European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 02, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 16 the stars and stripes monday december 2, 1985 Honey Sinatra has written a Book about bet father franc Sinatra my father Telli the Singer s Story As he would have wanted it his Way. By Frank Spotnitz United press International Ancy Sinatra tells this Story about her lather who will be 70 years old dec. 12. I was interviewing him for hour mag she says. I told him that septem Berol my years made me aware of what life might to without him and i did t like it very much. Llu Iid. Don t worry Noui that. I m going to to around n Long time rut he got tears in his eyes she says Hor voice heavy with emotion. I know her afraid seventy must to scary " As Frank Sumaira has aged he has lost none of i tire he Hll i an Active concert performer and fund Raiser for Chan Andrj he s still Quick to snap bitter remarks at reporters hut he evidently is More conscious of his mortality. And concerned about How people will remember him after he s gone. Sinatra who quit smoking cold Turkey and has Cut Down sharply on drinking clearly wants to be remembered for his enormous latent both a an actor and the Century s greatest pop Singer and As a devoted lather and giving Friend. He does not want to be remembered As ill tempered and a Consort of gangsters. Nancy Sinatra had been planning to write a biography other father since she was 25. It started at dinner one night in 1965 with Sinatra his then wife Mia far Row and publisher Bennett Cerf. Farrow was complaining about All of the nastiness in the press Over their difference in age Sinatra was 50, she was 20 when Cerl said. You d better write a Book about your father Nancy and Tell the True Story once and for All. Think seriously about t. You have a Nancy Sinatra said she knew by the look on her father s face she had to wite his Story one Day. Twenty years later Frank Sinaloa my father a $50 collectable Book with More than 400 photographs was published. Ii tells Sinatra s Story As he would have wanted it his Way. Dismissed Are rumours of mob connections that have plagued Sinatra since he applied for a gaming License in Nevada in 1963. Rumours that his daughter says have distressed and depressed the Ryors Are blamed Lor president Kennedy s decision thai year not to stay with Sinatra when he visited Palm Springs calif., which deeply embarrassed Sinatra who had added a new Wing to his Home in anticipation of the visit. And they have resurfaced frequently Over the past two decades leading to a subpoena in 1972 to appear before a House subcommittee investigating organized crime and this year to a humiliating doonesbury comic strip series pairing his medal of Freedom honors with photos of or. Sinatra and mob figures. In a recent interview in her new York hotel suite overlooking fifth Avenue Nancy Sinatra 45. Said she was determined to Root out the source of the mob rumours and prove them false for my own peace of mind Lor my own i knew my father would never do anything wrong in his whole life. I mean it would never occur to him to do anything Agnini the Law or a bad or Lotten thing hot that he would t Light Buck or of into a Haje Wilh oni body. Because Hev human god know lie s human. Rut he s too much of a Panr t. It s that Corry. He s too patriotic. He would never do any thing that would Hurt this that is the Central message Nancy wants to convey Hei lather despite the gangster Rumo s. The stories about How he managed to break his contract with Tommy Dorsey and get cast in from Here to eternity and countless harangues against reporters is a Good Man. Underneath the celebrity and wealth Sinatra is still the shy Skinny kid from Hoboken. N. J., who was forced into becoming a lighter from the moment he was born when the doctor scarred him with forceps and then gave him up Lor dead. Nancy said her father has suffered from accusations of mob ties because of his italian heritage and because frequently he did not take the time or was not so inclined to respond to allegations when they arose. Had Frank Sinatra been with mob Guys she asks in her Book. Sure. And so had All the singers who played the saloons and clubs when he was coming up. And he had known the old Ward healers too. Because Sinatra has been King of the Hill among italian performers he has suffered the most from this the Book Alto contradict rumours that mobsters threatened Dorsey into letting Sinatra go Solo and intimidated Jack Warner into casting him As Maggio in from Hera to eternity the role that won him an Oscar and started his comeback. Nancy said tha Story of the italian Singer in Mario Puzo s novel the godfather widely assumed to be based on these incidents in Sinatra s life is simply part of Hollywood legend. Her account of her lather s Hie is . As one might expect from a Loving daughter but remains Las Cin Aling. With testimonials from a list of friends that reads like a who s who of Hollywood and Washington and generous direct quotes frown Sinatra himself it is the most insightful intimate portrait of the Man yet drawn. It does not include Many of Sinatra s Well publicized romantic interests and tends because. Nancy said i Don t think that was very important to while she May be Loo close to her subject to Lully acknowledge his faults she is honest enough to Dis Cir her sense of abandonment when he toll her Mother. . In 1nb1 to marry Gardee and. In 1976, Hor disappointment when he announced he would Mairy Barbara fax she i pet dream that her lather and Mother who Are so. Cd a would one a / remarry i and vi1,ion", of Happy trails oho raid laughing. Coy and Dale Riding off into the Mir one of the most intimate Stoner if when the 14-year old Nancy travelling with her lather opens a drawer in his hotel room to find underwear belonging to n mis Tress. She was badly shaken and could not forgive him Tor years. Nancy said she had never told her father of the Inci Dent which she considered deleting from the Book for fear it was Loo crass or and the two of them still have not had time to discuss it. Her second husband producer Hugh Lambert died three months ago after a yearlong illness and Nancy is now raising her two daughters Ages 9 and 11, alone in her Hollywood Home. They re so frightened something s going to Hap pen to me so they re very Clingy and it s double duty " she said. Lambert and Nancy were married in 1970. Nancy said her firs marriage in 1300 id actor Tommy Sands might never have occurred had she not strictly adhered to the Catholic Church s prohibition against premarital sex. In those Days Good girls did t go to bed with anybody unless they were married she said it was so silly. It was such a when these boots Are made for walking became a no. 1 hit in 1966, it was tremendously important to me because i was on my own for the first she said. I had lived with my Mother. I had lived with Rny husband. Re now i was single with no Money " she still would like to sing but Levels there s Little Public merest in her style of music. She said her brother. Frank or. Til tights that Uphill singin with a big band even though there s no demand for it "
