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The Sinatra movies that remain worth seeing are:
Anchors Aweigh (1945),
On the Town (1949),
From Here to Eternity (1953),
Suddenly (1954),
Young at Heart (1955),
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955),
High Society (1956),
The Joker Is Wild (1957),
Pal Joey (1957),
Some Came Running (1958),
The Manchurian Candidate (1962),
and The Detective (1968).
look for these other books by pete hamill
Forever
A novel
“Hugely readable. … Hamill’s long history as a New York journalist, his knowledgeable love for the city, and his writerly exuberance explode here into a New York fantasy. … Forever is old-fashioned storytelling at a gallop.”
—Washington Post Book World
“A swashbuckling, ribald tale told with flair and, sometimes, unbridled emotion. … A serious look at what makes a city more than just bricks and mortar.”
—Denver Post
Snow in August
A novel
“Wonderful. … This page-turner of a fable has a universal appeal.”
—New York Times Book Review
“Lovely yet heartbreaking. … A moving story of a boy confronting morality. … In Michael Devlin, Hamill has created one of the most endearing characters in recent fiction. … Snow in August is a minor mirfsqe in itself.”
—Hartford Courant
A Drinking Life
A memoir
“A vivid report of a journey to the edge of self-destruction. Tough-minded, brimming with energy, and unflinchingly honest.”
—New York Times
“A remarkable memoir. Energetic, compelling, very funny, and remarkably — indeed, often brutally — candid, Hamill’s tale won’t soon be forgotten. An author of rare distinction and moral force.”
—Entertainment Weekly
“As succinct and laconically classy as its title.”
—Adam Woog, Seattle Times
Frank Sinatra and Pete Hamill, as products of the same urban landscape, have both been credited with giving the American city a voice. In this widely acclaimed and bestselling appreciation, Hamill draws on his intimate experience of the man and the music to evoke the essence of Sinatra, illuminating the singer’s art and his legend from the point of view of a confidant and a fan.
“Hamill’s illuminations are considerable without ever stooping to facile psychologizing. … He does a better job of placing Sinatra’s saga in a social and political context than any of his biographers have. … Why Sinatra Matters is most valuable in its explication of how Sinatra came to formulate a musical style that was a sound track to urban American life.”
—Dan DeLuca, Philadelphia Inquirer
“A graceful reminiscence of Sinatra after hours serves as the frame for shrewd reflections on the singer’s art, his personality, his audience, and—most interesting—his ethnicity, a subject about which Hamill, against all odds, contrives to say fresh and persuasive things.”
—Terry Teachout, New York Times Book Review
“A brief but eloquent homage. … Hamill succeeds—convincingly, with natty aplomb—in explaining why Sinatra, even now, matters.”
—Tom Chaffin, LA Weekly
Pete Hamill is a novelist, journalist, editor, and screenwriter. Among his bestselling books are the novels Forever and Snow in August and the memoir A Drinking Life. He writes a column for the New York Daily News.
Pete Hamill, Why Sinatra Matters
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