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The Beatles were singled out on Friday as the most influential entertainers of the past 100 years, beating out the likes of Elvis Presley, Charlie Chaplin and Mickey Mouse, according to a survey conducted by show business newspaper Variety. Behind the Fab Four's first-place finish, were in alphabetical order: jazz pioneer Louis Armstrong, television comedienne Lucille Ball, movie legends Humphrey Bogart, Marlon Brando, Charlie Chaplin, James Dean and Marilyn Monroe, cartoon hero Mickey Mouse and singers Elvis Presley and Frank Sinatra. Variety said the Beatles were named "Icons of the Century" because they were the entertainment personalities who made the...

Sinatra 'almost got caught carrying $3.5m Mafia cash' By Catherine Elsworth (Filed: 05/05/2005) Frank Sinatra once served as a Mafia courier and narrowly escaped arrest with a briefcase containing $3.5 million in cash, according to a new biography of the legendary singer. The entertainer Jerry Lewis is quoted as saying that Sinatra "volunteered to be a messenger for them... And he almost got caught once... in New York." Frank Sinatra: mob links Extracts of Sinatra: The Life, an unauthorised biography by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan, were published yesterday by Vanity Fair magazine. Lewis said that Sinatra was going through...

Hello... I want to have a little fun with my karaoke thing here. (I apologise to the more serious conservatives in here without my kind of goofy sense of humor for this post, but I need a little help) Ok, I want to sing a song and put it into mp3 - it's the words to NY, NY, but I need lyrics to make it relate to Dan Rather. Of course the song will start out "No more spreading the news, I'm leaving today" I can't seem to get too creative on this and was wondering if there were any...

Sir Paul McCartney certainly cleaned up the Super Bowl half-time show's image, didn't he? Nothing racier was to be seen than a spiffy red shirt, revealed by McCartney removing his coat. It was during the first half of play, however, that Mr. McCartney impressed me with his supreme confidence. If you were watching the game, you saw a number of "cutaways" of Paul McCartney enjoying the proceedings from a V.I.P. box. If I am not mistaken, one of those closeups was seen at the two-minute warning, just moments before the half-time show was to begin. That may not seem like...

A little humor and the great Sinatra sound. Go here and listen to "Strangers on My Flight" http://www.beecy.net/frank/

Click here: Frank Sinatra Parody: You Are Either With Frank Or You Are With The Terrorists!

This is a hilarious rendition of "Strangers in the Night" that you can't miss!

WASHINGTON - Nancy Sinatra may wear boots made for walking, but she rode to the White House yesterday on the back of a motorcycle. The daughter of Frank Sinatra was part of a delegation of Rolling Thunder officials and others who met President Bush near the South Portico of the White House. Nancy Sinatra, who recorded "These Boots Were Made For Walking" in 1966, rode in wearing a knee-high skirt, dark shades and black cowboy boots. Rolling Thunder President Artie Muller was at the handlebars. Rolling Thunder, which provides information about Americans missing in action in the Vietnam War and...

Why did the Bush administration immediately suspect that Iraq was behind the 9/11 attacks when there was no evidence of any connection, as Richard Clarke and other Bush critics maintain? Maybe it was because there was indeed evidence, very dramatic evidence, in fact - in the form of warnings in the state-run Iraqi press that such an attack was coming, along with praise for Osama bin Laden and his kamikaze hijackers in the days after the World Trade Center was destroyed. Less than two months before 9/11, the state-controlled Iraqi newspaper "Al-Nasiriya" carried a column headlined, "America, An Obsession Called...

<p>New Yorkers who walk into the oak-paneled Carnegie Club on West 56th Street will encounter a now unfamiliar scent--cigar smoke. The club, which is one of a few legal cigar bars in a city gone smoke-free, has nostalgia written all over it: musty bookshelves, waitresses who don't carry the drinks themselves but are followed by tuxedoed men who perform that service, and, most of all, Cary Hoffman and the Stan Rubin Orchestra.</p>

NEVER FORGET ...Tonight CBS TV News reported that the 1962 Movie about Political Asassination, "The MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE" Starring FRANK SINATRA, may have inspired LEE HARVEY OSWALD into asassinating JFK. ...OSWALD viewed this Scarey Movie several times during its long run at a theater that sat next to his Post Office one full year before JFK's Death. ...In the fall of 1963 I remember national TV Coverage of a Los Angeles Press Conference given by a fleeing Sister-in-Law of South Vietnam President DIEM, Madame "Dragon Lady' Nhu. A TV Press Conference that may not have been lost on LEE HARVEY OSWALD....

Frank Sinatra show at NYC Radio City Music Hall I attended a new show put on by Radio City Music Hall, where they have taken film footage previously unseen outside of the Sinatra family, and worked the soundtrack to a live orchestra. All in all, it is quite a believable event, with projection screens moving in and out of view, and a constant flow of imagery of Frank and family and friends. There is one section where they mention Frank's involvement with the Giancana family in Chicago, and how he, as a friend of JFK, and with a phone call...

Dennis Miller is scheduled to make another appearance Wednesday night on a new edition of NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno. This week's Weekly Standard magazine carries a piece reviewing Miller's move to the right and recounting some of his latest material, lines you may have caught in his new pre-taped segments for FNC run Friday night on Hannity & Colmes and Saturday afternoon on Weekend Live with Tony Snow. An excerpt from, "Miller's Crossing...to the right side of the political street," by Eric Pfeiffer in the July 28 Weekly Standard: Dennis Miller insists he's not an across-the-board conservative, which...

A golden oldie from the "Greatest Hits" section of Mark Steyn's website.SINATRA From The Sunday Telegraph, May 17th 1998 ON HIS 1979 futuristic concept album, Trilogy: Reflections Of The Future In Three Tenses, Frank Sinatra had it all figured out: And when that cat with the scythe comes tugging at my sleeve I’ll be singing as I leave . . . By the time the cat with the scythe finally showed up on Thursday night, Frank wasn’t singing too much any more. But he still owed Capitol Records a new album - and that’s all you need to know: he...

<p>May 13, 2003 -- A BOMBSHELL new book by Frank Sinatra’s valet lifts the lid off the seedy side of Old Blue Eyes’ long and colorful relationship with the Kennedys.</p>

<p>A BOMBSHELL new book by Frank Sinatra’s valet lifts the lid off the seedy side of Old Blue Eyes’ long and colorful relationship with the Kennedys.</p>

HE WAS only married to Marilyn Monroe for nine turbulent months, but Joe DiMaggio, the reclusive US baseball legend, vowed he would never forgive the Kennedys for her death. Now, four years after his own demise, the man immortalised by Simon and Garfunkel in the song Mrs Robinson appears to have his revenge. A new book, written by his long-time lawyer and close companion Morris Engelberg, reveals he really did believe the Kennedy clan killed Monroe. "They murdered the one person I loved," DiMaggio confided to Mr Engelberg. Officially, Monroe, who allegedly enjoyed affairs with both John Kennedy, the US...

A musical about the life of the late Frank Sinatra will cover everything from his songs to his stormy love affairs and his alleged mob ties - and the scrawny kid from New Jersey will be played by an Englishman, no less. According to Liz Smith writing in the New York Post, the show, "We'll Take Sinatra: The Main Event" will open April 28 at the Venetian in Las Vegas. Smith wrote that British actor and Sinatra look-a-like Stephen Triffitt will play Frank, and famous impersonator Bob Anderson will narrate the show and play the men of the Rat Pack...