Rich here to admit that despite my rumpled jeans and faded t-shirts, I do like glamour. It probably started either with seeing James Bond in his fitted tux, drinking and gambling and fighting Evil Doers without mussing his creases, or watching as each new transformation of The Beatles -- starting with their Pierre Cardin collarless suits on the Ed Sullivan Show and on through their Sgt. Pepper band uniforms. When I worked for a time as a high school student in Morris & Sons Clothing Store, I mistakenly thought some of that glamour might rub off on me. Sigh.
During their era, Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner were two of the most glamourous people on the planet, and their on again/off again romance was the stuff of Hollywood legend, with their drunken fights and break-ups often making front page news.
And when Suzanne Vega, the one-time waifish folk singer, wrote a song about Frank & Ava as a metaphor for a relationship of her own, it definitely caught my attention.
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