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Most people know Kurt Vonnegut as the author of "Slaughterhouse-Five,'' but Kaylie Jones knew him as a dinner guest.

His professional career had stalled by the 1950s, Frank Sinatra was poised to make a comeback after he won the 1954 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 'From Here to Eternity.' But his singing career was still stalled.

And he thinks, "Once people get past the strange concept of [Mariah] Carey as an Oscar contender, they wona TMt be able to deny the power of her few scenes as a social worker.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present a screening of a new digital restoration of the 1953 Best Picture winner From Here to Eternity on Wednesday, November 18, at 7:30 p.m. at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills.

Duration: 57:45 TVG Francis Albert Sinatra - agreed by many to be the greatest entertainer in the history of American pop culture.

When Kaylie Jones was 16, her father, James Jones, the author of "From Here to Eternity," and "The Thin Red Line," died of congestive heart failure in Southampton Hospital.

He could be a senior citizen living in Naperville. He's friendly, down to earth and the type of person you might find in a downtown coffee shop sipping his favorite hot brew.

Mira Nair's exhilarating Monsoon Wedding and an essential documentary about those classic Ali-Frazier boxing matches are among this week's platinum picks on DVD.

Italian-American crooner Al Martino, who had string of international pop-chart hits in the 1950s and 1960s including "Spanish Eyes" and "Here in My Heart" and later put his creamy baritone to good use as the fading pop star supposedly based on Frank Sinatra in the 1972 film The Godfather , died Oct.

" Oct. 13, 2009, Sinatra-esque pop singer and actor, has died in his home in Springfield, Delaware County after apparently suffering cardiac arrest while cooking according to his son, Alfred Cini.

"Long before the pill, when John Wayne was keeping the frontier safe, when Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas fought or led the Romans, men were men and women were weak-kneed" IN A scientific journal piece that will put the wind up tall, broad, stocky, hairy, chisel-faced macho men everywhere, a female scientist at Sheffield Uni has proposed the ...

PATRIOTIC HOLLYWOOD: WORLD WAR II IN FILM SERIES: The Maryland Historical Society, 201 W. Monument St., starts this free film series with "From Here to Eternity," starring Burt Lancaster , Montgomery Clift , Frank Sinatra , Donna Reed , Deborah Kerr and Ernest Borgnine .

The Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor takes place only near the end of "From Here to Eternity" . But it's an ideal selection for the Maryland Historical Society's series, "Patriotic Hollywood: World War II in Film." Stephen Ambrose once wrote, "What held [American GIs] together was not country and flag, but unit cohesion." "From Here to ...

Hope Edelman possesses a voice that embeds itself in your mind. I can recall almost verbatim entire scenes from her 1994 best seller Motherless Daughters .

It wasn't "The Voice" that Naomi Ritz heard when she stepped into the mist that told her the Pinyon Canyon compound was a favorite hangout of Frank Sinatra.

A T ONE POINT in the wearying '50s-era road movie My One and Only , Robbie coaxes his mother to "find a balance between Dorothy Malone and Donna Reed." This line bothered me on a couple of levels.

Kaylie Jones: "The big lie was that nobody had a problem with alcohol." Kaylie Jones, the daughter of the author of From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line , grew up in Paris and the Hamptons, surrounded by novelists including William Styron, Kurt Vonnegut, Willie Morris, Truman Capote and James Baldwin.

Kaylie Jones grew up in Paris and Sagaponack, N.Y., among celebrities and writers.

The horizontal mambo between Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie in the 1973 thriller Don't Look Now was so vivid that whispers got out claiming the two had really done the deed onscreen! On hearing this rumor, Julie's main squeeze, Warren Beatty , ran to the set to demand they cut the footage, but they kept it in, seeing as it was one of the few ...

When Kaylie Jones was a little girl in Paris, suffering from a sinus condition, she'd wake up in the night with the panicked feeling that she was suffocating.