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Hometown celebrates Sinatra ‘his way’ Hoboken museum tells crooner’s story BY SHAWN MARSH The Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. — Chicago was his kind of town, L.A. was his lady, and he certainly was a big part of New York, New York. But despite a lovehate relationship, the milesquare New Jersey city where Frank Sinatra was born is finding the centennial of his birth to be a very good year. Throughout 2015, Hoboken has remembered its native son, who died in 1998 at age 82, with outdoor screenings of his movies, a “Sinatra Idol” competition and concerts that was capped by a centennial birthday bash on Dec. 12 at the Stevens Institute of Technology, which awarded the high school dropout an honorary degree in 1985. The small-scale event did not generate the same buzz as “Sinatra 100 — An All-Star Grammy Concert” on Dec. 2

in Las Vegas, that featured Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga, Celine Dion and other performers. Even so, the Hoboken Historical Museum has seen a 300 percent jump in visitors since opening a Sinatra exhibit in early August and hired extra staff, director Robert Foster said. “Whenever we do something on Sinatra, people come out of the woodwork,” Foster said. “We enjoy the fans because they are so loyal and he means so much to them.” Lacking any major items that belonged to Sinatra, the museum tells his story through media displays, and visitors receive a map with their $4 admission that features Sinatra sites. Greta Wilson, who was born and raised in Hoboken, said Sinatra is “always the first thing” people ask her about when they learn where she is from.

“They always wanted to know if I had seen him in a store or a movie theater or some other place in town, and if he was like a regular person or if he acted like a stuckup movie star,” she said. A plaque marks the former building at 415 Monroe St. where Sinatra was born in 1915 to middle-class parents. “He had a nice life,” said Chuck Granata, who co-produces and engineers the “Nancy for Frank” satellite radio program with Sinatra’s oldest daughter, Nancy. “Frank was not poor and was probably one of the more fortunate kids growing up.” His mother made sure her son had nice clothes and even a car, which helped him gain a spot in 1935 with the singing group the Hoboken Four. They won first prize on a national radio program for amateur entertainers, and Sinatra started along a path that led

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Frank Sinatra, the best known of the 20th-century crooners, would have turned 100 today. His hometown of Hoboken, New Jersey, is celebrating with several events. to big bands, bobby soxers and fame. However, some Hoboken residents felt Sinatra had forgotten them, reflected in the reception he got when he rode on a float in a 1947 parade and was pelted with tomatoes, according to biographer Ed Shirak. Sinatra later called Hoboken a sewer. Urban blight plagued the

city until the 1970s, when New Yorkers started crossing the Hudson River to renovate brownstones and build condominiums. The icy relationship began to thaw in 1979 when the city changed River Road to Sinatra Drive. A park and the city’s main post office would also bear his name. Hoboken these days reflects Sinatra cool, where fashionable young hipsters roam the city’s bars and restaurants after spending the day working in Manhattan. Wilson, 68, who now lives on Long Beach Island, said she thought Sinatra was a great representative for Hoboken. “People unfamiliar with Hoboken seem to think of it as a dumpy small Jersey town, filled with people who really want to live in New York City,” she said. “Frank helped put Hoboken on the map, and people still come there to this day just to see ‘his town’ and learn more about him. Hoboken owes Sinatra a lot.”

Ron Howard’s ‘In the Heart of the Sea’ is adrift LOS ANGELES (AP) — Ron Howard’s “In the Heart of the Sea” is a curious beast. The ambitions are as big as a whale; the results are an earnest wreck. It could possibly work if you think of the movie as a metaphor for the story it’s trying to tell, but that’s a little too meta for something that should be fairly straightforward. It’s ostensibly about the real expedition that inspired Herman Melville’s “Moby-Dick” that Nathaniel Philbrick wrote about in his nonfiction book. But despite a promising start, something is lost in the spectacle and the framing device, which ultimately undermines its own story. Howard uses Melville as a character (played by Ben Whishaw) and his curiosity about the mysterious circumstances of how the whaleship Essex sank as the audience’s entry into the story. He’s looking for big answers about the unknown. So, he finds Tom Nickerson (Brendan Gleeson), the ship’s only remaining survivor, who’s drinking his life away. At his wife’s pleading, and Melville’s promise of generous payment for one night’s conversation, Tom starts to spill about the events of 30 years ago, when he was 14

REVIEW (played by Tom Holland). It’s best not to do the math. This is the story of two men, he says: A Captain, George Pollard (Benjamin Walker), and his first mate, Owen Chase (Chris Hemsworth). Pollard is the son of the expedition’s proprietor. He’s wealthy, arrogant, entitled and inexperienced. Chase is the real seaman — a working-class Adonis with a classist chip on his broad shoulders. He’s also arrogant, but has the skills to back it up. Chase flexes his hero muscles early, bounding up a ladder to cut free a tangled sail, and the Captain responds with ill-advised bravado in leading the men full-speed into a squall. But the “who leads” question is abandoned quickly and without much resolution once the whaling starts. Perhaps the most striking scenes are those that deal with the process of catching a whale, from spearing to the gory disemboweling. But whales are scarce on the ship’s normal route and they must sail on to get enough oil for their bosses. It’s thousands of miles off

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Chris Hemsworth, right, as Owen Chase, and Sam Keeley as Ramsdell, left, act in a scene from the film, “In the Heart of the Sea.” the coast of South America where they encounter the big one, which locks on the Essex with a Terminator’s resolve. Hemsworth is best when he’s by himself — either barking orders or doing something physical. Of all the actors he shares scenes with, it’s Cil-

lian Murphy as his second mate who brings out something resembling emotion. But we never really care about the lead, so there’s little hope that we’ll be interested in the rest of the men once it becomes solely about survival.