1123
01:43:37,796 --> 01:43:40,548
Or you could embarrass yourself.
1124
01:43:40,632 --> 01:43:42,550
The ensemble is English modern.
1125
01:43:42,634 --> 01:43:46,179
The ruffle is French traditional,
and the face is Italian provincial.
1126
01:43:48,056 --> 01:43:50,642
They told me if I do good,
I get to keep the suit.
1127
01:43:50,725 --> 01:43:51,768
And away we go.
1128
01:43:56,856 --> 01:44:00,860
Frank Sinatra recorded songs to which
he could not possibly have had
1129
01:44:00,944 --> 01:44:02,862
any kind of emotional relationship.
1130
01:44:03,321 --> 01:44:06,324
'Cause he was trying to find
a way to stay afloat.
1131
01:44:25,009 --> 01:44:28,430
I'm sure he thought,
"I can find a way to get on top of this.
1132
01:44:28,513 --> 01:44:30,557
"I can find a way of relating to it."
1133
01:44:43,194 --> 01:44:48,783
Sinatra was no longer and could not
possibly be the hippest person in the room.
1134
01:44:51,870 --> 01:44:55,582
Suddenly, he's not at the centre
of the culture.
1135
01:44:56,207 --> 01:44:57,250
Thank you, group.
1136
01:44:57,333 --> 01:45:00,837
And don't look now, Francis Albert,
but your generation gap is showing.
1137
01:45:05,675 --> 01:45:08,720
On January 24, 1969,
1138
01:45:09,137 --> 01:45:14,309
the man I called "dad"
had lost the man he called "dad."
1139
01:45:14,392 --> 01:45:17,645
Like many Americans,
my father had been silently strong
1140
01:45:17,729 --> 01:45:20,148
through the assassinations
of jfk and Bobby
1141
01:45:20,231 --> 01:45:22,025
and then Martin Luther King.
1142
01:45:23,234 --> 01:45:26,738
But when his father died,
something snapped.
1143
01:45:43,338 --> 01:45:46,007
I never knew my father
had that many friends.
1144
01:45:46,090 --> 01:45:47,250
Boy, he had a lot of friends.
1145
01:45:47,300 --> 01:45:48,551
- Jesus!
- You kept saying that.
1146
01:45:48,635 --> 01:45:51,179
They came from miles around.
I couldn't believe it.
1147
01:45:51,262 --> 01:45:54,933
Knowing that he was such an introvert,
I guess people got to love him,
1148
01:45:55,016 --> 01:45:59,270
and then they remained
as close as they could to him all the time.
1149
01:46:07,111 --> 01:46:11,157
My father loved me, if possible,
more than my mother.
1150
01:46:11,241 --> 01:46:12,575
But he never showed it.
1151
01:46:13,868 --> 01:46:19,624
He never wanted to open up with me.
He was a terrible introvert.
1152
01:46:19,916 --> 01:46:23,628
For instance, I went to the firehouse
when I appeared at the Paramount.
1153
01:46:23,711 --> 01:46:24,837
I said, "my dad around?"
1154
01:46:24,921 --> 01:46:27,924
They said, "we think he's upstairs."
1155
01:46:29,133 --> 01:46:33,221
When I came up, he was standing in
front of the door of the locker, shaving.
1156
01:46:36,391 --> 01:46:41,145
As I approached him, he apparently saw me
and slammed the door.
1157
01:46:41,312 --> 01:46:44,399
But I had already seen in the mirror.
1158
01:46:44,482 --> 01:46:47,402
This thing was full of clippings
that he had been saving,
1159
01:46:47,485 --> 01:46:49,365
or have guys find them
and cut out of magazines.
1160
01:46:49,445 --> 01:46:51,906
They cut them out of magazines
and saved them for him.
1161
01:46:51,990 --> 01:46:55,243
Downbeat and metronome
and newspaper clippings.
1162
01:46:59,664 --> 01:47:01,958
I could have wept when I saw it.
1163
01:47:06,671 --> 01:47:09,507
He loved my success,
but he never mentioned it.
1164
01:47:09,591 --> 01:47:11,175
He would never talk about it.
1165
01:47:22,186 --> 01:47:24,397
I believe in the two-party system.
1166
01:47:25,481 --> 01:47:29,402
There come times when the
issues are of philosophical nature,
1167
01:47:29,485 --> 01:47:32,280
and people cross party lines.
1168
01:47:32,363 --> 01:47:36,200
I think perhaps this is such a time.
I'm sure of it.
1169
01:47:36,284 --> 01:47:40,288
Democrats for Reagan.
I think it was a huge success.
1170
01:47:40,371 --> 01:47:44,042
And again, it was dad's pleasure
to believe in a candidate,
1171
01:47:44,125 --> 01:47:47,754
and work hard and hit the road and stump.
1172
01:47:47,962 --> 01:47:51,633
I think that his relationship
with Ronnie Reagan and Nancy,
1173
01:47:51,716 --> 01:47:54,010
he was moving in those circles more.
1174
01:47:54,552 --> 01:47:57,513
When I came out for Reagan,
a lot of my friends didn't even talk to me.
1175
01:47:57,597 --> 01:48:01,100
They were angry with me. And I
said to a few of them, "wait a minute."
1176
01:48:01,184 --> 01:48:03,895
I said, "I have a right
to choose the man I wanna vote for.
1177
01:48:03,978 --> 01:48:05,313
"I don't tell you how to vote."
1178
01:48:05,396 --> 01:48:08,608
They were wrong, really.
You know, they were really wrong about it.
1179
01:48:08,691 --> 01:48:10,371
Are you a long-time friend of the reagans?
1180
01:48:10,443 --> 01:48:13,154
Yes, Ronnie and I go back a long, long way.
1181
01:48:13,237 --> 01:48:17,659
We've been friends a long time,
since 1943 or '44.
1182
01:48:17,742 --> 01:48:21,704
- Did you switch parties?
- It's not a matter of switching parties.
1183
01:48:21,788 --> 01:48:24,832
I'm a registered democrat.
I never changed my registration.
1184
01:48:24,916 --> 01:48:27,794
If I think the republican
is a better man than the democrat,
1185
01:48:27,877 --> 01:48:29,462
I will vote for the republican.
1186
01:48:29,545 --> 01:48:32,965
If it had to be,
I'd rather be called an independent.
1187
01:48:34,592 --> 01:48:38,930
One night, I called my father.
Notice now it's "my father."
1188
01:48:39,055 --> 01:48:43,351
This is not the professional person,
not Sinatra, this is father.
1189
01:48:43,434 --> 01:48:46,813
I called him at his home in palm Springs.
1190
01:48:46,896 --> 01:48:48,898
He said, "look, do me a favour,"
on the telephone.
1191
01:48:48,981 --> 01:48:52,193
"Talk fast, will you?
I got Nixon sitting here at dinner."
1192
01:48:54,487 --> 01:48:58,491
I'm delighted to see
and to witness the fact
1193
01:49:00,910 --> 01:49:05,039
that millions
and millions of American voters,
1194
01:49:05,123 --> 01:49:06,958
today and this evening,
1195
01:49:07,041 --> 01:49:11,963
have chosen to re-elect the president
and the vice president for another term.
1196
01:49:13,423 --> 01:49:17,719
I can't explain what he
saw in Richard Nixon. I can't.
1197
01:49:17,802 --> 01:49:20,221
We fought about it.
1198
01:49:20,304 --> 01:49:21,931
After Kennedy,
1199
01:49:22,014 --> 01:49:26,936
each successive president
has some association with Sinatra.
1200
01:49:27,019 --> 01:49:32,984
He became very friendly with Richard Nixon.
He was especially friendly with spiro agnew.
1201
01:49:34,318 --> 01:49:38,322
He encouraged spiro agnew not to resign.
1202
01:49:38,406 --> 01:49:41,284
I think within a week
before he actually resigned.
1203
01:49:41,367 --> 01:49:44,454
Agnew had left office in disgrace.
1204
01:49:44,537 --> 01:49:49,250
And although
Sinatra didn't like Richard Nixon,
1205
01:49:49,333 --> 01:49:51,919
he really had affection for agnew.
1206
01:49:52,003 --> 01:49:56,758
It was a huge loss
that Sinatra went to the other side.
1207
01:49:56,841 --> 01:49:59,260
And we've never recovered from it, really.
1208
01:49:59,343 --> 01:50:02,138
I don't think
he went out of political philosophy
1209
01:50:02,221 --> 01:50:04,265
to the republican side of the agenda.
1210
01:50:04,348 --> 01:50:06,642
Sinatra really needed to hurt the Kennedys.
1211
01:50:06,726 --> 01:50:10,271
And the way to do that
was to go after them politically.
1212
01:50:10,354 --> 01:50:14,817
He did it 'cause he was frank from hoboken,
and that's the way you do it.
1213
01:50:14,901 --> 01:50:15,902
Simple.
1214
01:50:16,903 --> 01:50:22,283
We had made an album in August of '69
1215
01:50:22,366 --> 01:50:24,285
called a man alone.
1216
01:50:24,368 --> 01:50:27,872
And the words and music
were by rod mckuen.
1217
01:50:27,955 --> 01:50:32,460
It was not well regarded, poorly reviewed,
1218
01:50:32,543 --> 01:50:35,505
and certainly had no commercial success.
1219
01:50:35,838 --> 01:50:40,176
And then, he got it into his head
to make another concept album.
1220
01:50:40,259 --> 01:50:42,637
And he made watertown.
1221
01:50:42,720 --> 01:50:47,225
It sold 30,000 copies. Frank Sinatra.
1222
01:50:47,308 --> 01:50:52,313
It was the worst-selling record
in the history of Sinatra's career.
1223
01:50:52,396 --> 01:50:56,359
And so, he felt his career was waning.
1224
01:50:57,485 --> 01:51:00,279
He decided at that
point, that he would retire.
1225
01:51:30,560 --> 01:51:33,646
The people
who were in attendance that night,
1226
01:51:33,771 --> 01:51:36,315
the vice president and his wife,
1227
01:51:36,399 --> 01:51:39,944
the governor of California,
governor Reagan and his wife...
1228
01:51:40,444 --> 01:51:44,532
I sat next to Henry kissinger that night,
1229
01:51:44,615 --> 01:51:47,618
and Princess grace of Monaco.
1230
01:51:54,458 --> 01:51:58,546
I remember being terrified that
I was gonna get hit by a sniper's bullet,
1231
01:51:58,629 --> 01:52:01,007
'cause I was sitting directly
behind Ted agnew.
1232
01:52:01,090 --> 01:52:04,594
Terrible thing to say,
but it crossed my mind.
1233
01:53:40,648 --> 01:53:42,400
Thank you.
1234
01:53:44,235 --> 01:53:48,155
Dad knew exactly what he was going to do
and how he was going to do it.
1235
01:53:48,239 --> 01:53:52,034
He was going to make a grand exit.
Quite a night.
1236
01:54:01,252 --> 01:54:03,838
Do you think he really intended to retire?
1237
01:54:03,921 --> 01:54:06,382
I believe he was burned out.
1238
01:54:06,465 --> 01:54:09,593
He was just overloaded.
1239
01:54:09,677 --> 01:54:12,930
Too much, for too much a period of time.
1240
01:54:47,631 --> 01:54:49,592
The entire room was in tears.
1241
01:54:49,675 --> 01:54:52,553
Many of us knew
what the last line of that song would be.
1242
01:55:17,286 --> 01:55:21,082
The retirement concert was meant to be
Sinatra's life in song.
1243
01:55:21,165 --> 01:55:25,086
But whatever motivated Sinatra
to stop singing, it didn't last long.
1244
01:55:25,169 --> 01:55:27,922
Only two years, and he had to get back.
1245
01:55:29,924 --> 01:55:35,596
Madison square garden, October 13, 1974.
1246
01:55:35,679 --> 01:55:39,683
Jam-packed with 20,000 people plus!
1247
01:55:39,809 --> 01:55:43,104
Just people, people from all walks of life,
1248
01:55:43,187 --> 01:55:46,690
people who are young
and people who are old,
1249
01:55:46,816 --> 01:55:52,947
here to see, here, pay homage
to a man who has bridged four generations
1250
01:55:53,030 --> 01:55:55,908
and somehow never found a gap...
1251
01:55:55,991 --> 01:55:58,661
My secretary came and she said,
"frank Sinatra's on the phone."
1252
01:55:58,744 --> 01:55:59,787
I said, "hello."
1253
01:55:59,870 --> 01:56:02,957
He said, "Jerry,
I want you to take me out of retirement."
1254
01:56:03,040 --> 01:56:05,793
This event, live,
with the king of entertainment
1255
01:56:05,876 --> 01:56:09,672
carries with it,
the breathless excitement and anticipation
1256
01:56:09,755 --> 01:56:12,133
of a heavyweight championship fight.
1257
01:56:12,216 --> 01:56:13,926
Celebrities are here and...
1258
01:56:14,009 --> 01:56:16,512
I said, "we're gonna
do it in a boxing ring."
1259
01:56:16,595 --> 01:56:19,640
He said, "why? Why?"
1260
01:56:19,723 --> 01:56:24,145
I said, "because you're the champ.
You're the heavyweight champ of the world."
1261
01:56:49,587 --> 01:56:53,424
He starts to spend more and more time
performing in public.
1262
01:56:53,507 --> 01:56:57,469
And not just in ordinary settings,
but in stadium settings,
1263
01:56:57,553 --> 01:57:00,264
performing for vast crowds of people,
1264
01:57:00,347 --> 01:57:03,601
because he means the world to them.
1265
01:57:07,938 --> 01:57:09,148
Thank you.
1266
01:57:09,231 --> 01:57:13,277
I'm delighted to be back in New York
and be able to work here.
1267
01:57:18,240 --> 01:57:20,951
I've had some of my greatest fights here.
1268
01:57:24,914 --> 01:57:26,957
What happened?
1269
01:57:27,124 --> 01:57:31,545
Passion still defines Sinatra's life
in his later years.
1270
01:57:31,670 --> 01:57:34,131
He married once more to Barbara Marx.
1271
01:57:36,091 --> 01:57:39,470
A marriage
that would last until the end of his life.
1272
01:57:40,012 --> 01:57:43,098
He was honoured for his music
all over the world.
1273
01:57:44,266 --> 01:57:46,644
He raised more money for charity.
1274
01:57:47,228 --> 01:57:49,939
And he piled up awards
from powerful friends.
1275
01:57:51,482 --> 01:57:56,111
Singer, humanitarian, patron of art,
mentor of artists,
1276
01:57:56,195 --> 01:58:01,367
Francis Albert Sinatra and his impact on
america's popular culture are without peer.
1277
01:58:06,288 --> 01:58:09,124
But some friendships didn't end so well.
1278
01:58:13,128 --> 01:58:16,715
"You think that some people are smart,"
he said, "and they turn out dumb.
1279
01:58:16,799 --> 01:58:20,344
"You think they're straight,
and they turn out crooked."
1280
01:58:21,345 --> 01:58:25,307
"Maybe," he told Pete hamill,
"you get older and you know less."
1281
01:58:31,105 --> 01:58:34,108
The bad moments of those years...
1282
01:58:35,526 --> 01:58:38,696
The outbursts of anger
that have blotted his career,
1283
01:58:38,779 --> 01:58:42,992
reflect his slackening
grasp on the culture.
1284
01:58:43,075 --> 01:58:46,578
Frank Sinatra gets upset with newsmen
continually hounding him.
1285
01:58:47,162 --> 01:58:48,580
Can we speak to you, mr Sinatra?
1286
01:58:48,664 --> 01:58:50,916
Not around the corner, no, ma'am.
1287
01:58:52,543 --> 01:58:55,254
What do you think about
any press in the world?
1288
01:58:55,337 --> 01:58:57,840
I say they're burns
and they're always gonna be bums.
1289
01:58:57,923 --> 01:58:59,633
They're pimps, they're just crazy.
1290
01:58:59,717 --> 01:59:03,971
They're hookers. The broads who work
in the press are the hookers of the press.
1291
01:59:04,054 --> 01:59:06,140
Need I explain that to you?
1292
01:59:10,060 --> 01:59:11,437
Let's make a record.
1293
01:59:11,520 --> 01:59:14,690
At this point, his voice
was beginning to age.
1294
01:59:15,274 --> 01:59:20,779
He starts to record less, to spend
gradually, less and less time in the studio.
1295
01:59:20,863 --> 01:59:22,156
When you're ready.
1296
01:59:30,080 --> 01:59:33,917
I think, arguably,
that was his last great day in the studio.
1297
01:59:34,793 --> 01:59:37,546
You see a very, very happy man.
1298
01:59:51,226 --> 01:59:54,355
It was one of those
wonderfully memorable moments,
1299
01:59:54,438 --> 01:59:57,900
to have the two greatest artists
of their generations in the same room.
1300
01:59:57,983 --> 02:00:01,153
You could see immediately,
that there was no generation gap here,
1301
02:00:01,236 --> 02:00:04,198
just two legendary performers
grooving on each other.
1302
02:00:10,454 --> 02:00:12,081
Terry, in his retirement concert,
1303
02:00:12,164 --> 02:00:14,666
Sinatra sings the songs of his life
up to that point,
1304
02:00:14,750 --> 02:00:17,544
songs that dominated the culture.
1305
02:00:17,628 --> 02:00:19,129
Did he ever find that again?
1306
02:00:19,546 --> 02:00:23,175
Yes. One last time,
he turns a song into a standard.
1307
02:00:23,258 --> 02:00:25,260
What is touching about it is,
1308
02:00:25,344 --> 02:00:28,472
this is a man who, in his youth,
1309
02:00:28,597 --> 02:00:31,809
looked across the river and saw his dreams,
1310
02:00:31,892 --> 02:00:35,729
and now, in his late middle age,
in his old age,
1311
02:00:35,813 --> 02:00:39,650
he sings a song about
having achieved those dreams.
1312
02:00:43,487 --> 02:00:47,491
I was present at the very first moment
that he sang it publicly.
1313
02:00:47,574 --> 02:00:51,787
It was during the
yankee-dodger world series of '78.
1314
02:00:51,870 --> 02:00:55,791
And he was playing radio city,
opening night.
1315
02:00:55,874 --> 02:00:59,336
He turns to the conductor and says,
"what's the first line?"
1316
02:00:59,420 --> 02:01:02,214
He said, "start spreading the news."
1317
02:01:20,357 --> 02:01:24,486
And I remember now,
a night I spent with him in 1974,
1318
02:01:24,570 --> 02:01:28,365
driving around New York in a limousine,
just talking.
1319
02:01:29,199 --> 02:01:31,493
"When I first came across that river,
1320
02:01:31,577 --> 02:01:35,747
"this was the greatest city
in the whole goddamn world.
1321
02:01:35,831 --> 02:01:38,041
"It was like a big, beautiful lady."
1322
02:01:55,559 --> 02:01:59,813
I liked the man who talked that way
on a chilly night in New York.
1323
02:01:59,897 --> 02:02:03,275
I liked his doubt, his uncertainty.
1324
02:02:03,692 --> 02:02:07,988
He had enriched my life with his music
since I was a boy.
1325
02:02:08,071 --> 02:02:10,032
He had confronted bigotry,
1326
02:02:10,115 --> 02:02:14,369
and changed the way many people thought
about the children of immigrants.
1327
02:02:15,412 --> 02:02:20,542
He had made many of us wiser about love
and human loneliness.
1328
02:02:21,877 --> 02:02:26,632
And he was still trying to understand
what it was all about.
1329
02:03:24,022 --> 02:03:26,483
His imperfections were upsetting.
1330
02:03:27,776 --> 02:03:30,946
But frank Sinatra was a genuine artist,
1331
02:03:31,154 --> 02:03:34,700
and his work will endure
as long as men and women
1332
02:03:34,783 --> 02:03:38,161
can hear and ponder and feel.
1333
02:03:38,245 --> 02:03:42,374
In the end, that's all that truly matters.
1334
02:04:25,542 --> 02:04:29,630
Back in the days when I was young and eager
and had enough vitamins to be on television,
1335
02:04:29,713 --> 02:04:31,107
I used to close my show with a theme
1336
02:04:31,131 --> 02:04:33,508
that's been with me
for a long, long, long time.
1337
02:04:35,719 --> 02:04:37,804
I still have a case on this tune.
1338
02:04:37,888 --> 02:04:40,557
And a lot of your letters tell me
you'd like to hear it again, too.
1339
02:04:40,641 --> 02:04:42,059
And so would I.
1340
02:06:44,181 --> 02:06:46,099
Thank you.
1341
02:06:49,644 --> 02:06:51,646
Thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen.
1342
02:06:51,696 --> 02:06:56,246
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