J.R. Moehringer: A Day at Sinatra’s House

Travel Blog  •  Michael Yessis  •  03.28.06 | 2:27 PM ET

imageIn the travel issue of West, the new weekend magazine in the Los Angeles Times, the Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the excellent memoir The Tender Bar (one of my favorite recent books) has a fun piece about spending 24 hours in Frank Sinatra’s former Palm Springs home. Moehringer goes with the second-person approach. “You’re not comfortable with idolatry. You’ve never conceded any kinship with people who worship celebrities,” he writes. “You once visited Graceland and felt very distant from the throngs standing in line, waiting their turn to walk across Elvis’ shag rugs. You shuddered at the ghouls who logged onto EBay and bid for Britney Spears’ used chewing gum. But Sinatra is different, you tell yourself. Sinatra is—you know, Sinatra.”

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