Nancy Sinatra’s and Lee Hazlewood’s successful duets can be understood by yet another analogy to filmmaking. Greta Garbo made twenty-four...

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Frank with his daughter Francesca It grieves me to report the sad news that my friend Frank Mazzola, who became one of the most influent...