Gratuitous Sinatra Post

[Dagwood]

Now there's a man who knew how to wear a hat!

 

[rockyj]

Tony Rome

It's an OK movie and, your right about all the hats. Now can you name all the ex-boxers who make cameos?fftopic: That's if you really want to know

 

[Ande1963]

Sinatra is so perfect in that type of hat. I wish I could pull one off with half that much style.

I highly recommend the book, "The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Living", by Bill Zehme. Great anecdotal book about Sinatra's lifestyle, and style.

Anj

 

[Jay]

Have you read the Jerry Lewis book, "Dean And Me"?

Sounds really good... How was it?

 

[Rafter]

Sounds really good... How was it?

When I first heard that Jerry was a writing his memoirs of those partnership years, I was more than a bit apprehensive. After all, Dean has already left this world and what would Jerry say about him? Would Jerry take credit for everything? Would Jerry somehow put blame for their breakup on his partner somehow?

I finished it in one sitting, actually waiting for something I didn't like or would find inacurate to blast on about. Guess what? I WAS SHOCKED -- Shocked to find that this book is honest, sincere, unbiased and does not put either Dean or Jerry into the spotlight -- rather it lights up the stage. It is a well written, well balanced, easy to read history, focusing on the duo as a "team". Their excitement... their worries... their amazement... their ups and their downs... their freedoms and their obstacles. Jerry ties together anecdotes and facts many of us heard before, with more focus and information, to have it all finally make sense.

I don't impress easily when it comes to stories told (no matter who writes them), but as for "Dean and Me" this is the real deal. Finally -- an honest inside look at the exhilaration and ever mounting pressures Martin & Lewis experienced, always having to please everyone around them, except themselves.

 

[mingoslim]

I'll vote for Dino, as well . . .

I'm more a Dean Martin fan, myself...

Yeah, I would take the boy from Steubenville over 'Old Blue Eyes' any day . . . Better singer, better actor, better looking . . .

(I know I have probably just declared war, here . . .)

 

[Joel Tunnah]

I thought we could talk about the hats. Or am I in the wrong forum?

 

[bolthead]

I agree....

....and he did wear the coolest stingy's, by far. :eusa_clap

 

[Joel Tunnah]

This one looks navy in color:

Was this a Cavanaugh? Darker blue band, or black?
I'm guessing 1 7/8" brim.

Discuss! lol

 

[Lincsong]

Tony Rome was a good movie. There are only a few Sinatra movies I don't like. He was a man of his own style. Was he a man of contradicitons??? Yes. But let's stay on the hats.

 

[Zig2k143]

You know what I find funny. I go crazy wanting my hats to look perfect and in all the old pictures the hats are anything but perfect and they look great.. I am not sure why I'm so anal about it.