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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.

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.

Since he was 4 years old, Matthew's mother, Evelyn Parry-Jones, has been acting as his singing coach, finding the best music style that will work for him.

Sometimes, what happens in Las Vegas doesn't stay in Las Vegas. Sometimes, Vegas travels.

" 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.

I Left My Heart: A Salute to the Music of Tony Bennett. Auburn's Merry-Go-Round Playhouse winds down its lengthy summer-and-beyond season with this tuneful tribute, which gives producing director Ed Sayles a few more chances to toss poseys into the audience during his introduction.

The singer who played the Frank Sinatra-type role of Johnny Fontane in "The Godfather" has died at his childhood home in suburban Philadelphia.

There are funny men, and then there are legends; Don Rickles is firmly in the latter category, having kept America laughing for over 50 years.

SMOKE and Sound at the Civic Theatre on Sunday, October 11 will allow the audience to get a taste of the glorious cabaret years of 1920s and 30s Berlin.

On Saturday, October 10, the Ironman Triathlon will take place in Hawaii. In a contest that tests human endurance, the athletes, without taking breaks, will swim 2.4 miles in the open ocean, bike 112 miles, and run a marathon .

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 .

As revealed here last week, his Dancap Productions has signed a deal with the Canadian Opera Company to rent the Four Seasons for July and August next year, and for future summers a ' and secured the much-acclaimed Lincoln Centre revival of South Pacific for a run in August.

Mitzi Gaynor remembers when the opportunity to audition for "South Pacific" came along.

October 1, 2009: SCARLETT JOHANSSON was so obsessed with FRANK SINATRA as a child, she grew up wanting to sound just like the beloved crooner.

The Kombi was designed as a commercial vehicle but somehow captured the world's imagination.

Frank Sinatra was buried with a bottle of bourbon, a pack of cigarettes, a lighter and a roll of dimes so he could call his loved ones from beyond the grave, according to a new book.