by James Kaplan
“Is this Frank Sinatra”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 304.
“The development apparently”: United Press, Dec. 10, 1963.
“Hello, Dad”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 304.
The FBI agents had already: Torrence, discussion.
“I don’t understand why you”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 305.
“Frank was shaken”: Ibid.
In the interim: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 175.
“So, you know, Frank”: “205: Plan B.”
“That’s exactly what”: Ibid.; Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 311.
“She was very upset”: Server, Ava Gardner, pp. 429–30.
The FBI agreed: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 105.
In the meantime, Sinatra: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 204.
Hart and his staff: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 311.
Hart took the money: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 176; Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 106.
“a mix of barely contained”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 100.
“had refused any sedatives”: Ibid., p. 103.
At 9:26 p.m.: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 176.
This time, Irwin directed: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 106.
“This is John Adams”: Associated Press, Feb. 21, 1964.
Junior wasn’t with him: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 181.
The kidnapper then directed: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 205.
Texaco station: Associated Press, Feb. 21, 1969.
As a squad of FBI: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 181.
When Keenan called John Irwin: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 306.
When Irwin told him: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 176.
“Junior was now highly”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 306.
“Something has gone wrong”: Ibid.
“I’m going to bring”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 106.
“I cried the whole way”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 307.
“When I got back”: Ibid.
“the look on his face”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 107.
Heading south from Canoga: Ibid.
In his agitated state: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 308.
Every time a car: Ibid.
Everyone who had read: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 205; United Press, Dec. 11, 1963.
“Call Bobby Kennedy!”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 308.
“Any news yet”: United Press, Dec. 11, 1963.
“Mrs. Sinatra”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 308.
“Hi, Ma”: Ibid.
“Tomorrow is my birthday”: United Press, Dec. 11, 1963.
“Frankie wolfed down”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 108.
“It was a big bag”: Torrence, discussion.
“My brother broke open”: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 179.
Keenan claimed they beat: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 310.
“The next day, the police”: Torrence, discussion.
“Virtually everything I had”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, pp. 308–9.
“Thank God it’s over”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 208.
He traded repartee: Associated Press, Dec. 16, 1963.
“Do you know why”: Kelley, His Way, p. 331.
CHAPTER 21
“Our world felt”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, pp. 108–9.
“Dear Frank”: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 183.
While he was placing: Associated Press, Jan. 20, 1964.
As Osborne re-explained: Associated Press, Jan. 20, 1964; Associated Press wirephoto, Jan. 21, 1964.
“I guess I overestimated”: United Press, Jan. 20, 1964.
Jack Warner had tried: Roger Fristoe, “Calamity Jane,” www.tcm.com/this-month/article.html?isPreview=&id=966029%7C628438&name=Calamity-Jane [website is no longer active].
“I hate that fucking song”: Furia, Skylark, p. 220.
“Moon River” was a late: Ibid.
“several hundred screaming”: Lewisohn, Complete Beatles Chronicle, pp. 92–93.
“It’s anybody’s guess”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY9PoR7-XGA.
“It was ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’ ”: Billboard, May 4, 1974.
“4 for Texas…is one”: Time, Jan. 10, 1964.
“behaves like a pasha”: New York Times, Dec. 26, 1963.
to gild the lily: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, Jan. 14, 1964.
“He knew that if anything”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, pp. 309–10.
“He missed Sam Giancana”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 209.
“Café owner Jilly”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, June 20, 1963.
“You may have seen”: Walter Winchell, syndicated column, June 23, 1963.
“His speech was right out of”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, pp. 209–10.
“Frank was a lonely guy”: Monty Alexander, in discussion with the author, Jan. 2006.
“I liked Jilly”: Betsy Hammes, in discussion with the author, June 2011.
namely his father’s: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Jan. 11, 1964; Louis Sobol, syndicated column, Jan. 21, 1964.
It would stay there: Bronson, Billboard Book of Number One Hits, p. 143.
he could fly there: Hedda Hopper, syndicated column, Feb. 12, 1964.
“The attendant publicity”: Variety, Jan. 15, 1964.
“FRANKIE JR.”: Associated Press, Dec. 22, 1963.
“I was in jail”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 311.
Keenan was represented: United Press, Feb. 12, 1964.
“This was a planned contractual”: Ibid.
“An apple doesn’t fall far”: Ibid.
“There is a vacant seat”: Associated Press, Feb. 12, 1964.
“cut two million”: United Press, Feb. 12, 1964.
“There are a lot of kids”: Variety, Jan. 15, 1964.
“The Beatles looked like”: Associated Press, Feb. 13, 1964.
On Friday the fourteenth: Titusville (Md.) Herald, Feb. 15, 1964.
“Because, Mrs. Root”: Associated Press, Feb. 15, 1964.
“Indeed,” Mrs. Root said: United Press, Feb. 15, 1964.
“SINATRA JR. DESPERATELY”: Los Angeles Times, Feb. 16, 1964.
“From now on, I’m working”: Associated Press, Feb. 18, 1964.
“I’m afraid I made up”: United Press, Feb. 25, 1964.
“I didn’t want to get killed”: Associated Press, Feb. 29, 1964.
“This is the strangest”: United Press, March 7, 1964.
Judge East handed: Ibid.; Associated Press, March 9, 1964.
Irwin would eventually: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 313.
All three were remanded: Associated Press, March 9, 1964.
“The report that came back”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 313.
According to a former servant: Ibid., pp. 315–16.
“Frankie was utterly blameless”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 111.
In July, after legal: Associated Press, July 30, 1964.
“I feel sorry for anyone”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 315.
All charges against: Associated Press, June 30, 1965.
And he was relatively: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 161.
“He really knew”: Tony Bill, in discussion with the author, May 2006.
For the duration: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 162.
In front of the house: Jones, Q, p. 179.
“Frank was getting itchy”: Kelley, His Way, p. 333.
“The water was quite shallow”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, pp. 210–11.
“kind of a beer-drinkin’ ”: Bill, discussion.
Before that fateful: Richmond, Fever, p. 269.
“It was a sun-drenched”: Kelley, His Way, pp. 334–35.
After a wave swept: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 189.
As Jilly raced: Ibid.
Frank was then taken: Ibid.
“He looked up at me”: Kelley, His Way, p. 336.
/> “It was like, ‘Hey’ ”: Bill, discussion.
“SINATRA NEARLY”: Associated Press, May 11, 1964.
“was rescued in a matter”: United Press, May 11, 1964.
Two other people: Ibid.
“Brad Dexter, an actor”: Associated Press, May 11, 1964.
“It was such a strange”: Kelley, His Way, p. 336.
“Frank appeared uptight”: Ibid., pp. 336–37.
“It could be that Mr. S”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 212.
“tried to treat”: Ibid.
“Oh, I just got a little”: Kelley, His Way, p. 336.
“Frank would go get”: Dick Bakalyan, in discussion with the author, Jan. 2007.
over a hundred times: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 411.
“He said, ‘Hey, Q’ ”: Quincy Jones, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2013; Jones, Q, p. 179.
“In the middle of our”: Jones, discussion.
“It started out with seven”: Jones, Q, p. 180.
“Partied our brains”: Jones, discussion.
Quincy quickly got to work: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 410.
“At around 6:30”: Jones, Q, p. 180.
“He was a brother”: Ibid.
“I’m not crazy”: Jones, discussion.
“Frank was my style”: Jones, Q, p. 179.
The publishers then passed: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 413.
“Frank was lazy”: Jones, discussion.
as recently as December: Alex Freman, Phoenix (Ariz.) Republic, Dec. 1, 1963.
The Manhattan Post Office forwarded: Furia, Skylark, p. 230.
“When he told me that Tony”: United Press, March 13, 1963.
And he had the last laugh: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 412.
“Beautiful. Beautiful”: “The Hollywood Palace, Season 1, Episode 24,” TV.com, www.tv.com/shows/the-hollywood-palace/host-dean-martin-the-rolling-stones-144861/recap.
“were a stupid fad”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 216.
“I thought, ‘Fuck you’ ”: http://entertainment.ca.msn.com/music/photos/rolling-stones-50th-anniversary?page=10 [website is no longer active].
He made nice: Marcucci, Where or When.
“an artless and obvious”: New York Times, Aug. 6, 1964.
The picture did a little: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 160.
“youth A&R man”: Cornyn, Exploding, p. 62.
“Jimmy never cared”: Lee Herschberg, in discussion with the author, May 2006.
“ ‘Listen, if you’re going’ ”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 420.
To that end, Bowen: Ibid.
“Nashville rock-style”: Ibid., p. 421.
“heard two flutists”: Cornyn, Exploding, p. 63.
“When we finished cutting”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 421.
“Softly, as I Leave You,” with: O’Brien and Sayers, Sinatra, p. 266.
The Beatles, and other alien sounds: Bronson, Billboard Book of Number One Hits, p. 154.
“be in charge of”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Aug. 11, 1964.
“Priding himself”: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 167.
When the director failed: Kelley, His Way, p. 339.
Sinatra took his posse: Ibid., p. 340.
“Between takes”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, pp. 216–17.
Romantically speaking: Harrison Carroll, syndicated column, June 25, 1964.
“One weekend”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 217.
“What are you being”: Kelley, His Way, p. 338.
The makeup artist covered: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 442.
He had planned to come: Ibid.
She writes in her memoirs: Gardner, Ava, p. 287.
He showed up for work: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, pp. 323–24.
“Frank was affectionate”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 443.
“She’s the only woman”: Ibid.; Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 324; Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 312.
In early September: Kelley, His Way, p. 340.
The next morning, in the lobby: Bob Thomas, syndicated column, Sept. 28, 1964.
The following morning: Ibid.
“spic faggot”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 219.
“I’ll never go back”: Kelley, His Way, p. 341.
Even Ava was beginning: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 448.
Both Von Ryan: Aubrey Solomon, Twentieth Century Fox, p. 254; David Kamp, “When Liz Met Dick,” Vanity Fair, April 2011.
Among the TV series: Lev, Twentieth Century-Fox, p. 258.
Tough blonde: Newcomb, Encyclopedia of Television, p. 1,754.
“He was an intelligent”: Lloyd Shearer feature on Mia Farrow, Jan. 3, 1965.
“a mean and lecherous”: Server, Ava Gardner, p. 243.
María de Lourdes Villiers Farrow: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 327.
“I was the loner”: Bob Thomas, syndicated column, Dec. 13, 1964.
“every once in a while,”: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 57.
“I discovered that only”: Life, May 5, 1967.
With the exception of a bit: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 48.
Her first movie role: Ibid., pp. 78–79.
“I want a big career”: Hedda Hopper, syndicated column, Sept. 13, 1964.
Restless during a long: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 86.
“I can say it now”: Levy, Rat Pack Confidential, p. 271.
She also fails to note: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 326; Kelley, His Way, p. 342; Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 219.
she told Life: Life, May 5, 1967.
“googly eyes”: Kelley, His Way, p. 344.
As she was watching: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 87.
The lights went down: Ibid., p. 88.
She has never listened: Ibid., p. 97.
“Sometimes I think I’d like”: Kelley, His Way, p. 344.
Who has a sense: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 89.
She has a three-room: Ibid., p. 84.
And, with honest: Ibid., p. 89.
Thus she finds: Ibid., p. 90.
“It wasn’t that Mia”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 226.
Years later: Farrow, What Falls Away, pp. 96–97.
“There was one of Ava”: Kelley, His Way, p. 346.
He bought her: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 95.
Thus, he had not been: Ibid., pp. 95–96.
As late as 1988: “Sinatra, Van Heusen, and a Piano in the Desert,” The Jonathan Channel, July 23, 2014; Rob Fentress, e-mail to author, July 23, 2014.
Sometimes, as they strolled: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 96.
“that stuffy, older crowd”: Kelley, His Way, p. 346.
where he ordered her: Ibid., p. 344.
“no one, absolutely”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 227.
“Mia was a very clever”: Kelley, His Way, p. 345.
Miller, who had desperately: United Press, Nov. 10, 1964.
Frank would find: Gay Talese, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” Esquire, April 1966.
“Bill didn’t really”: Peggy Connelly, in discussion with the author, May 2006.
“Bill always took”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 39.
“And now, the mother”: Marcucci, Where or When; Shaw, Sinatra, p. 342.
“Jack Entratter said”: Jones, discussion.
“I can still hear”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 331.
“the maddest, merriest”: Reuters, Dec. 1, 1964.
“I have been meeting”: Bob Thomas, syndicated column, Dec. 13, 1964.
“I don’t believe it”: Louella Parsons, syndicated column, Dec. 7, 1964.
“an obvious blockbuster”: Variety, Dec. 2, 1964.
“took us over to the table”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 289.
CHAPTER 22
“America in 1964”: Dwight Garner, “Cigarettes, Coffee, a Stop at the Liquor Store,” New York Times, Aug. 9, 2014, www.nytimes.com/2014/08/09/books/frank-oharas-lunch-poems-turn-50.html.
He was speaking of far: “Number of Color T
V Households and Percentage of USA Homes with Color Television, 1964 to 1978,” Television History—The First 75 Years, www.tvhistory.tv/Color_Households_64-78.JPG.
“It [rock ’n’ roll] belongs”: Variety, Nov. 6, 1964.
“Look at that”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 291; O’Brien and Sayers, Sinatra, pp. 265–66.
“Mia Farrow and Frank Sinatra”: Mike Connolly, syndicated column, Jan. 22, 1965.
A $250 one-time membership fee: Time, April 23, 1965.
(later raised to $1,000): Sports Illustrated, July 10, 1967.
who was said to own: Time, Sept. 27, 1963.
“has some of the most”: Time, April 23, 1965.
“What in your profession”: Larry King, in discussion with the author, Nov. 2012.
where, in the days: Lloyd Shearer feature on Mia Farrow, Jan. 3, 1965.
“New York’s swinging”: Alex Freeman, syndicated column, Feb. 7, 1965.
“I think they had”: Christopher Cerf, in discussion with the author, June 2006.
after Hart’s untimely: United Press, Dec. 23, 1961.
Once, in the summer of 1964: New York Times, May 25, 1964.
“I’m sure we’d all had”: Cerf, discussion.
“Provocative and engrossing”: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 165.
“If the threat of Frank Sinatra”: New York Times, Feb. 25, 1965.
“I’m well aware”: Peter Bart, New York Times, April 18, 1965.
He might have been out: Billboard, Nov. 20, 1965.
“Four years from now”: Show Business Illustrated, Sept. 5, 1961.
he livened up: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 172.
She’d thought that her marriage: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 191.
“He chewed up scenery”: Tony Bill, in discussion with the author, May 2006.
“PJ’s and all those clubs”: Quincy Jones, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2013.
He was enraged: Taraborrelli, Sinatra: Behind the Legend, p. 337.
“I remember coming home”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, pp. 131–32.
“He’s awful”: Jonathan Schwartz, in discussion with the author, Sept. 2011.
“Gordon had his identity”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 349.
“Jenkins relied on the most”: Ibid., p. 348.
“I could have stayed”: Stan Cornyn, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2006.
“Tonight will not swing”: September of My Years liner notes.
“the same seat”: David Bianculli, “CBS Replays Vintage Sinatra ‘48 Hours’ Airing Cronkite Interview & Profile from ’65,” New York Daily News, May 21, 1998, www.nydailynews.com/archives/entertainment/cbs-replays-vintage-sinatra-48-hours-airing-cronkite-interview-profile-65-article-1.786751.
