It's a wonder to me that anyone even remembers Frank Sinatra -- "Old Blue Eyes."
When I was a student I used to make money by ushering at a local movie theatre that specialized in old movies. Frank Sinatra featured in some of them ... but I don't really remember the plot. But he could sing and dance, and was generally charming, so I guess he was hot in his day.
Apparently, he still has an audience. Douglass K. Daniel reviews a memoir by his widow, Barbara Sinatra, called Lady Blue Eyes: My Life with Frank
(Crown Archetype), that is probably expected to do quite well.
(Crown Archetype), that is probably expected to do quite well.She was born Barbara Blakeley, and had a lust for the wild side. A twice-married model and showgirl, she met Sinatra when he was in his fifties. She fell for him. An affair commenced, along with all the glitz and glamor -- and demons.
Sinatra, apparently, had a hair-trigger temper. It was part of his "dangerous" charm. One gets the impression that it paid to be happy to submit to his every whim.
She smoked -- he didn't like it -- she quit (though he never gave up, himself).
When he was drunk, she got out of the way.
Charming.
My first thought was that, as with Lady Catherine de Bourgh's carriages, one needs to refer to "one of" his wives. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, it doesn't sound the most cheerful of domestic situations.