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Gay Talese è uno scrittore statunitense, come giornalista per il New York Times e la rivista Esquire negli anni '60, Talese ha contribuito a definire il giornalismo letterario contemporaneo ed è considerato, insieme a Tom Wolfe, Joan Didion e Hunter S. Thompson, uno dei pionieri del New Journalism. Gli articoli più famosi di Talese riguardano Joe DiMaggio e Frank Sinatra. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Febbraio 1932
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“Il governatore del New Jersey […] sottolinea nei suoi interventi pubblici come la ricchezza derivata dal gioco non dovrebbe soltanto arricchire l'establishment legato ai casinò ma migliorare anche la qualità della vita dei 38 mila abitanti di Atlantic City, che sono in alta percentuale vecchi, poveri e di colore, e che vivono in mezzo alle erbacce e alla desolazione di aree abbandonate da proprietari e speculatori. Eppure questo genere di sentimenti ha il suono familiare delle slot machine, che in questa città sono la campana dell'Angelus […]”

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“Penso che la maggior parte dei giornalisti siano proprio pigri. Un po' pigri e anche vengono imboccati con informazioni, come quella volta con le armi di distruzione di massa nel 2003. […] c'è questa gente che costruisce notizie impacchettate, le sviluppa come in un film e trovano, come disse una volta Mailer della stampa, che sono come degli asini. Bisogna dar da mangiare all'asino. L'asino deve mangiare ogni giorno. Così [interessi particolari] lanciano informazioni a questi maledetti animali che mangiano di tutto. Barattoli, spazzatura.”

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“Atlantic City filmata a fine anni '70, quando squadre di operai distruggevano o sfiguravano alcuni degli edifici d'inizio secolo, pietre miliari del fascino e della grandeur d'altri tempi cui allude Doctorow, per lasciar spazio a una stazione balneare più redditizia, dove il mare e il sole non sarebbero più stati considerati risorsa primaria. Un quarto della popolazione americana viveva entro un raggio di cinquecento chilometri da Atlantic City, eppure negli anni '50 e '60 i complessi alberghieri, le spiagge, il lungomare e gli altri punti di ritrovo non riuscivano ad attirare visitatori in numero sufficiente a soddisfare le esigenze di un'economia estate dipendente… I grandi hotel, con le loro cupole bizantine e i loro tetti mansardati, i loro saloni Art Decò e le loro verande sontuose, erano diventati monumenti stantii e oppressi dai debiti alle fantasie e alle pretese di un'epoca trascorsa.”

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“Il chilometrico lungomare, inaugurato nel 1879 e ricostruito e ampliato varie volte, si impose non soltanto come passeggiata ma anche come arteria commerciale, monopolizzata da profittatori dediti alla promozione e alla vendita forzata di una quantità incalcolabile di merci e servizi. Oltre il lungomare c'erano i pontili con i divertimenti: le corse spericolate, le piste da ballo, gli spettacoli con interpreti fenomenali e le esibizioni di animali, i gatti che fanno la boxe, l'uomo che balla il valzer con una tigre e naturalmente quelli che facevano del pericolo il loro mestiere, come gli Zachini Volanti, che si facevano sputar fuori dai cannoni. Oggi il profilo di Atlantic City è dominato da edifici alti, per chi ama le puntate alte. Che ciò simboleggi l'architettura dell'avidità piuttosto che l'architettura delle aspirazioni, dipende da come la si pensa in proposito.”

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Gay Talese: Frasi in inglese

“Frank Sinatra stopped his car. The light was red. Pedestrians passed quickly across his windshield but, as usual, one did not. It was a girl in her twenties. She remained at the curb staring at him. Through the corner of his left eye he could see her, and he knew, because it happens almost every day, that she was thinking, It looks like him, but is it? Just before the light turned green, Sinatra turned toward her, looked directly into her eyes waiting for the reaction he knew would come. It came and he smiled. She smiled and he was gone.”

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"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

“He is what in traditional Sicily have long been called uomini rispettati — men of respect: men who are both majestic and humble, men who are loved by all and are very generous by nature, men whose hands are kissed as they walk from village to village, men who would personally go out of their way to redress a wrong.”

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"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

“Words that warmed women, wooed and won them, snipped the final thread of inhibition and gratified the male egos of ungrateful lovers; […] for which they were eternally in his debt, for which they may eternally hate him.”

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Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (Esquire, April 1966)

“He seemed now to be also the embodiment of the fully emancipated male, perhaps the only one in America, the man who can do anything he wants, anything, can do it because he has money, the energy, and no apparent guilt. … The man who had everything, lost it, then got it back, letting nothing stand in his way, doing what few men can do.”

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Gay Talese Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (Esquire, April 1966)

“All the Way; All or Nothing at All. This is the Sicilian in Sinatra; he permits his friends, if they wish to remain that, none of the easy Anglo-Saxon outs. But if they remain loyal, then there is nothing Sinatra will not do in turn — fabulous gifts, personal kindnesses, encouragement when they're down, adulation when they're up. They are wise to remember, however, one thing. He is Sinatra. The boss. Il Padrone.”

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"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

“He is a wholly unpredictable man of many moods and great dimension, a man who responds instantaneously to instinct — suddenly, dramatically, wildly he responds, and nobody can predict what will follow.”

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"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

“I think most journalists are pretty lazy, number one. A little lazy and also they're spoon-fed information, such as the weapons of mass destruction back in 2003…. you have these people who create a package of news, develop it as a story line, a scenario, and they find, as Mailer once said about the press, that they're like a donkey. You have to feed the donkey. The donkey every day has to eat. So [special interests] throw information at this damn animal that eats everything. Tin cans, garbage.”

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Interview with Gay Talese, David Shankbone, Wikinews, October 27, 2007.

“It was suddenly obvious to everybody in the studio that something quite special must be going on inside the man, because something quite special was coming out. He was singing now, cold or no cold, with power and warmth, he was letting himself go, the public arrogance was gone, the private side was in this song about the girl who, it is said, understands him better than anybody else, and is the only person in front of whom he can be unashamedly himself.”

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"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

“Sometimes it's good to be an outsider, especially as a journalist.”

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In an interview with David L. Ulin to Los Angeles Times - Gay Talese talks with David L. Ulin http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/10/gay-talese-talks-with-david-l-ulin.html (October 15, 2010)

“It no longer matters what song he is singing, or who wrote the words — ​they are all his words, his sentiments, they are chapters from the lyrical novel of his life.”

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"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

“Sinatra brings out the best and worst in people.”

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"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

“He never knows whether they want him for what he can do for them now — or will do for them later.”

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"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

“If you're a child of store owners, if you're brought up in a store, you learn good manners. You have to be genial, well-liked. You're not going to sell a customer if you're rude. You also get with different age groups, and different types of people. So be respectful. Being respectful is very important. You have to learn this.”

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In an interview with David L. Ulin to Los Angeles Times - Gay Talese talks with David L. Ulin http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/10/gay-talese-talks-with-david-l-ulin.html (October 15, 2010)

“The whole thing had lasted only about three minutes. And three minutes after it was over, Frank Sinatra had probably forgotten about it for the rest of his life — as Ellison will probably remember it for the rest of his life: he had had, as hundreds of others before him, at an unexpected moment between darkness and dawn, a scene with Sinatra.”

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"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

“You should be proud of your profession because there's less lying in journalism than in any other profession. They lie in education, they lie in politics, they lie in banking, they lie in labor; there's liars all over the place. Sports? Full of liars. And there are liars in journalism, but if there are liars, journalism will out them.”

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Gay Talese

In an interview with David L. Ulin to Los Angeles Times - Gay Talese talks with David L. Ulin http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2010/10/gay-talese-talks-with-david-l-ulin.html (October 15, 2010)

“Sinatra with a cold is Picasso without paint, Ferrari without fuel — only worse.”

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Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (Esquire, April 1966)

“When Sinatra sits to dine, his trusted friends are close; and no matter where he is, no matter how elegant the place may be, there is something of the neighborhood showing because Sinatra, no matter how far he has come, is still something of the boy from the neighborhood — only now he can take his neighborhood with him.”

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"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

“One way to hold a woman is not to hold her.”

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"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

“He has everything, he cannot sleep, he gives nice gifts, he is not happy, but he would not trade, even for happiness, what he is….”

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"Frank Sinatra Has a Cold" (Esquire, April 1966)

“They stopped at The Sahara, taking a long table near the back, and listened to a baldheaded little comedian named Don Rickles, who is probably more caustic than any comic in the country. His humor is so rude, in such bad taste, that it offends no one — it is too offensive to be offensive.”

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Gay Talese Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

Frank Sinatra Has a Cold (Esquire, April 1966)

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