Frank Sinatra Has A Cold

[NJS]

I am not sure whether this link has appeared in the LL before but, even if it has, it is worth bumping.

I like what Sinatra says about coats and ties and more establishments should cease pandering to the whims of the arrogant and the impolite, who demand to discard their coats and ties in restaurants and theatres and bring gym and rough countrywear into such settings. They should tell them to go elsewhere. The world needs more Frank Sinatras and fewer roughnecks. Something that I have noticed, however, is how well-dressed most footballers and managers are; even in the face of the nearly ubiquitous, post-modernist, stubble-bearded, estuary/slack-voiced slobbishness (most evident in the young Hollywood set); which so many fashionistos and 'style leaders' slyly abet for the sake of popularity and the blunt, dough, wonga, spondoolicks that it brings them.

http://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ1003-OCT_SINATRA_rev_

[hectorm]

I had this article/story by Gay Talese in my reading list since the Christmas holiday. Finally I got to it last night and I was hypnotized for a whole hour.
What a wonderful little big piece of literature! Thank you, NJS.

[Merc]

Although frank was of course a good dresser
for all those he think he was sainted theres a picture of him in a pastry shop in the east village of NY
wearing a 1970s leisure suit with huge lapels and a bad shirt (i mean the american definition of a leisure suit)

he wasnt immune to trends which did not stand the test of time

[uppercase]

Great article. Great writing.
Thanks NJS!

[Rowly]

I have read this article a number of times and enjoy it very much. Each time I log on to thank NJS for posting it, I find myself, instead, reading it again. So,...I'm not looking at it this time...and thanks NJS!

[hectorm]

I wouldn't be surprised if many of you had already read another article/story included in the same link posted by NJS. It's "Superman comes to the supermarket" by Norman Mailer, about another icon of style: John F. Kennedy. It is superb engrossing reading and, despite its 1960 chronicle, a timeless piece of literature as current today as when it was written fifty years ago.

[Orsini]

Frank Sinatra versus Harlan Ellison! Wish I'd seen that.