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twitterSun Flashbacks: Sun got scoop on Frank-Mia wedding
Saturday, July 1, 2000 | 2:02 a.m.
Mike Gordon, Sun photographer during the 1960s and '70s, recalls the paper's coverage of the 1966 wedding of Frank Sinatra and Mia Farrow at the Sands.
Hank Greenspun arranged for a Sun reporter and photographer to cover the event exclusively while the rest of the world's media waited outside the resort in hopes of getting a quick shot of the couple departing.
"The wedding was very short and Frank didn't even kiss Mia -- in fact, I was the first person he spoke to after saying 'I do.' He walked toward me and said: "I'm going to have a Jack Daniels and water -- how about you?"
"I was 19 years old and the camera was shaking around my neck and in my hands, and I said, 'No thank you sir.' Today, no problem -- I'd have that drink with someone like him in a second. After all, Jack Daniel's and water is my drink."
Today, Mike Gordon is the owner of two Las Vegas bars -- Frankie's and Calico Jack's.
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