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Hollywood Says Goodbye to Sinatra
Celebrity mourners--a veritable who's who of Tinseltown past and present--lined the pews at a small Beverly Hills church to pay final respects to the Voice.
Among the 400-plus attendees: Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Jack Lemmon, Milton Berle, Jack Nicholson, Liza Minnelli, Bruce Springsteen, Sidney Poitier, Debbie Reynolds, Tony Curtis, Johnny Carson, Eydie Gorme, Connie Stevens, Ernest Borgnine, Wayne Newton, Anthony Quinn, Jerry Vale, Vic Damone, Diahann Carroll, Faye Dunaway, Tom Selleck, Paul Anka, Joey Heatherton, Tim Conway, Bob Newhart, Quincy Jones, Sophia Loren, Ben Vereen, Ed McMahon, Red Buttons, Phil Donahue, Dionne Warwick, Marlo Thomas, Angie Dickinson, Robert Wagner, Jill St. John, Larry King, former First Lady Nancy Reagan, lone surviving Rat Packer Joey Bishop, heck, even Tony Danza.
Wife No. 4, Barbara, was there, along with third wife, Mia Farrow, and first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra, and Sinatra's three kids, Nancy, Frank Jr. and Tina.
Steve Lawrence, Don Rickles and Tom Dreesen (Sinatra's opening comic and poker pal) helped carry the gardenia-strewn casket to and from the church.
All funeralgoers had to flash a special ticket to enter the packed church. As they filed in, a skywriting plane circled above, sketching out a heart. Hundreds of fans choked the streets around the church throughout the two-hour service.
The mass was conducted by Cardinal Roger Mahony, archbishop of Los Angeles. "Ave Maria" was sung by a choir, not Tony Bennett--Sinatra's favorite crooner--as earlier reported.
Peck (who read a poem to Barbara Sinatra ending with "'Twas heaven here with you"), Douglas ("Boy, heaven will never be the same") and Frank Jr. ("So long buddy, and take care of yourself") eulogized the singer, who died of a heart attack last Thursday at 82.
Before the final prayer, a recording of Sinatra's "Put Your Dreams Away"--the song Ol' Blue Eyes often closed his concerts with--played.
Following the service, a military honor guard led Sinatra's casket to Desert Memorial Park near Palm Springs. His father, mother and beloved buddy, Jilly Rizzo, are also interred there. (Sinatra was entitled to the military escort because he had received two of the highest civilian honors, the Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal.)
"We laughed and we cried, we laughed and we cried," Dreesen said afterward. "I'll never forget him."
For more coverage, check out our special Sinatra section.
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