by James Kaplan
“I think that in understanding”: Nancy Olson Livingston, in discussion with the author, Jan. 2013.
Jack Kennedy, the soap flakes: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 257.
“As much as I disliked”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 135.
“His fondness for Frank”: Kelley, His Way, p. 267.
“Senator Kennedy is a friend”: Pietrusza, 1960, p. 234.
In November of that year: Walter Winchell, syndicated column, Nov. 16, 1958.
“Because it was an ‘inside’ ”: Vernon Scott, dispatch, May 14, 1959.
And by May 1959: Lowell Sun, May 1, 1959.
CHAPTER 12
At the Desert Inn in March: Giancana and Giancana, Double Cross, p. 274.
“persons of notorious”: Christopher Turner, “Nevada’s Most Unwanted,” Cabinet, Fall 2005, www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/19/turner2.php.
“either the number one”: United Press, June 7, 1959.
“A handsome-type hoodlum”: United Press, June 10, 1959.
During another lunch break: Dean Jones, in discussion with the author, Nov. 2013.
Utterly unfazed: Ibid.
Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine: Hedda Hopper, syndicated column, June 30, 1959.
Lady Beatty, after: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, May 19, 1959.
When his work: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, p. 148.
“Giancana, who appeared”: United Press, July 6, 1959.
From Miami, Frank: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, June 23, 1959.
“With few exceptions”: Clarke, Billie Holiday, p. 96.
Holiday bragged: Ibid., p. 12.
“This was a horrifying”: Ibid., p. 438.
“A beautician was doing”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, pp. 150–51.
But with the police: Ibid.
In 1946, for various: Van Meter, Last Good Time, pp. 69–77.
“Frank’s career was just”: Ibid., pp. 97–98.
“When Frank got to town”: Ibid., p. 106.
And, while Frank was playing: Ibid.
“How about August 24”: Richard Apt, “Sinatra and the Atlantic City Connection,” in Mustazza, Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture, p. 224.
In 1959, when Frank: Hedda Hopper, syndicated column, July 19, 1959.
Sinatra, who returned as: Leonard Lyons, syndicated column, Aug. 3, 1959.
“Skinny often said”: Apt, “Sinatra and the Atlantic City Connection,” p. 224.
One night, the crowd: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, July 30, 1959.
“The smoke bothered”: Apt, “Sinatra and the Atlantic City Connection,” p. 223.
“Kick that cigarette”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Aug. 10, 1959.
In his dressing room: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Aug. 3, 1959.
“advised on September 16, 1959”: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, pp. 195–96.
“She stated that at the age”: Van Meter, Last Good Time, pp. 145–46.
Another FBI report claimed: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 254.
“defense attorney François”: Santopietro, Sinatra in Hollywood, p. 277.
“Alas, this one phrase”: Ibid., p. 276.
“Everywhere she goes”: United Press, July 8, 1959.
“Naturally, I hope”: Ibid.
“No plan, no itinerary”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 376.
“middle-aged woman”: Ibid., p. 378.
“Movie actress Ava”: Wire-service dispatch, Sept. 17, 1959.
“Pee Wee Marquette”: Davis, Miles, p. 237.
“Khrushchev fever”: New York Times, Sept. 20, 1959.
“I believe that to sit”: Carlson, K Blows Top, p. 150.
“the unpardonable sin”: Associated Press, Sept. 24, 1959.
“What do you have, rocket”: Van Nuys News, Sept. 20, 1959.
When a reporter asked: New York Times, Sept. 20, 1959.
“lascivious, disgusting”: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 126.
“being condemned by Khrushchev”: Ibid.
“Their colloquy may”: Harriet Van Horne, syndicated column, Sept. 30, 1959.
“Of course, a meeting”: Fred Danzig, syndicated column, Sept. 30, 1959.
“One of the brightest”: Cynthia Lowry, syndicated column, Oct. 20, 1959.
“Fortunately, the trio”: Fred Danzig, syndicated column, Oct. 20, 1959.
“Oh, you’re a colorful”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDHX4Bw1pHs.
“Gee. Dean is the only”: Fred Danzig, syndicated column, Nov. 4, 1959.
“If the boys keep up”: Cynthia Lowry, syndicated column, Nov. 4, 1959.
“some disciplinary problems”: Fred Danzig, syndicated column, Nov. 4, 1959.
Brown, who seemed a shoo-in: Los Angeles Times, Oct. 30, 1959.
“grew visibly warmer”: Relman Morin, dispatch, Nov. 6, 1959.
Governor Brown, who attended: Los Angeles Times, Oct. 30, 1959.
“The harsh facts”: Los Angeles Times, Nov. 3, 1959.
“Sinatra! Sinatra!”: Michael O’Brien, John F. Kennedy, p. 198.
“1. Women get starry eyed”: Morin, dispatch, Nov. 6, 1959.
“in a divine Sophie”: Hedda Hopper, Los Angeles Times, Nov. 4, 1959.
“that Kennedy and Frank took”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 260.
“bursting with awe”: Angie Dickinson, in discussion with the author, July 2006.
“They both loved women”: Ibid.
“I’d say she was”: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, pp. 296–97.
“For the first time”: Exner, My Story, p. 61.
“I just was aware”: Gloria Franks, in discussion with the author, June 2011.
“I was working at the El Mirador”: Betsy Duncan Hammes, in discussion with the author, June 2011.
“The first indication”: Exner, My Story, p. 49.
“I brought them over”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra: The Life, p. 260.
“He had a big success”: Morin, dispatch, Nov. 6, 1959.
“folksy stroll”: Associated Press, Nov. 4, 1959.
All Earl Wilson: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Nov. 5, 1959.
“We stayed with Frank”: Kelley, His Way, p. 267.
“The Los Angeles Office”: Kuntz and Kuntz, Sinatra Files, p. 125.
“John F. Kennedy slept here”: Kelley, His Way, p. 286.
“A few nights later”: Exner, My Story, pp. 49–50.
“I took the midnight”: Ibid., p. 50.
Frank Sinatra was a major depositor: Russo, Supermob, pp. 141–42.
“We sat in the sun”: Exner, My Story, p. 54.
“Their favorite words”: Ibid., pp. 57–58.
“Everybody around Frank walks”: Ibid., p. 58.
“For some reason”: Ibid., p. 54.
“I didn’t even want”: Ibid., p. 59.
“Cheap, weak”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 126.
“I felt kind of sad”: Jones, discussion.
“I was a halfway”: Quirk, Kennedys in Hollywood, p. 175.
“Frank Sinatra’s big”: Variety, Nov. 30, 1959.
“Schweitzer said because”: Ibid.
“I wanted to see him”: Exner, My Story, pp. 60–61.
“It was nice and comfortable”: Ibid., pp. 61–62.
“alleged Lake County”: Associated Press, Aug. 25, 1960.
“We made love”: Exner, My Story, pp. 63–64.
As of that day: Salt Lake City Tribune, Dec. 8, 1959.
“Dad was more than”: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, p. 138.
CHAPTER 13
“The Rat Pack embodied”: Brownstein, The Power and the Glitter, p. 155.
“You come to my summit”: Wilson, Show Business Nobody Knows, p. 14.
“everybody knew each other”: Shecky Greene, in discussion with the author, Nov. 2012.
“Frank opened the first”: Ed Walters, in discussion with the author, Nov. 2012.
“The audience just loved it”: Ibid.
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br /> At one point in early: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 108.
“Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr.”: Hedda Hopper, syndicated column, Feb. 11, 1960.
“I thought it was plain”: Greene, discussion.
“The earliest call”: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 108.
“Frank looked upon”: Santopietro, Sinatra in Hollywood, p. 285.
“certainly knew exactly”: Ibid.
“Milestone had a very loose”: “The Rat Pack Photographer,” Los Angeles Times, Dec. 12, 2001.
“Hey, where are you”: Zehme, Way You Wear Your Hat, p. 44.
“Some eastern press”: Walters, discussion.
“He was hanging around Frank”: Ibid.
“We’ve worked together”: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 76.
Drinking buddies and hangers-on: Zehme, Way You Wear Your Hat, p. 4.
“All the guys would”: Los Angeles Times, Dec. 12, 2001.
“He was not like the rest”: Exner, My Story, p. 82.
“There is no way anyone”: Ibid., p. 83.
“was the first American president”: Gould, Can’t Buy Me Love, pp. 205–6.
“Sinatra thought Kennedy”: Walters, discussion.
“He was not a grown-up”: Nancy Olson Livingston, in discussion with the author, Jan. 2013.
“There was no goddamn”: Martin, Hero for Our Time, p. 199.
“Ladies and gentlemen, Senator”:“ ‘The Jack Pack,’ 1958–1960,” The Pop History Dig, www.pophistorydig.com/?p=9361.
“at ten o’clock Sunday”: Exner, My Story, p. 86.
“The lights were low”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 264.
“She’s a hooker”: Ibid.
“was always kind of like”: Betsy Duncan Hammes, in discussion with the author, Dec. 2013.
“because we sensed”: Martin, Hero for Our Time, p. 199.
“tremendously impressed by”: Exner, My Story, p. 87.
Livingston claims that: Livingston, discussion.
“Don’t worry, I plan”: Exner, My Story, p. 94.
“He was extremely solicitous”: Ibid., p. 99.
“I called him up”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 252.
in return for giving Capitol: Cornyn, Exploding, p. 47.
“lightly swinging love”: Alan and Marilyn Bergman, in discussion with the author, Nov. 2012.
The rest of the music: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 256.
Frank and the screenwriter: Kelley, His Way, p. 110.
“It was a total downer”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 144.
That January, though: New York Times, Jan. 20, 1960.
“Frank said that he had been”: Kelley, His Way, p. 272.
“I asked him openly”: Ibid.
And that Steve McQueen: Associated Press, March 22, 1960.
“This marks the first time”: New York Times, March 20, 1960.
“STARS SCORN”: United Press, March 23, 1960.
“I wonder how Sinatra’s crony”: Munn, John Wayne, pp. 216–17; Kelley, His Way, p. 273.
“What kind of thinking”: Kelley, His Way, pp. 272–73.
“On returning from New York”: Hedda Hopper, syndicated column, April 8, 1960.
“Font’s Ben Novack”: Variety, March 30, 1960.
“hard hit with the failure”: Ibid.
“Frank Sinatra’s new talent”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, March 28, 1960.
“flew to Palm Springs to try”: Kelley, His Way, p. 274.
“That’s when old Joe”: Ibid.
“Both Joe and Bobby”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 78.
“It was reported, but without”: New York Times, March 20, 1960.
“I went home in tears”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 79.
“killed him to have to eat”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 145.
“It’s mighty puzzling”: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, April 18, 1960.
“He’d get on the phone”: Spada, Peter Lawford, p. 226.
“If he asked people”: Los Angeles Times, Aug. 13, 2000.
“We’d spread out”: Davis, Boyar, and Boyar, Why Me?, p. 111.
“He’d met Jack Kennedy”: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 155.
Parker drove a legendarily: Guralnick and Jorgensen, Elvis Day by Day, pp. 146–47.
“Mr. S hated Elvis”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 125.
First, though, Sinatra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngQbGj8aSWs.
“It made a man of me”: Redlands (Calif.) Daily Facts, March 9, 1960.
“Frank asked me”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 269.
“a dangerous game”: Ibid.
“deliberately fudged”: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, p. 299.
“I paid a terrible price”: Exner, My Story, p. 122.
“In March, when Mooney”: Giancana and Giancana, Double Cross, p. 282.
“Come here, Judy”: Exner, My Story, p. 116.
“Fischetti and other hoodlums”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, pp. 268–69.
“the singer’s initial reaction”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 256.
“Sinatra finally asked”: Ibid.
“Frank said, ‘I don’t like’ ”: Alan and Marilyn Bergman, in discussion with the author, Nov. 2012.
“Hollywood is talking”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, April 24, 1960.
“Welcome Home Elvis”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 255.
“Elvis Presley hasn’t changed”: Variety, May 16, 1960.
“You seem to disagree”: Kelley, His Way, pp. 275–76; Associated Press, May 15, 1960.
CHAPTER 14
“squalid, corrupt”: Theodore H. White, Making of the President, 1960, p. 97.
“spent at least $2 million”: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, p. 90.
“Giancana sent Skinny”: Van Meter, Last Good Time, p. 172.
Even by his friends’ estimation: Ibid., p. 173.
“spreading money around”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 271.
“not for direct bribes”: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, p. 100.
The bureau also overheard: Ibid., p. 101.
“If you want to see”: Davis, Boyar, and Boyar, Why Me?, p. 108.
“I’m positive it never”: Ed Walters, in discussion with the author, Jan. 2014.
One estimate has: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, p. 98.
“Each girl in Frank’s life”: Exner, My Story, p. 113.
“I dig the sake”: Associated Press, May 30, 1960.
The Democratic National Convention was: Theodore H. White, Making of the President, 1960, p. 151.
“Smogless and milk-blue”: Ibid., p. 150.
“The Biltmore [was]”: Mailer, Mind of an Outlaw, p. 117.
Predictably, if defensibly: Los Angeles Times, July 11, 1960.
“From the sounds and sights”: Theodore H. White, Making of the President, 1960, p. 154.
“He had the deep orange-brown”: Mailer, Mind of an Outlaw, pp. 120–21.
“from Marlborough and”: Theodore H. White, Making of the President, 1960, p. 148.
“Since the First World War”: Mailer, Mind of an Outlaw, p. 121.
“He was born into”: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, p. 139.
a bash for Jack’s sister: Los Angeles Times, July 8, 1960.
“For the candidates, the hour”: Los Angeles Times, July 11, 1960.
“still trying hard to sink”: Ibid.
The other performers included: Associated Press, July 11, 1960.
Edward G. Robinson got: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, July 15, 1960.
“Those dirty sons”: Kelley, His Way, pp. 276–77.
“I don’t know why they”: United Press, July 12, 1960.
“Sinatra is for Sen. John F. Kennedy”: Ibid.
Sinatra, Peter Lawford: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 273.
“When the Democrats convene”: Milwaukee Journal, July 11, 1960.
“Conscious of telev
ision”: Kelley, His Way, p. 277.
“Every morning after”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 56.
“spent the rest of the afternoon”: Theodore H. White, Making of the President, 1960, pp. 168–69.
Frank was also there: Kelley, His Way, p. 277.
“the high point of drama”: Theodore H. White, Making of the President, 1960, p. 165.
He gave his friend Green: Kelley, His Way, p. 278.
“ ‘Wyoming,’ chanted Tracy S. McCraken”: Theodore H. White, Making of the President, 1960, p. 169.
“We’re on our way”: Kelley, His Way, p. 278.
At the convention, Johnson: Los Angeles Times, July 11, 1960.
who had all but called: Seymour M. Hersh, Dark Side of Camelot, p. 123.
“You know we had never”: Ibid., pp. 125–26.
“during the campaign, even”: Ibid., p. 129.
The decision was tortuous: Caro, Passage of Power, pp. 117–40.
“It is my earnest”: Inez Robb, syndicated column, July 18, 1960.
“Sen. Jack Kennedy passed”: Drew Pearson, syndicated column, July 15, 1960.
Not long after the convention: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 274.
“[Nevada Gaming Control] Board”: United Press, July 13, 1960.
Frank—whose application: Kelley, His Way, p. 279; Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 289.
“Frank Sinatra is extremely”: Van Meter, Last Good Time, p. 182.
On July 20, Frank arrived: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, July 26, 1960.
From the twenty-second: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Aug. 3, 1960.
“It wasn’t a big room”: Bill Boggs, in discussion with the author, Nov. 2006.
Over the nine nights: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Aug. 5, 1960.
“A new arrival joined us”: Leonard Lyons, syndicated column, Aug. 6, 1960.
“Their horsing around”: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, pp. 118–19.
“an experience difficult”: Bob Thomas, syndicated column, Aug. 5, 1960.
“ ‘Ocean’s Eleven’ figures”: Variety, Aug. 5, 1960.
“inject some sorely needed”: Santopietro, Sinatra in Hollywood, p. 285.
“depended for its vitality”: T. H. Adamowski, “Love in the Western World: Sinatra and the Conflict of Generations,” in Mustazza, Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture, p. 36.
“what Gore Vidal has called”: I could find no such quotation by Vidal; see, however, Eric Spitznagel, “Harold Ramis,” Believer, March 2006.
“He told me that Frank instructed”: Nelson Riddle, interview by Ed O’Brien; O’Brien, e-mail to author, Jan. 27, 2014.
