![]() ![]() Lawford also came with a gift: a script for a heist movie called “Ocean’s 11” that had been slipped to him by George Clayton Johnson, a Malibu gas-station attendant and aspiring writer. So Lawford - characterized by Lertzman as “a little gossip who told Ava Gardner about Frank f–king around” - was improbably in as well. ![]() ![]() Peter Lawford was married to Patricia Kennedy, and Sinatra was drawn to the Kennedy family’s power.” Then he needed a journeyman comic who would not suck air out of the room: In came Joey Bishop. had just lost an eye in a car accident and Frank wanted to back him. He had done the movie ‘Some Came Running’ with Dean Martin and thought it would be good to work with him again. “Frank loved the idea and started assembling a group. “Al wanted a mega-act to put Vegas on the map,” Lertzman said. Meanwhile, Sands casino publicist Al Freeman was looking to take Vegas beyond its status as a cow town with some diversions. Sinatra was bopping through town in ’59, mulling a big payday while his elite status still held. ![]()
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