Monday, December 12, 2005

celebrity birthday

Today would have been the 90th birthday of Kennedy supporter and father of Nancy Sinatra, Frank Sinatra. I think he also had a music career of sorts.
Here he is with a Nixon supporter and future DEA agent.
frank and elvis
They were only friends, I think.

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The classic story is that Frank had renovations done to his Palm Springs pad in anticipation of Kennedy coming out for a visit. Kennedy's stooge/in-law Peter Lawford was given the unenviable task of informing Frank that JFK would be staying with Bing Crosby. Sinatra no longer considered that family to be a friend after that.

9:34 AM  
Blogger Rex L. Camino said...

Interesting. I knew he had the falling out with the Kennedy Clan, but I had never heard about him switching political parties. He seemed to be quite the Democratic cheerleader early on in his career.

10:24 AM  
Blogger chez bez said...

Ever hear the true story of the guys who kidnapped Sinatra's eldest son? I heard about it on NPR and later it became a movie entitled "Stealing Sinatra."

It was handled so terribly by the bumbling kidnappers you would not believe it was not a piece of comedic fiction.

12:29 PM  
Blogger Rex L. Camino said...

I never saw the movie, but I did see an interview with one of the kidnappers years ago. It seems like everyone had a pretty good sense of humor about the whole thing--especially considering that it was a kidnapping and all.

12:51 PM  

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