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Wednesday, 26th November 2008

A new account of Frank Sinatra's Hollywood career fails to set Jonathan Yardley's pulse racing. He's particularly hard on "Guys and Dolls" and "Pal Joey":

As a 20-year veteran of Broadway, Santopietro surely knows that the filmed versions of these two classic stage musicals were pathetic bowdlerizations of the originals. In both, Sinatra deserves credit for trying, but the films themselves are so bad that no singer or actor could rescue them.
Still, that version of "The Lady is a Tramp" takes some beating.

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