Rolling Stone magazine reports that Martin Scorsese, director of "The Aviator," is planning to make a Frank Sinatra biopic. One potential candidate for the leading role is Leonardo Di Caprio, who portrayed Howard Hughes in "The Aviator."
Other popular candidates for the role: Chris Pine (late of "Star Trek"), Ben Affleck, Ed Norton, Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, Val Kilmer, Justin Timberlake and Zac Efron.
One scene that absolutely must be in the film is when Sinatra, angered by old nemesis Hughes cutting off his casino credit, drove a golf cart through a plate-glass window at the Sands Hotel. When Sinatra confronted casino executive Carl Cohen and shoved a table at him, Cohen punched him and knocked out a couple of his teeth.
Las Vegas Review-Journal editor Don Digilio came up with a great line to describe Sinatra's meltdown: "Singer Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco, and Frank Sinatra left his teeth — at least two of them — in Las Vegas."
Saturday, May 16, 2009
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He looks very little like Hughes and even less like Sinatra.
I was deeply disappointed by his stooping to the sensationalism portrayal of mental problems of Hughes. The Morman mafia has put out a twisted picture of him ever since they seized power over his empire. IMHO
The real punch-line to the Sinatra-Cohen incident as told to me by Glenn Odekirk was that when aides reported the Sinatra behavior to Hughes, his comment was; " Do you mean that 'Skinny Italian Kid' that used to sing with The Tommy Dorsey Band"?
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