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Everything he did was so extraordinary. So much feeling with so little visible effort." BARBRA STREISAND "She is an inspiration to work with, a force of nature.

Searching for inspiration from around the world, and incorporating styles ranging from big band ballroom to Motown and Euro-synth, Canadian singer and songwriter Matt Dusk took a unique approach to creating his third major-label release, Good News.

From a surprise appearance with Tommy Dorsey in 1955 to a 1990 concert at Radio City Music Hall, SINATRA: NEW YORK follows the singer onstage at various iconic New York City venues, living out one of his most famous lines: 'If I can make it there, I'll make it anywhere.' Listen to selections, now!... Frank Sinatra - Play All Biography Frank Sinatra ...

Sandy Hackett says his late father, Buddy, once turned down a chance to be Frank Sinatra's opening act in Las Vegas.

By: Terry Stephan SCA presents 'Guys and Dolls' Springville Art Center musical opens on November 5 PERFORMANCE - Kim Higgins and Mark Bofinger rehearse for the opening day of 'Guys and Dolls' on November 5 at the Center for the Arts in Springville.

Voters in Hoboken, New Jersey, whose 32-year-old mayor resigned in July after his arrest on corruption charges, chose Acting Mayor Dawn Zimmer to complete the term.

For those who believed that every note Frank Sinatra ever sang already has been released, reissued and repackaged, brace yourselves: There's new material to come.

It is somewhat disconcerting how few new male vocalists inhabiting the jazz idiom practice their craft with the same degree of genius and virtuosity as saxophonists and other instrumentalists.

The Old Globe will square off with a couple of kings and circle back to the Rat Pack in the theater's just-announced summer season, which includes the annual three-play Summer Shakespeare Festival and two other productions - one a world-premiere musical.

He's the legendary US singer-songwriter whose hits have been immortalised by everyone from Frank Sinatra and The Supremes to Glen Campbell and REM.

Business Wire October 28, 2009 Wednesday 3:55 AM GMT 299 words Hackett Is Back...At the Sahara in Las Vegas! 'Sandy Hackett's Rat Pack Show' Set to Open Mid-November, Carrying on the Legacy of His Father, Legendary Comedian Buddy Hackett and His Friends, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr.

Writer, director and star Matthew Newton preps for war in Three Blind Mice. Plenty of movies have shown soldiers enjoying a brief period of freedom before shipping out to an uncertain fate, and writer-?director Matthew Newton knows it.

Michael Jackson died shortly before a scheduled London concert series. The show goes on without him in Kenny Ortega's backstage documentary This Is It - and in what's likely to be a long and lucrative posthumous career.

The first East Room concert for an invited audience took place on Feb. 23, 1883, when Chester Alan Arthur had more than 100 guests hear members of Her Majesty's Opera Company sing Mozart, Verdi and Wagner.

LUCIE Jones almost gave up singing for good two years ago - after being told she was not good enough.

Soupy Sales died at age 83 yesterday. He hosted an afternoon kiddie show that reached its height of popularity in the mid-1960s. He was totally unlike other kids-show hosts of that, or any other, era.

Raposo composed the theme song for Sesame Street in time for its first airing in 1969, and four years later had four songs on a Frank Sinatra album.

Barry Humphries at yesterday's Age /Dymocks lunch: 'I wonder how I could ever have allowed one seemingly shy and uneducated woman to ruin my life.' Photo: Pat Scala Michael Shmith October 21, 2009 THERE were several notable absentees from yesterday's Age /Dymocks lunch.

His humor is explicit, but Rodney Carrington's latest project is more wholesome.

Posted October 19, 2009 at 7 p.m. "The Rat Pack is Back" When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday Where: Abilene Civic Center, 1100 N. 6th St.