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Director of six feature films inclucing "Omega Cop". Creater of "How to Live the James Bond Lifestyle". Now doing my novels as full cast audio-books, performed by Frank Sinatra Jr., Rod Taylor, Robert Culp, Nancy Kwan, Russ Tamblyn, George Chakiris and others.

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    Frank Sinatra Jr. Narrates My Audio-Novel

    It was a dream working Mr. Sinatra. I had heard his audio commentary on two of his father's movies on DVD, "Robin and the Seven Hoods" and "Oceans Eleven". His voice, articulation, as well as his respect for character actors impressed me, so he was approached to record the narration on my audio-book "McKnight's Memory".


    Also since actor Henry Silva is in both his father's movie "The Manchurian Candidate" as well as "McKnight's Memory" it seemed to me to be "cinematically historic" for both Mr. Silva and Frank Sinatra Jr. To be in this audio production together.


    Mr. Sinatra requested his recording be done at night, as that is when most singers feel their voice is the best. He gave a concentrated performance, often coming up with changes in the text that were superior to the original.

    For example, there is a line that read, "The hit man was dead before his 200 pound body crashed to the floor." Mr. Sinatra changed it to:"The hit man was dead before his 200 pounds crashed to the floor."


    I loved this subtle, but powerful change. Then Mr. Sinatra said, "Okay fellas, I'll read it as written so that you'll have a choice." But I knew right then which reading I would use. This happened a few other times as well.


    I was in awe of Mr. Sinatra's enunciation and sometimes ending a paragraph in an upward tone, leaving it hanging, as if more will come. I don't know what that's called, but it great.


    During our breaks, Mr. Sinatra talked about the sets that he visited of some of the now classic movies, such as "Journey to the Center of the Earth" and "Them".

    He also explained why the lounge acts disappeared from Las Vegas casinos. When headliners lost popularity and could no long fill the large show rooms, they were moved to the lounge to entertain gamblers and provide music to the whole casino. But when the entertainers insisted that their act be curtained off from the casino, the owners decided that if the gamblers could not see or hear the acts, then why should they pay to have them in the lounge? Thus the lounge acts disappeared.


    The production's cast includes Robert Culp, Nancy Kwan, David Hedison, Henry Silva, Don Stroud, Barbara Leigh, Alan Young, Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, Gary Lockwood, and others. It has full sound effects and music, like an "audio-movie".

    The story is a mystery/thriller about a CIA deputy director that get's amnesia and for some unknown reason is marked for death by both the Mafia and the CIA. The woman he lives with, but can't remember, goes on the run with him. But can he trust her?

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