Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life Page #4

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in our full Three Amigos regalia,

with the hats and the bolero jackets

and the spurs.

But at 4 p.m. that afternoon...

I called Chevy and said, "Let's wear

our tuxes and not tell Marty."

- Bastard!

- I don't care.

- Let's sit and chat.

- Absolutely. If we only had chairs.

- Look at that.

- Oh! Oh, boy, here I go!

Be careful!

All aboard! OK, look at that.

Oh, boy!

- We should have rehearsed that.

- Yeah, it was good.

I love that picture of you so much in

Manhattan seeing a nightclub show.

And I know you grew up

in Hamilton, Ontario,

loving the crooners. Frank Sinatra.

I did. It was odd, because, you know...

I mean, this was the '60s, and all kids

my age, you know, 12, 13, 14,

were the Beatles and the Stones.

But I had this great attic bedroom,

and I had tape recorders

and record players,

and I'd go up and just listen

to the great singers

like Tony Bennett, and I'd listen to

an album, like, eight times in a row,

trying to figure out how he placed notes.

You know?

Pretty good.

But the most amazing thing for me

was Frank Sinatra.

I mean, he was a miracle.

I loved him in the '40s and the '50s,

but in the Swinging '60s...

Wow!

- But it was the...

- Yeah!

But it's...

When he got into his late 70s...

that was my favorite,

because he was singing

all the wrong material, you know?

- You know?

- You met him, right?

- I did.

- Yeah.

I was terrified to meet him, I think

as often you are of your heroes.

And... But I was at this

unbelievable Hollywood party.

It was September 26th 1992.

- It was at the home of GeorgeSchlatter...

- Oh, yeah.

...the great Hollywood producer

who did Laugh-In.

And you walked into this house

and it was like you were walking into

a Hollywood wax museum.

I mean, everyone was famous.

You looked over there

and Jimmy Stewart

was telling a story about his dog, Sam.

Over there, Katharine Hepburn's

talking to Paul Newman.

She's saying, "I love Sundays, Paul.

I always did.

I wake up very early.

I have a huge bowl of bran.

The next few hours, I am indisposed

and then it's Monday."

But the most amazing moment

of all these people was I look over

and there's a 77-year-old Frank Sinatra

just standing by himself at the bar

with a drink.

So I go, "Oh..."

I have to do this.

So I go up to him and I say...

"Mr. Sinatra...

my name is Martin Short.

You have no idea.

You have no concept

of how big a fan I am of yours."

And he looked at me and said...

"I think I do."

He said, "What are you drinking, kid?"

And I said, "Oh, well,

whatever you're having, Frank."

So he turned to the bartender and said,

"Jack Daniel's."

And the bartender said,

"Straight up or on the rocks?"

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