50 Years Later, Gay Tale Reviss ‘Frank Satra Has a Cold’

Contents:

• GAY TALE ON A NEW ILLTRATED EDN OF FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD
• GAY TALE: 'SATRA HAS A COLD'
• GAY TALE EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”
• FROM GAY TALE’S “HIGH NOT”: “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”
• 50 YEARS LATER, GAY TALE REVISS ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’

GAY TALE ON A NEW ILLTRATED EDN OF FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD

In the wter of 1965, wrer Gay Tale arrived Los Angel wh an assignment om Esquire to profile Frank Satra.

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.

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 EXPLAS WHY HE WROTE INIC ESQUIRE PROFILE “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”

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, 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.

FROM GAY TALE’S “HIGH NOT”: “FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD”

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. Still everyone listened raptly, as Gay Tale livered more Tale lore.

50 YEARS LATER, GAY TALE REVISS ‘FRANK SATRA HAS A COLD’

Gay Tale: 'Satra Has a Cold'.

And when Esquire magaze wrer Gay Tale reunted that night his 1966 story "Satra Has a Cold, " he started a revolutn journalism -- a new genre of reportg dubbed "New Journalism. Gay Tale reads om his classic 1966 Esquire article, which he followed around Satra at the height of Satra's power. (10 mut) ByGay Tale.

More by Gay TaleView all. Gay Tale liv on the East Si of Manhattan, a four-story brownstone he moved to 1958, at age 26.