Dean Martin
The strongest celebrities seem to know who they are when they are very young, and that is no less true of Dino. This excerpt plays off the perspective of a neighborhood girl from Dean’s childhood, Mary.
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“Dean sang steady as a little kid. He lamented all the time.”
She recalled sitting with his mother while the older woman sewed, the two of them hearing him, off in another room, singing - “lamenting,” as she put it - and the mother saying, again and again, as she sewed, “If he’s not going to be a singer, no one’s going to be a singer.”
He “wore a hat all the time, in the house.” That is how Mary always saw him, the image of him she always kept from those days: “walking around with a hat on, singing.”
-- Nick Tosches, “Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams”
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“Dean sang steady as a little kid. He lamented all the time.”
She recalled sitting with his mother while the older woman sewed, the two of them hearing him, off in another room, singing - “lamenting,” as she put it - and the mother saying, again and again, as she sewed, “If he’s not going to be a singer, no one’s going to be a singer.”
He “wore a hat all the time, in the house.” That is how Mary always saw him, the image of him she always kept from those days: “walking around with a hat on, singing.”
-- Nick Tosches, “Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams”
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