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Tag Archives: Dean Martin
Dino: “Okay, you don’t have to tell me any more.”
From Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, by Nick Tosches (this is on the filming of Rio Bravo – I just LOVE Hawks’ words here … I just get it: “I hired him,” Hawks remembered, “because an … Continue reading
Dino: “a rare, rare champ”
From Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, by Nick Tosches: Dean himself was not so sure of that as he prepared to leave for France a month later to begin location work for The Young Lions. Sammy … Continue reading
Dino: “Menefreghismo”
From Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, by Nick Tosches: The padrone of Steubenville, the man who oversaw it all, the one to whom the Irish and the Jews and the rest paid tribute, was JamesVincent Tripodi, … Continue reading
Dino: “There was no secret”
From Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, by Nick Tosches (More excerpts to come from this kind of extraordinary book which reads a bit more like an exorcism of Tosche’s demons … or, no – more than … Continue reading
Dino and Sammy
Sinatra is trying to start a bit – trying to get everyone together – which is not easy, since Dino and Sammy are bopping around in the background, just doing lunatic shit on their own – so Frank is at … Continue reading
“Dean’s hands were the size of ham hocks”
Again, an anecdote from Shirley Maclaine’s My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir [these quotes are from one of her 123 autobiographies, most of which I have read. What can I say. I’m a whore for a good theatrical actor anecdote, … Continue reading
Dino’s Fathering Techniques
Again, Shirley Maclaine [these quotes are from one of her 25 autobiographies. The one called My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir]: My initial impression of [Dean Martin] was of a man who basically wanted to be left alone. He was … Continue reading
The “menefreghista”
Excerpt from My Lucky Stars: A Hollywood Memoir: Shirley Maclaine on Dean Martin [the second movie she did was with them – Artists and Models – Martin and Lewis were in the process of breaking up at that point, so … Continue reading
Johnny Carson with the Rat Pack
I watched my Rat Pack DVD last night again – a concert they gave in St. Louis – Dean, Frank and Sammy – with a kind of awkward Johnny Carson standing in for Joey Bishop. Carson, at times, seemed kind … Continue reading
The Rat Pack
I will never get tired of looking at this photo.