Frank sinatra was gay
How Gay Talese Wrote the Definitive Profile of Frank Sinatra
For as long as people have been famous, writers have been tasked with writing about them. Over the years, this has led to some fantastic writing, some controversial articles and an evolving sense of the art of writing about celebrities. And then there&#;s Gay Talese&#;s &#;Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,&#; which Esquire published in its April issue — still hailed as a masterpiece of nonfiction, decades after it was written.
As much of the writing about &#;Frank Sinatra Has a Cold&#; points out, Talese wrote about Sinatra by focusing on the people around him. &#;Talese painted a portrait of Sinatra from the outside, spending long, tedious hours with his flunkies and hangers-on, capturing the ripples and crosscurrents of influence and ego among the nine circles of sycophants who surrounded him that cumulatively told a story of raw power,&#; wrote Ron Rosenbaum in a article.
Talese&#;s article is credited with changing the face of journalism; it&#;s also possible that we might see a film version of it one of these days. An
Frank Sinatra Has a Cold
In the winter of , writer Gay Talese arrived in Los Angeles with an assignment from Esquire to profile Frank Sinatra. The legendary singer was approaching fifty, under the weather, out of sorts, and unwilling to be interviewed. So Talese remained in L.A., hoping Sinatra might recover and reconsider, and he began talking to many of the people around Sinatra—his friends, his associates, his family, his countless hangers-on—and observing the man himself wherever he could. The product, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold," ran in April and became one of the most celebrated magazine stories ever published, a pioneering example of what came to be called New Journalism—a work of rigorously faithful truth enlivened with the kind of vivid storytelling that had previously been reserved for fiction. The piece conjures a deeply affluent portrait of one of the era's most guarded figures and tells a larger story about entertainment, celebrity, and America itself.
Frank Sinatra, holding a glass of bourbon in one hand and a cigarette in the other, stood in a dark
Frank Sinatra&#;s penis is so huge, when I was doing a line of coke off of it &#; I had to stop and think, &#;Is it a queer anthem?&#; &#; Thanks Jinkx Monsoon for that inspiration.
A piece of revisionist news is making the rounds on the internet again. Frank Sinatra, arguably one of the greatest crooners of all time, is responsible for bringing a gay like song to life with his cover of &#;Fly Me to the Moon.&#;
Originally titled &#;In Other Words,&#; the classic song was written by composer Bart Howard in The tune was eventually reworked by Frank Sinatra under its new title in and became one of the singer&#;s biggest hits. What few people have realized, though, is that its original composer, Howard, was a gay man.
Bart Howard was in a decades long relationship with Thomas Fowler. The pair remained together until Howard&#;s death in And with Fowler&#;s passing, the couple is interned together, bringing a lifelong and forever conclusion to their love story.
The song was originally called In Other Words and it was composed in a 3/4 timescale. The first record
Frank Sinatra: I used to attend all the gay places&#;
mainnorman lebrecht
October 13,
Variety has been allowed to release a long-suppressed recording.
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