Posted on 05/04/2005 5:36:35 PM PDT by blam
The Big Sleep
The Maltese Falcon
Sabrina
The Caine Mutiny
The Petrified Forest
Muleteam1
You misread, I wrote that "I don't doubt that Frank was mobbed up"
Although Sinatra was definately tied into the mob, I really doubt that Meyer Lansky killed his boyhood friend because of him. Bugsy was skimming the mob's money and they couldn't stand for that.
Just finished Panic In The City
This is for you New Orleans freepers.
In 1988 I was in New Orleans for the Republican Convention and got lost. It wasn't my fault, though, the desk clerk told me to take the "Nawlins" exit! Honest. I even asked him to repeat it several times because it was such a strange-sounding name. Of course, he couldn't pronounce it "Noo Or-leens" like regular people so like an idiot I just kept driving and driving looking for the exit spelled "Nawlins," until I ended up across the river in the public housing section of town and had to ask directions from a guy who worked inside a fortress-like glass cage at a very scary gas station. Except for that, and the suffocating humidity, "Nawlins" is a fun town.
Dear sinkspur,
Never was much into vocal music. Except for Gregorian chants. ;-)
For modern stuff, I prefer Gershwin.
sitetest
Great I'll look for those too. The Maltese Falcon was another one I heard was good.
I'm in the middle of the Three Stooges.
Sinatra and Tony Bennett have magical voices, IMO. True crooners.
Dear sinkspur,
Yes, Sinatra was a great singer. He was my mother's favorite. She'd go see him sing when he was a scrawny young guy starting to sing in NYC-area clubs. She was, I think, a "bobby-soxer." That's what she used to say.
She used to tell me that when he first started, he was so scrawny, they used to laugh at him.
Later, they swooned.
But I much prefer instrumental music. Of course, the "Ode to Joy" is a major exception, as well.
sitetest
Believe me, the novelty wears off real fast.
My best Nawlins story is, however, the fact that years after leaving Louisiana I learned that one of my great great great grandfathers in North Carolina built many, if not most, of the American muskets used at the Battle of New Orleans.
"Nawlins" is indeed a very interesting place. However, it is a tough place to have a young family which I did when I was there.
Muleteam1
That jumped out at me also. When I hear people talk about folks carrying millions of dollars in a duffel bag or suitcase, I try to get them to understand how many bills that would have to be. When they're talking denominations of $20s, its easy to calculate out how it would have to be a truck and not a duffel bag.
I heard that, too. 4F. I especially liked some of his early musicals. I'm lol at the thought of him with that suitcase of 70,000 $50's. He was so slight, so thin and fragile looking in his early life. But I'd always heard it the other way around. That he didn't volunteer for the mob, but that the mob 'volunteered' him. And that the kidnap of his son was 'encouragement' to continue in their help. Also, that early on in his career, mob guys tried to 'own' him and his career, but he fought against being owned. However much of my info came from many die-hard-fan friends from NY who looooved him like some people adore Elvis.
I often suffer from old-timers disease.
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