The New York Post is kind enough to give the world an advance peek at "Frank Sinatra: An American Legend," a Blue Eyes-sanctioned bio authored by the Chairman's own daughter, Nancy.
In an apparent effort to persuade us that Frank's life has not consisted entirely of beer and skittles, Nancy's tome mentions (among other things) that as a lad Frankie came in for his share of ridicule from little friends and associates because of the namby-pamby clothes his mom dressed him in. Yet he rose to the occasion by using a broken bottle to instill some much-needed respect in the boyish churls.- IT'S NOT EASY BEING A CANDY BARON: The entire world has been awaiting the release of "Crisis in Candyland," Jan Pottker's narrative about the Mars chocolate-bar family, and now the New York Daily News passes along such morsels (if you will) as the following:
Candy-bar patriarch Forrest Mars Jr. once got all hot and bothered, not to say irrational, about body-odor problems among his Netherlands employees, going so far as to issue each one of them a towel and sending them all to the showers.
- THE LOW-DOWN? Donald Trump, in partnership with his current wife, Marla Maples, is out looking to buy a home in Westchester County, Conn.
Difficulties arise as Marla checks out a palatial estate conveniently close to the Winged Foot golf club but is forced to observe that the ceilings are simply too close to the floor.
"Donald and I," she elaborates, "must have high ceilings."
Which almost goes without saying.
- NAME-DROPPING - The 51-year-old but still very comely actress Catherine Deneuve is not at all pleased these days by the fact that someone is publishing a lesbian magazine called Deneuve.
"They are using my name," Catherine tells the Advocate, "and my name is a commodity. You cannot do that."