Frank "The Chairman of the Board" Sinatra
died May 14, 1998 at Cedar-Sinais Hospital in
Beverly Hills, US. "Ol' Blue Eyes" will forever be known as one of the great
entertainers of the 20th century. The funeral took place at the Good Shepherd Catholic
Church in Beverly Hills, Calif., Wednesday, May 20, 1998.
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I would like to be
remembered as a man who had a wonderful
time living life, a man who had good friends,
fine family - and I don't think I could ask
for anything more than that, actually.
Frank Sinatra
1915
- 1998
Sinatra's third wife, Mia Farrow, issued a statement saying:
"Frank was the first love of my life and he remained a true friend, always there when
I needed him. I will miss him more than words can say."
"We have lost part of our capacity to self-reflect because Frank is
gone," Shirley MacLaine said. "His music helped us
understand our own lives more clearly because he was authentically honest about himself. I
am so sad for all of us who are now without him."
"He is a living legend, a born entertainer. He opened a lot of doors for black
people," Little Richard told Reuters.
"He was the original," Martin
Scorsese said at the Cannes Film Festival. "A great Italian American,
a great American, and a great actor."
"The deep blueness of Frank's voice affected me," Bruce Springsteen
told Reuters. "His voice is filled with bad attitude and sex and a sad knowledge of
the world."
"The world has now lost one of the most precious commodities," said actor Ernest Borgnine, whose character tormented Sinatra's in From Here to Eternity. "He gave so much of himself and much more than people realized. It is a sad day today because Frank touched everyone in the world."
"He of course had his talent, his charisma, and his voice,
which put rhythm into, accompanied and made our entire era dream," French
President Jacques Chirac said in a statement. "But he also had his
personality -- warm, passionate."
President Clinton said: "I had the opportunity
after I became president to get to know him a little, to have dinner with him, to
appreciate on a personal level what hundreds of millions of people around the world,
including me, had appreciated from afar. I think every American would have to smile and
say he really did do it his way."
LAURA SMITH KAY (People Daily)
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