Sal Polisi will tell you he's gone from "racketeer to raconteur" and, indeed, he has. His one-man show, At The Sinatra Club, is unscripted but very, very interesting. He is, in fact, a highly skilled raconteur and he performed his show Sunday at Las Vegas' Clark County Library. The audience of 315 people was totally involved, responding to Polisi's words as if he were conversing with them individually.
At The Sinatra Club is an autobiographical story of a kid from Queens who grew up in a New York mob family. Nick Taylor's 1989 book, Sins of the Father, was about Polisi and, now, Polisi has his own book from Simon & Schuster, The Sinatra Club. The name, by the way, refers to a social club Polisi owned in Queens. That, in turn, got its name because the juke box was filled with Sinatra records - this was an Italian club, after all - and, one day, one of its denizens got a call there. When asked precisely where he was, he referred to the music and said, "I'm at the Sinatra Club." The name stuck.
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