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Stepmom Dearest.Get it all out Tina, November 5, 2000
I'm glad Tina Sinatra wrote this book about her late Father,and got the truth out about her money hungrey Stepmom Barbra,who wanted to get all she could for herself and son Bobby before Frank died.Its sad to think about the last days of Frank Sinatra.His kids were not even alerted that there Father was dying in the hospital.There was plenty of time ,but Barbra chose not to call the family untill Frank was already gone.I know there's two sides to every story,but I believe Tina. The pictures in this book are wonderfull.The last photo of Frank was sad.You realize how sick he was at the end,but what a great life he had.Tina writes about her Father's on going relationship with her Mom,Nancy,and her love for Ava Gardner and Mia Farrow.Also,Tina is the first family member to admit her father consorted with gangsters,like Sam Giancana,to help JFK nail the 1960 election.After reading all the other books about the late Frank Sinatra,its wonderfull to finally read the truth.
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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
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Sinatra's daughter speaks from the heart about Ole Blue Eyes, October 15, 2000
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When I first heard the 60 minutes interview, I cringed a bit, especially with all the MOB, FBI and JFK stories. I thought to myself...oh another gossip book about Frank...BUT I was pleasantly wrong...This book was a wonderful and emotion-filled book about a daughter who spoke honestly and openly about her relationship with her dad, which happened to be one of the most famous entertainers of our time. Tina did not spare her feelings which ranged from sheer joy to anger to disappointment over feelings regaring her father. I disagree with the last reviewer...(anyway you must have only skimmed parts of the book if you only read it in the bookstore) The book had a very sad tone throughout as it explored the background of Mr Sintra...his deep pain and lonliness, inability to find peace, difficulty with having children, then having to leave them as well as his difficulties with intimate relationships...It was interesting seeing that this "Big" and "Powerful" man experienced the frailities and conflicts that face the human existence. Tina presented his life from very much a daughter's perspective, and one that is difficult for any of us on the outside to judge..This is the world that she lived in for 50 years of her life...I honestly think that she felt a need to tell the story of Mr. SInatra's later life, a sad picture of a once virile, independent swinger, being conformed to a life of dependency. Tina was very accusatory of Mr. Sinatra's last wife Barbara, and she chronicles from her perspective a pretty good case that this woman was not quite the nicest, caring and loving spouse that had somtimes been portrayed by the press. If the allegations are true...well then my hats off to the Sinatra children for letting his fans know the truth about the last years. Still this book was precious in that Tina talked about her father with such an intimate,loving and honest manner, again, one that could only be told from a daughter's perspective. This book is a great story, not only about Frank Sinatra, but on the subject of step familes, aging parents, as well as family love and loyalty.
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41 of 45 people found the following review helpful:
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The private Sinatra's last, sad days revealed!, October 22, 2000
I have been a fan of Mr. Sinatra for over thirty years, one of my earliest memories is of my mother singing along while Frank sang in the background, my first child was brought into the world while a Sinatra tape played in the delivery room. I have read most of the books written about him, this book provides the details from an informed, inside source. I took the time to read all the other Amazon.com reviews prior to writing my own. Anyone who has followed the Sinatra family and history should know that Tina is not in need of money and as her father before her, she values her privacy and her family more than any publicity. I am sure that writing this book was to set the record straight and also, to allow those millions of devoted Sinatra fans to understand the final years of Mr. Sinatra's life and times. Tina makes no effort to make herself out to be a saint, she admits her flaws while plainly stating the facts about Barbara Marx. As an Italian, I understand her comments about family and blood. Ms. Marx clearly desired to climb the "rich and famous" ladder and evidently, Francis Albert Sinatra was the top rung! My hat is off to Tina for having the courage to tell the cold, hard facts about life as the greatest singer of all times' youngest daughter. She is most assuredly, her "Father's daughter". I highly recommend that anyone who considers Sinatra to be the best read this book to learn why he was the best. He wore his heart on his sleeve for his listeners pleasure, his talent came out of his inner sadness. He was the lost soul he sang about, he was the broken-hearted lover his songs described, he understood pain and could communicate it in song like no one else ever could. The book speaks of many sad things, about the tragic bitterness of an extended family and their private battle for Sinatra's legacy (and money), but it's enduring message should be the fact that it sheds full light on what made Sinatra Sinatra!
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