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In the News (Sun 27 Dec 09)

  
  BBC News | ENTERTAINMENT | Sinatra 'loathed' My Way
The stain on the Sinatra legend is that allegation of involvement with the Mafia.
Sinatra is said to have been asked by John F. Kennedy's father, Joe, to ask the mob if they would encourage their unionised workers to vote for the young Democrat.
But Tina Sinatra denied that this was proof that her father had a deeper relationship with the Mafia.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/994742.stm   (633 words)

  
 Sinatra tells daughter he helped mob get Kennedy elected
FRANK Sinatra told his daughter Tina that he was involved with the Mafia in helping John F Kennedy win the crucial West Virginia primary election in 1960, she claims in her autobiography.
Tina says Sinatra told her that he had agreed to act as a go-between and that Giancana said he would help the Kennedys.
Tina, Nancy and Frank Jnr, the children of Sinatra's first marriage to Nancy, have never got on with his fourth wife, who was with him when he died in 1998 at the age of 82.
www.ipsn.org /sinatra_mob_kennedy.htm   (553 words)

  
 Telegraph | Entertainment | 'How could men match up to my father?'
The fact that Frank ran off with the movie goddess Ava Gardner when Tina was still a baby has left her with fewer childhood memories of her father than her sister and brother Frankie have, which explains the intensity she shows towards Sinatra's memory.
Tina's mother Nancy still lives "a mile and a tenth" away from her younger daughter in Los Angeles, near enough for Tina to reach her on foot if the canyons collapse after an earthquake.
Tina's memoir had attempted to end the speculation by concluding that years of FBI investigations into Sinatra's supposed Mafia links had failed to tie her father to a single illegal activity.
www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2004/11/08/ftsin08.xml   (1582 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | Special Report | 1998 | 05/98 | Sinatra | Family battle over Sinatra's millions
Sinatra's three children by his first wife - Tina, Frank Jr and Nancy - are pitted against his fourth wife, former showgirl Barbara, over his estimated fortune of $200m (£124m).
Tina and her two siblings own Reprise Records, which controls the rights to all Sinatra's recordings made between 1960 and 1988.
Tina won the battle and the tie appeared with an image of Sinatra from the 1960s.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/special_report/1998/05/98/sinatra/94239.stm   (534 words)

  
 Frank Sinatra: The Complete Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Still, Sinatra managed to endure, and there is not a single year in his six-decade run of fame in which he was entirely absent from the news.
Although Frank Sinatra's films have never been the artistic equal of his music, Frank often was fascinating to watch on film, with his bullet stare and deeply felt performances amply showing why he was nearly as successful a film actor as he was a singer.
Sinatra's elegant long phrasing, subtle sense of rhythm, and perfect diction made every word clear as a bell, and he sang with such conviction that his fans had no trouble believing in him.
sinatraguide.com /books5.htm   (4668 words)

  
 Tina Sinatra: Mob Ties Aided JFK, Daughter Says Joe Kennedy Asked Singer To Enlist Sam Giancana - CBS News
Tina Sinatra, 52, says her father told her that Kennedy patriarch Joseph P. Kennedy wanted the Mafia's help in delivering the union vote in the 1960 West Virginia primary, in which John Kennedy, then a U.S. senator, faced Sen. Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota.
Tina says her father told her how he assuaged an angry Giancana.
Sinatra's friendship with President Kennedy was well known, and allegations of his connections to the Mafia are not new.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/10/05/60minutes/main238980.shtml   (884 words)

  
 Sinatra: Death Of A Legend, An Overview Of The Life Of Frank Sinatra - CBS News
In cities across the country, Sinatra's records flew off shelves, as fans who grew up listening to him fondly recalled their youths, and people too young to remember his glory days got a first good listen.
Sinatra's appearances at the Paramount became the stuff of legend for the so-called Columbus Day riots, when thousands of fans blocked the streets and broke store windows in their furor to see his show.
Sinatra was crushed when the president traveled to southern California, and then spent the night with Crosby (a Republican) instead of him.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/1998/05/15/entertainment/main9564.shtml   (1885 words)

  
 NewStandard: 10/5/97
In the other corner: the stepmother, Barbara Sinatra, who is the singer's fourth wife, and her son, Robert Marx, 46, an entertainment-industry attorney who recently joined the Sheffield board.
Sinatra's personal life was always turbulent and drew the attention of a pretabloid public.
Frank Sinatra is now 81 and, with each slip into infirmity, his heirs become further enmeshed in a behind-the-scenes battle over his financial holdings, estimated to be worth more than $200 million.
www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/10-97/10-05-97/f01bu223.htm   (1135 words)

  
 JS Online: Taking the measure of Frank Sinatra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Sinatra was in there alone, waiting for his tailor to come measure him for a couple of suits.
Sinatra, who had already made up his mind to do the documentary, figured he'd needle me a little to find out what kind of guy I was.
In September of 2000, Sinatra's daughter Tina had just published her autobiography and was the subject of a "60 Minutes" story by Steve Kroft.
www.jsonline.com /enter/books/apr01/hewitt09040601.asp   (1522 words)

  
 Spirit of Sinatra - References - Sinatra's Paintings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Sinatra's painting was a hobby for him for more than 40 years.
Sinatra's paintings are an example of his longing to be involved in "high art," Katz said.
Sinatra's paintings would be characterized as "abstract expressionism" or New York school painting that was predominant after World War II, Katz said.
www.spiritofsinatra.com /pages/articles/paintings_1.html   (495 words)

  
 Amazon.com: My Father's Daughter: A Memoir: Books: Tina Sinatra,Jeff Coplon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Sinatra for over thirty years, one of my earliest memories is of my mother singing along while Frank sang in the background, my first child was brought into the world while a Sinatra tape played in the delivery room.
Tina does an outstanding and thorough job explaining the man her father was, from all points.
Tina mentions both his good and bad sides and she is very candid in her feelings and emotions regarding her family and father.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0684870762?v=glance   (2111 words)

  
 Tina Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
In this memoir, Frank Sinatra's youngest daughter, Tina Sinatra, exposes the legal and psychological problems that plagued the Sinatra family.
Award-winning journalist Tina Rosenberg spent five years in Latin America--drinking coffee with hit men and sunbathing with death-squad financiers--to understand people for whom violence is a way of life.
Tina, a teenage runaway, tells the story of her four years living amid the homeless in the tunnels beneath Grand Central Station.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Tina   (1059 words)

  
 Jazz Book Review - My Father's Daughter by Tina Sinatra (with Jeff Coplon) @ jazzreview.com
There is also the rough side of Frank Sinatra, the funny side of Frank Sinatra, the fatherly side of Frank Sinatra, and the lover's side of Frank Sinatra.
This will be a book most Sinatra fans will want to own and have in their home library collection.
In a beautifully stated ending, Tina Sinatra remembers her love for her father with these words: "In that love I am my father's daughter, and always will be."
www.jazzreview.com /bookdetails.cfm?ID=62   (347 words)

  
 The Telegraph - Calcutta : International
Co-producer Tina Sinatra has seen her 10-year effort to remake the film of Richard Condon’s 1959 fl comic novel come to fruition with Washington playing the role originated by her famous father, Frank Sinatra.
While the first movie was shelved for 25 years for hitting too close to home after the 1963 killing of President John F. Kennedy, those involved with the new version are excited about the topicality of a film on political deception and corporate conspiracies arising from the Gulf War.
Sinatra was pleased the politically minded film was ready for the run-up to November’s US presidential election.
www.telegraphindia.com /1040728/asp/foreign/story_3551195.asp   (718 words)

  
 CANOE -- JAM! - Tina Sinatra to produce 'Manchurian' remake
Sinatra and Harvey portrayed Korean War vets who gradually discover they had been unwittingly captured by Soviet and Communist Chinese officials, brainwashed, and then released without any clear memory of their experience.
Sinatra's character realizes Harvey's character had been trained as a sleeper assassin.
Tina Sinatra told Variety that her father blessed the remake before his death.
jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Artists/R/Rudin_Scott/2002/03/08/pf-761280.html   (197 words)

  
 The Frank Sinatra Emporium - Sinatra Books
Sinatra's 101 all time best recorded songs and the stories behind their recordings.
This is the biography written by Nancy Sinatra, Frank's daughter.
Sinatra had many many hits during the Capitol years with Riddle.
www.homestead.com /Sinatra/Books.html   (447 words)

  
 The Official LeRoy Neiman Website
Sinatra was a perfectionist and his own harshest critic, and would not accept a "take" until he thought it was perfect.
The portrait was specially commissioned by Tina Sinatra for the cover of the new Frank Sinatra album, Classic Duets.
All of Neiman's serigraphs of Sinatra are tremendously popular, and this release, coordinated with the album and TV program, is sure to be another of LeRoy Neiman's greatest hits.
www.leroyneiman.com /merchant.ihtml?pid=553&step=4   (260 words)

  
 Sinatra Family : Tina   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tina is an Independent Film Producer at Warner Bros. Studios.
Tina is an animal activist and is dedicated to ALL critters - whatever the size, shape or type.
Tina and the owners of the new Jilly's in Chicago
www.sinatrafamily.com /Family_Tina.php   (81 words)

  
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Sinatra swings through traditional fireside sing-alongs ("Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" and "The Twelve Days of Christmas"), often accompanied by his kids, Tina, Nancy, and Frank, Jr., in the days before the latter two became stars in their own right.
Sinatra is also joined by his one-time rival in the crooner stakes, Bing Crosby, most notably on the classic "White Christmas," which still has the power to call up pleasing sentiments of the season.
The combination of Sinatra`s warm, yet world-weary, voice and the material`s lushly appointed arrangements is timeless and irresistible.
www.overstock.com /sm-frank-sinatra-christmas-collection--pg-proframe_pi-1011711_ti-82125.html   (493 words)

  
 The Manchurian Candidate - Preview Online
n 1991, Tina Sinatra, the crooner’s youngest daughter, asked her father whether he thought that The Manchurian Candidate would work for a modern audience.
Tina’s question was both personal and a matter of business.
Sinatra Sr owned the rights to the film, so his opinion on the viability of a possible remake would not only be useful: it was essential.
www.preview-online.com /a2004/feature_articles/candidate   (379 words)

  
 Sinatra's Links To Mafia And CIA Revealed In New Book By Daughter
Dad was on an errand." Tina says Sinatra told her that he had agreed to act as a go-between and that Giancana said he would help the Kennedys.
I asked for the favour'." Tina says that, to repay the gangster, her father "went to Chicago and played in Giancana's club, the Villa Venice".
Why she didn't want to call us, I can only imagine." Writing of her father's last concerts, when he often forgot his words, Tina says: "I begged him to stop." But Sinatra, despite his wealth, told her he needed to keep making money.
www.rense.com /general4/sinatra.htm   (530 words)

  
 Old blue eyes is back on Broadway - Today - MSNBC.com
FRANK SINATRA WAS the epitome of cool, the skinny singer who made women swoon and the leader of the rat pack.
Frank’s youngest daughter Tina was thrilled by the discovery of unseen footage of her dad filmed during the single season he hosted a television show back in 1957.
Tina: “The essence of the show is going to represent who dad was as a man and as a performer.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/3131188   (614 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Sinatra - The Classic Duets: DVD: David Leaf,John Scheinfeld,Frank Sinatra,Louis Armstrong,Lena Horne,Nancy ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
While the performances here are more "classic" than those from Sinatra's two "Duets" albums from the nineties, the relative brevity of the program (it would easily fit on a CD) raises the question of why the producers of this DVD didn't include any of the solo performances from the same series.
Sinatra may have been a great solo artist, but well before the somewhat contrived projects of the 90s, he had proven himself to be a masterful duet singer.
Sinatra may or may not have had a big ego, but clearly he was willing to share the spotlight with others whose talent he admired.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00008XRZV?v=glance   (2258 words)

  
 Frank Sinatra Life and Times Part 1 quiz -- free game   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Frank Sinatra and his wife Nancy had a daughter in 1940, named Nancy Sandra.
The only woman that Frank Sinatra married and did NOT divorce was Barbara Marx.
Sinatra not only performed song, but he also excelled in acting on the silver screen.
www.funtrivia.com /playquiz.cfm?qid=64314   (283 words)

  
 Sinatra Family : News
That's the first question to be answered as Tina Sinatra says, "We have finally found the right partner to entrust and work with to present a unique tribute to the memories that Frank Sinatra left for the world."
Sinatra's debut at RCMH was in 1978 (of course, he first made headlines with lines of bobbysoxers at the Paramount in December 1942).
Tina you are to be commended along with Nancy and Frank Jr.
www.sinatrafamily.com /news/comments.php?id=74_0_1_60   (1029 words)

  
 eFilmCritic - Frank Sinatra finds a home at USC School of Film and Television
Nancy Sinatra approached the podium while the student jazz band played “These Boots Are Made for Walking.” After a lengthy speech about why USC was the right home for her dad’s stuff, she went on to explain that her dad always wanted her, Tina and their brother Frank Jr.
Tina Sinatra, the muscle behind moving the collection to USC roundly thanked all the people involved and apologized to the ones she yelled at.
Even though I was angry at Sinatra when he played in South Africa while every other artist and country were imposing heavy sanctions and embargoes to protest Apartheid, I can’t deny that his music is worth all the praise it gets.
efilmcritic.com /feature.php?feature=637   (1009 words)

  
 Biography for Frank Sinatra   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
His album "Frank Sinatra Conducts Tone Poems of Color" (Capitol: 1955) not only was rare in the sense that he conduced an orchestra as opposed to singing, but was also the first album to be recorded at the Capitol [Records] Tower, today a prominent landmark at Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles.
Cobb believes that Sinatra identified with him as a troubled artist down on his luck as Sinatra's own career had been in a severe tailspin before he resurrected himself by winning an Oscar for From Here to Eternity (1953).
Sinatra told Cobb he was robbed when he failed to win the Oscar for his performance as Johnny Friendly in On the Waterfront (1954).
www.imdb.com /name/nm0000069/bio   (3532 words)

  
 Sinatra
His daughter Tina Sinatra developed the project and it was approved by Frank himself.
A very good film that follows Frank's rise to the top from singing in the bar in his hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey, to burlesque, to the orchestras of Harry James and then Tommy Dorsey before heading out on his own.
He goes into a slum to be rescued by the movie "From Here to Eternity." He continues to become an American icon.
www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/sinatra.html   (661 words)

  
 Frank Talk at Sinatra Seminar - Nov 14, 1998 - E! Online News
Nov 14, 1998, 4:30 PM PT The saying used to be, this is Frank Sinatra's world, the rest of us just live in it.
Sintra was said to have given his blessing to the two-years-in-the-making event before his death May 15 at age 82.
DeLuise says not even Sinatra's voice was to be beyond review--if someone wanted to argue that The Voice (gasp!) didn't have a "good" one, so be it.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,3909,00.html   (446 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Sinatra: The Classic Duets [IMPORT]: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Frank Sinatra "Classic Duets" features an incredible roster of many of the greatest and most influential jazz and pop singers of all time.
Compiled from Sinatra TV specials that originally aired between 1957-1960, this highly collectable program includes complete musical performances and special interviews and commentary from the Sinatra family, Tina, Nancy and Frank Sinatra Jr.
Sinatra was never quite comfortable on television, with the exception of some of his specials from the mid-60's on.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00008XRZV   (681 words)

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