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Ava: My Story
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I dressed up as Ava Gardner in the third grade for my "Famous North Carolinian" project. We had to read an autobiography of a famous person from North Carolina, and I read this. There is a lot of sex and lamp-throwing, but that did not deter me. I was hooked on Gardner, just like Frank Sinatra. This may have something to do with why, as an adult, my concept of romance involves pretending to shoot yourself over the phone so that someone will come to your house and be relieved that you're not dead. Yes, Frank Sinatra actually did that for THIS WOMAN. Read it.
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Sep 04, 2008 05:04PM
what? sinatra did that? god, and this wasn't even the woman he stayed married to.
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sinatra didn't really "stay married" to anyone. he married like five people, and then died before he could divorce anyone else. but apparently ava gardner was like the love of his life. he kept trying to get back together with her even when they were super old and gardner looked like a muppet and was living alone with her corgi. it is the true american love story.
wow. Yeah i knew he was married to a total of 4, and he was married to someone else for... a considerable time between the 70s or so and when he died. I did not realize he wanted to get back with muppet ava though.
Check out this choice bit of info from Wikipedia: "Gardner and Sinatra remained good friends for the rest of her life....After a lifetime of smoking, Gardner suffered from emphysema, in addition to an autoimmune disorder (which may have been lupus). After two strokes in 1986, which left her partially paralyzed and bedridden, Frank Sinatra paid the cost of her ($50,000) medical expenses. Her last words (to her housekeeper Carmen), were, "I'm so tired", before she died of pneumonia at the age of 67. After her death, one of Frank Sinatra's daughters found him slumped in his room, crying, and unable to speak. Gardner was not only the love of his life but also the inspiration for one of his most personal and magical songs, "I'm a Fool to Want You", recorded after their separation. Reportedly, a lone black limousine parked behind the crowd of 500 mourners at Ava's funeral. No one exited the vehicle, but it was assumed that the anonymous mourner was indeed Frank Sinatra. A floral arrangement at Gardner's graveside simply read: "With My Love, Francis"."NOW THAT'S ROMANCE
i didn't know sinatra actually wrote that. i think i only know the broken-down Billie Holiday version.
i in fact just recently listened to that broken-down billie holiday album. i didn't realize everyone had such a different opinion of whether it was classic or terrifyingly awful.
I don't know the whole thing but I suspect I"m in the classic camp. I go for broke.
i'm definitely in the classic camp. people who can't handle listening to the sounds of heroin addiction are rejecting like at least twenty-five percent of music.
Rachel, you need to send me that Billie Holiday song/album. Please?
Well, the album I had bought on vinyl but I have a song that I bought off iTunes from it. I think it's her version of "I Get Along Without You Very Well," which is actually also a Sinatra song (from that album about Gardner, "In The Wee Small Hours"). I would have to send it to you on a CD, which I am happy to do. In fact, I will make you that CD TODAY AND SEND IT OFF THIS MORNING
the subtext of that is that i can't email you songs i bought off iTunes because they won't play on other computers, in case that was unclear
No, I followed you. I am excited about receiving CDs in the mail!
