Connie Anderson

“Why don’t you steal the pattern out of Kenton’s ‘23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West’?” the trombonist, an alumnus of Stan Kenton’s big band, said.”
― James Kaplan, Sinatra: The Chairman

“to be all the way across the country. “Dad was on the air in the middle of a radio show broadcast live from Hollywood”
― James Kaplan, Frank: The Voice

“In the car going home, I said, “We should have stayed.” Bogie said, “No, we shouldn’t. You must always remember we have a life of our own that has nothing to do with Frank. He chose to live the way he’s living—alone. It’s too bad if he’s lonely, but that’s his choice. We have our own road to travel, never forget that—we can’t live his life.”
― James Kaplan, Sinatra: The Chairman

“By all accounts, John Frankenheimer was singularly obsessed with The Manchurian Candidate, a film that, according to Daniel O’Brien, the director regarded “as his first truly personal project, feeling that the story made an all too valid point regarding the political manipulation and conditioning of American society.”
― James Kaplan, Sinatra: The Chairman