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The Dean Martin Celebrity Robe, coming
to you from the MGM Grand Hotel in the

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entertainment capital of the world, Las
Vegas, Nevada.

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Ladies and gentlemen, from the beautiful
Siegfeld Room, tonight's star -studded

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roast has brought together some of the
world's greatest entertainers. They've

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come from all over the world to be here
tonight, here in Las Vegas, in person.

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joining Dean Martin as he honors
tonight's very special man of the hour,

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Sinatra.

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With tonight's guests, Ronald Reagan,
Hugh Kelly,

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Don Rickles, George Byrne, Don DeMarie,
Red

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Fox, Jimmy Stewart.

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Cliff Wilson, Kelly Savalas, Jonathan
Winters, Jack

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Putman, Lawanda Page, Red Button, Milton
Burrell,

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Ernie Borgnine, Orson Welles, Rich
Little, and your Roastmaster,

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Gene Martin.

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With tonight's man of the hour,

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Frank Sinatra.

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truly fortunate to be counted as one of
Frank's friends. I'm pretty lucky.

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Every night I get on my knees and pray.
I pray that I can get off my knees.

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Yeah, Frank's been a real pill.

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Pow!

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He helped me when I started singing in
cafes.

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And he helped me. Cafe.

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He changed it to cafe.

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All right.

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Helped me with my recording and motion
picture career.

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And, Frank, thanks for your support.

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Thanks for your support. I swear I'll
wear it till the day I die.

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This man's success.

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This man's success.

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Give you that earthquake.

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This man's success should serve.

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As an inspiration to every American boy,

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Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, New
Jersey, as an unwanted child, and now

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he's wanted in five states, especially
the state of New York.

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As you know, New York City has been
having its financial troubles.

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Nobody knew Frank had lent money to New
York until they found the Statue of

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Liberty with her arms broken.

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only childhood.

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When Frank was eight, his father took
him aside and he left him there.

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In high school, Frank never participated
in extracurricular activities like

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nature study, paintings, or ceramics.

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Frank's hobby was a most interesting
one.

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He was an amateur gynecologist. Wait a
minute.

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of high school, he decided to become a
boxer.

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He fought 26 fights.

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Half of them were with the cops and the
other half with the photographers.

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That's true.

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Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra was
playing a nightclub and Frank auditioned

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him. Tommy was really impressed the way
Frank attacked those high notes. And for

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an encore, Frank attacked the cocktail
waitress.

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Sextured and Frank I once played One of
his albums Albums Albums Albums

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And he got My record player Pregnant

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He's the only guy I know Who wears A
medic alert bracelet On

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his wrist Which reads I'm a sex symbol
In case of an emergency Give me a girl

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our first guest.

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Well, I just want to say that there's no
doubt that when Frank retires, they'll

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hang his zipper in the Hall of Fame.

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Now, George Burns is truly one of the
great comedians. He's going to be 81

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old over here.

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for the last three months. He's been
saving up his breath to blow out the

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candles.

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They're going to put him on his birthday
cake and he's going to come up and blow

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them out and here he is, old sugar
throat himself, Mr. George.

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You know, Dane,

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My sister Goldie is one of your biggest
fans.

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When I told her this, I phoned her this
afternoon. I told her I was dressing

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right next door to you.

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There was a little hole in the dressing
room between us.

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And she told me to look through the hole
and tell her exactly what you look

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like.

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And Goldie got all excited.

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She says, please look through the hole.
And I did.

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And she's now a Frank Sinatra fan.

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We have to do the right business.

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So is Tony Bennett and Perry Como and
Andy Williams.

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All us great singers.

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We've got it made.

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You see, when you're a singer, you don't
have to worry about getting laughs.

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See, nobody's laughing. I'm not worried.

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I walked out on the stage, the girls
screamed.

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And there we have something in common.

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I get the same thing from the nurses
when I go in for a checkup.

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The morning after taking a shower, I
took a look at myself in the mirror.

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And I found out it takes very little to
make a nurse scream.

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By the way, Dean, did you ever make the
girls scream?

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Well, you ought to know. You peeked
through the hole.

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I don't know whether you've noticed it,
but as singers, Frank and I are very

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much alike.

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It's not that we phrase the same way,
and it's not that we sing in the same

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And we said you don't have the same
range.

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But there's one thing we have in common.

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We both open our mouths when we sing.

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Come to think of it, we have another
thing in common. We both make records.

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He sells his.

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I buy his.

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And the record she makes is so sexy.

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My secretary, Trixie Hicks, she buys
every one of them.

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And they're so sexy, every time she
plays a record, she's got to throw a

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of cold water on herself.

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You ever try to dictate a letter with a
wet secretary sitting on your lap?

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It's exciting.

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No wonder that women still idolize Frank
Sinatra.

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Now that he's older, he's really a good
-looking guy.

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It takes a long time to get to be good
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As I said, when a place got up here, a
singer doesn't have to get a lash.

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And when you're an 81 -year -old singer,
you don't have to have a finish.

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My next

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guest is the

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distinguished former governor of the
state of California.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Honorable
Ronald Reagan.

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Thank you, Dean. I'm pleased to be here
tonight, honoring my very dear friend,

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Frank Sinatra.

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I must say that when this program was
being planned, the producer hadn't

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what political figures would
participate.

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It was a choice between me and Governor
Brown.

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And I lost again.

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Seriously, this is Frank Sinatra's
night, and I'm here out of gratitude.

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Frank worked for me in all my campaigns.

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He was with me all the way to the
governor's mansion.

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Without his help, who knows?

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I might have been president.

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It's my considered opinion that the two
gentlemen who flagged me...

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would make quite a political ticket.

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Frank is president.

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Dean is his crawling mate.

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Why would Frank Sinatra make a good
president?

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Well, let's look at the facts.

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He has many friends, and I'm sure he'd
appoint only the most qualified to his

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cabinet. Who better than Sammy Davis,
Jr., as Secretary of Health, Education,

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and Jewelry?

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Of course, in politics, there's always
gossip and ugly rumors.

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I'm happy to expose one for the
falsehood that it is.

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He has not granted a Pizza Hut franchise
at Camp David.

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It'll be in the White House, where it
belongs.

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Frank Sinatra will make a president who
is strong on defense, but again will

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have concern for humanity.

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Scientists at his urging have developed
an intercontinental ballistics missile

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that is not a weapon of mass
destruction.

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It only hits photographers.

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I asked him what he thought of the
energy bill. He didn't hesitate a

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said, pay it.

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Frank is innovative.

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His mind is always working.

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But he's also willing to admit when he's
wrong.

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I... wanting a comic like Pat Henry to
open for him when he addresses the joint

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session of Congress.

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And he realized, speak to Congress, the
real comics are in the audience.

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He won't have any trouble with Congress.
They'll pass all the legislation he

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sends over just to get his autograph.

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And he'll settle that canal business,
too.

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Animal wants a canal?

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He'll give them Venice.

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You've probably gathered by now I think
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president.

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But I don't know whether we can get him
to run.

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Is it worth it if you have to give up
being a king?

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what he really liked. Well, nobody is
closer to Frank than our next guest.

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Ladies and gentlemen, here's Frank's
personal chef, Mr.

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Dominic Pandoroni.

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Thank you very much. Hello, Frank.
Hello. Nice to see you. It's nice to see

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too. Thank you so much for telling
people that I am the best cook in the

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because it's true.

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Ladies and gentlemen, a prune.

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Please breathe on the prune.

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Stewed prune.

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The first time I met Mr.

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Sinatra, he came into my restaurant. He
had linguine, masaccioli, and cannoli.

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Three of the biggest brawls you ever saw
in your life.

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You know, when he's down, he likes, he
says, I want fresh tomatoes.

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I want fresh tomatoes.

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So I gave him a beautiful waitress with
a filthy mouth.

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By the way, I just want you to know that
I have written a pizza cookbook. It's

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400 pages.

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The first 300 pages are napkins.

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Quotations, and one of the best
quotations is from Julia Child, who once

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a turkey that she was nothing. You're
embarrassed.

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How do you think I feel?

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Oh, and Frank is a great athlete. Very
few people know that. He is one of the

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greatest swimmers in the whole world. It
is true.

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And you know that Frank should be very
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press who taught him the Australian
crawl.

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way with Frank. A long way. A long time
I go back on him.

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This far back.

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In fact, if it wasn't for me, he
wouldn't be the king he is today.

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Remember when the girls were swooning
and fainting? I'm responsible for that.

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Yes, at the Paramount. They used to
scream and faint.

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I used to give him, before he went on, a
meatball sandwich with a lot of garlic.

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And he would sing, night and day, you
are the one.

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strangers in the night he was just
coming to the end and I took a spoonful

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hot pasta basil with a little bit of
pepper and he opened his mouth I stuck

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in his mouth he went oh scooby dooby doo
and every tiny thing

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is connected to me you know when he
sings in that part I chewed it

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This album, as you can see, is probably
the most popular one Frank's ever taken.

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Everybody remembers Frank alone at
night, standing under a lamp post

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and holding a raincoat.

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I didn't even see this yet. Could I take
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That's a lamp post. Yeah, that's a lamp
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near this lamp. If I was seeing this, I
could have told you the whole thing. And

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the photographer was all set when Frank
said, you know something?

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The lamppost, the suit, and the hat,
that's nice, but something is missing.

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I don't know what, but it needs another
touch.

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Something, I don't know. He said, it's
foggy, misty, and at that moment, some

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fellow was walking by in a raincoat.

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And Frank pointed at the guy and said,
that's it, the raincoat.

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Now, this guy with the raincoat was a
nice fellow and I wanted to thank him

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this picture.

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He's in the audience tonight as Frank's
invited guest.

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And we'd like him to stand up and take a
bow from the L .A. Police Force

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Homicide Division, Lieutenant Columbo.

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Remembered me after all these years.

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This is, I'm flabbergasted. I mean, I'm
just flabbergasted.

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I thought that the, you know, the album
came out good. You know, I like the

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picture. And, you know, the ring coat
never looked better.

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I know you've got other speakers, so I'm
not going to take a lot of time. I

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wouldn't do that, you know.

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No, I wouldn't do that.

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I want to tell you it was a beautiful
introduction speech.

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Thank you for the introduction.

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One quick question, if you don't mind.

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Those shoes, they're not rentable.

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No,

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I feel a little self -conscious.

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being here because I'm not dressed.

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But, well, I knew it was a big affair.

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But I didn't know that I was going to be
brought up here.

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And if I had known, well, I don't know
what I would have done because this is

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all I got.

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You know, when I got the invitation,

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I was at home.

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I was about, oh, 5 o 'clock in the
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You know that they come in the form of a
telegram.

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They don't come in a regular mail.

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No, they send you a wire.

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And I counted the words.

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63 words. You can imagine what that
cost.

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I don't know if you know that.

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Oh, here it is. I got it right here with
me.

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This is the way you get invited here to
this.

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Now, uh...

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This is not a night letter. This is a
regular television.

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But this is not the original.

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This is a Xerox. I wouldn't bring the
original.

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You could lose that now.

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The original, my wife, she took that
right away to the bank and she put that

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the safety deposit box.

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Until we could get the good frame, you
know. Then it goes right up there on the

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wall next to the album cover, you know.

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We'll get that frame.

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Let's see now.

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Excuse me one moment, sir.

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Are you through with that cocktail
napkin there?

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No, I'm in. Thank you very much.

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If you don't mind, sir.

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You know, I figure you do it now and you
get it done. That's all.

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Uh, just take it. Just take it.

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Now, put... No, sir, if you don't mind,
would you put two Lieutenant Colombo...

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Frank Sinatra. That's all. That's good.

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That's good enough. You don't have to
write out Lieutenant. L -T period. I put

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-T already.

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Could you put to the Mrs.? Lieutenant
Colombo and Mrs. Colombo.

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And Mrs. Colombo. Frank Sinatra. Good
luck. You sure that's all you want?

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it? Yeah, that's it.

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Can I say love?

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Love? Love? Say love. Yeah.

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All right.

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Could you put the missus first?

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The missus. The missus.

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Colombo. Colombo.

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And the lieutenant.

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Got you.

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What happened there? When this
invitation came, you know, the family,

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crazy.

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One said, ask them this, and the other
said, ask them that.

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Well, you know, on my wife's side, you
know, they know about show business

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there. Oh, yes.

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Like Dominic.

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Well, he's from Hoboken, like you were.
Oh, yeah? Not that he knew you. He

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didn't know you. Oh.

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But he knows show business. He knows
Broadway.

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Well, he sold Bible supplies in the
Times Square area.

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This is his home, I guess.

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just glows in the dark.

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Well, anyway.

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Anyway, he married this girl Teresa.
She's also from Hoboken.

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And when you, Frank, you know, when you
were in those days when you were singing

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at the Paramount, she worked in the
Orange Julius there in the corner. She

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hostess there, you know, showed people
to their stools.

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So this is what they wanted me to ask
you. Now, remember, this is them asking,

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not me. I'm out of this.

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What they claim, they claim a few years
ago when you

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retired was because your voice, you got
a little tired.

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See, they claim now that when you make a
record, that Jerry Bale does the

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singing for you.

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Let me give you this. This is from my
wife.

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Lasagna.

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You know, it's all fresh tomatoes, and
she made the pasta herself, and I hope

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you enjoy it.

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Thank you very much. You're very
welcome.

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Listen, don't bother washing out the
pot, because that's Teflon.

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She used the steel wool that scratches
the bottom.

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You could rinse it out with water when
you're done.

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And there's an address in there, then
you just drop it in any mailbox.

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I have to return the gentleman's pen.

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Borrow the pen.

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I borrowed the pen. That's right. Thank
you very much.

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Art's delicatessen.

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Do we dance?

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Oh, that's a wonderful place.

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Do you want to keep the pen?

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Huh? Oh, that would be lovely. Thank you
very much.

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Thank you very much.

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Did you ever get a chance to go into the
arts? I don't know. They got there an

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early bird dinner.

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You get there, if you get there before
five, you know, you get the main course,

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the choice, the soup and salad and the
beverage, the dollar money.

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This is, I want to ask you a last
question.

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This is very hard to ask.

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But you know, my wife went crazy when
she got the invitation. Oh, you need a

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of nerve to ask this, I don't know.

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You know, my wife is watching, you know.

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And I don't even know if you're
permitted to do this.

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Well, you see, in my family, we get
together every month. We all sing.

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And, you know, I'm the worst singer, and
you're the greatest singer, and they're

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all out there watching. Would it be
possible?

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Not a whole song. Just a... Not a whole
song.

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Bye -bye, plant bird something.

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citizens in Hollywood. A fine gentleman.

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A magnificent actor.

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Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Jimmy Stewart.

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Thank you,

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Dean. It's always nice to be invited to
one of these roasts because it means

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that I'm able to see you, Dean.

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00:28:17,870 --> 00:28:22,230
Now, I just hope that in your condition
you'll be able to see me.

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00:28:27,370 --> 00:28:31,930
I'm awful glad to be here tonight
because for a long time I've wanted to

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little incident involving Frank and a
Western movie he made two years back. Of

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course, I feel sort of qualified to talk
about Westerns because I've made my

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share. As a matter of fact, at one point
in my career, I was making so many

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Westerns, I was the only actor in
Beverly Hills who had a saddle on my

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When we do those westerns, we usually go
out on location to one of those small

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towns way out in cattle country.

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I remember on one occasion we went out
to a little place in Utah to make a

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picture, and we thought the good
citizens would be thrilled to have us

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people talking and rubbing shoulders
with them.

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As a matter of fact, they hated the
whole thing.

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And later on, I found why.

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It seems that a Western had already been
made a few years earlier.

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Something called Sergeant Three,
starring you, Frank, and the

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rest of the guys you used to call the
Rat Pack.

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Now, this little town in Utah used to be
a very quiet and decent little town.

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In fact...

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It was so moral, they didn't even have a
town drunk.

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The men of the town had to take turns.

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You know what I mean. It was a sleepy
little western town where the big

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excitement was watching the sun set
about 5 .30 or so.

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But that's before Frank and the guys all
got there and started throwing wild

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parties. After that, the sun began
setting later and later, 10 .30, 11 .30,

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midnight.

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You know, the sun was no dummy. It
didn't want to miss any of the action

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A couple of times it didn't set at all.

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00:30:38,060 --> 00:30:41,200
It just stayed up all night and tried to
fool around with the moon.

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Yeah, Frank, you...

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00:30:48,510 --> 00:30:52,810
You and your rat pack did a lot of wild
things making that movie.

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And when I met the mayor, he told me
that he was willing to overlook all

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beds you took out of the hotel and the
statue from the front of the library.

365
00:31:03,090 --> 00:31:06,070
But there's one thing he still can't
overlook.

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00:31:06,590 --> 00:31:09,950
He sure wishes you guys would put back
the library.

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00:31:13,510 --> 00:31:14,810
You know, Frank...

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To this day, your exploits are talked
about in uptown.

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They've become kind of a legend.

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And every night at the saloon, the
bartender gets up on the bar and recites

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epic poem. It's much like the face in
the barroom floor or the shooting of Dan

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McGrew.

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And about your guys. And I'd like to
read the poem, if you don't mind.

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And it goes like this.

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Frank and the boys came into our town,
but not to do riding and roping.

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These sergeants three soon went on a
spree, and they started in grabbing and

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groping.

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They made the girls swoon at the Long
Branch Saloon, where each sang a love

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so pretty, that one by one, when their
song was done, they tried to make out

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00:32:08,860 --> 00:32:09,860
with Miss Kitty.

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00:32:12,730 --> 00:32:19,390
bought some grain at a feed store
because he had just heard the news that

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let the grain stay out in the rain, it
would turn into next year's booze.

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00:32:26,380 --> 00:32:31,440
Yes, our little town was turned upside
down when Frank and his clan did their

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00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:37,740
thing. Now the cows, they don't move.
They go scooby -dooby -doo.

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00:32:38,140 --> 00:32:41,720
And the school bell goes ring -a -ding
-a -ding.

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00:33:03,980 --> 00:33:05,180
sisters up here on the dais.

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00:33:05,680 --> 00:33:08,960
They're all doing quite well, even the
one to Paige with her big mouth.

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00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:13,060
Red Fox is doing great.

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00:33:13,540 --> 00:33:16,760
He held out for a window in his dressing
room, and he got the window, but he

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00:33:16,760 --> 00:33:18,360
can't find a woman to come in and clean
it.

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00:33:22,700 --> 00:33:26,020
Sammy Davis found out our people are
doing so well, he's trying to pass for

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black.

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because it was he who got me in the show
business.

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00:33:34,680 --> 00:33:37,300
When Frank played the Paramount in New
York, I was an usher.

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And he was such a smash hit, the girls
got excited and threw everything up on

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the stage.

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Their stockings, high -heeled shoes,
blouses, girdles, panties.

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00:33:46,660 --> 00:33:50,340
After everyone left, I climbed up on the
stage, picked up all that stuff, and

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00:33:50,340 --> 00:33:51,580
that's how Geraldine was born.

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00:34:10,030 --> 00:34:11,870
Frank Sinatra as well as anyone.

401
00:34:12,090 --> 00:34:17,550
She's the original president of the
first Frank Sinatra fan club ever

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00:34:17,750 --> 00:34:20,969
Please welcome Mrs. Gladys Hornsby.

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00:35:27,880 --> 00:35:28,880
There ain't no hope.

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00:35:38,960 --> 00:35:40,240
Please hold it down.

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00:35:41,960 --> 00:35:45,860
The shame and humiliation I've spared
this man.

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00:35:46,240 --> 00:35:49,760
Over the years, I've lived with pain,
scars, and secrets.

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00:35:50,160 --> 00:35:54,740
But tonight, tonight you'll learn the
truth about Frank Sinatra.

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00:36:25,230 --> 00:36:26,230
eating a hot dog.

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00:36:26,870 --> 00:36:29,690
Oh, you look so thin and tan.

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00:36:30,410 --> 00:36:31,570
That's the hot dog!

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00:36:37,670 --> 00:36:42,290
I really look beautiful for Frankie's
opening, girls. I spent so much time on

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00:36:42,290 --> 00:36:46,450
makeup. I didn't have time to shave my
legs, so I put them up in curlers.

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00:38:37,390 --> 00:38:44,290
can you say about Milton Berle anybody
who says he isn't funny he's seen

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his act ladies and gentlemen a man who

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00:38:51,150 --> 00:38:56,370
has made a major contribution to the
world of comedy Mr. Milton Berle

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Dean, thank you. Of all my
introductions, that was the most recent.

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00:39:14,360 --> 00:39:17,280
But it's a great pleasure, ladies and
gentlemen.

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00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:19,100
Hi, Frank.

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00:39:19,520 --> 00:39:20,940
Hi, Bill. Enjoy yourself.

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00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:22,200
Hit somebody.

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00:39:29,220 --> 00:39:33,800
And by the way, I forgot to announce,
all of Frank's pals couldn't be here

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00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:37,510
tonight. Half of them couldn't find time
and the other half are doing it.

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00:39:43,450 --> 00:39:44,450
There's Red Fox.

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00:39:44,710 --> 00:39:48,150
Red Fox, old blue eyes say hello to old
blue jokes.

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00:39:52,170 --> 00:39:53,990
Say hello to Fox. Isn't he beautiful?

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00:39:54,230 --> 00:39:56,850
His grandfather picked cotton and it
went to Red's head.

427
00:40:04,520 --> 00:40:05,880
my friend, Flip Wilson.

428
00:40:06,100 --> 00:40:10,360
Flip recently went to Africa to search
for his roots, and he traced his family

429
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:11,680
all the way back to Detroit.

430
00:40:16,400 --> 00:40:22,700
Now, let's get back to our guest of
honor, this gentleman here, this aging

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00:40:22,700 --> 00:40:23,700
Anka.

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00:40:26,500 --> 00:40:29,520
Frank, I am really glad that you came
out of retirement.

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00:40:29,900 --> 00:40:31,720
Too bad your voice didn't join you.

434
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,860
Remember, when you could really hit
those high notes, one day Sinatra was

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00:40:42,860 --> 00:40:45,780
singing at home, hit a high C and spayed
the dog.

436
00:40:49,660 --> 00:40:51,780
I'm sorry, Flip, I shouldn't have said
spayed.

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00:40:57,480 --> 00:41:03,540
The day this man cuts a record right
away, it's a hit.

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00:41:04,180 --> 00:41:05,680
Remember, I did it my way.

439
00:41:06,330 --> 00:41:08,870
I tried it his way and I was in traction
for three weeks.

440
00:41:12,910 --> 00:41:15,250
I love you. Today, Frank's enough as the
king.

441
00:41:15,730 --> 00:41:21,270
Today, he speaks to God, not in prayer,
but on a one -to -one basis.

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00:41:24,210 --> 00:41:27,630
This man calls dial a prayer to see if
he got any messages.

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00:41:32,010 --> 00:41:34,470
And I understand, I don't know if this
is the truth, but I understand.

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00:41:34,480 --> 00:41:38,320
understand that frank is going to rome
he's going to speak to the pope he wants

445
00:41:38,320 --> 00:41:42,780
the pope to make him a cardinal and that
way we'll only have to kiss his rings

446
00:42:03,210 --> 00:42:09,290
little surprise for you and even a
bigger surprise for our guest of honor,

447
00:42:09,470 --> 00:42:13,750
Sinatra's ex -bodyguard, ladies and
gentlemen, Mr.

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00:42:13,970 --> 00:42:15,910
Carlo Cappuccino.

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00:42:42,030 --> 00:42:43,030
Say hi.

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00:42:43,990 --> 00:42:46,410
I can say hello from a frank strength.

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00:43:20,520 --> 00:43:23,200
It took me five years just to find his
body.

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00:43:26,300 --> 00:43:28,180
You should have

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00:43:28,180 --> 00:43:35,100
seen the

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00:43:35,100 --> 00:43:36,100
way he looked then.

455
00:43:36,980 --> 00:43:39,660
He looked like he was given the kiss of
death.

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00:44:04,620 --> 00:44:05,760
And it was really tough.

457
00:44:07,480 --> 00:44:10,900
You could walk ten blocks and never
leave the scene of a crime.

458
00:44:16,480 --> 00:44:17,480
Seriously, though.

459
00:44:18,220 --> 00:44:20,980
I really had a tough job keeping up with
this man.

460
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:23,380
One day he's in England.

461
00:44:23,880 --> 00:44:25,280
Next day he's in France.

462
00:44:25,620 --> 00:44:26,800
Then he's in Germany.

463
00:44:27,280 --> 00:44:29,940
I can't tell you how many times I found
him abroad.

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00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,380
from this Italian sex pot.

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00:44:46,000 --> 00:44:47,980
And some of these women are wild.

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00:44:48,800 --> 00:44:51,080
One of them broke into his room and
threatened him.

467
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,980
In order to protect myself, I threw
myself on her body.

468
00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:24,879
General Mr.

469
00:45:24,880 --> 00:45:25,960
Red. What?

470
00:45:36,460 --> 00:45:37,460
Arbino.

471
00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:39,660
Arbino, whatever you're sucking up
tonight.

472
00:45:42,460 --> 00:45:46,780
This must be the roast to end all
roasts. Because as I look around the

473
00:45:46,780 --> 00:45:48,040
see a lot of heavyweight hunkies.

474
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:52,980
That's right, with the exception of Flip
Wilson, Wanda Page, and myself.

475
00:45:53,770 --> 00:45:57,130
I haven't seen this much white meat
since my Thanksgiving turkey exploded.

476
00:46:01,490 --> 00:46:06,570
But I'm happy to be here tonight to
honor Fright because this man, like me,

477
00:46:06,570 --> 00:46:08,230
up in the toughest part of show
business.

478
00:46:08,450 --> 00:46:09,368
The trenches.

479
00:46:09,370 --> 00:46:11,750
The battlefield. In other words, the
nightclubs.

480
00:46:12,470 --> 00:46:14,350
And remember those who knew Frank?

481
00:46:15,010 --> 00:46:18,750
They always had the same lineup of girls
singing to leading the tap dance and

482
00:46:18,750 --> 00:46:19,638
the juggler.

483
00:46:19,640 --> 00:46:21,340
The juggler was the guy who kept the
books.

484
00:46:24,600 --> 00:46:29,180
Frank was even tougher for me. At least
he worked in the fancy nightclubs in Las

485
00:46:29,180 --> 00:46:31,620
Vegas with Dean, Joey, Sammy, and the
rest of the guys.

486
00:46:31,920 --> 00:46:33,720
I had to play small clubs in
Mississippi.

487
00:46:34,140 --> 00:46:37,080
While he was singing and dancing with
the Klan, I was running from it.

488
00:46:44,720 --> 00:46:47,880
There was a time long ago when Frank and
I both played Atlantic City.

489
00:46:48,460 --> 00:46:49,520
But what a difference, Frank.

490
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:51,200
What a difference.

491
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:52,360
What a band.

492
00:46:53,080 --> 00:46:57,060
Frank was at the 500 Club on the main
drag and I was at the Club Harlem, which

493
00:46:57,060 --> 00:46:59,480
naturally was in the black, in the back
of the beach.

494
00:47:00,320 --> 00:47:03,640
Now, in that part of Atlantic City, if
anything white came in, it was a shark.

495
00:47:09,300 --> 00:47:12,020
We had a big ring and a black suit. It
was a lone shark.

496
00:47:17,480 --> 00:47:20,780
Frank, a lot of nice things are being
said about you tonight, but if I had to

497
00:47:20,780 --> 00:47:23,040
say one thing, and it's this.

498
00:47:23,260 --> 00:47:26,020
I think a guy who's outspoken, and
that's you, baby, that's you.

499
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:30,340
You say what's on your mind, you say
what's in your heart, and you don't give

500
00:47:30,340 --> 00:47:31,340
damn about consequences.

501
00:47:31,700 --> 00:47:35,600
And because of that, here's the best
compliment that I can give you. As far

502
00:47:35,600 --> 00:47:38,760
I'm concerned, you are the white Andrew
Young.

503
00:47:52,840 --> 00:47:53,840
good buddy, Mr.

504
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:54,920
Gene Kelly.

505
00:48:07,640 --> 00:48:11,960
Thank you, Gene. It's a great pleasure
for me to be here to honor Frank Sinatra

506
00:48:11,960 --> 00:48:17,920
because we've been friends for, well,
no, I won't say how long, but for quite

507
00:48:17,920 --> 00:48:18,920
long time.

508
00:48:19,850 --> 00:48:25,950
We both came to the coast in the early
40s, and each of us were filled with

509
00:48:25,950 --> 00:48:31,490
and ambition, and we started out
together in that fabulous factory of

510
00:48:31,490 --> 00:48:34,250
fantasy, Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer Studios.

511
00:48:34,730 --> 00:48:40,410
Of course, at that time, Hollywood
wasn't as built up as it is nowadays.

512
00:48:41,010 --> 00:48:47,050
For instance, Hollywood Boulevard, which
today has an entire sidewalk of stars,

513
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:50,060
had only one star on the pavement.

514
00:48:51,120 --> 00:48:52,160
Be mine.

515
00:48:55,780 --> 00:49:02,260
It was this celebrated era that Frank
and I made our first MGM musical,

516
00:49:02,460 --> 00:49:03,460
Anchors Away.

517
00:49:03,600 --> 00:49:08,420
There were many musical numbers in
Anchors Away which required Frank to do

518
00:49:08,420 --> 00:49:12,860
of dancing. Now, Frank never danced
before. That's true, he never danced

519
00:49:13,000 --> 00:49:15,040
and he needed plenty of rehearsal.

520
00:49:19,770 --> 00:49:25,370
And I must tell you really truly now
that he trained for that film like a

521
00:49:25,370 --> 00:49:29,270
fighter going into the ring. And he
turned into a hell of a dancer.

522
00:49:30,190 --> 00:49:34,670
What a time we had tonight.

523
00:49:51,950 --> 00:49:52,950
What a day!

524
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:51,840
It turned out to be good, and the studio
executives liked it so much, they

525
00:50:51,840 --> 00:50:56,120
wanted us to play sailors again in a
film called On the Town.

526
00:50:56,460 --> 00:50:58,260
So we re -enlisted.

527
00:50:58,820 --> 00:51:01,120
By that time, we'd become really good
friends.

528
00:51:01,540 --> 00:51:04,880
He was a special kind of guy and very
generous.

529
00:51:05,180 --> 00:51:07,840
If you admired his tie, he'd send you a
tie just like it.

530
00:51:08,060 --> 00:51:11,680
If you said, I like your suit, Frank
would send you a suit.

531
00:51:12,120 --> 00:51:13,980
If you said, I like your girl...

532
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,420
He sent over two guys named Carmine and
Nunzio.

533
00:51:21,020 --> 00:51:23,720
Well, here we are in white uniforms.

534
00:51:43,690 --> 00:51:48,370
and women are all in silken satin. So
the fellas say, there's just one thing

535
00:51:48,370 --> 00:51:52,530
necessary in Manhattan when you've got
just one day. Gotta pick up a date,

536
00:51:52,530 --> 00:51:55,510
seven or eight on your way in just one
day.

537
00:51:55,770 --> 00:52:00,050
New York, New York, a wonderful town.
The rocket is up and the battery's down.

538
00:52:00,130 --> 00:52:03,350
The people ride all on the ground. New
York, New York.

539
00:52:21,480 --> 00:52:25,080
I'll tell you, Dean, in the act of these
movies, we got a little tired of

540
00:52:25,080 --> 00:52:26,080
playing sailors.

541
00:52:26,620 --> 00:52:29,440
So we asked the studio to take us out of
uniform.

542
00:52:29,780 --> 00:52:30,780
And they did.

543
00:52:30,800 --> 00:52:34,560
They put us into take -me -out -to -the
-ball game.

544
00:52:35,300 --> 00:52:37,000
And we wore baseball uniforms.

545
00:52:37,980 --> 00:52:41,800
And I'll tell you, Frank, being a
swinger, it was pretty tough.

546
00:52:42,580 --> 00:52:46,160
Convincing him that baseball was the
great American pastime.

547
00:52:47,300 --> 00:52:50,760
No, I think maybe taking out of the ball
game was our favorite, right?

548
00:54:06,260 --> 00:54:07,800
One thing more.

549
00:54:09,540 --> 00:54:15,720
You know, in that last TV special we did
together, you sang and I danced to a

550
00:54:15,720 --> 00:54:22,720
tune called Nice and Easy. And I bring
that up now because as I try to sum up

551
00:54:22,720 --> 00:54:26,420
our relationship over the years, that
seems to say it.

552
00:54:26,840 --> 00:54:28,540
Nice and easy.

553
00:54:29,340 --> 00:54:33,380
And for that, this battered old Irish
hoofer.

554
00:54:34,060 --> 00:54:36,040
It says thanks from the bottom of my
heart.

555
00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:53,860
Ladies and gentlemen, the star of Kojak,
Mr.

556
00:54:54,240 --> 00:54:55,640
Ellis Ballard.

557
00:55:08,720 --> 00:55:11,860
It's the most exciting I think that's
ever happened in Nevada.

558
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,180
No Italian has ever received such
distinction.

559
00:55:16,360 --> 00:55:22,420
As a matter of fact, in your honor, all
the pizza parlors in Las Vegas are

560
00:55:22,420 --> 00:55:23,420
closed forever.

561
00:55:28,700 --> 00:55:32,440
Frank is busy writing his autobiography,
and the reason I'm here tonight, I do

562
00:55:32,440 --> 00:55:34,520
admit there is an ulterior motive.

563
00:55:35,340 --> 00:55:37,320
He's making a major motion picture on
his life.

564
00:55:37,839 --> 00:55:40,740
He's already purchased the right, this
major motion picture company.

565
00:55:41,860 --> 00:55:45,000
And I must say, I would love to play the
part of Frank Sinatra in that film.

566
00:55:49,140 --> 00:55:50,140
Why not?

567
00:55:50,440 --> 00:55:54,260
I mean, if I made the story of Frank's
life, I could do everything Frank does,

568
00:55:54,420 --> 00:55:55,420
with one exception.

569
00:55:55,900 --> 00:55:59,760
After the stories I've heard here
tonight, I'd need a stuntman for all the

570
00:55:59,760 --> 00:56:00,760
scenes.

571
00:56:04,819 --> 00:56:08,060
You may be wondering why Frankie doesn't
pay the lead in his own film. Okay.

572
00:56:08,960 --> 00:56:10,660
Frank doesn't get along well with
photographers.

573
00:56:11,060 --> 00:56:13,480
His first picture for MGM was Anchors
Away.

574
00:56:13,720 --> 00:56:16,960
He had a love scene with Catherine
Grayson. He slugged the camera in for

575
00:56:16,960 --> 00:56:17,960
to take his picture.

576
00:56:22,500 --> 00:56:23,540
I'm not going to give a thought.

577
00:56:24,060 --> 00:56:26,880
We know that nepotism runs rampant in
our business.

578
00:56:27,120 --> 00:56:30,280
We know that when you run out of
relatives, you take care of your Italian

579
00:56:30,280 --> 00:56:31,280
friends first.

580
00:56:32,279 --> 00:56:35,040
So what chance does a little Greek boy
have in the streets of New York?

581
00:56:36,280 --> 00:56:40,020
I happen to know they're considering
your buddy Dino for the role.

582
00:56:40,880 --> 00:56:45,740
Last night at the bar, he took one of
the chorus girls up to his room, and one

583
00:56:45,740 --> 00:56:47,480
minute later, he was back.

584
00:56:49,580 --> 00:56:50,640
I asked him what happened.

585
00:56:51,080 --> 00:56:55,520
He said, I did it Frank's way.

586
00:57:10,120 --> 00:57:15,800
a lovely lady, wonderful and warm
person, Miss Loana Page.

587
00:57:23,500 --> 00:57:25,780
Thank you for listening, Wino.

588
00:57:27,780 --> 00:57:30,520
I saw you in the casino last night.

589
00:57:31,060 --> 00:57:32,860
Man, you were so smart.

590
00:57:33,530 --> 00:57:38,950
You took a slot machine by the arm and
tried to smooth -talk it into coming up

591
00:57:38,950 --> 00:57:39,950
to your room.

592
00:57:41,990 --> 00:57:44,110
That's all you've been winding up with
lately.

593
00:57:44,730 --> 00:57:45,730
Lemons.

594
00:57:49,810 --> 00:57:53,150
Don't start pulling on my skirt either
with them hot, honky hands.

595
00:58:01,040 --> 00:58:02,600
jockey shorts that half made.

596
00:58:08,220 --> 00:58:10,960
Get a load of this dick.

597
00:58:13,080 --> 00:58:16,840
Look at all these white faces couldn't
make a lady snowman.

598
00:58:20,700 --> 00:58:22,800
What you laughing at, Milton Byrne?

599
00:58:24,060 --> 00:58:27,560
With those buck teeth, you look like a
chipmunk in heat.

600
00:58:41,960 --> 00:58:46,860
the Pillsbury Doughboy with the moose.

601
00:58:49,780 --> 00:58:53,020
Don't you start nothing, George Burns,
you old geezer.

602
00:58:54,940 --> 00:59:00,220
Honey, he's so antique, he keeps his
waterbed filled with geratons.

603
00:59:02,260 --> 00:59:05,200
Look at Don Rickles and tell us about
his laughing.

604
00:59:05,700 --> 00:59:08,620
Lucky you and Kodak didn't sit next to
each other.

605
00:59:09,480 --> 00:59:13,660
The NBC censor would have made you two
bald as the way of Brazil on your head.

606
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:24,700
What you laugh about, Ruth Buffett, you
ain't exactly a sex

607
00:59:24,700 --> 00:59:25,700
symbol, honey.

608
00:59:26,640 --> 00:59:31,700
You could stroll naked through a camp of
lonely lumberjacks and all you'd pick

609
00:59:31,700 --> 00:59:32,800
up would be splinters.

610
00:59:53,710 --> 00:59:55,550
Mr. Francis Albert Sinatra.

611
00:59:56,050 --> 00:59:59,290
You've always been posing and strutting.

612
00:59:59,730 --> 01:00:02,010
You're supposed to be a big man.

613
01:00:02,570 --> 01:00:04,410
Well, let me tell you something, turkey.

614
01:00:09,070 --> 01:00:15,490
Honey, we'll chamberlain to slam dunk
you and still have room to palm a

615
01:00:15,490 --> 01:00:16,490
watermelon.

616
01:00:24,880 --> 01:00:26,640
in the fourth court of the Chinese
theater.

617
01:00:26,980 --> 01:00:28,360
So what's the big deal?

618
01:00:28,860 --> 01:00:32,500
Everybody figured someday you'd wind up
in cement.

619
01:00:55,280 --> 01:01:00,680
None of us will ever forget Frank's
Oscar -winning performance as the tragic

620
01:01:00,680 --> 01:01:06,360
little soldier Maggio in that immortal
movie From Here to Eternity. Well, we

621
01:01:06,360 --> 01:01:10,600
have a big surprise for you, Frank,
because with us tonight is that brutal,

622
01:01:10,900 --> 01:01:16,840
sadistic boss of the stockade who made
your life so miserable.

623
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:18,240
Fatso!

624
01:01:31,470 --> 01:01:32,850
means you too, booze baby.

625
01:01:34,670 --> 01:01:39,510
I know you weren't with us in Hawaii on
December the 7th, but anyway, you look

626
01:01:39,510 --> 01:01:41,470
like you were bombed before Pearl
Harbor.

627
01:01:45,470 --> 01:01:47,130
We meet again, Aunt Lasham.

628
01:01:51,510 --> 01:01:52,530
Sit up straight.

629
01:01:53,650 --> 01:01:54,650
Yes, sir.

630
01:01:56,670 --> 01:01:57,670
Sit down.

631
01:01:58,150 --> 01:01:59,830
Shelter's back sucking your gut.

632
01:02:00,090 --> 01:02:01,090
Oh, my God.

633
01:02:04,730 --> 01:02:09,830
You know, Marshal, I hated you from the
very first day that you walked into

634
01:02:09,830 --> 01:02:10,870
Schofield Barracks.

635
01:02:11,210 --> 01:02:15,010
You were pale, pasty, you were skinny.

636
01:02:15,530 --> 01:02:19,250
I looked at you and said to myself, the
Army must be desperate.

637
01:02:19,790 --> 01:02:21,390
They're drafting linguine.

638
01:02:26,830 --> 01:02:30,260
Just having you in the platoon was
embarrassing. to every man in it.

639
01:02:30,500 --> 01:02:34,980
On a day when General MacArthur left the
Philippines and said his immortal

640
01:02:34,980 --> 01:02:39,140
words, I shall return, I shall return.

641
01:02:41,320 --> 01:02:46,900
How you made us cringe when you yelled,
when you do, bring booze and broads.

642
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,960
Yeah, Marshall, those were the good old
days.

643
01:02:55,500 --> 01:02:58,680
But if I ever had to do a job on you
again, it'd be all different, boy.

644
01:02:59,060 --> 01:03:01,320
No more punching or kicking. Nah, none
of that.

645
01:03:01,820 --> 01:03:03,720
I got a torture that's even worse.

646
01:03:04,540 --> 01:03:10,580
The day I throw you in a stockade, lock
you in solitary for 24 straight hours,

647
01:03:10,840 --> 01:03:14,520
I'd make you listen to nothing but
Donnie and Marie records.

648
01:03:50,700 --> 01:03:56,300
Longer than most, I respond with some
trepidation to this opportunity to speak

649
01:03:56,300 --> 01:03:59,260
of history's first finger -snapping
pope.

650
01:04:03,720 --> 01:04:08,320
It began, you know, in the bad old days
when I was on the radio playing The

651
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:12,680
Shadow, and Frank was at the Paramount
looking like The Shadow.

652
01:04:13,520 --> 01:04:18,960
The Shadow said, Who knows what evil
lurks in the hearts of men?

653
01:04:20,590 --> 01:04:22,930
Believe me, Frank knew.

654
01:04:27,410 --> 01:04:31,150
Only a few seasons ago, you'll remember
that he announced his retirement.

655
01:04:31,990 --> 01:04:33,170
A sad day.

656
01:04:33,730 --> 01:04:36,890
Every motel in America flew its sheets
at half -mast.

657
01:04:40,970 --> 01:04:46,610
I guess I'm here for reasons of
seniority. As for the other speakers,

658
01:04:46,990 --> 01:04:49,490
well, there's certainly a lot of them.

659
01:04:49,980 --> 01:04:55,960
Ex -governors and secretaries of states,
a tantalumalian grab bag of distressed

660
01:04:55,960 --> 01:05:01,700
comedians, and a bald -headed Greek
tragedian whose chief claim to fame is

661
01:05:01,700 --> 01:05:03,460
he gave new life to the lollipop.

662
01:05:07,760 --> 01:05:14,160
You know, I've made a little documentary
film for this occasion, but I see there

663
01:05:14,160 --> 01:05:18,620
won't be much time. My subject was
Frank's home, the royal residence in

664
01:05:18,620 --> 01:05:19,620
Springs.

665
01:05:19,900 --> 01:05:24,200
I opened the film with the palace gates
bearing as it does the family coat of

666
01:05:24,200 --> 01:05:30,400
arms. It depicts the entire Sinatra
family pushing Wayne Newton into the

667
01:05:35,600 --> 01:05:40,940
Of Sinatra, the humanitarian,
philanthropist, what can I say?

668
01:05:41,960 --> 01:05:45,760
He's in doubt some fascinating
scientific research. The new birth

669
01:05:45,760 --> 01:05:49,060
device, for instance, so much surer than
the pill.

670
01:05:49,600 --> 01:05:55,520
At bedtime, the couple is shown a print
of Frank's movie, The Kissing Bandit.

671
01:05:59,600 --> 01:06:02,960
This renders reproduction of our species
impossible.

672
01:06:04,240 --> 01:06:06,980
Since it's difficult to make love when
you're fast asleep.

673
01:06:13,230 --> 01:06:17,390
Now, in closing, I'd like to speak as an
Italian.

674
01:06:17,910 --> 01:06:20,730
And I am an Italian, the hard way by
marriage.

675
01:06:21,850 --> 01:06:26,390
And while I can't claim to have risen to
those loftier circles of high society

676
01:06:26,390 --> 01:06:31,690
where the bent nose and a slight color
flowering of the ear are signs of chic,

677
01:06:31,810 --> 01:06:36,750
what I have learned is that with all
Italians, there's some questions...

678
01:06:37,600 --> 01:06:38,900
It's healthier not to ask.

679
01:06:39,640 --> 01:06:42,080
Certain things are, shall we say,
arranged.

680
01:06:42,540 --> 01:06:47,700
Thus, I do not know, and I don't want to
know, how in the world it came to be

681
01:06:47,700 --> 01:06:53,200
that when my daughter was brought to the
fount to be baptized, it was Don

682
01:06:53,200 --> 01:06:58,180
Francisco here, who was, you should
excuse the expression,

683
01:06:59,660 --> 01:07:00,660
The Godfather.

684
01:07:01,180 --> 01:07:05,420
Now, this isn't a joke. Who would joke
about a thing like that? My own

685
01:07:05,440 --> 01:07:09,420
who's sitting right out there, really is
Sinatra's godchild. Believe me, if it

686
01:07:09,420 --> 01:07:12,820
were otherwise, I would have been a lot
sassier tonight.

687
01:07:27,660 --> 01:07:30,580
Whatever I've been saying here, Don
Francisco, it's strictly in front.

688
01:07:31,400 --> 01:07:35,020
And actually, with a godfather like
that, you watch your lip.

689
01:07:52,980 --> 01:07:55,500
Well, now, Mr. Red Button, please.

690
01:08:07,150 --> 01:08:08,810
surrounded by Italian singers.

691
01:08:09,790 --> 01:08:13,530
Have you noticed, folks, our business?
Most of the singers are Italians.

692
01:08:14,190 --> 01:08:17,790
Most of the comedians are Jewish, which
is ridiculous.

693
01:08:18,330 --> 01:08:22,229
There's very little difference between
the Jews and the Italians. One year of

694
01:08:22,229 --> 01:08:23,229
high school.

695
01:08:36,430 --> 01:08:39,810
The man himself, Francis Albert Sinatra.

696
01:08:40,710 --> 01:08:47,390
Singer, swinger, actor, director,
producer, businessman, tycoon.

697
01:08:48,410 --> 01:08:50,990
And on the seventh day, he rested.

698
01:08:55,170 --> 01:09:00,090
I think it was Billy Graham who once
said about this man, there for the grace

699
01:09:00,090 --> 01:09:01,090
me goes God.

700
01:09:05,900 --> 01:09:09,180
Yes, my friends, why? Why are we giving
this man?

701
01:09:10,000 --> 01:09:16,420
Why are we giving this man a dinner when
some of the greatest Italians in the

702
01:09:16,420 --> 01:09:19,040
history of the world never got a dinner?

703
01:09:23,279 --> 01:09:26,979
Sophia Loren's new baby. Who said to
Sophia, is that all for me?

704
01:09:40,240 --> 01:09:41,240
Christopher Columbus.

705
01:09:42,240 --> 01:09:45,880
You said the Queen Isabella. I keep
telling you the world is round. You're

706
01:09:45,880 --> 01:09:46,880
one who's flat.

707
01:09:51,600 --> 01:09:52,859
Never got a dinner.

708
01:09:53,859 --> 01:09:58,160
Patricia Borgia, who said that she was
silent dreams. Boys, name your poison.

709
01:10:06,350 --> 01:10:09,450
Martin, who said to Yogi Berra, repeat
after me.

710
01:10:09,830 --> 01:10:13,450
Ball, B -A -L -L.

711
01:10:14,510 --> 01:10:17,590
Bat, B -A -D.

712
01:10:18,490 --> 01:10:22,370
Glove, J -L -O -V -E.

713
01:10:26,250 --> 01:10:32,550
Julius Caesar, who said he's being
stabbed by Brutus.

714
01:10:33,910 --> 01:10:37,150
Well, I guess you know you just blew the
Christmas bonus.

715
01:10:41,710 --> 01:10:43,230
He never got it, did he?

716
01:10:44,230 --> 01:10:45,630
Marco Polo.

717
01:10:46,690 --> 01:10:52,110
Marco Polo said to his wife, hey, are
you crazy?

718
01:10:53,370 --> 01:10:58,170
I just traveled 10 ,000 miles from China
to bring this spaghetti. You want me to

719
01:10:58,170 --> 01:10:59,170
go back for the meatballs?

720
01:11:05,070 --> 01:11:09,630
as to Milo, who said to Colonel Sanders,
that sure is finger -licking good.

721
01:11:14,970 --> 01:11:20,870
Romeo, who said to Juliet, for a better
romance, get off the balcony and get on

722
01:11:20,870 --> 01:11:21,870
the pill.

723
01:11:25,910 --> 01:11:26,910
Never got again.

724
01:11:27,470 --> 01:11:33,130
First baseman Joe Torre, who was too
chicken to play catcher because he said,

725
01:11:33,190 --> 01:11:34,190
who wants to be known?

726
01:11:36,240 --> 01:11:37,980
as chicken cacciatore.

727
01:12:19,530 --> 01:12:20,710
I admire a guy like Frank.

728
01:12:21,270 --> 01:12:22,410
He's a self -made man.

729
01:12:22,870 --> 01:12:26,610
All his life, Frank did what he wanted
to do, and he did it his way.

730
01:12:27,290 --> 01:12:29,310
Of course, he had to check it out with
the boys first.

731
01:12:30,910 --> 01:12:31,910
The boys.

732
01:12:32,030 --> 01:12:34,670
Why do they call them the boys? Do you
ever see any of the boys?

733
01:12:35,430 --> 01:12:39,590
Tough -looking guys. I saw one guy who
could make a fist with his nose.

734
01:12:44,330 --> 01:12:46,910
He had a beautiful home in Palm Springs.

735
01:12:47,450 --> 01:12:49,590
He often plays golf with, like, Burt
Lance.

736
01:12:50,170 --> 01:12:51,530
Of course, he won't let him keep score.

737
01:12:56,970 --> 01:13:00,450
Remember when he won the Oscar for From
Here to Eternity? That was a terrific

738
01:13:00,450 --> 01:13:03,430
performance. And then much, much later,
he retired.

739
01:13:03,650 --> 01:13:05,990
He said he wanted to spend more time
with his friends.

740
01:13:06,550 --> 01:13:09,210
When they found out he was out of work,
he didn't have any friends left.

741
01:13:11,550 --> 01:13:16,430
I want to say, one moment, I did one
picture with Frank.

742
01:13:16,960 --> 01:13:21,320
the detective, which was one of the most
memorable moments in my career. I love

743
01:13:21,320 --> 01:13:25,000
him for tonight, being in here, betting,
and I love him for that picture, and

744
01:13:25,000 --> 01:13:26,000
thank you all.

745
01:13:30,920 --> 01:13:37,720
Our next guest is not a member

746
01:13:37,720 --> 01:13:39,560
of the theatrical profession.

747
01:13:40,220 --> 01:13:43,280
He has been closely linked to Frank in
the past.

748
01:13:43,540 --> 01:13:45,780
He is the man that drove...

749
01:13:46,220 --> 01:13:50,200
the bus when Frank went from city to
city on his concert tours.

750
01:13:50,520 --> 01:13:53,560
Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Alwood
Suggins.

751
01:14:22,500 --> 01:14:26,500
I put on more than you did. I remember
when I could grab you, clear around the

752
01:14:26,500 --> 01:14:31,120
bone in your body.

753
01:14:31,620 --> 01:14:33,380
Went from here to whatever that bone
was.

754
01:14:35,660 --> 01:14:36,660
Well,

755
01:14:37,860 --> 01:14:39,580
I did drive Frank.

756
01:14:41,580 --> 01:14:45,620
I called him just Frank. A lot of guys
would say Frank Francis Albert.

757
01:14:46,400 --> 01:14:48,520
I just called him Frank, right?

758
01:14:53,260 --> 01:14:54,260
a man here. What's him?

759
01:14:55,940 --> 01:14:58,340
I know who you are. I've seen you on TV,
Mr. Martin.

760
01:14:58,860 --> 01:15:03,300
I know how close you guys are all the
time, flying around in a crop duster.

761
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:07,740
At any rate, I did.

762
01:15:08,240 --> 01:15:13,300
I didn't prepare nothing. I just, all
these people and show business and

763
01:15:13,300 --> 01:15:14,300
everything.

764
01:15:14,880 --> 01:15:18,940
The only people that I've ever seen was
Frank here.

765
01:15:20,720 --> 01:15:26,900
I did see Helen Forrest one time,
sitting alone in a diner in Boise.

766
01:15:28,720 --> 01:15:35,340
I remember Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey always

767
01:15:35,340 --> 01:15:36,340
calling him Mr.

768
01:15:37,360 --> 01:15:41,580
D and Mr. D, and Frank called him
things, boy, and I tell you, and

769
01:15:43,340 --> 01:15:45,340
He gave me salutes I've never seen.

770
01:15:50,700 --> 01:15:52,520
In those days, I was just driving him
and instruments.

771
01:15:53,340 --> 01:15:55,620
And we had over 75 horns.

772
01:15:56,260 --> 01:15:59,540
In fact, in the back, I've seen Frank
with his face up to the window like this

773
01:15:59,540 --> 01:16:01,820
with all kinds of saxes crowding him.

774
01:16:06,560 --> 01:16:09,900
He'd have little booze, and I'd have
something my brother made.

775
01:16:13,320 --> 01:16:16,400
He's Catholic, as you know, and I'm non
-denominational.

776
01:16:22,890 --> 01:16:23,890
I don't want to offend anybody.

777
01:16:28,370 --> 01:16:35,270
But what kept him going is still this.
His fingers alone were good. That man

778
01:16:35,270 --> 01:16:38,790
has fingers on these two fingers. I'm
talking about that. That's a thumb.

779
01:16:39,570 --> 01:16:45,770
That made his career. I don't care what
they tell you at the Paramount or any

780
01:16:45,770 --> 01:16:47,910
place else. This man did this on the
fly.

781
01:16:57,130 --> 01:16:58,130
is good to me.

782
01:16:58,190 --> 01:17:01,730
He'd give me five or ten when we hit a
major town.

783
01:17:06,290 --> 01:17:08,950
You don't need no money here in
Plainfield. There's none there.

784
01:17:11,930 --> 01:17:16,550
He fixed me up with girls. One girl
didn't have but one good eye. The other

785
01:17:16,550 --> 01:17:17,550
was shriveled.

786
01:17:18,850 --> 01:17:21,510
My boy, he said, look at the rest of the
machinery.

787
01:17:29,550 --> 01:17:33,510
He did a thing I just wanted to leave
you with one thing which I think is just

788
01:17:33,510 --> 01:17:38,710
little segment of humor and a picture of
what a beautiful man this is and why

789
01:17:38,710 --> 01:17:42,650
this dinner, which it's probably never
going to be served. I have seen no food

790
01:17:42,650 --> 01:17:43,650
at all.

791
01:17:44,830 --> 01:17:46,430
I have seen no food.

792
01:17:50,570 --> 01:17:54,050
I haven't seen a salad. Usually you just
get something.

793
01:17:54,710 --> 01:17:56,770
I guess it's all they're going to hit us
real quick.

794
01:17:57,690 --> 01:17:59,540
That'll be the time to do it. Frank is
in.

795
01:17:59,760 --> 01:18:00,760
Yeah, right now.

796
01:18:01,580 --> 01:18:05,040
But what we did, this is the last thing
I want to say and then I get off.

797
01:18:05,660 --> 01:18:06,680
Frank, I love you.

798
01:18:07,280 --> 01:18:10,560
Boots you got on there. They're up there
here and he's got a knife in one there

799
01:18:10,560 --> 01:18:11,560
on the right.

800
01:18:13,180 --> 01:18:15,440
I'm just as scared, Frank, and I drive
Route 55.

801
01:18:17,400 --> 01:18:21,240
I've got a military boy, K -Bar, on me.
I got a guy the other day, boy, just

802
01:18:21,240 --> 01:18:22,480
stuck him against a sheet of aluminum.

803
01:18:22,960 --> 01:18:24,380
I'm not proud of that, but I had to.

804
01:18:27,950 --> 01:18:30,270
I hate violence, but if it comes my way,
I love it.

805
01:18:32,710 --> 01:18:35,910
That's the reason I've never joined any
one religion. I just, you know, I never

806
01:18:35,910 --> 01:18:37,290
would have killed a man or grabbed him
and kissed him.

807
01:18:42,930 --> 01:18:47,830
We was coming out of St. Louis, and the
Dorseys, they was always, one of them

808
01:18:47,830 --> 01:18:50,030
had a Cadillac and the other one was a
Zuttenberg.

809
01:18:50,710 --> 01:18:53,750
And they had chauffeurs. They'd change
off all denominations.

810
01:18:56,290 --> 01:19:00,190
And Frank and me was in the instrument
bus, all the instruments in there.

811
01:19:00,530 --> 01:19:04,210
And Frank had purchased a dog. He was
the only time I'd ever seen him really

812
01:19:04,210 --> 01:19:07,450
bombed and really just where he was out
of it completely.

813
01:19:07,910 --> 01:19:13,330
And he was using his hands a lot like
his, hadn't closed his fingers. And he

814
01:19:13,330 --> 01:19:17,430
said, I got a little dog here. And he
put it in a paper bag. It was a black

815
01:19:17,430 --> 01:19:21,090
white dog. It had a little spot up here
and his tail was black and the rest of

816
01:19:21,090 --> 01:19:22,029
it was white.

817
01:19:22,030 --> 01:19:25,550
And he said, let's put the dog on the
hood instead of that regular thing.

818
01:19:28,290 --> 01:19:31,190
So we pulled off Route 59,

819
01:19:32,230 --> 01:19:35,290
I believe it was. A lot of times we'd
get off the road and just stay off the

820
01:19:35,290 --> 01:19:36,290
road.

821
01:19:37,610 --> 01:19:41,330
Most of the people going by anyway, you
know, brothers would go by first and

822
01:19:41,330 --> 01:19:43,630
there'd be enough snow on you, you
couldn't see for an hour.

823
01:19:45,270 --> 01:19:47,910
Musicians would be just walking down the
highway like this. Yeah, yeah.

824
01:19:51,240 --> 01:19:52,880
They were the strangest people I ever
knew in my life.

825
01:19:53,240 --> 01:19:55,320
Frank was all right. He knew where he
was all the time.

826
01:19:57,080 --> 01:20:00,340
I've seen 37 of them stand up one time
and a major benefit, and there was no

827
01:20:00,340 --> 01:20:01,340
instruments in their hands.

828
01:20:03,800 --> 01:20:05,620
People are like this. Why? Why?

829
01:20:07,320 --> 01:20:09,180
And Frank was that old black man.

830
01:20:10,120 --> 01:20:12,120
He was a big deal of things.

831
01:20:12,440 --> 01:20:18,060
But this dog was up on the hood, and it
would come back and forth on the hood.

832
01:20:20,750 --> 01:20:24,590
He said to me, he said, Elwood, tie the
dog down. And I said, well, it'll make

833
01:20:24,590 --> 01:20:26,710
the dog mad. And I said, it's snowing.

834
01:20:27,050 --> 01:20:29,050
It snowed. It set in a lot heavy.

835
01:20:29,590 --> 01:20:33,590
And the dog, we was doing good. We was
doing about 80. In those days, you could

836
01:20:33,590 --> 01:20:34,590
do 80.

837
01:20:35,110 --> 01:20:37,950
And we just had all the money out the
windows. And the guys would grab it in

838
01:20:37,950 --> 01:20:39,150
motorcycle and go on basket.

839
01:20:41,630 --> 01:20:46,310
So Frank had a lot of jewelry, too, a
lot of times in his hands. He'd just

840
01:20:46,310 --> 01:20:47,910
them some quick ice, you know, in the
air.

841
01:20:49,710 --> 01:20:52,630
But at any rate, the dog come back and
got caught into the wipers.

842
01:20:53,890 --> 01:20:54,990
Yeah, I know.

843
01:20:55,270 --> 01:21:02,270
I know how animal people are because
that's the way I was. And we

844
01:21:02,270 --> 01:21:07,850
went on into Boise that night.

845
01:21:08,230 --> 01:21:09,410
That dog is still going.

846
01:21:11,210 --> 01:21:15,610
You know, thank God to think that Frank
and I just let that happen because it

847
01:21:15,610 --> 01:21:17,150
kept the dog from freezing to death.

848
01:21:20,490 --> 01:21:23,710
All the things that Frank does for
people. He does a lot for animals

849
01:21:23,710 --> 01:21:26,050
that's always eating him alive by that
dog.

850
01:21:27,170 --> 01:21:30,430
He puts the dog back into the bag. He
was just as hard man as a carp.

851
01:21:32,450 --> 01:21:33,510
God love you, Frank.

852
01:21:34,730 --> 01:21:38,110
Old Blue Eyes is back again. I hope him
Blue Eyes is always back.

853
01:21:39,050 --> 01:21:45,950
I wish I had more something to give you.
I had something, but I was rolled.

854
01:22:11,470 --> 01:22:12,930
He's Bogart. He's Wayne.

855
01:22:13,190 --> 01:22:16,030
He's everybody but actually Mr.

856
01:22:16,430 --> 01:22:17,610
Rich Little.

857
01:22:29,710 --> 01:22:35,510
I don't believe this. My whole act alive
and well and living here at...

858
01:22:41,580 --> 01:22:45,060
down there. I don't want to go out with
no girls tonight, Ma.

859
01:22:45,560 --> 01:22:46,840
And you want to know why?

860
01:22:47,500 --> 01:22:48,540
Because I'm ugly.

861
01:22:48,820 --> 01:22:50,580
And you want to know why I'm ugly?

862
01:22:51,260 --> 01:22:53,840
Because you and Paul were ugly. That's
why.

863
01:22:59,460 --> 01:23:04,180
Oh, Gene Kelly there, too. I'm singing
in the...

864
01:23:10,510 --> 01:23:13,670
Look, look, look at this hockey puck.
We're in the middle of the Nevada

865
01:23:13,670 --> 01:23:14,870
The man's singing in the rain.

866
01:23:20,530 --> 01:23:23,490
It's good to be here to honor Frank
tonight.

867
01:23:24,190 --> 01:23:30,230
But not everybody I know shared that
opinion. For instance, Truman Capote

868
01:23:30,230 --> 01:23:31,230
said...

869
01:23:54,030 --> 01:23:55,850
Sinatra, I think it's ridiculous.

870
01:23:56,650 --> 01:24:02,250
All he ever does is go out every night
and brawl and punch and hit.

871
01:24:02,530 --> 01:24:09,070
It's disgusting. It's degrading. And in
a strange way, it's rather exciting.

872
01:24:13,410 --> 01:24:18,290
And George Burns told me...

873
01:24:31,719 --> 01:24:34,760
That's like putting Fonzie in the White
House.

874
01:24:39,380 --> 01:24:41,140
Now, Frank's a nice kid.

875
01:24:41,480 --> 01:24:46,620
And as a singer, it's hard for me to put
him down. You can't put down another

876
01:24:46,620 --> 01:24:47,620
singer.

877
01:24:48,800 --> 01:24:51,680
But he doesn't know how to put over a
song.

878
01:24:52,390 --> 01:24:55,590
You see, Frank, a song should go
something like this.

879
01:24:56,470 --> 01:25:01,090
When somebody loves you, it's no good
unless he loves you all the way. So hug

880
01:25:01,090 --> 01:25:01,949
like a flower.

881
01:25:01,950 --> 01:25:02,950
Come to me, a flower.

882
01:25:03,190 --> 01:25:06,610
Love and let me learn the letter of
life. You've got a million.

883
01:25:14,890 --> 01:25:19,730
Let's ask one of Frank's neighbors in
Palm Springs to say a word in your

884
01:25:20,970 --> 01:25:22,360
Gerald. forward.

885
01:26:07,400 --> 01:26:10,340
as a special surprise to our man of the
hour.

886
01:26:10,600 --> 01:26:14,680
The audience may not be familiar with
the name Jilly.

887
01:26:14,900 --> 01:26:20,980
None of you people don't know who Jilly
is. It is always a famous word, well,

888
01:26:21,120 --> 01:26:23,000
with us and with Mr. Sinatra.

889
01:26:23,460 --> 01:26:27,480
You've never even heard of Jilly,
Father.

890
01:26:27,680 --> 01:26:31,200
Well, maybe, here he is, Jilly. There's
no Frank without Jilly.

891
01:26:42,809 --> 01:26:46,950
I came out of respect. I came out of
admiration for most of all.

892
01:26:47,470 --> 01:26:48,790
I came out of fear.

893
01:26:52,710 --> 01:26:55,330
I remember the night Frank came into my
joint.

894
01:26:56,830 --> 01:26:59,830
About three in the morning. He had just
left the old Morocco.

895
01:27:00,070 --> 01:27:01,070
Big deal.

896
01:27:01,450 --> 01:27:03,350
And he brought some of his friends with
him.

897
01:27:04,250 --> 01:27:06,530
They were very high class. The A group.

898
01:27:10,650 --> 01:27:14,030
You know the... trying to wash their
hands before they eat.

899
01:27:16,210 --> 01:27:20,010
And then spend a half hour looking for a
clean spot in a roller tower.

900
01:27:25,090 --> 01:27:27,650
Frank, I know you got a lot of important
people up here.

901
01:27:28,650 --> 01:27:32,430
So I'll just say what I've been saying
to you for the first 30 years.

902
01:27:33,590 --> 01:27:35,110
I'll be waiting in the car.

903
01:27:52,140 --> 01:27:57,240
TV series CPO Shockey, which is a big
hit on the NBC network.

904
01:27:57,940 --> 01:27:59,600
Mr. Don Rickles, everybody.

905
01:28:11,020 --> 01:28:15,020
Frank, may I say publicly to you, is the
bomb of the year.

906
01:28:24,400 --> 01:28:25,400
I don't like to hear that.

907
01:28:25,780 --> 01:28:26,780
It's gone.

908
01:28:30,460 --> 01:28:34,640
To my black brother's red fox, Cliff
Wilson, the one to pay.

909
01:28:35,160 --> 01:28:36,160
Sorry.

910
01:28:40,940 --> 01:28:41,940
It's your whole life.

911
01:28:42,620 --> 01:28:45,960
Your dear, wonderful, wonderful new
wife, Barbara. Barbara?

912
01:28:46,340 --> 01:28:47,900
The one with the diamond on her nose.

913
01:28:53,450 --> 01:28:56,170
I have a Jewish wife. She doesn't do
that. She has so much jewelry on, she

914
01:28:56,170 --> 01:28:57,170
keep her head up.

915
01:29:02,470 --> 01:29:03,590
I'll laugh. Enjoy.

916
01:29:04,110 --> 01:29:06,070
I'm singing in the rain.

917
01:29:06,710 --> 01:29:08,710
I'm singing in the rain.

918
01:29:11,690 --> 01:29:13,850
I'm singing in the rain. I'm singing in
the rain. I'm singing in the rain.

919
01:29:14,190 --> 01:29:15,190
I'm singing in the rain.

920
01:29:15,430 --> 01:29:17,510
I'm singing in the rain. I'm singing in
the rain.

921
01:29:18,950 --> 01:29:20,270
I'm singing in the rain. I'm singing in
the rain. I'm singing in the rain.

922
01:29:48,370 --> 01:29:52,650
Guy said, you stink. And Julie walked
over and said... They

923
01:29:52,650 --> 01:29:57,770
killed the Don.

924
01:29:59,610 --> 01:30:01,790
It's a man that's in charge of the
Italian people.

925
01:30:04,590 --> 01:30:05,590
Huh?

926
01:30:11,390 --> 01:30:14,250
Jews don't do that. We make a phone
call, give a few dollars, and they all

927
01:30:14,250 --> 01:30:15,250
away.

928
01:30:21,610 --> 01:30:23,470
I didn't hold no grocery store up.

929
01:30:24,870 --> 01:30:26,570
And the homeless people go, any trouble?

930
01:30:30,890 --> 01:30:35,090
And my dear friend, Jack Klugman, from
Quincy, one of the great actors who said

931
01:30:35,090 --> 01:30:39,390
to me, get me a broad, a monkey, a dog,
anybody.

932
01:30:41,670 --> 01:30:42,970
Get me an old moose, anything.

933
01:30:45,810 --> 01:30:48,670
And Ronald Regan, our great former
governor, who said to me,

934
01:31:06,440 --> 01:31:08,280
Pope couldn't be here tonight. He's
looking for a war.

935
01:31:12,080 --> 01:31:14,420
You know, I never tell the truth.

936
01:31:14,820 --> 01:31:18,340
I exaggerate. I make fun of blacks,
whites, Jews, Italians. Well, Jews.

937
01:31:21,080 --> 01:31:24,240
We're the chosen people. We had a few
bum breaks. I must admit that. The Red

938
01:31:24,240 --> 01:31:25,240
trick.

939
01:31:39,960 --> 01:31:41,360
Good.

940
01:32:09,550 --> 01:32:12,470
to wonderful Peter Fork. Over here,
Peter. Look at this side.

941
01:32:15,950 --> 01:32:18,350
It's a Ruth Buzzy who everybody laughs
at about her looks.

942
01:32:19,070 --> 01:32:20,070
Red dog.

943
01:32:23,930 --> 01:32:28,590
And Austin Wells, 30 years ago you were
handsome and now we're going to put

944
01:32:28,590 --> 01:32:30,990
Goodyear on your face and fly you over
the beach for a half hour.

945
01:32:33,050 --> 01:32:35,450
You know the girl who kept checking with
him knowing, is that funny?

946
01:32:36,490 --> 01:32:37,490
I love you, Milton.

947
01:32:37,900 --> 01:32:38,900
It's over.

948
01:32:40,060 --> 01:32:42,640
And Luanda will come in on Tuesday. Just
the furniture.

949
01:32:48,960 --> 01:32:51,960
From Murray Franklin's to the big lights
of Las Vegas.

950
01:32:52,460 --> 01:32:57,260
This wonderful gentleman that we honor
tonight was in my corner then. He's in

951
01:32:57,260 --> 01:32:58,259
corner now.

952
01:32:58,260 --> 01:32:59,640
We do not dance together.

953
01:32:59,900 --> 01:33:01,580
We do not break bread every day
together.

954
01:33:01,920 --> 01:33:05,640
But when I'm in his company, Dean knows
this and you know this.

955
01:33:06,220 --> 01:33:07,700
I speak of him with love.

956
01:33:08,200 --> 01:33:11,120
And I tell you, we have been blessed to
have such a man. Good night.

957
01:33:31,820 --> 01:33:32,900
And now...

958
01:33:33,930 --> 01:33:38,890
It is my privilege and very pleasant
duty to introduce our guest of honor.

959
01:33:40,130 --> 01:33:41,290
I'm a good buddy.

960
01:33:42,230 --> 01:33:46,170
What can you say about a guy that's
already a legend?

961
01:33:46,630 --> 01:33:52,830
The accomplishments of Frank Sinatra
have been documented in the history of

962
01:33:52,830 --> 01:33:53,830
business.

963
01:33:54,430 --> 01:33:57,750
You can find him listed in some books as
a singer.

964
01:33:58,470 --> 01:34:01,270
In others, you'll find him listed as an
actor.

965
01:34:02,030 --> 01:34:05,590
But in my book, he'll always be listed
as a friend.

966
01:34:06,410 --> 01:34:07,410
The best.

967
01:34:07,910 --> 01:34:10,710
This business isn't as easy as it looks.

968
01:34:10,970 --> 01:34:17,410
You endure a lot of hurts and scars
along the way, and whenever Frank found

969
01:34:17,410 --> 01:34:20,750
I was hurting, he was always there for
me.

970
01:34:21,550 --> 01:34:28,070
There's lots more I could say, but at
this moment, my emotions prevent me

971
01:34:28,070 --> 01:34:31,510
from... translating my feelings into
words.

972
01:34:32,690 --> 01:34:38,630
So I'll just say, here's the man of the
hour, the man of the year, and my

973
01:34:38,630 --> 01:34:44,110
personal vote for the man of the
century, Mr. Frank Sinatra.

974
01:35:06,700 --> 01:35:11,600
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you, Dean,
and all of you roasters and our

975
01:35:11,600 --> 01:35:12,600
roastette.

976
01:35:14,020 --> 01:35:15,940
I'm here tonight for a very simple
reason.

977
01:35:17,800 --> 01:35:21,920
I will repeat what Dean said except
change it around. I love Dean Martin,

978
01:35:21,920 --> 01:35:23,980
for more years than we want to mention.

979
01:35:24,540 --> 01:35:26,960
And if that upsets Anita Bryant, so be
it.

980
01:35:29,820 --> 01:35:33,920
And, Dean, I hate to spoil your image,
but I have to tell the people...

981
01:35:34,330 --> 01:35:39,510
The Dean I know a little bit about, a
good deal about. He's not a drunk, and

982
01:35:39,510 --> 01:35:43,410
is so far from the fumbler he would have
you believe he is.

983
01:35:44,370 --> 01:35:46,110
It's all a charade, really.

984
01:35:46,750 --> 01:35:49,490
But it entertains people, so he carries
on with it.

985
01:35:50,310 --> 01:35:53,970
And Dean has probably brought more fun
into my life than anybody I know.

986
01:35:54,710 --> 01:35:58,030
As for this evening, I've enjoyed every
week of it.

987
01:36:04,710 --> 01:36:08,790
I enjoyed the jokes, and I enjoyed the
serious part that Don Rickles did.

988
01:36:14,650 --> 01:36:16,950
Everybody doesn't have to be funny all
the time.

989
01:36:17,210 --> 01:36:18,850
And Don proved it again tonight.

990
01:36:23,010 --> 01:36:29,370
And that's how to express my thanks to
all of you on the dais for being my

991
01:36:29,370 --> 01:36:30,950
friends. We don't have time tonight.

992
01:36:32,010 --> 01:36:34,470
Or this year, for me to put it all into
words.

993
01:36:34,730 --> 01:36:39,070
But you may believe me, if I knew how to
hug a dais, I would do it.

994
01:36:39,630 --> 01:36:40,970
Everybody on this dais.

995
01:36:42,210 --> 01:36:45,830
By your talents, you bring light into
darkened worlds and lives.

996
01:36:46,110 --> 01:36:50,830
And by your work, you change the world's
subject from sadness to laughter.

997
01:36:52,130 --> 01:36:55,990
And that is a rare gift that I cherish
and admire in all of you people.

998
01:36:56,550 --> 01:36:57,710
You've cheered America.

999
01:36:58,410 --> 01:37:01,170
And in my book, that's win, place, and
show.

1000
01:37:02,570 --> 01:37:06,870
Because without the laughter you
provide, without the escape you create,

1001
01:37:06,870 --> 01:37:11,090
your songs and your entertainment, the
brilliant colors you add to a black and

1002
01:37:11,090 --> 01:37:13,910
white world, that world would have more
time to cry.

1003
01:37:14,950 --> 01:37:16,850
You get applause, but never enough.

1004
01:37:17,670 --> 01:37:22,390
But what is enough if only once in your
life you cause the friendly smile to

1005
01:37:22,390 --> 01:37:23,590
wipe out a stranger's tear?

1006
01:37:24,290 --> 01:37:26,390
I love you all. Thank you very much.

1007
01:37:26,750 --> 01:37:30,970
May I say that I hope you all live to be
a thousand years old.

1008
01:37:32,240 --> 01:37:34,160
And the last voice you hear is mine.