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This time Nellie is the one writing!
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"Are you ready, Mr. Basie?" So goes one of many immortal lines on the new box-set Vegas (Warner/Reprise), which finds Frank Sinatra away from home yet on home turf. The collection—four discs of live recordings from different eras, plus a DVD—has the voice, in fine fettle and full of easy charm. It also boasts one hell of a personality. Sinatra, like most comedians, saw the world in black-and-white, which gave his showmanship crispness and cut.
We hear generous Sinatra. Before or after, and sometimes both, he credits the composers and arranger of the songs he sings: They're "swell," "lovely," "marvelous," "tops." He thanks, mocks, and effuses over his musicians. He toasts his audience: "To you and your families."
One-liners overfloweth. "Good morning, you buncha drunks." "I gotta stop sleepin' in the pool." "As Joe E. Lewis said, 'A friend in need is a pest.'" His persona often blends with Phil Hartman's Saturday Night Live impression, full of menacing humor and jokey threats. "What are you staring at?" he asks. Or, in reverse, "I'll stand and stare at you as long as I want to." "When I'm on this stage, I'm the boss."
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