Every J school has embraced Gay Tale's 1966 Esquire wre-around on Satra as a gold standard New Journalism profile-wrg. Fifty years later, Tale himself seems slightly puzzled by s acclaim.
Contents:
- GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”
- 50 YEARS LATER, GAY TALE REVISS ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’
- WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA
- GAY TALE ON A NEW ILLTRATED EDN OF FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD
- GAY TALE REVEALS STORY BEHD ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’
- THE SECRET BEHD GAY TALE'S 'FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD'
- FROM GAY TALE’S “HIGH NOT”: “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”
- INSI THE LEGENDARY GAY TALE STORY ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’
- GAY TALE: 'SATRA HAS A COLD'
- GAY TALE ON FRANK SATRA’S ‘IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR’
- GAY TALE REVEALS STORY BEHD ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’
- GAY TALE’S ADVICE TO YOUNG WRERS: “GET OFF YOUR ASS”CELEBRATG THE PUBLITN OF A SPECIAL EDN OF HIS LEGENDARY PROFILE, “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD,” THE JOURNALIST DISCSED THE STATE OF THE CELEBRY PROFILE AND THE POWER OF DRSG WELL TO GET WHAT YOU WANT.BY RACHEL TASHJIANDECEMBER 2, 2015© CORBIS. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVENEAR MIDNIGHT ON MONDAY GAY TALE WAS TUCKED TO A RNER BOOTH THE DOWNSTAIRS BAR AT THE 21 CLUB, SIPPG A BOMBAY MARTI WH A TWIST, WH A SPECIMEN OM HIS MUCH-ADMIRED HAT LLECTN STG POLELY BI HIM. IT WAS NEARLY TWO HOURS AFTER GUTS CLUDG FRANK STELLA, MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, HIS PARTNER DIANA TAYLOR—NOT TO MENTN THE HOST, TOM WOLFE—HAD HEAD HOME AFTER A LEISURELY, TIMATE DNER AT THE DG ROOM UPSTAIRS CELEBRATG AN EXQUISE TASCHEN EDN OF TALE’S GROUNDBREAKG CELEBRY PROFILE, “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD.”“HERE I AM, YOU KNOW, ON THE OCSN OF ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD,’” TALE SAID. “I REALLY HAVE A LD. WORSE THAN SATRA DID, I’LL BET.”BUT TALE WOULDN’T HAVE MISSED THE NIGHT FOR THE WORLD. “THAT’S ONE THG ABOUT JOURNALISM: YOU HAVE TO SHOW UP.”THE BOOK IS FELY WORTH SHOWG UP FOR—A TOME TAILOR-MA FOR JOURNALISM JUNKI. TALE’S PROFILE OF SATRA FOR THE APRIL 1966 ISSUE OF ESQUIRE—WRTEN AT A DISTANCE, TRAILG THE SGER AND TERVIEWG EVERYONE OM HIS -STARS TO HIS WIG GROOMERS AFTER REPEATED BSH-OFFS OM SATRA’S PUBLICIST—IS EQUENTLY CED AS ONE OF THE WORKS THAT STEERS IMPRSNABLE YOUNGSTERS TOWARD A REER JOURNALISM. AND WH S NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS OF SATRA, TALE-PENNED TRODUCTN, AND MARKED-UP MANCRIPTS OM THE ARCHIVE PRTED ON OLD-FASHNED LETTERPRS AND ACCENTED THE SWOONY BLUE OF SATRA’S EY, THE TASCHEN BOOK IS THE GLOSSIT JOURNALISM TEXTBOOK IMAGABLE, RELEASED A FEW MONTHS AHEAD OF THE PIECE’S 50TH BIRTHDAY AND WEEK OR TWO AWAY OM WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SATRA’S 100TH. IT MAK THE WORK OF REPORTG AND WRG AND EDG LOOK AS PRETTY AND IRREVERENT AND FUN AS A W ANRSON MOVIE.COURTY OF TASCHEN.IT MAY HAVE A PRETTY FACE, BUT FOR TALE, APPEARANCE N BE EVERYTHG. HE TRAC MUCH OF WHAT LED HIM TO JOURNALISM TO HIS PARENTS AND THEIR REERS THE GARMENT DTRY—HIS FATHER WAS A TAILOR AND HIS MOTHER OWNED A DRS STORE OCEAN CY, NEW JERSEY—WHICH NO DOUBT SPURRED AN OBSSN WH CLOTHG THAT SEEMS EXTRIBLE OM HIS WORK. “WHEN I WRE STORI, ’S LIKE MAKG A SU: THE PIEC HANG TOGETHER, AND YOU SKETCH,” HE SAID. “THE WHOLE PROCS: HANDWORK.”HE EVEN CREDS HIS FIRST JOB AT THE NEW YORK TIM—WHICH ME IMPROBABLY AFTER A “HUIATG” TERVIEW DURG WHICH HE DISVERED HIS LLEGE CLASSMATE HAD LIED ABOUT THE TIMACY OF HIS NNECTN TO THE MANAGG EDOR WH WHOM HE WAS MEETG, LEAVG TALE GRASPG TO EXPLA HIS DACY WALTZG FOR A MEETG WH THE BIGWIG UNANNOUNCED—TO THE THREE-PIECE SU HE WORE TO THE TERVIEW. “I WAS POLE, WELL DRSED,” HE SAID. “I JT KNOW, THOUGH I NEVER GOT ANY NFIRMATN, THAT I MA A GOOD IMPRSN.”BEE OF HIS NOTED OBSSN WH CLOTHG, TALE IS OFTEN HELD UP AS A DANDY (AS IS WHE-SUED WOLFE FOR THAT MATTER). THAT MIGHT DO A DISSERVICE TO HIM, BUT ALSO, EQUALLY, TO HIS SENSE OF ELEGANCE. THERE’S REALLY SOMETHG TO HIS PREOCCUPATN WH LIVG AND BEHAVG BETIFULLY. “I WAS VERY RICH 1980, AND 1981,” HE SAID, REFLECTG ON HIS BOOM YEARS, AFTER THY NEIGHBOR’S WIFE OPTNED FOR $2.5 LN. SO WHAT’S THE WILST THG HE BOUGHT? HE TOOK A LONG SIP OF HIS MARTI.“NOTHG. I HAD EVERYTHG. I HAD A TOWN HOE. CLOSETS FILLED WH HANDMA SUS. TWO BETIFUL OLD SPORTS RS THAT I HAD OM THE 1950S,” HE SAID. “I HAVE TWO BETIFUL DGHTERS, I HAVE A WIFE, I HAVE, OF URSE, A JOB, I HAVE A WIFE WH A JOB.”MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLAS THE CLOCK TICKED TOWARD MIDNIGHT AND THE BAR’S PATRONS—MIDDLE-AGED UPL OF MURKY MARAL STAT, BANKERS TOO-SHY TI HAVG VODKA MARTIS—STARTED TO CLEAR, TALE MED ON WHY, AN AGE WHICH REPORTERS ARE NOTORLY RTRICTED OM CELEBRY SUBJECTS, ’S NOT EASIER THAN EVER TO WRE A PROFILE LIKE HIS, WHICH WAS BORN OF SATRA’S REFAL TO GRANT HIM ACCS. WHY IS SO HARD TO WRE A STORY LIKE THAT NOW?“IT SHOULDN’T BE. MAYBE THE PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT,” HE SAID. “I’M JT GUSG. WHEN I—YOU KNOW, MY ARISTOCRATIC IEND OM RICHMOND, VIRGIA, TOM WOLFE, HE WAS PROBABLY THE EXCEPTN—BUT MOST OF WERE NOT OM VERY TED BACKGROUNDS. WE WERE THE UNRCLASS. THE JOURNALISTS OF THE 1950S WERE PEOPLE LIKE ME. . . . PEOPLE THAT WENT TO HARVARD, YALE, THEY ULDN’T BE JOURNALISTS, WAG FOR SOME LABOR LEAR TO ANNOUNCE THAT THERE’S A SETTLEMENT AT THREE O’CLOCK THE MORNG OUT ON SOME WATERONT. . . . JOURNALISM WAS FOR THE LOW-LEVEL PEOPLE. ME.”“BUT WE HAD A KD OF PATIENCE ABOUT WAG,” TALE NTUED. “WE WERE GOG TO GET WHAT WE WANTED. I DON’T THK THIS NEW GENERATN HAS THE PATIENCE OR EVEN KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO GET THGS. . . . YOU HAVE TO GET OFF YOUR ASS. MAKE SOMETHG HAPPEN WH YOUR PERSONALY, WH YOUR GODDAMN STYLE, YOUR CHARM, YOUR BETIFUL CLOTH, YOUR REASSURANCE, YOUR SALMAN HUCKSTER-IST LIRICE. KNOW HOW TO GET SOMETHG AND NOT BREAK HEARTS OR BE OFFENSIVE.”AND THEN THE RTRANT TURNED OFF THE MIC—SATRA’S “THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT,” OF URSE—AND WAS TIME TO HEAD HOME. TALE HAD A LD TO SLEEP OFF, AFTER ALL.RELATED: HOW TOM WOLFE BEME … TOM WOLFEPHOTOS: HOW TOM WOLFE WOLFE1 / 16CHEVRONCHEVRONWOLFE HIS MANHATTAN APARTMENT. LEWIS’S DGHTER DIXIE, 13, LLED HIS SU AN “OUTGOG FASHN CHOICE.”RACHEL TASHJIAN
- SATRA TAN LEJOS , TAN CERANONYMO,OCTOBER 27, 2021OBRA SEMAL L NUEVO PERDISMO EL BRILLANTE ARTíCULO GAY TALE “SATRA HAS A LD” ENCUENTRA EN TA LUJOSA EDICIóN TASCHEN UN HáBAT PERFECTO ENTRE GRANDSAS IMáGEN L ARTISTA REALIZADAS POR PHIL STERN. LO QUE EL PERDISTA NO NSIGUIó – EL ACCO DIRECTO AL NTANTE PARA LA REDACCIóN L ARTíCULO – LO TUVO S LíM STERN PARA ENTREGARNOS LAS MEJOR STANTáNEAS FRANK QUE REDONAN TA OBRA DON LERATURA Y FOTOGRAFíA N MAYúSCULAS SE DAN LA MANO.LOB
GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”
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Gay Tale liv on the East Si of Manhattan, a four-story brownstone he moved to 1958, at age 26. Gay Tale: Harold Hay, Esquire‘s edor, gave me a one-year ntract to do six piec.
50 YEARS LATER, GAY TALE REVISS ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’
‘Frank Satra Has A Cold’ was published 1966 and stantly enshred journalism’s hall of fame. But the t-and-moe tale of how Gay Tale ma Ol’ Blue Ey sg om a distance is jt as astonishg * gay talese frank sinatra *
” “Look, Gay, ” said Hay, “’s all set up. Where do this fall your hierarchy of Gay Tale piec?
By Gay Tale. People say, “Oh, Gay, how did you get that? But when Gay Tale wr about Italian-Amerins, there are very few people this untry who n tell me more than I know about that subject.
And when I see this guy — Vcent DeRosa, who I hadn’t met and never saw after that — I, Gay Tale, n unrstand .
WHEN NEW JOURNALISM WAS NEW: GAY TALE ON HIS LEGENDARY ESQUIRE PROFILE OF FRANK SATRA
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In the wter of 1965, wrer Gay Tale arrived Los Angel wh an assignment om Esquire to profile Frank Satra.
Owg to time and (lack of) effort, my tentn to take not on last night’s Gay Tale event at the Strand on a seri of tailor’s shirt boards — the New Journalism pneer’s preferred observatn medium while on assignment — but alas, I stuck wh my iPhone’s notebook. Gay Tale is an 83-year-old man who appears at least 20 years younger.
GAY TALE ON A NEW ILLTRATED EDN OF FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD
Gay Tale annotated his famo 1966 Esquire profile, “Frank Satra Has a Cold,” for Nieman Storyboard, revealg tidbs about the magaze classic and his craft. * gay talese frank sinatra *
She’d tried to get a photo of Gay and his shirt boards, whout luck, but noticed I’d gotten one. Gay Tale Reviss ‘Frank Satra Has a Cold’.
GAY TALE REVEALS STORY BEHD ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’
Gay Tale me to be known as one of the most elegant, telligent magaze wrers of the 20th century. * gay talese frank sinatra *
In November of 1965, the journalistic fat brought Gay Tale and Frank Satra together Beverly Hills and Las Vegas, Manhattan and Hollywood. Gay Tale’s outle for “Frank Satra Has a Cold, ” sketched on one of his tramark shirt boards, 1966. © 2015 and urty of Gay other tim I make not unobserved by the terviewee—such as durg those terptns our talks when the person has temporarily left the room, th allowg me moments which to jot down what I believe to be the relevant parts of our nversatn.
THE SECRET BEHD GAY TALE'S 'FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD'
In 1966, Esquire magaze wrer Gay Tale's story "Satra Has a Cold" started a revolutn journalism -- a new genre of reportg dubbed "New Journalism." Nearly two generatns later, Slate foundg edor Michael Ksley talks wh Tale about the legacy and future of the genre. * gay talese frank sinatra *
© 2015 and urty of Gay chronicle is kept an ever-expandg seri of rdboard folrs ntag such data as the plac where I and my sourc had breakfast, lunch, and dner (rtrant receipts enclosed to document my expens); the exact time, length, lole, and subject matter of every terview; together wh the agreed-upon ndns of each meetg (i. ” © 2015 and urty of Gay tryg whout succs to rchle the Satra terview durg my send week Los Angel (I was told that he still had a ld), I ntued to meet wh people who were varly employed some of Satra’s many bs enterpris—his rerd pany, his film pany, his real tate operatn, his missile parts firm, his airplane hangar—and I also saw people who were more personally associated wh the sger, such as his overshadowed son, his favore haberdasher Beverly Hills, one of his bodyguards (an ex–pro leman), and a ltle gray-haired lady who traveled wh Satra around the untry on ncert tours, rryg a satchel his 60 hairpiec.
FROM GAY TALE’S “HIGH NOT”: “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”
Copyright © 2021 by Gay Tale.
On the send floor of the 21 Club, behd the phalanx of pated lawn jockey statu that le the balny of the rtrant, a speakeasy s youth, the wrer Gay Tale stood biddg his dner guts good night. “But Nan and Gay would have the parti...
The publisher Nan Tale, Gay’s wife of 56 years, was there.
INSI THE LEGENDARY GAY TALE STORY ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’
By the time the hour had grown late and the room thned to jt the Wolf and the Tal and the Taschen crowd, word had spread: Gay Tale had a ld.
GAY TALE: 'SATRA HAS A COLD'
And not that Gay Tale wh a ld sounds the kd of alarm that did for Frank Satra Los Angel half a century ago, about to tape a natnal special:Satra wh a ld is Pisso whout pat, Ferrari whout fuel—only worse. For the mon ld robs Satra of that unsurable jewel, his voice, cuttg to the re of his nfince, and affects not only his own psyche but also seems to e a kd of psychosomatic nasal drip wh dozens of people who work for him, drk wh him, love him, pend on him for their own welfare and Tale tographs the signg pag for Frank Satra Has a Cold his "bunker, " New York Cy, 2015Gay Tale wh a ld—a flu on s way out, whatever—meant that he would ask around for a lozenge.
GAY TALE ON FRANK SATRA’S ‘IT WAS A VERY GOOD YEAR’
Photo: © 2015 and urty of Gay Tale“Satra” was not the first piece of New Journalism that Tale wrote, nor is his favore.
GAY TALE REVEALS STORY BEHD ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’
” Gay Tale, down the road Ocean Cy, the immaculate attire beftg the son of a drs shop owner and the aforementned tailor: “Drsg well mattered to my fay. Photo: Courty of TaschenIf was not already evint that night that, ld or no ld, Gay Tale—a lerary celebry his own right, well documented, and self-aware—was the Frank Satra this scenar, was beg ever more so.
Photo: © 2015 and urty of Gay TaleThree nights after the 21 Club dner: upstairs the Rare Book Room of the Strand bookstore among the French L Ameris by Robert Frank and the first edn Denis Johnsons.
GAY TALE’S ADVICE TO YOUNG WRERS: “GET OFF YOUR ASS”CELEBRATG THE PUBLITN OF A SPECIAL EDN OF HIS LEGENDARY PROFILE, “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD,” THE JOURNALIST DISCSED THE STATE OF THE CELEBRY PROFILE AND THE POWER OF DRSG WELL TO GET WHAT YOU WANT.BY RACHEL TASHJIANDECEMBER 2, 2015© CORBIS. ALL RIGHTS RERVED.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVENEAR MIDNIGHT ON MONDAY GAY TALE WAS TUCKED TO A RNER BOOTH THE DOWNSTAIRS BAR AT THE 21 CLUB, SIPPG A BOMBAY MARTI WH A TWIST, WH A SPECIMEN OM HIS MUCH-ADMIRED HAT LLECTN STG POLELY BI HIM. IT WAS NEARLY TWO HOURS AFTER GUTS CLUDG FRANK STELLA, MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, HIS PARTNER DIANA TAYLOR—NOT TO MENTN THE HOST, TOM WOLFE—HAD HEAD HOME AFTER A LEISURELY, TIMATE DNER AT THE DG ROOM UPSTAIRS CELEBRATG AN EXQUISE TASCHEN EDN OF TALE’S GROUNDBREAKG CELEBRY PROFILE, “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD.”“HERE I AM, YOU KNOW, ON THE OCSN OF ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD,’” TALE SAID. “I REALLY HAVE A LD. WORSE THAN SATRA DID, I’LL BET.”BUT TALE WOULDN’T HAVE MISSED THE NIGHT FOR THE WORLD. “THAT’S ONE THG ABOUT JOURNALISM: YOU HAVE TO SHOW UP.”THE BOOK IS FELY WORTH SHOWG UP FOR—A TOME TAILOR-MA FOR JOURNALISM JUNKI. TALE’S PROFILE OF SATRA FOR THE APRIL 1966 ISSUE OF ESQUIRE—WRTEN AT A DISTANCE, TRAILG THE SGER AND TERVIEWG EVERYONE OM HIS -STARS TO HIS WIG GROOMERS AFTER REPEATED BSH-OFFS OM SATRA’S PUBLICIST—IS EQUENTLY CED AS ONE OF THE WORKS THAT STEERS IMPRSNABLE YOUNGSTERS TOWARD A REER JOURNALISM. AND WH S NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS OF SATRA, TALE-PENNED TRODUCTN, AND MARKED-UP MANCRIPTS OM THE ARCHIVE PRTED ON OLD-FASHNED LETTERPRS AND ACCENTED THE SWOONY BLUE OF SATRA’S EY, THE TASCHEN BOOK IS THE GLOSSIT JOURNALISM TEXTBOOK IMAGABLE, RELEASED A FEW MONTHS AHEAD OF THE PIECE’S 50TH BIRTHDAY AND WEEK OR TWO AWAY OM WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN SATRA’S 100TH. IT MAK THE WORK OF REPORTG AND WRG AND EDG LOOK AS PRETTY AND IRREVERENT AND FUN AS A W ANRSON MOVIE.COURTY OF TASCHEN.IT MAY HAVE A PRETTY FACE, BUT FOR TALE, APPEARANCE N BE EVERYTHG. HE TRAC MUCH OF WHAT LED HIM TO JOURNALISM TO HIS PARENTS AND THEIR REERS THE GARMENT DTRY—HIS FATHER WAS A TAILOR AND HIS MOTHER OWNED A DRS STORE OCEAN CY, NEW JERSEY—WHICH NO DOUBT SPURRED AN OBSSN WH CLOTHG THAT SEEMS EXTRIBLE OM HIS WORK. “WHEN I WRE STORI, ’S LIKE MAKG A SU: THE PIEC HANG TOGETHER, AND YOU SKETCH,” HE SAID. “THE WHOLE PROCS: HANDWORK.”HE EVEN CREDS HIS FIRST JOB AT THE NEW YORK TIM—WHICH ME IMPROBABLY AFTER A “HUIATG” TERVIEW DURG WHICH HE DISVERED HIS LLEGE CLASSMATE HAD LIED ABOUT THE TIMACY OF HIS NNECTN TO THE MANAGG EDOR WH WHOM HE WAS MEETG, LEAVG TALE GRASPG TO EXPLA HIS DACY WALTZG FOR A MEETG WH THE BIGWIG UNANNOUNCED—TO THE THREE-PIECE SU HE WORE TO THE TERVIEW. “I WAS POLE, WELL DRSED,” HE SAID. “I JT KNOW, THOUGH I NEVER GOT ANY NFIRMATN, THAT I MA A GOOD IMPRSN.”BEE OF HIS NOTED OBSSN WH CLOTHG, TALE IS OFTEN HELD UP AS A DANDY (AS IS WHE-SUED WOLFE FOR THAT MATTER). THAT MIGHT DO A DISSERVICE TO HIM, BUT ALSO, EQUALLY, TO HIS SENSE OF ELEGANCE. THERE’S REALLY SOMETHG TO HIS PREOCCUPATN WH LIVG AND BEHAVG BETIFULLY. “I WAS VERY RICH 1980, AND 1981,” HE SAID, REFLECTG ON HIS BOOM YEARS, AFTER THY NEIGHBOR’S WIFE OPTNED FOR $2.5 LN. SO WHAT’S THE WILST THG HE BOUGHT? HE TOOK A LONG SIP OF HIS MARTI.“NOTHG. I HAD EVERYTHG. I HAD A TOWN HOE. CLOSETS FILLED WH HANDMA SUS. TWO BETIFUL OLD SPORTS RS THAT I HAD OM THE 1950S,” HE SAID. “I HAVE TWO BETIFUL DGHTERS, I HAVE A WIFE, I HAVE, OF URSE, A JOB, I HAVE A WIFE WH A JOB.”MOST POPULAROUR FLAG MEANS DEATH SEASON 2: EXCLIVE FIRST LOOKBY SARAH CATHERALLFLORENCE PUGH SAYS CHRISTOPHER NOLAN “APOLOGIZED” FOR HER SMALL OPPENHEIMER ROLEBY SAVANNAH WALSHHOW MK, THIEL, ZUCKERBERG, AND ANDRESEN—FOUR BILLNAIRE TECHNO-OLIGARCHS—ARE CREATG AN ALTERNATE, AUTOCRATIC REALYBY JONATHAN TAPLAS THE CLOCK TICKED TOWARD MIDNIGHT AND THE BAR’S PATRONS—MIDDLE-AGED UPL OF MURKY MARAL STAT, BANKERS TOO-SHY TI HAVG VODKA MARTIS—STARTED TO CLEAR, TALE MED ON WHY, AN AGE WHICH REPORTERS ARE NOTORLY RTRICTED OM CELEBRY SUBJECTS, ’S NOT EASIER THAN EVER TO WRE A PROFILE LIKE HIS, WHICH WAS BORN OF SATRA’S REFAL TO GRANT HIM ACCS. WHY IS SO HARD TO WRE A STORY LIKE THAT NOW?“IT SHOULDN’T BE. MAYBE THE PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT,” HE SAID. “I’M JT GUSG. WHEN I—YOU KNOW, MY ARISTOCRATIC IEND OM RICHMOND, VIRGIA, TOM WOLFE, HE WAS PROBABLY THE EXCEPTN—BUT MOST OF WERE NOT OM VERY TED BACKGROUNDS. WE WERE THE UNRCLASS. THE JOURNALISTS OF THE 1950S WERE PEOPLE LIKE ME. . . . PEOPLE THAT WENT TO HARVARD, YALE, THEY ULDN’T BE JOURNALISTS, WAG FOR SOME LABOR LEAR TO ANNOUNCE THAT THERE’S A SETTLEMENT AT THREE O’CLOCK THE MORNG OUT ON SOME WATERONT. . . . JOURNALISM WAS FOR THE LOW-LEVEL PEOPLE. ME.”“BUT WE HAD A KD OF PATIENCE ABOUT WAG,” TALE NTUED. “WE WERE GOG TO GET WHAT WE WANTED. I DON’T THK THIS NEW GENERATN HAS THE PATIENCE OR EVEN KNOWLEDGE OF HOW TO GET THGS. . . . YOU HAVE TO GET OFF YOUR ASS. MAKE SOMETHG HAPPEN WH YOUR PERSONALY, WH YOUR GODDAMN STYLE, YOUR CHARM, YOUR BETIFUL CLOTH, YOUR REASSURANCE, YOUR SALMAN HUCKSTER-IST LIRICE. KNOW HOW TO GET SOMETHG AND NOT BREAK HEARTS OR BE OFFENSIVE.”AND THEN THE RTRANT TURNED OFF THE MIC—SATRA’S “THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT,” OF URSE—AND WAS TIME TO HEAD HOME. TALE HAD A LD TO SLEEP OFF, AFTER ALL.RELATED: HOW TOM WOLFE BEME … TOM WOLFEPHOTOS: HOW TOM WOLFE WOLFE1 / 16CHEVRONCHEVRONWOLFE HIS MANHATTAN APARTMENT. LEWIS’S DGHTER DIXIE, 13, LLED HIS SU AN “OUTGOG FASHN CHOICE.”RACHEL TASHJIAN
Still everyone listened raptly, as Gay Tale livered more Tale lore. Gay Tale annotated his famo 1966 Esquire profile, “Frank Satra Has a Cold, ” for Nieman Storyboard, revealg tidbs about the magaze classic and his 15, 000-word masterpiece hered the era of so-lled “New Journalism” and is wily nsired one of the bt celebry profil ever, spe (and perhaps bee of) Satra’s refal to talk to are a few choice bs om the legendary journalist, now 81 years old:1.
SATRA TAN LEJOS , TAN CERANONYMO,OCTOBER 27, 2021OBRA SEMAL L NUEVO PERDISMO EL BRILLANTE ARTíCULO GAY TALE “SATRA HAS A LD” ENCUENTRA EN TA LUJOSA EDICIóN TASCHEN UN HáBAT PERFECTO ENTRE GRANDSAS IMáGEN L ARTISTA REALIZADAS POR PHIL STERN. LO QUE EL PERDISTA NO NSIGUIó – EL ACCO DIRECTO AL NTANTE PARA LA REDACCIóN L ARTíCULO – LO TUVO S LíM STERN PARA ENTREGARNOS LAS MEJOR STANTáNEAS FRANK QUE REDONAN TA OBRA DON LERATURA Y FOTOGRAFíA N MAYúSCULAS SE DAN LA MANO.LOB
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In honor of Frank Satra's 100th birthday on December 12, Taschen is publishg a betiful limed-edn versn of Gay Tale's inic 1966 Esquire story "Frank Satra Has a Cold. And don't miss Gay Tale talkg to David Brancc about growg up listeng to Satra on our latt Esquire Classic podst. Gay Tale ma his name as a lear of the “New Journalism” movement, which the boundari of tradnal reportg were broken wh vivid, novelistic acunts of the reporters’ subjects.