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Peter: “I’m watching you, Frank!”
Dino: “. . .and then I said, ‘Ladies. There’s enough of me for BOTH of you!”
Sammy: “If I keep my head to the right, you can’t see my glass eye.”
Frank: “All your Kennedys are belong to us!”
Not to nitpick (which REALLY means “I’m gonna nitpick, now!”), Lisa, but Sammy’s glass eye was the left one…
Really? ‘Cause that picture makes it seem the hidden eye is kinda bulging. Maybe the film is flipped.
Or I’m wrong. And totally not funny.
His “bulging” eye was his REAL one… It really wasn’t bulging, just bigger than his original glass eye… I think in later years he had one that matched his right eye much better.
Yup – you can tell the left eye is the fake because it’s staring off into space while Sammy’s other eye is fixed on Dino. Compare with both of Sinatra’s eyes. (I have to disagree with you on one point, Lisa – Frank’s clearly saying, “You boys cut it out with this bunk or it’s ring-a-ding-ding for the both of youse!”)
I have so much I want to say about the concert DVD I watched last night! Dean, Sammy and Frank – with Johnny Carson stepping in (a bit awkwardly, but still charming) for Joey Bishop. At one point, they’re all taking turns singing some song – and Carson does a verse. He’s not half-bad – he swings it – but he’s definitely not one of THEM. And Sammy says, when Carson is done, kind of an aside, “How does it feel to be in the back of the bus, Johnny?’ The audience howled with laughter. Amazing – to watch racial stuff be laughed at – Sammy said it with no bitterness, it wasn’t bitchy, it was a joke – but he sure made his point. It was great!
But so much … so much else to say …
I love how, in this picture, their white cuffs are all gleaming. Such dapper well-dressed gents.
I noticed that “halo” surrounding Sammy. Is it because the photographer had to lighten up Sammy’s face in comparison to the rest of the group? Sometimes, when I’m taking pictures of racially mixed groups, it can be a challenge to tinker with the contrast and color to make all the people clear and not washed out or too dark to see their features clearly.