Happy Holidays with Bing and Frank

Starring: Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby

RS: 3of 4 Stars

Welcome to the most depressing Christmas ever, with a between-marriages Frank Sinatra hosting Bing Crosby at his swingin' bachelor pad in 1957. Aside from an interlude in which Frank and Bing go caroling in Merry Olde England, it's just the fellas stag, swapping songs (the highlight being Sinatra's surprisingly bopping "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear") before the Chairman's manservant wheels out an enormous turkey for the two of them. For their sake, I hope a couple of stewardesses stopped by for eggnog after dinner.

TOM NAWROCKI
(October 9, 2003)