by James Kaplan
“Tommy was the kind”: Fifi Booth, in discussion with the author, April 2012.
“He kept hopping up”: Life, April 23, 1965.
The moment was invariably: John Dominis, in discussion with the author, Jan. 2006.
“He was having an all-night”: Life, April 23, 1965.
“I became fascinated”: Ibid.
“He is a man who will”: Ibid.
“Sinatra is rich”: Ibid.
“Women are constantly”: Ibid.
“The era of cool jazz”: Ibid.
But her brilliance: Ed O’Brien, e-mail to author, Dec. 21, 2011.
Surprisingly, he gave: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 216.
“sings well”: Life, April 23, 1965.
In the November Variety: Variety, Nov. 6, 1964.
“Even though I’ve been singing”: Life, April 23, 1965.
She was shocked when: Farrow, What Falls Away, pp. 98–99.
She discovered that: Ibid., p. 100.
Basie simply charged: Rob Fentress, in discussion with the author, June 2011.
He’d come east: Sun Lakes Aero Club, “Frank Sinatra and His Lear Jet N175FS.”
“to Detroit or Chicago”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, June 10, 1965.
“We now have two”: Bob Thomas, syndicated column, May 1, 1965.
The answer incorrectly: TV Scout, syndicated column, April 19, 1965.
“When Mia Farrow first”: Dorothy Kilgallen, syndicated column, May 27, 1965.
“My son is just”: Kelley, His Way, p. 347.
“She is not as fragile”: Bob Thomas, syndicated column, May 1, 1965.
“The La Rue crowd”: Walter Winchell, syndicated column, June 7, 1965.
In 1960, the National Guard: Rampersad, The Life of Langston Hughes, pp. 314–15.
That same year: Morton, Backstory in Blue, p. 260.
“the only time I’ve ever”: Quincy Jones, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2013.
The silly subject: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 405.
“bland, banal”: New Yorker, July 17, 1965.
In fact, $35,000: Wein, Myself Among Others, p. 248.
Yet Balliett somehow failed: Shaw, Sinatra, pp. 349–50.
“When the dual aircraft”: Wein, Myself Among Others, p. 246.
“a glorious performance”: Ibid., p. 250.
Among the numbers: Quincy Jones, e-mail to author, Aug. 26, 2014.
“Many believe [Jones’s]”: Fuchs and Prigozy, Frank Sinatra, p. 35.
“There have been many”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 349.
“Sinatra’s festival”: Variety, July 7, 1965.
At 10:25 p.m.: Ibid.
“As he left the stage”: Wein, Myself Among Others, p. 250.
“The audience was made up”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 350.
Gross ticket sales: “Live: Shea Stadium, New York,” The Beatles Bible, www.beatlesbible.com/1965/08/15/live-shea-stadium-new-york.
The A-group: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 101.
Equally strange: Ibid.
Her television series: Ibid., p. 104.
“If Mia decided to marry”: Associated Press, Aug. 5, 1965.
“the coven of golden oldies”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 225.
This cruise was far more: Ibid., p. 228.
Not even Frank: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 104.
Almost at once: Ibid., pp. 104–05.
Rather pathetically: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 225.
A measure of relief: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 105.
His image as: Ibid., p. 99.
Amid the constant: Ibid., p. 106.
She also writes: Ibid., p. 104.
The denial only fanned: United Press, Aug. 6, 1965.
Grimes and Goldfarb got: Associated Press, Aug. 11, 1965.
“the most closely watched”: Time, Aug. 20, 1965.
“10 other persons”: United Press, Aug. 26, 1965.
As the whole table: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 101.
Typical nights in Vegas: Ibid., p. 102.
At 3:00 a.m., after: United Press, Aug. 26, 1965.
the program took: Lethbridge Herald, Sept. 18, 1965.
“If it’s not Reprise”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgcCfMo1HcY.
An added bonus: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, pp. 173–74.
the film lost $1.2 million: Balio, United Artists, p. 171.
“a lackluster nautical”: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 175.
“Assault on a Queen was a B-picture”: Evans, Kid Stays in the Picture, p. 122.
“It’s a good story”: Bob Thomas, syndicated column, Oct. 15, 1965.
“CBS insisting on”: New York Times, Nov. 5, 1965.
“We were getting along”: Cronkite, Reporter’s Life, pp. 343–44.
“You broke all”: Hewitt, Tell Me a Story, p. 102.
“Cronkite’s doing this thing”: Gay Talese, in discussion with the author, May 2007.
“Watching him at recording”: Talese, Fame and Obscurity, p. 12.
“security guards, Budweiser”: Talese, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.”
“What I do with my life”: “Sinatra,” transcript, CBS News, Nov. 16, 1965.
“The fact that I used”: Ibid.
“This is the great age”: Scott Raab, “The Graceful Exit,” Esquire, May 2000.
“a nice little”: Cynthia Lowry, syndicated column, Nov. 17, 1965.
“Sinatra wasn’t authorized”: Shaw, Sinatra, pp. 352–53.
“Although it seemed”: Ibid., p. 352.
“His daughter Nancy’s”: Ibid.
“struck marinara”: Nancy Sinatra, My Father, p. 196.
“Like a fourteen-year-old”: Ibid., p. 198.
“a sixteen-year-old”: Lee Hazlewood obituary, The Guardian, April 6, 2014.
“An hour of consummate”: Rick DuBrow, syndicated column, Nov. 25, 1965.
and the ratings were: Billboard, Nov. 13, 1965.
“When Frank Sinatra drives”: Talese, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.”
“ ‘Vicenzo,’ Sinatra said”: Ibid.
“After Sinatra had kissed”: Ibid.
“This is the Month”: Shaw, Sinatra, p. 353.
Two compilation albums: Ibid., pp. 353–54.
Tony Bennett sang with: Ibid., p. 354.
“Who in the forties”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, pp. 136–37.
“If Frank Sinatra had”: Dorothy Manners, syndicated column, Dec. 17, 1965.
“Mia threw a fit”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, pp. 228–29.
Overjoyed, she bought: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 345.
On opening night, he informed: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Dec. 10, 1965.
Dorothy Manners’s happy: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 229.
“horror of vanity”: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 107.
“She didn’t cut it”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 346.
“Now I really will”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 229.
CHAPTER 23
“The showmanship vibrations”: Variety, Jan. 12, 1966.
Lacking a string section: Quincy Jones, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2013.
On their first Christmas: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 108.
“Mia, Mia”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 347.
“At 5 a.m. you”: Hedda Hopper, syndicated column, Jan. 17, 1966.
Mia wrote of her alienation: Farrow, What Falls Away, pp. 108–9.
Frank’s love of hosting: Ibid., p. 109.
In the first week: Dorothy Manners, syndicated column, Feb. 12, 1966.
“Now and then she”: Dorothy Manners, syndicated column, Feb. 12, 1966; Wilson, Sinatra, p. 224.
Sinatra hired two: Leonard Lyons, syndicated column, Feb. 28, 1966.
“Don’t get a headache”: Dorothy Manners, syndicated column, Feb. 21, 1966.
She told Frank to leave: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 348.
“were absurdly insignificant”: Farrow, Wha
t Falls Away, p. 111.
“delightful”: Ibid.
“With a week’s”: Harrison Carroll, syndicated column, April 15, 1966.
“I said, ‘Man, get’ ”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 422.
“I don’t want to”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 334.
His last number 1: O’Brien and Sayers, Sinatra, pp. 264–65.
“I must have turned”: Bowen, Rough Mix, p. 98.
“I don’t give a damn”: Ibid., p. 99.
“set up an all-night”: Cornyn, Exploding, p. 63.
“He thought it was about”: Havers, Sinatra, p. 296.
Singing it for audiences: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 423.
“Here’s a song that I cannot”: Recording of Nov. 27, 1975, Jerusalem concert.
In the U.K., it sat: Havers, Sinatra, p. 296.
“Just as predicted”: Jack O’Brian, syndicated column, May 10, 1966.
“That’s not so good”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 349.
The night she came back: Farrow, What Falls Away, pp. 111–12.
“There is no particular”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, pp. 271–72.
“looking madly”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, June 2, 1966.
“You’re out of line”: Kelley, His Way, p. 353.
“one of the phones”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 230.
And years later: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 329.
“Sinatra has been”: Associated Press, June 10, 1966.
“Now I’ve gone”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 353.
“That’s the only time”: Kelley, His Way, p. 354.
and, according to one source: Ibid., p. 355.
“millions”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 231.
“There’s nothing to settle”: Kelley, His Way, p. 355.
“In the closing space between us”: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 112.
He went to Billy: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 353.
As they flew: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 112.
“I don’t have a recollection”: Christopher Cerf, in discussion with the author, June 2006.
“countless Mia-like waifs”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 231.
On July 7, she finally: United Press, July 7, 1966.
Her asking price: Florabel Muir, syndicated column, July 9, 1966.
she’d cut her leg: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 221.
“It’s a friendship”: Kelley, His Way, p. 355; United Press, July 13, 1966.
“If Mr. Sinatra is going to marry”: Kelley, His Way, p. 347.
Mia could announce: Ibid., p. 355.
“I couldn’t be more”: Associated Press, July 14, 1966.
“Let’s get married”: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 112.
“It’s too big”: Kelley, His Way, p. 356.
Dexter then told: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 316.
“He went crazy”: Ibid., p. 329.
“the ceremony would”: Associated Press and United Press, July 19, 1966.
The next day: Farrow, What Falls Away, pp. 112–13.
“looked grim”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 235.
“a close friend”: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 354.
But on one fact: Ibid.; Server, Ava Gardner, p. 448.
“had just shot”: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 113.
“accidentally discharged”: United Press, July 19, 1966.
“I’ve never seen such”: Kelley, His Way, p. 357.
“Mr. S looked nervous”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 235.
“This is the happiest”: Kelley, His Way, p. 357.
He took his new wife: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 354.
Someone noticed that: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 222.
“How are you, baby”: Associated Press, July 20, 1966.
“This is a big day”: Kelley, His Way, p. 357.
“My mother was stunned”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, pp. 140–41.
“My brother Patrick”: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 113.
Sinatra slugged him: United Press, July 27, 1966.
“This one don’t talk”: Kelley, His Way, p. 358.
“She’s a little nothing”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 236.
“She was a voracious”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 142.
who felt threatened: Taraborrelli, Sinatra, p. 356.
“Mia knew far more people”: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 236.
“shiny green silks”: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 113.
His boss seemed testy: Jacobs and Stadiem, Mr. S, p. 237.
Aboard Loewe’s yacht: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 200.
Dexter had to use: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 179; Kelley, His Way, p. 360.
Equilibrium had been: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 180.
“He hated the guy”: Kelley, His Way, p. 361.
“I couldn’t stand listening”: Ibid.
“swore he’d move”: Ibid.
“then received a communication”: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 180.
“How are you?”: Kelley, His Way, p. 363.
“Questioned about the incident”: Daniel O’Brien, Frank Sinatra Film Guide, p. 180.
“He was the producer”: Kelley, His Way, p. 363.
“a straggly line”: San Mateo Times, Sept. 8, 1966.
The newlyweds: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 114.
“It was a five-bedroom”: Spy, Sept. 1988; “209 Copa de Oro Rd, Los Angeles, California,” the Movieland Directory, www.movielanddirectory.com/tour-location.cfm?location=20620&address=209%20Copa%20De%20Oro%20Rd&city=Los%20Angeles&state=california.
Dick Powell and June Allyson had: Lewis and Kaplan, Dean and Me, p. 87.
“If I could have one”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, p. 140.
“Sinatra?”: Hayes, Smiling Through the Apocalypse, p. 314.
“A slow count”: Ibid.
“I always knew Frank”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 503.
And according to two: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Oct. 4, 1966.
“I think we ought”: Bowen, Rough Mix, p. 101.
“James,” he said: Ibid., pp. 102–4.
A month later, the song: “The Hot 100: Week of November 19, 1966,” Billboard, www.billboard.com/charts/1966-11-19/hot-100.
It was Sinatra’s twenty-eighth: Variety, Nov. 4, 1966.
Then Lefty delivered: Marcucci, Where or When.
She knew the lyrics: Farrow, What Falls Away, pp. 102–3.
“Believe it or not”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Nov. 8, 1966.
Half a dozen songs later: Ibid.
“Smokey the Bear”: Kelley, His Way, p. 364.
Though the riots: Associated Press, May 27, 1966; United Press, Oct. 30, 1966.
“But Sammy’s okay”: Kelley, His Way, p. 364.
“he stopped at a blackjack”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Nov. 8, 1966.
“she touched his craps-swinging”: Graham, Confessions of a Hollywood Columnist, p. 48.
“We can’t do just”: Friedwald, Sinatra!, p. 425.
“That was Mia’s”: Rob Fentress, in discussion with the author, June 2011.
The air was crisp: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Dec. 1, 1966.
He’d invited everyone: United Press, Nov. 29, 1966.
“a black-and-white blur”: Cerf, discussion.
Farrow’s eye mask: United Press, Nov. 29, 1966.
CHAPTER 24
“It’s an honor”: Castro, Bossa Nova, p. 327.
“On the night of Thursday”: Wilson, Sinatra, p. 223.
The couple’s Caribbean: Associated Press, Jan. 20, 1967.
they stayed at Claudette: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Jan. 21, 1967.
“When he picked up”: Claus Ogerman, in discussion with the author, Feb. 2013.
He also went into: Per Ed O’Brien: Rob Fentress, e-mail to author, Feb. 2, 2015.
On January 26, he took: Associated Press, Jan. 27, 1967.
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sp; Sinatra’s remarks: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 201.
“this slight and tousled”: O’Brien and Sayers, Sinatra, p. 131.
“He was in awe”: Lee Herschberg, in discussion with the author, May 2006.
“Maybe too much”: Ogerman, discussion.
“like the World Soft”: Francis Albert Sinatra & Antonio Carlos Jobim liner notes.
“Very gentle”: Inside Sinatra-Jobim, song outtake.
“The arrangements were just”: Herschberg, discussion.
“were running like”: Ogerman, discussion.
“gold cuff-links”: Inside Sinatra-Jobim, song outtake.
“What was nice there”: Ogerman, discussion.
On that last night: Nancy Sinatra, American Legend, p. 201.
The love duet: Ostin, discussion.
Released on March 18: O’Brien and Sayers, Sinatra, p. 266.
That’s Life, which had: Ibid., p. 261.
“They were model”: Tina Sinatra, My Father’s Daughter, pp. 142–43.
“It’ll be the first real”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Feb. 16, 1967.
“Frank didn’t seem”: Farrow, What Falls Away, p. 114.
Jackie Mason, born: Finkelstein, Jewish Comedy Stars, p. 51.
which began not long after: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 304.
were an open secret: Lloyd Shearer, article, Sept. 3, 1967.
“Frank soaks his dentures”: Kelley, His Way, p. 364.
“I really came in”: Earl Wilson, syndicated column, Nov. 8, 1966.
“Nah, I’m just kidding”: Kelley, His Way, p. 364.
The bullets lodged: United Press, Nov. 8, 1966.
The Clark County sheriff’s: Kelley, His Way, p. 364; Walter Winchell, syndicated column, Nov. 23, 1966.
“I have no idea”: Variety, Feb. 15, 1967.
“I was warned”: Kelley, His Way, p. 364.
“all of a sudden”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 330.
He sustained multiple: Variety, Feb. 15, 1967.
“This is not the worst”: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 330.
The work in London: Farrow, What Falls Away, pp. 114–15.
“I never had an act”: Shecky Greene, in discussion with the author, Nov. 2012.
“Fear,” he said: Ibid.
Joe Fischetti, still nominally: Summers and Swan, Sinatra, p. 330.
“We’re sitting in”: Ibid.
“No better evidence”: Harrison Carroll, syndicated column, March 14, 1967.
