and i looked down and i put my feet in there and i said, i looked and i said oh, god, thank you. it was beautiful. larry: before we get to sinatra, the oceans movies. yeah. larry: by the way, a couple weeks ago, jerry did the new karate kid you produced that and it s your biggest opening ever. yeah. you know, it s crazy. i did the original karate kid 30 years ago. 30 years ago. and this one i didn t want to do because karate kid is part of my legacy. when you go through all the films i ve made and all the things i ve done that s one of the most important films i ever made so i didn t want to mess around with it. will smith came to me and he said to me, i want to do karate kid with my son, jaden. he s a karate kid. he loves karate. and i know he ll be great. he s a terrific actor, terrific kid. i said, will, i don t want to do it. i don t want to mess with it. it s a piece of my history. i don t want to mess around with
there, the whole jail, and i found the warden and i said, i got a problem. i need some help. what s the matter? i said, i need to take 5,000 seats out of the miami beach convention center for the matinee show with elvis. larry: because he won t play to an empty seat. right. then i need to put them back for the night show. he said, well that s no problem. you got some money? i gave him some money. he gave me all the prisoners. the prisoners came into the convention center. larry: this is by the way just a sample of what s in this book. the stories are endless. the way he puts movies together. sinatra. we ll have that story. but you will not put it down. sinatra, clooney, pitt, and roberts. jerry knows them all. that s ahead. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 it d be like every atm in the world was your atm. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 the schwab bank high yield investor checking(tm) account. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 zero atm fees. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 a great interest rate. tdd# 1-800-345-2550 no minimums. t
going live around the world singing crocodile rock ? not going to happen. i got this list. i ran to the waldorf, walked in the room. he was reading the newspaper. i said to him, frank, what the hell are these songs? he said to me, what do you mean? i said, this list of songs. there s no sinatra songs on it. he said, jerry, i just wanted to see you. you told me no rehearsal. frank he said, i knew if you sent that you d be here in a minute and you re here. i said, i have to go to commercial six times, frank. he said, i ll see you in a little while. 20 to 8:00 he rides into madison square garden with a police escort. jane in the back seat, barbara in the back seat. he says to me, i want you to do me a favor. he said, i want you to get me when my way starts, get
to a hotel in the brinks truck and took it to a room and he invited all the jewelers in town. the jewelers came up to look at the star of artiband and they bought everything else he had in the place. so he sold them like crazy. but it was an event. he made an event out of it. i think that s what taught me about events. i really do. as i go back in life and i think about where he was, sinatra, and presley, and led zeplin and the movies, it all came from that because i made an event out of everything in my life. everything i touched and everything i did. larry: you are the trigger right? you re the contacter of sinatra and presley. you make it happen. yes, i did. larry: now they come to you. they did then. after elvis. elvis was the first one. and he came to me and i made a deal with him. i went to him. it took me a year to get him. i called colonel tom parker. that was his manager. larry: i interviewed him once.
in the world. everybody would be a legend. larry: you know you ve gone beyond. you re in another ballpark. yeah, i agree with that. and there s a very good chance that i probably should have gotten out by now. but i enjoy it. larry: okay. sinatra. yeah. larry: you booked ole blue eyes is back, madison square garden. how did you do it? you didn t know frank. i knew frank. i knew him but not knew him, knew him. i got a phone call from him one day, from him directly. and he said to me, i want to go back to work. larry: he was retired. retired. he said i want to go back to work. i want to have a meeting with you. when he called, i didn t believe it was him. you know? i idolized him. the greatest in the world. there was nobody better. i watched your show the other night. i saw you interview him, again. i ve seen your show so many times. i love it.