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...Sinatra's loss is our gain. I am so glad I am living during this Mia Farrow era. She not only has talent beyond words, but also beauty, intellect, enchantment and charm. Happiness...
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ICE CAPADES OF 1969 (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Jack Jones, Nancy Sinatra and Louis Nye add spice and variety to a collection of the skating troupe's silver moments...
After the Las Vegas wedding?attended by 37 still cameras, 14 motion-picture cameras and seven writers?show business set in. "Hah!" chortled Sinatra's ex-wife Ava Gardner, "I always knew Frank would wind up in bed with a boy." The gossip columnists were scarcely kinder. The pair's every waking hour seemed to make the wire services. During the affair, when she lopped off her hair, Dali called it "mythical suicide." After the separation, her behavior seemed more of the same. She flew off to India with her flower-child sister Prudence* for a month of transcendental meditation...
...disintegrating marriage has several breaking points: the most obvious occurred during the filming of Rosemary's Baby with Director Roman Polanski. Sinatra tried to get her to leave Rosemary and join The Detective; she wouldn't. By night he telephoned her to say that he couldn't live without her; by day he planned divorce proceedings. Mia heard about them not from her husband but from his attorney. Coolly she announced that she wanted no financial settlement?which apparently stunned the singer more than a countersuit for a million. After the lawyer's visit, she took Sinatra's private plane...
Like a child who insists on a happy ending for The Red Shoes, Mia remains transcendentally tranquil about the chairman of the board. Though the divorce decree is final, she still absently refers to Sinatra as "my husband," still remembers him wistfully as "a gentle, quiet man." Yet she offers the best clue as to why the marriage proved unworkable: "Maybe it bothered him not being young. He felt things getting away from him. My friends from India would come into the house barefoot and hand him a flower. That made him feel square for the first time...