CNN Headline News snippet - 1995-12-25
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[0:00] Thanks. Sinatra says Martin was his
[0:02] brother, not through blood, but through
[0:04] choice. The 78-year-old entertainer died
[0:06] this morning of acute respiratory
[0:08] failure at his Beverly Hills home. Sher
[0:10] Sylvester looks at his rise to stardom.
[0:14] He made 51 films before his death, but
[0:16] Dean Martin, born Dino Paul Cchetti, was
[0:19] a prize fighter, steel mill laborer, gas
[0:22] station attendant, and card shark before
[0:24] seeing that first glimmer of fame. It
[0:27] came when he teamed up with comedian
[0:28] Jerry Lewis in 1946. Films such as At
[0:32] War with the Army sent the team towards
[0:34] superstardom.
[0:35] >> That didn't hurt us, did it? How do you
[0:37] feel? Feel good? Okay, come on. Let's
[0:41] go.
[0:43] >> A singer that wasn't as good as Bing
[0:45] Crosby. A comic that was nowhere near as
[0:48] brilliant as Burrow. But the two of them
[0:51] together projected something that an
[0:53] audience needed at the time. Personality
[0:56] conflicts broke up the Kuner and the
[0:58] comic and few thought that Martin could
[1:00] achieve solo success. But he won his own
[1:03] acclaim for The Young Lions with Maron
[1:05] Brando and Montgomery Cliff.
[1:08] >> Look, I'm not a hero and I'm not a
[1:09] pigeon. The pigeons can do my fighting
[1:12] for me.
[1:12] >> A succession of films followed for the
[1:14] singer actor including Some Came Running
[1:17] with Shirley Mlan and Frank Sinatra. All
[1:19] would later be known as the Rat Pack.
[1:22] >> But you got to remember now we're just
[1:23] little old country boys. We we don't
[1:25] know the finer uh points of the game,
[1:28] but we aiming to learn.
[1:29] >> Martin learned well and proved potent
[1:31] box office throughout the 60s with bells