Frank_ The Voice - James Kaplan [337]
1. Humphrey Bogart had given Lazar the slightly needling nickname—which the agent hated—as a double-edged tribute to the rapidity with which Lazar executed his not always strictly kosher deals.
2. The apartments have long since been razed.
3. Although apparently the switch had been effected with the tacit cooperation of Lazar, the ultimate cynic when Sinatra was down and the ultimate sycophant when he rose again.
4. Perhaps thinking or saying some variation of the Nevada senator Pat Geary’s speech to Michael Corleone in The Godfather, Part II: “I don’t like your kind of people. I don’t like to see you come out to this clean country in your oily hair, dressed up in those silk suits, and try to pass yourselves off as decent Americans.”
SOURCE NOTES
5 “Isn’t it a little late”: Kelley, His Way, p. 225.
6 “When he was down”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 175.
7 “Almost since their marriage”: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, Sept. 30, 1953.
8 “devastating”: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, Oct. 1, 1953.
9 “Together again”: Associated Press, Oct. 2, 1953.
10 “Don’t believe a word”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 267.
11 “They’re together”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 178.
12 “If Frankie goes”: Harrison Carroll, syndicated column, Oct. 12, 1953.
13 “Two intimates of Frank Sinatra”: Jimmie Fidler, syndicated column, Oct. 6, 1953.
14 “a footloose and fancy-free”: Dunning, Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio, p. 582.
15 “Hi, I don’t know”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 183.
16 “He was always”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 90.
17 “For Chrissakes”: Ibid., p. 53.
18 “Politics has nothing”: Bosworth, Marlon Brando, p. 141.
19 “Frank Sinatra would”: Ibid., p. 153.
20 “Frank Sinatra’s now practically”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Sept. 30, 1953.
21 “Frank Sinatra has decided”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, Oct. 10, 1953.
22 “In what would become”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 90.
23 “I slept in the same room”: George Jacobs, in discussion with the author, March 2009.
24 “He’s a dead man”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 21.
25 “head down, all alone”: Ibid., p. 36.
26 “When I opened”: Ibid., p. 46.
27 “who didn’t seem ex”: Ibid., p. 48.
28 “rococo New Jersey style”: Ibid.
29 “The correct way”: Ibid.
30 “There’s nothing like”: Associated Press, Oct. 12, 1953.
31 “Everything is fine”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, Oct. 20, 1953.
32 “I can’t eat”: Kelley, His Way, p. 225.
33 “Hollywood’s still betting”: Erskine Johnson, syndicated column, Oct. 21, 1953.
34 “Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra”: Kelley, His Way, p. 226.
35 “When Sinatra is in Las Vegas”: Pignone, Sinatra Treasures, p. 104.
36 “The object was”: Kelley, His Way, p. 241.
37 “Frank! Is your marriage”: Ibid., p. 227.
38 “There is positively”: Shaw, Twentieth-Century Romantic, p. 180.
CHAPTER 37
SOURCE NOTES
1 “I was a stranger”: Lyrics from “Foggy Day,” words by Ira Gershwin, music by George Gershwin (New York: Gershwin, 1937).
2 “If I wasn’t conducting”: Kelley, His Way, p. 232.
3 “Ava taught him”: Hamill, Why Sinatra Matters, p. 177.
4 “I AM DESPERATELY”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 270.
5 “Yeah, he’s here”: Ibid., p. 272.
6 “Eventually they got”: Ibid.
7 “Ten years ago”: International News Service, Nov. 9, 1953.
8 “Melissa Weston Bigelow”: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, Nov. 13, 1953.
9 “Well, that washes”: Hal Humphrey, syndicated column, Nov. 11, 1953.
10 “You would not pick”: James Kaplan, “The King of Ring-a-Ding-Ding,” Movies Rock (a supplemental publication of Vanity Fair), Dec. 2007.
11 “Sinatra’s father says”: Walter Winchell, syndicated column, Nov. 24, 1953.
12 “I would rather write”: Kaplan, “King of Ring-a-Ding-Ding.”
13 “When Frank ate”: Kelley, His Way, p. 229.
14 “RUMOR MILL IS MUM”: Wire service report, Nov. 21, 1953, transcribed from Huntington (Pa.) Daily News, Nov. 23, 1953.
15 “I was happier”: Jordan, “Living with Miss G.”
16 “F. Sinatra will spend”: In New York with Walter Winchell,