Sinatra Has News Today

Lynda Decker on what Gay Talese's 1996 Esquire article, "Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" can teach today's branding and design professionals.

Flipping back and forth between wins and losses in Hollywood and Iowa, I couldn’t help thinking that Trump was at the wrong celebration.

Sportswriter Roland Lazenby’s new biography of Earvin “Magic” Johnson reminded me of one of the best pieces of journalism ever written, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold.”  In 1966, Gay Talese, on assignment for Esquire magazine, wrote a major profile of the Rat Pack legend without ever talking to him, instead opting to talk to his friends.

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"I didn’t want to be a five-w reporter—who, what, why, where, when. I didn’t want to be a hard-news reporter. I wanted to be a fucking writer."

(1) YOU’RE FROM THE SIXTIES! The Daily Beast’s article “Gay Talese on Resisting His Frank Sinatra Assignment, and What Really Matters in a Marriage” goes into the Sinatra-Ellison confrontation at length. (Which, if you’ve never read the piece, is here,) "... Gay Talese, at 91 years old, perhaps the world’s oldest living bestselling author with 17

The famous scribe of New Journalism has a book landing this month and a memoir on the way chronicling his long partnership with Nan Talese.

In “Bartleby and Me,” Gay Talese recalls ink-stained colleagues, shares trade secrets and digs through the ruins of a truly explosive Manhattan marriage.

Take a look at Frank Sinatras connection to Fort Lee and the famed Riviera nightclub.

Take a look at Frank Sinatras connection to Fort Lee and the famed Riviera nightclub.