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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     More Content       More by this author     Weisman, Eliot.     Subjects     Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998.     Weisman, Eliot.     Singers -- United States -- Biography.     Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.     Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.     Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.     Theatrical agents -- United States -- Biography.     Performing arts -- Management -- Biography.     Personal assistants -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Weisman, Eliot.       by title:      The way it was : my ...       by call number:      781.63092 S615w     Search the Web     Weisman, Eliot.     Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998.     Weisman, Eliot.     Singers -- United States -- Biography.     Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.     Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.     Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.     Theatrical agents -- United States -- Biography.     Performing arts -- Management -- Biography.     Personal assistants -- Biography.       MARC Display

The way it was : my life with Frank Sinatra / Eliot Weisman and Jennifer Valoppi. by Weisman, Eliot. Hachette Books, 2017. Call #: 781.63092 S615w Subjects Sinatra, Frank, 1915-1998.   Weisman, Eliot.   Singers -- United States -- Biography.   Entertainers -- United States -- Biography.   Celebrities -- United States -- Biography.   Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Biography.   Theatrical agents -- United States -- Biography.   Performing arts -- Management -- Biography.   Personal assistants -- Biography. ISBN:  9780316470087 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  311 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes:  Includes index. Summary:  "An inside look at the final decades of Sinatra's life told by his longtime manager and friend, Eliot Weisman. By the time Weisman met Sinatra in 1976, he was already the Voice, a man who had risen to the greatest heights of fame and plumbed the depths of failure, all the while surviving with the trademark swagger that women pined for and men wanted to emulate. Passionate and generous on his best days, sullen and unpredictable on his worst, Sinatra invited Weisman into his inner circle, an honor that the budding celebrity manager never took for granted. Even when he was caught up in a legal net designed to snare Sinatra, Weisman went to prison rather than being coerced into telling prosecutors what they wanted to hear. With Weisman's help, Sinatra orchestrated in his final decades some of the most memorable moments of his career. There was the Duets album, which was Sinatra's top seller, the massive tours, such as Together Again, which featured a short-lived reunion of the Rat Pack - until Dean Martin, having little interest in reliving the glory days, couldn't handle it anymore - and the Ultimate Event Tour, which brought Liza Minelli and Sammy Davis Jr. on board and refreshed the much-needed lining of both their pocketbooks. Weisman also worked with many other acts, including Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, and an ungrateful Don Rickles, whom Weisman helped get out from under the mob's thumb. Over their years together, Weisman became a confidant to the man who trusted few, and he came to know Sinatra's world intimately: his wife, Barbara, who socialized with princesses and presidents and tried to close Sinatra off from his rough and tough friends such as Jilly Rizzo; Nancy Jr., who was closest to her dad; Tina, who aggressively battled for her and her siblings' rights to the Sinatra legacy and was most like her father; and Frank Jr., the child with the most fraught relationship with the legendary entertainer. Weisman, who had become the executor of Sinatra's estate, was left alone to navigate the infighting and hatred between those born to the name and the wife who acquired it, when a mystery woman showed up and threatened to throw the family's future into jeopardy."--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Other authors:  Valoppi, Jennifer. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 781.63092 S615w Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Nonfiction 781.63092 S615w Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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