Sinatra: The Chairman
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| Rating | : | 4.44 (606 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B016P8DOCQ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 177 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-07 |
| Language | : | English |
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Frank's life post-Oscar was incredibly dense: In between recording albums and singles, he often shot four or five movies a year; did TV show and nightclub appearances; started his own label, Reprise; and juggled his considerable commercial ventures (movie production, the restaurant business, even prizefighter management) alongside his famous and sometimes notorious social activities and commitments.. Just in time for the Chairman's centennial, the endlessly absorbing sequel to James Kaplan's best-selling Frank: The Voice - finally the definitive biography that Frank Sinatra, justly termed "The Entertainer of the Century", deserves and requires. Like Peter Guralnick on Elvis, Kaplan goes behind the legend to give us the man in full, in his many guises and aspects: peerless singer, (sometimes) powerful actor, business mogul, tireless lover, and associate of the powerful and infamous. In 2010's Frank: The Voice, James Kaplan, in rich, distinctive, compulsively understandable prose, told the story of Frank Sinatra's meteroic rise to fame, subsequent failures, and reinvention as a star of the stage and screen. The story of "Ol' Blue Eyes" continues with Sinatra: The Chairman, picking up the day after Frank claimed his Academy Award in 1954 and had reestablished himself as the top recording artist in music
Mark Mellon said The Greatest Singer, The Worst Person. With almost nine hundred pages of actual text not to mention an extensive bibliography and notes, this is probably the closest to a definitive biography of the singer we’ll ever see. This is especially true since so many quoted sources were from live interviews with people who knew Sinatra, some tangentially, others deeply. As time inevitably passes, those sources can be expected to shuffle off this mortal coil. The bio also quotes extensively from other Sinatra books to include the tell-all from his fired valet of many years, George Jacobs.My most important impression from the book is the very serious nature of Sin. "Kaplan completes gossipy biography, but is it history?" according to S. A. McMullen. This has been called the best biography ever written on Frank Sinatra, and it most likely is. Nearly 2,000 pages when combined, the two volumes by James Kaplan, this being volume 2, covers an extraordinary life in much detail, mixing music history, social commentary, movie lore, and gossip. Some of it reads cheap; some of it profound.But what is open for serious critical debate is if this impressive work is actually a history book. It relies on too many secondary sources, on tabloid facts, and debatable musical insights of the non-musician author. For example, Kitty Kelly should get co-author credits, gossip columnists ar. Fifty Shades of Enormous Beth Anderson aka Hotclue One thing that struck me about Sinatra's life, and I have never veered from this opinion, was that without realizing it, Frank married his mother when he married Ava, and that explains some of the source of their off and on turbulent relationship. I don't know what Ava's problem was, and I really don't care because I always thought she was a pig. Dolly was rough and foul mouthed as they get, so was Ava. Dolly tormented him, and so did Ava. The resemblance is just way too obvious. And yet, he loved both of them, so Freud wins again. Aside from that comment about that marriage, Kaplan's two part compilation of Sinatra's tum