Frank Sinatra σε γραμματόσημο 23/5/2008

Εντυπωσιακή ατμόσφαιρα επικρατούσε στη Fremont Streetτου Las Vegas, το βράδυ της Τετάρτης, 14/5, όταν έγιναν τα αποκαλυπτήρια του ειδικού γραμματόσημου της Ταχυδρομικής Υπηρεσίας των ΗΠΑ, που απεικονίζει τον μεγάλο star της αμερικανικής μουσικής, Frank Sinatra, σε ανάμνηση των 10 ετών που πέρασαν χωρίς τον Frankie…

2 μέρες πριν κυκλοφόρησε άλλωστε, το NothingButTheBest, μια συλλογή με μερικές από τις καλύτερες στιγμές του πάλαι ποτέ αγαπημένου αιώνιου παιδιού της showbizπου έζησε … his way.FRANKLY, NOTHING BUT THE BEST

Multiple Releases Available May 13

LOS ANGELES – As one of the 20^th century’s most iconic entertainers, Francis Albert Sinatra made an indelible mark on the world. In the 10 years since his passing, Sinatra’s legacy not only endures but also continues to grow in stature. As the first initiative under the newly established Frank Sinatra Enterprises (FSE), a partnership between the Sinatra Family and Warner Music Group, FSE has partnered with Reprise, Warner Home Video, MGM Home Entertainment, Turner Classic Movies, and the United States Postal Service to commemorate the Chairman of the Board, whose music and movies have an everlasting impact on popular culture. The month-long celebration will include the release of all-new CD and DVD collections, a television film festival and specials and a commemorative stamp.

On May 13, Reprise will release NOTHING BUT THE BEST, a single-disc collection from Sinatra’s Reprise Years that features 22 classic cuts remixed and remastered from the original master tapes, plus a previously unreleased recording of “Body And Soul” featuring a new arrangement. The compilation will be available in CD and digital formats, online at www.franksinatra.com, and in more than 7,000 Post Offices across the country. For a limited time, each CD will contain a collectible, commemorative Sinatra stamp with official USPS first-day issue cancellation. The stamp was unveiled in December 2007 by the U.S. Postal Service and will go on sale May 13.

Warner Home Video will release 22 Frank Sinatra films, in five fan-pleasing Sinatra collections, including 11 all-new-to-DVD titles. THE RAT PACK ULTIMATE COLLECTOR’S EDITION will include Oscar® nominated Robin and the Seven Hoods as well as Ocean’s Eleven, 4 For Texas and first time new-to-DVD MGM’s Sergeant’s 3. The Ultimate Collector’s Edition will also feature rare collectible memorabiliaincluding cool Rat Pack playing cards, which are only available in the UCE.

Two additional collections will contain ten of the all-new-to-DVD films; the five-disc,FRANK SINATRA: THE GOLDEN YEARS features the ever popular The Tender Trap, Some Came Running,

None But the Brave, Marriage on the Rocks and The Man with the Golden Arm. The five-disc FRANK SINATRA: THE EARLY YEARS includes the nostalgic It Happened in Brooklyn, Step Lively, The Kissing Bandit, Higher and Higher and Double Dynamite.

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Also being released is THE FRANK SINATRA AND GENE KELLY COLLECTION, which will include Oscar® winner Anchors Aweigh as well as On the Town and Take Me Out to the Ball Game. And finally, the Emmy® and Golden Globe® award-winning SINATRA: THE MINISERIES,which documents his incredible life and features his own singing and some astonishing personal revelations. The legend himself collaborated on this miniseries, and it was executive-produced by his daughter, Tina Sinatra.

MGM Home Entertainment will be releasing for the first time on DVD SERGEANTS 3.The 1962 remake of the adventure classic GUNGA DIN features Sinatra and his Rat Pack buddies Dean Martin, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis, and Joey Bishop in a hilarious misadventure to help a freed slave become a cavalryman and play the company bugle. The Western comedy classic was directed by Oscar© nominee John Sturges (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven).

Turner Classic Movies (TCM) will honor Sinatra with a month-long festival of films and specials airing Sundays and Wednesdays throughout the month. The Wednesday presentations will be hosted by his children: Nancy, Tina, and Frank, Jr. Among the films included in the May celebration are From Here to Eternity (1953), featuring Sinatra’s Oscar®-winning performance; the musicals Pal Joey (1957), On the Town (1949), and Anchors Aweigh (1945); the Rat Pack comedies Ocean’s Eleven (1960) and Sergeants 3 (1962); and such powerhouse dramas as The Man with the Golden Arm (1955), which earned him a second Oscar nomination, and The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Also included are four outstanding television specials, including Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music (1965) and Frank Sinatra: A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim (1967), the latter teaming him up with songstress Ella Fitzgerald and Brazilian songwriter Antonio Carlos Jobim.

A beloved entertainer for six decades, Sinatra achievements earned him three Oscars, two Golden Globes, 10 personal Grammys (and a total of 21 including those for his albums), an Emmy, a Cecile B. DeMille Award, a Peabody, the Presidential Medal of Honor, the Congressional Gold Medal (Congress’s highest civilian award), and he was recognized at the Kennedy Center Honors in 1983. A generous charitable contributor, one of his most prestigious awards was the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1971. Born in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1915, the city’s Post Office was renamed in his honor in 2002. He died in Los Angeles in 1998.

PUBLICITY CONTACTS:

For additional information regarding NOTHING BUT THE BEST, please contact Lellie Capwell in Reprise Records’ Media Relations Department at 818-238-6246 or Lellie.Capwell@wmg.com.

For additional information regarding Warner Home Video DVD collections, please contact Ronnee Sass in Warner Home Video’s Media Relations Department at 818-977-6439 or Karen Penhale at Carl Samrock Public Relations at 818-260-0777 or karenpenhale@cs-pr.com.

For additional information regarding MGM Home Entertainment DVD, please contact Callie Jernigan in MGM/20^th Century Fox’s Home Entertainment Public Relations Department at

310-369-8370 or Callie.Jernigan@fox.com.

For additional information regarding Turner Classic Movies (TCM), please contact Gina McKenzie in Turner’s Media Relations Department at 404-885-4315 or Gina.McKenzie@turner.com.

For additional information regarding United States Postal Service, please contact Mark Saunders in USPS Public Affairs Department at 202-268-6524 or mark.r.saunders@usps.gov

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NOTHING BUT THE BEST

Track Listing

1. Come Fly With Me
2. The Best Is Yet To Come
3. The Way You Look Tonight
4. Luck Be A Lady
5. Bewitched
6. The Good Life
7. The Girl From Ipanema
8. Fly Me To The Moon (In Other Words)
9. Summer Wind
10. Strangers In The Night
11. Call Me Irresponsible
12. Somethin’ Stupid
13. My Kind of Town
14. It Was A Very Good Year
15. That’s Life

16. Moonlight Serenade
17. Nothing But The Best
18. Drinking Again
19. All My Tomorrows

20. My Way
21. Theme From New York, New York
22. Body And Soul – bonus track w/new arrangement

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