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pidunk 04:58 am UTC 05/17/07 |
| In reply to: | re: It's quarter to three... - tealcyfre 03:43 am UTC 05/17/07 |
> Sinatra, this song, this performance. I just want to tell you that I've been sick this whole week, trying to keep from dehydrating and never sure if it is cold in the room or hot. I'm not doing a whole lot like going to the doctor but I am taking aspirins and sleeping alot. That said, I'd like to unravel this highly emotionally charged "hot button" set that has been pressed at me. Frank Sinatra died eight years ago, two days back, on 5/14/1998, in Los Angeles of a heart attack. I was highly affected by the news when I heard it, and did not know if it was a good or a bad thing that I had never met him. But, in the course of my life previously, I had known to some measure, at least four people who had. In order of my having heard of the tie prevalent in my life, it was first spoken of in the mid-sixties when a friend of my mother's came to visit me and described the help that Sinatra was giving to him for starting a new life and new career in California. He was leaving his wife and kids in New York and a job as a manager of an apparel manufacturing plant in New York's Chinatown. He had an idea of what he wanted to do. He wanted to help get a musical group off the ground. That is the context in which he mentioned Sinatra. Sinatra was in agreement to finance the ventures. A few years later, in a summer home setting I met in Ohio, one of Sinatra's nephews and nieces, the nephew also being a godson of the singer, and bearing his name but not the surname. He discussed with me the way that his uncle was making suggestions of what the boy should do for a career in his adulthood. The boy as an adult has wound up doing what his uncle suggested. Then about five years after that, in Manhattan, I met a boy who at some point revealed to me that he too, was also a nephew of Sinatra. He was upset that I had met one of his cousins already and hearing Sinatra's name was not the same oomph value as once it might have had. As he has grown, he too, has become more visibly close with the nephew mentioned in the previous paragraph. Then, in some weird thing, when I was looking into the possibility of joining an organization called Women In Show Business, and attended my first meeting, I was ushered to the table where Sinatra's personal secretary was seated, and given the seat adjacent to her. My mother did not like to listen to Sinatra, nor hear any news about him. I've gotten the impression that she had met him too. That would be five, but I don't know beyond speculation on that score. There are times I wonder about the kind of man Sinatra was, and I know that the people who I knew that also knew him, did not have my interests at heart. | |
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