Thread 128303371

Was he really as big an asshole as they say?

>>128303371 (OP)
Bigger

>>128303371 (OP)
>Make yourself at home, Frank. Hit somebody.

>>128303371 (OP)
There's a reason why all the greatest creative minds throughout history have been regarded as "hard to work with" and it's not because the people hanging on to them were so good.

>the fifty-nine-year-old Sinatra had switched political loyalties from the Democrats to the Republicans and thrown his support behind Nixon’s 1972 reelection campaign. He wasn’t exactly sympathetic to the new wave of political agitation, at home or abroad. More than anything, though, it seems that Sinatra just wanted to be left alone. He told the Australian press that he wouldn’t be doing any interviews while in the country.

>Of course, that didn’t stop journalists from pursuing him from the moment his plane landed. Lacking fresh material from interviews, they filled gossip pages with speculation about Sinatra’s alleged mafia connections and the women in his entourage.

>When reporters mobbed him at his hotel, Sinatra’s bodyguards retaliated with force. One reporter emerged from the fray with cuts to her face. A bodyguard reportedly wrapped an electric cord around one cameraman’s throat and warned: ‘Things are going to get physical.’

Later that evening, Sinatra ranted about reporters at a sold-out Melbourne show:

>They keep chasing after us. We have to run all day long. They’re parasites who take everything and give nothing. And as for the broads who work for the press, they’re the hookers of the press. I might offer them a buck and a half, I’m not sure.

>>128304313
>The next morning, the Australian Journalists Association demanded that Sinatra apologise to female journalists. In a show of solidarity, the Australian Theatrical and Amusement Employees’ Association announced that until Sinatra apologised, their employees would refuse to provide lighting, staging, and backing musicians for his tour. The Waiters Union also joined the ban, cutting off Sinatra’s room service.
Sinatra had his lawyer inform unions that he was unwilling to apologise. Further, he demanded an apology from the unions ‘for fifteen years of abuse I have taken from the world press.’ If the apology wasn’t forthcoming, Sinatra threatened to immediately leave the country.

>The unions were not impressed. The Transport Workers Union announced that airport workers would refuse to refuel Sinatra’s private jet. The president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), Bob Hawke, threw down the gauntlet to the star:

>If you don’t apologize, your stay in this country could be indefinite. You won’t be allowed to leave Australia unless you can walk on water.

>Sinatra, however, refused to budge. According to a member of his entourage, the superstar had never apologised to anyone in his life and wasn’t about to make an exception.

>Sinatra holed up in his luxury hotel suite and plotted his escape. He reportedly considered calling the admiral of a US aircraft carrier docked in Japan—where Sinatra had played before Australia—to ask for a helicopter to pick him up from the roof of the hotel. Sinatra also floated the possibility of asking Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa to organise a ban on his members transporting any goods exported from Australia. Neither plan came to fruition.

>>128304335
>>128304313

>When Hawke finally did show up, he brought with him fifteen union representatives. The best they could get out of Sinatra was a statement of regret and an admission that he ‘did not intend any general reflection upon the moral character of working members of the Australian media.’

>It wasn’t much of an apology. Hawke and Sinatra nevertheless fronted the media outside the hotel to shake hands and announce that a deal had been made. The unions allowed Sinatra’s tour to proceed.

The Rise and Fall of the Political Strike

>The Sinatra siege was typical of a time in which unions regularly brought their muscle to bear on issues that went beyond wages and working conditions.

>>128304343
Some people will do anything they can to leave Australia

>>128303371 (OP)
No he was based with a strong work ethic

>>128304608
This is actually an Adolf Hitler quote.

>>128304608
Based. But we atheists are worse, he doesnt know. We have the forbidden knowledge. we know the true nature of things and there is no going back just conquest or death.

t. atheist

>>128304905
Entry level atheism:
>In this moment I am euphoric etc. etc.
Highest level atheism:
>God is dead, we killed him and this hell world is our punishment for it.

>>128305022
yes, now what chu gon do be a man or perish like a faggot and get filtered by the laws of nature?
I'm asking that question generally not towards you exactly but all the ahteists that are meaningless hedonistic fags and genetic dead ends. Such atheists must die. They are weak, retarded and hold us all back as species.