http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2006 by the authors Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:21:09 EST http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/11/11/073815.php#comment-492828 A little more background on the DVD edits and Nancy's response... on the SinatraFamily.com online forum, a link to Will Friedwald's New York Sun review of Sinatra: Vegas is posted, which includes the following comments about the DVD: "Sinatra [...] refers to [Mayor] Bradley as being "colored" - an aside that is mysteriously deleted from the DVD. I can't imagine why it's okay for Sinatra to poke fun at Jews and his fellow Italians, but not at blacks, especially since he literally kvells with delight that both Bradley and his wife are in the audience, and is obviously jazzed that Los Angeles now has a black mayor. He literally seems to be taking this fact as a personal point of pride. The producers also snipped out Sinatra's attacks on William Randolph Hearst and Louis B. Mayer, as well as a scathing Andrew Dice Clay-like appraisal of Elizabeth Taylor's reproductive organs. On the unedited tape, Sinatra declaims, it turns out correctly: "I'm layin' 11 to one that you don't use this on television!"" Later in the same thread, a SinatraFamily forum reader posts this comment: "I find it interesting that Will points out the "sanitizing" of the DVD with Frank's less than PC comments eliminated. No one else has mentioned that." To which Nancy replies: "Because it isn't true. WF didn't look or listen. But that's not unusual for him." Quite a slam on Will Friedwald... Nancy then apparently read the review more closely and posted: "<< The producers also snipped out Sinatra's attacks on William Randolph Hearst and Louis B. Mayer, >> That is absolutely not true." Interestingly she does not deny that Sinatra's remarks about Liz Taylor and Mayor Bradley were edited out (and they definitely were!) As far as I can tell, though, she is correct in saying that the rest of the monologue has been left intact. I'm not sure why Will Friedwald thinks the W.R. Hearst and L.B. Mayer comments were edited -- they are clearly included on the DVD. Maybe he has a different bootleg copy than the rest of us... 492828@blogcritics.org Thu, 7 Dec 2006 13:21:09 EST http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/11/11/073815.php#comment-480243 Congrats! This article has been forwarded to the <a href=" http://www.cleveland.com/newslogs/musicreviews " target="_blank">Advance.net websites</a>. 480243@blogcritics.org Tue, 14 Nov 2006 14:48:17 EST