The second installment of Robert J. Randisi’s Rat Pack Mystery series is due to be released on December 10th. Luck Be a Lady, Don’t Die: A Rat Pack Mystery (Rat Pack Mysteries) is the followup to the highly regarded first installment published last year, Everybody Kills Somebody Sometime (Rat Pack Mysteries). This one sounds as […]
Frank Sinatra 2008 Wall Calendar
Face it: 2008 is coming and you need to put something on your wall. It may as well be Sinatra.
Sinatra: Vegas (Box Set, 4CD/1DVD)
Last year’s big surprise remains the best Sinatra boxed set released since 1995’s Complete Reprise Recordings. If you haven’t yet purchased a copy, what have you been waiting […]
A new book of Frank Sinatra photos will shortly be released: Sinatra: Frank and Friendly. This title contains more than 100 photos of Sinatra taken over a 20-year period by photographer Terry O’Neill, including backstage, on-location, and private shots.
In plenty of time for Christmas(!), today I learned that the Sinatra family has authorized the publication of Frank Sinatra: The Family Album This is a 144 page hardcover book, authored by Charles Pignone. No description for the item is available, but I will speculate that it is a photo album of sorts. Time will […]
Just released a few days ago, this book is a collection of essays about Frank Sinatra culled from a scholarly conference held at Hofstra University in New York about 10 years ago. I had long since forgotten about he conference until the release of Frank Sinatra: The Man, the Music, the Legend. Now I recall […]
You would have thought that Don Rickles might have gotten around to this sooner, but I suppose his late-career resurgence has kept him busy, and rightfully so. But now Don has written his book Rickles’ Book: A Memoir about his entertainment career that is sure to be an interesting read, filled with tidbits about […]
Who knew Sammy Davis Jr. was such a photo buff? Certainly I didn’t. But as a new book shows, he certainly was a prolific photographer. Amazon has the product info here: Photo by Sammy Davis, Jr.
Good Morning America has some of the candid shots taken by Sammy that are included in this book. It is […]
The Chicago Syndicate blog has an extended excerpt from the Sinatra biography Sinatra: The Life
The excerpt attempts to make a connection between Sinatra and the mob, though the connection seems tenuous at best. Still, it makes for fascinating reading.
