If You’re Talking Broads, Frank Is The Chairman
Ol’ Blue Eyes is seeing red over the Frank Sinatra stories served up in Shirley MacLaine’s forthcoming autobiography.
Along with mentions of mob ties, “My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir,” scheduled for an April release, also alleges that Sinatra:
Groveled before ex-wife Ava Gardner, who “humiliated him and kicked him when he was down” and “satisfied a need of Frank’s to be bullied by a strong mother figure.”
Punched holes in the walls of hotel rooms he didn’t like, and once hit a hotel manager who was complaining about noise.
Became one of Ronald Reagan’s biggest boosters even though he thought Reagan was “a stupid bore” and his wife, Nancy, was “a dumb broad with fat ankles.”
Says Sinatra: “It’s amazing what a broad will do for a buck.”
M.A.C. Cosmetics founder Frank Toskan, on hiring a drag queen to pitch his products (in Entertainment Weekly): “Who better than RuPaul to show what makeup can really do?” Didn’t we just see her in her birthday suit?
Dana Delany turns 39 today.
Make that four, if Frank tries to perform
Some still-faithful friends of Frank’s are planning a Sinatra tribute at Carnegie Hall this summer, which could last for three nights. Signed up so far: Tony Bennett, Jack Jones, Vic Damone, Linda Ronstadt, Rosemary Clooney and Frank Sinatra Jr.
His highlight is the Labor Day telethon
More MacLaine, on fellow former Rat Packer Dean Martin: “He is the one who tugs at my heart the most … He’s home most of the day watching television and does what he has always wanted to do - nothing … He’s essentially uninvolved with the passions of life or work … I miss him more than I can say.”
Life is like a box of … Aunt Jemima’s?
Tom Hanks compares his Oscar nomination for best actor in “Forrest Gump” to buying a raffle ticket for a television at a pancake breakfast. “Even if you don’t win,” he says, “you still had a pretty good plate of pancakes.”
In weaker moments, she eats some spinach
Meryl Streep tells the London Daily Telegraph their marriage is hard on her husband, sculptor Don Gummer. “It’s a constant source of embarrassment to him,” she says. “The art world is full of very cool people, and it’s not cool that I’m in show business. It is also not cool to have four children, so they look down on that, too, but I am what I am.”
It took this long to get the grease stains out
In one of the great moments in culinary history, Elvis Presley’s kitchen, previously off-limits to the public, is being added to the Graceland tour starting today. The King’s longtime cook, Mary Jenkins, will be on hand for a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The following fields overflowed: CREDIT = Compiled by staff writer Rick Bonino