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NEWS ABOUT: Frank Sinatra

Frank Sinatra stories: 14 news summaries
OBITUARY

 Comic Soupy Sales 
 Dead at 83 

Always willing to take a pie in the face, he battled a variety of illnesses

Oct 22, 09 10:54 PM CDT
(AP) - Soupy Sales, the rubber-faced comedian whose anything-for-a-chuckle career was built on 20,000 pies to the face and 5,000 live TV appearances across a half-century of laughs, died tonight at 83. A longtime friend said Sales died at a hospice in New York, which he entered last week as... More »

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entertainment • television • Detroit • obituary • comedy • Frank Sinatra • pie • Shirley Maclaine • Soupy Sales • Tony Curtis

 Kanye Lives!  And So Do 
 These Other Hoaxed Celebs 

Fake rumors of celebrity death from Kanye West to Frank Sinatra

Oct 22, 09 4:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - We're happy for you Kanye, but Paul McCartney's may have been the best celebrity death hoax of all time. An elaborate Internet hoax fooled many into thinking Kanye West had been killed in a car crash yesterday, prompting the Los Angeles Times to look at other celebs who fell victim... More »

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Paul McCartney • Tom Cruise • Kanye West • celebrity • Tom Hanks • hoax • rumor • hoaxes • Frank Sinatra • celebrity death

 Jilted by JFK, 
 Monroe Spiraled 
 to Her Death: Book 

Even pal, lover Frank Sinatra threw her out for taking pills

Aug 31, 09 12:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a new tell-all, J. Randy Taraborrelli paints a picture of Marilyn Monroe’s drug-fueled final months, her fixation with John F. Kennedy, and the shock friends like Frank Sinatra felt at her downward spiral, the Daily Mail reports. Four months before her death, the screenwriter for her last... More »

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entertainment • drugs • John F. Kennedy • celebrity • Marilyn Monroe • drug abuse • Frank Sinatra • celebrity death

(Newser) - Tina Sinatra would prefer that Martin Scorsese direct her father’s biopic her way, the New York Post reports. "Marty wants it to be hard-hitting and showcase the violent, sexually charged, hard-drinking Frank, but Tina wants to show the softer side of her dad and let the focus be... More »

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entertainment • film • gossip • Martin Scorsese • Frank Sinatra • biopic

 Third Time's a Charm 
 for Jay-Z, Rap's Cash King 

Mogul discusses business, music as release approaches

Jul 20, 09 1:15 PM CDT
(Newser) - As he comes full circle with the Sept. 11 release of The Blueprint 3, exactly 8 years after the original Blueprint, Jay-Z discusses his journey from the projects of Brooklyn to the top of Forbes’ Hip-Hop Cash King list with Billboard. “We—Usher, Justin... More »

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entertainment • entrepreneurs • New Jersey Nets • celebrity • Justin Timberlake • rapper • Beyonce • rap music • Def Jam • Usher • Jay-Z • Frank Sinatra • Marvin Gaye • Jay-ZTV • Blueprint 3

OPINION

15 Great Film Careers That Ended With Flops

Talented actors whose final roles weren't quite up to snuff

Jun 22, 09 7:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - One well-placed stinker can mar an otherwise sterling legacy in film. The Onion AV Club gathers some of the saddest swan songs:       1.-2. Frank Sinatra & Dean Martin, Cannonball Run II (1984). The Rat Pack starred in some mediocre movies, but nothing holds a... More »

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film • Rat Pack • Bruce Lee • actor • Frank Sinatra • Dean Martin • Bela Lugosi • Groucho Marx • Otto Preminger

COMMENTARY



 Sinatra's Way
 Would Have Been 
 No 'My Way'

Singer preferred romantic ballads to the later classic

Jun 2, 09 7:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Frank Sinatra may have his hit "My Way" to thank for much of his success, but as the song reaches its 40th anniversary, Will Friedwald looks at the truth in the Wall Street Journal: Sinatra hated it. Even as audiences called for "My Way" in concert... More »

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song • Frank Sinatra • Sammy Davis Jr. • Jay-ZTV • My Way

 Foxx as Sinatra? 
 Get Real, Says Gawker 

Some raise skeptical eyebrows as UK tabs push rumors

May 18, 09 1:34 PM CDT
(Newser) - Jamie Foxx as Frank Sinatra? It’s all the buzz around Hollywood, the Daily Telegraph reports, after a source told the Daily Express, “Cool is colorblind. Jamie would seem to be born to the role.” Popcrunch wonders, “Are we being punk’d?” while Gawker’s Richard Lawson—... More »

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entertainment • film • celebrity • Jamie Foxx • Frank Sinatra • biopic • Jay-ZTV

 Scorsese to Direct 
 Sinatra Biopic 

Film set to go ahead after much wrangling with Ol' Blue Eyes' estate

May 14, 09 1:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Having tackled the lives of Jake la Motta, Jesus, and Howard Hughes, Martin Scorsese is now set to direct a biopic of Frank Sinatra. Scorsese's agreement to take on the Universal Pictures project helped win support from the Sinatra family after much wrangling, say insiders. The film will be based... More »

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film • film director • Martin Scorsese • Frank Sinatra • biopic • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - Pop songs are handily beating out traditional hymns in England as the preferred soundtrack for the final goodbye, the Telegraph reports. A survey by a funeral-services company shows that 58% of funerals feature popular music as the top request, versus 35% for hymns; classical grabs just 7%. The top request?... More »

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music • classical music • Scotland • England • pop music • funeral • Leonard Cohen • burial • Frank Sinatra • AC/DC • Meat Loaf • hymn

(Newser) - Bono waxes eloquent about Frank Sinatra and the life lessons he learned from the Chairman in his debut column today for the New York Times. Among other things, he contrasts an early boastful recording of "My Way" with one Sinatra made late in life that is filled with remorse.... More »

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New York Times • Bono • singer • columnists • Frank Sinatra

TRAVEL

 9 Hotels Haunted by Celebs 


Oct 31, 08 4:22 PM CDT
(Newser) - In the mood for upscale Halloween chills? If a plain old haunted house isn't swanky enough for your tastes, consider checking into a room from Travel and Leisure's list of hotels that come complete with a resident celeb spook:
  1. Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel, Los Angeles: Marilyn 
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Anna Nicole Smith • Hollywood • rock stars • Las Vegas • mob • celebrity • Marilyn Monroe • rock and roll • Elvis Presley • Sex Pistols • gangsters • Frank Sinatra

Mega-Brand Rollout Revives Ol' Blue Eyes

Warner deal brings back digitized Sinatra as ad pitchman

May 11, 08 2:59 PM CDT
(Newser) - Ol' Blue Eyes is still doing it his way—or his heirs' way, to be more precise. Frank Sinatra's family has inked a deal with Warner Music Group to ensure the singer's return on the 10th anniversary of his death: A postage stamp and new CD and DVD collections are... More »

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music • death • Rat Pack • Warner Music • branding • stamps • resurrection • Frank Sinatra

See Jimi Get Experienced
for $39.95

Guitar hero is intimate with two foxy ladies on disputed sex tape

Apr 29, 08 1:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - Eleven minutes of footage showing a man having sex with two women have been packaged into a 45-minute Jimi Hendrix experience by a porn company notorious for releasing tapes of exposed celebrities. Whether it's actually the 1960s guitar hero is contested: Vivid Entertainment relies on private detectives and Hendrix acquaintances—... More »

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John F. Kennedy • Jimi Hendrix • memorabilia • sex tape • Frank Sinatra

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