9 Quotes by James Kaplan

I hate cops. You're either a cop or a reporter. And I hate cops and newspapermen.

Why don’t you steal the pattern out of Kenton’s ‘23 Degrees North, 82 Degrees West’?” the trombonist, an alumnus of Stan Kenton’s big band, said.

Then Frank said, ‘Have you ever heard that when five o’clock comes, it’s martini time? We could be right in the middle of a scene, but it’s over for me, because it’s martini time. Did you ever hear that?

Sinatra once said that the only two people he was ever afraid of were his mother and Tommy Dorsey – a flip comment but also a sincere and deeply significant one.

I’m a Fool” may not be a great song, but Sinatra’s shattering performance of it transcends the material. His emotion is so naked that we’re at once embarrassed and compelled: we literally feel for him.

I’m for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniel’s.

By all accounts, John Frankenheimer was singularly obsessed with The Manchurian Candidate, a film that, according to Daniel O’Brien, the director regarded “as his first truly personal project, feeling that the story made an all too valid point regarding the political manipulation and conditioning of American society.

He swung so hard, you could’ve turned him upside down and shaken every piece of change out of his pocket, and he would have never missed a beat.

In the car going home, I said, “We should have stayed.” Bogie said, “No, we shouldn’t. You must always remember we have a life of our own that has nothing to do with Frank. He chose to live the way he’s living – alone. It’s too bad if he’s lonely, but that’s his choice. We have our own road to travel, never forget that – we can’t live his life.