Channel 5 documentary ‘Sinatra: King of the Crooners’ details the life of legendary singer and actor. The programme explores Frank’s difficult birth and near death in Hoboken, and his subsequent rise to become one of the world’s most adored entertainers. Frank’s links with organised crime have long been a subject of interest, with the Channel 5 show […]
Cuando Talese aguantó la mirada a Sinatra
El célebre periodista retrató a la estrella como un personaje desconfiado controlador y voluble, en un perfil que se reedita con fotos de Phil Stern
IÑAKI ESTEBAN Domingo, 4 julio 2021, 08:46
A Gay Talese (Nueva Jersey, EE UU, 1932) no le gusta que le encuadren dentro del Nuevo Periodismo, etiqueta que Tom Wolfe puso para designar una forma periodística de contar la realidad más narrativa, personal y suelta que las noticias y reportajes de los diarios. Desconfiaba de esa soltura. Había trabajado durante diez años en The New York Times y llevaba en la sangre la escrupulosa lealtad a los hechos.
Frank Sinatra allegedly considered returning to his first wife, Nancy Sinatra Sr., during his final years.
The claim was made by Tony Oppedisano, who served as a member of the late star’s management team that also managed comedian and mutual friend Don Rickles. The award-winning producer recently wrote a memoir titled Sinatra and Me: In the Wee Small Hours about their decades-long friendship, which started when Oppedisano was just 21.
He told Fox News it was Nancy who encouraged him to share his story before her passing in 2018 at age 101. Nancy was probably the single longest friendship that he had in his life, said Oppedisano. And there was a comfort there. But that didn’t change the fact that Frank was very much in love with Barbara, his last wife, obviously. Their marriage lasted 22 years longer than any other marriage in his story. And it was something that probably couldn’t really ever happened because too many people would have gotten hurt.