Who will Martin Scorsese choose to play Frank Sinatra?
Let’s face it. Whoever is chosen to play Sinatra won’t get the job on the quality of his voice. It will be his box office pulling power. Given Sinatra’s Mafia links, you might make a reasonable case for Robert DeNiro, Harvey Keitel, or possibly Joe Pesci if he grew another two feet in the next couple of months. They’re all old friends of Scorsese, but somehow I doubt whether any of them could hold a tune without inspiring the urge to wrap it in cement and toss it in the nearest river. Harry Connick Junior has been hotly tipped because he knows a thing or two about music, and he bears a spooky resemblance to Ole Blue Eyes in his prime. But Connick has had precious little previous with Scorsese, and he’s a lightweight in a contest that is almost certainly going to involve Hollywood’s heaviest hitters. That probably excludes Britain’s own dark horse, Ewan McGregor, who made a surprisingly decent fist of his musical lead in Baz Luhrmann’s camp extravaganza, Moulin Rouge. The serious money
