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Frank Sinatra's FBI Files

The Sinatra Files
Published by Three Rivers Press

In 1943, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover started a file on Frank Sinatra. For 30 years, until he died in 1972, he added to it. By the time Sinatra died in 1998, the file contained 1,275 pages of FBI memos and surveillance reports, as well as decades of newspaper clippings. Journalists Tom and Phil Kuntz -- by invoking the Freedom of Information Act -- obtained copies of the Sinatra files. Fascinated by the surveillance the FBI carried out into Sinatra's relationship with senator, then president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and with Chicago crime boss Sam Giancana, the Kuntz brothers wrote a book about it,

entitled The Sinatra Files: The Secret FBI Dossier. NPR's Alex Chadwick spoke to Tom and Phil Kuntz and prepared this report for Morning Edition.

Seattle Rock Museum
A Brand New 'Experience'
Guitar legend Jimi Hendrix electrified millions of fans in the 60s, and one of those fans wound up making billions of dollars a couple of decades later. That would be Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. His love of rock music in general -- and Hendrix in particular -- converged to inspire a spectacular new museum in Seattle, home to both men. The $340 million Experience Music Project opened Friday to an enthusiastic reception from a star-studded crowd.

The facility blends 80,000 rock artifacts with plenty of hands-on, interactive exhibits for the Internet generation Allen helped spawn. Listen as Marcie Sillman of member station KUOW reports on the Experience Music Project for Morning Edition. For more on the museum, visit the EMP Web site.

'Butterfly' Film Review
'Babi Yar' Symphony
Polaroid's Big Camera
Alan Hovhaness Obit
Joseph Heller Novel
Henry 'The Fonz' Winkler
Salute to Sondheim
'Saint Louis Woman'
RTMark's Exhibit
Gilbert & Sullivan Score

Oscars 2000
Star Wars Episode 1
1998 Holiday Book List
1999 Grammy Awards
Oscars 1999

Rocky & Mrs. Tweedy
Courtesy: DreamWorks Pictures

'Chicken Run' Claymation Technique
Makes Debut in U.S. Theaters
The first full length feature film made with the 'claymation' technique is now showing in U.S. theaters. Chicken Run is produced by Aardman Studios, home of the Oscar-winning Wallace and Gromit series. Co-directed by pioneering animators Peter Lord and Nick Park -- and starring the voices of Mel Gibson and Miranda Richardson -- Chicken Run follows the story of a group of chickens determined to fly the coop for good -- before they're served up as chicken pies.

Listen as All Things Considered host Noah Adams speaks with Park and Lord who describe the movie as a Stalag 17, but with chickens. For more information on the film, check out the Chicken Run Web site .

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