Frank Sinatra Has A Cold

As part of a series on the Seven Greatest Stories culled from Esquire’s history, the magazine includes the full text of Gay Talese’s infamous profile of Frank Sinatra when, in 1966, the singer refused to be interviewed and Talese had to be satisfied interviewing his hangers-on and associates instead.

Tony Curtis

That’s really the problem with the book. The one thing a movie star memoir has to be is fun—it doesn’t have to be true (few of them are that), or fair to ex-wives or husbands or old lovers (few of them are that either), but it does need to be fun, to lift us out of the humdrum problems of our own life for a few hours, and, alas, American Prince is no fun at all.

– Michael Korda on Tony Curtis’ autobiography, American Prince, on The Daily Beast.