The title question of the Olympic gold medalist's new reality show is "What Would Ryan Lochte Do?" For this week's episode, at least, the answer is that he would have a cast made of his abs to give to a local bar.

The bar asked for a piece of memorabilia from him that they could display. He offered up a hot pink Speedo, but they said they'd prefer something bigger. So he decided to get the cast made of his body. And during that, he had plenty of questions.

"Has anyone ever died from this? ... Is this what you guys do to mummies? ... Is this gonna rip my nipples off?”

He gifted the bar with a gold cast of his abs, but thought it was embarrassing at the same time. He said he'd rather girls just take a picture with his real body.

Cambi laughed it off, saying it was just another day in the life of Ryan Lochte. E! Online wondered "How many athletes can say they’ve had their abs bronzed?"

Find out "What Would Ryan Lochte Do?" next by tuning in every Sunday at 10:30 p.m. ET on E!

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In a strange move, Donald Trump fired two contestants at the top of the episode on "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice." This mean that the final two would compete both this week and in next week's finale.

"Penn has really been the star so far, and I really do want to see him in the final. Lisa, you’re fired," Trump first told Lisa Rinna.

Later, he said, “I think you are absolutely fantastic, Lil Jon. But, you’re fired.” Rolling Stone thought these firings were "inexplicable," wondering why Lil Jon and Lisa weren't allowed to compete one last time.

Their departure left Trace Adkins and Penn Jillette as the last men standing, going head-to-head in next week's live finale. Maybe Trump wanted to be able to focus on the two he knew would be the finalists to help him focus on the tougher decision -- which of them should win.

They brought back some of the favorites from the season for their challenge this week, but which man deserves to win it all? And which celebrities will pop up next season. If Donald Trump is to be believed, NBC has renewed the show, though it's not on their recently announced schedule for 2013-14 -- at least not yet.

Tune in to the "All-Star Celebrity Apprentice" finale next Sunday at 9 p.m. ET on NBC.

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Holly Madison became a star as a castmember on "The Girls Next Door" for E!, so it makes perfect sense that she would return to the network with a special to introduce her fans to the newest addition to her family. "Holly Has a Baby" chronicled the big day for the reality star.

While she and her boyfriend, businessman Pasquale Rotella, had their baby girl back in March, this was the first time fans got to hear from Holly herself about this momentous occasion. They named their new addition Rainbow Aurora.

When you’re first holding your baby, it’s like all the emotions take over at once," Holly said. "It’s really unlike anything else.”

"When she came out and was put onto Holly’s chest, and Holly started crying, [it] was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen in my life," Pasquale said.

Hollywood Life was excited about their other big moment in the special. Holly and Pasquale have set a wedding date: August 14 of this year. Will E! be on-hand to record their union?

Holly was online, thanking fans via Twitter for tuning in, and sharing a snapshot of her baby on her first Mother's Day via Instagram.

LOS ANGELES -- Grammy-winning musician Chris Brown's neighbors are unhappy with what some are calling frightening art he's chosen to have painted along the curb of his Hollywood Hills home.

A neighborhood group said the grimacing, sharp-toothed, red-eyed goblins painted along a retaining wall have been scaring children, and is an eyesore to boot, according to the Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/19cjOBY).

"There are lots of babies, lots of children, and they're literally frightened. It's like devils on the wall – big scary eyes and big scary teeth, and just the whole vibe is not what we're used to," Patti Negri, president of the Hollywood Dell Civic Association, told the newspaper.

L.A. city code officials responded to complaints about the monster art and cited the "Run It!" singer $376 for unpermitted and excessive signage.

Under city ordinances, it's illegal to create murals on most private properties. Though that didn't stop Madonna from painting her Hollywood Hills home in red and yellow stripes in the 1990s.

Brown has been ordered to remove the goblin paintings within 30 days, but his attorney Mark Geragos said the musician is not backing down.

"They are trying to suspend the First Amendment," Geragos said.

Geragos alleges neighbors are harassing Brown and have also made parking complaints about him and called animal control.

In a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Saturday, Negri said all she wants is for Brown to "tone it down and be a better neighbor."

Brown's tumultuous relationship with singer Rihanna and foul-mouthed Twitter presence have given him a bad boy reputation.

Brown won a Grammy in 2011 for Best R&B Album with "F.A.M.E." and was arrested shortly after the 2009 awards ceremony for assaulting Rihanna.

"I know a $300 fine is probably pocket change. But hopefully and maybe, he'll just see the light and decide to be a good neighbor," Negri told the Times. "We're happy to have him – if he just tones it down."

What's worse -- getting a bench warrant issued for your arrest or having to take a moment to figure out which DUI arrest case the warrant is for?

The Good News: Beyonce's dad, Mathew Knowles, raked in BOATLOADS of cash during the years he managed B's career ... we're talkin' millions.

The Bad News: The IRS says he still owes all sorts of taxes on some of that income -- over $1.2 MILLION.

George Clooney's had a pretty stellar week.

On May 6, the great actor/director/producer/human being turned 52 years young. Clooney's also been overseas in Europe filming The Monuments Men with his pals Matt Damon and Bill Murray.

Selena Gomez has reportedly confirmed that her mother Mandy Teefey is pregnant on Mother's Day (May 12), according to a telling picture posted to her Twitter account!

When Governors Ball once again lands on New York's Randall's Island next month, the 3-year-old festival will mushroom to three days and bring with it the likes of Kanye West, Guns N Roses, Kings of Leon, Nas and plenty of other big names. That's a far cry from its origins in 2011, when it was a one-day, 12-act walk in the park.

"The plan was always to grow the festival bigger and better each year, but to do so organically," says Jordan Wolowitz, one of the three partners of Founders Entertainment, which puts on the entire event. "We had a lot of positive feedback the last two years, both from the public and the music industry. By analyzing the landscape of where the festival industry and culture in the United States was going, we decided that 2013 was the year to expand to three years. We felt New York was ready for it and that people were waiting for a big music festival."

That's a bold claim, given that New York already plays host to a number of large-scale music events, including Electric Zoo (which also takes place on Randall's Island), Electric Daisy Carnival, Afropunk, CBGB and the Great Googamooga. Multi-week events such as the Red Bull Music Academy and CMJ also cloud the space without offering a full-fledged festival experience a la Outside Lands, Coachella, Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits or Bonnaroo.

In the face of so much local and national competition, it is somewhat shocking that Wolowitz, Tom Russell and Yoni Reisman of Founders have been able to inflate their festival so rapidly, especially given the fact that their Williamsburg office has no other year-round employees. They've also scored a number of coups, including West's first major solo date in New York City in half a decade.

HuffPost Entertainment spoke with Wolowitz about those challenges, his own background in music and what it was like to book West. An edited transcript of our conversation follows below.

The festival business is very crowded. What does Governors Ball offer that's different?
Music festivals are embedding themselves much more in our culture, the same way it has been in western Europe for the past 30 years. You're going to see every major market in this country get a big, marquee music festival. The good ones will stick around, and the ones that won't will go away.

What puts us up there in terms of the best festivals in the country? Our line-up, first and foremost, but also the quality of the experience. Our festival really takes on the vibe of New York City. You can see the line-up of New York from the festival, we incorporate local food trucks and New York artists and just get a good Gotham City vibe. No other festival can duplicate that.

This year has the highest-profile headliners to date. With artists like Kanye and Axl Rose on your bill, were any acts difficult to book?
Kanye took awhile, for a few reasons. Even though his name is so big and he seems to be in the spotlight, besides his two Watch the Throne dates with Jay-Z at Madison Square Garden in 2011, this is his first big New York City headliner in five years. He doesn't do that many huge headline shows on his own, and especially in New York. We reached out to him almost a year in advance and worked with his representatives, keeping them in the loop as we built out the line-up. Once he was presented with the finished product, it looked like something that he's never done before and a unique play for him. Now we're all excited to have him play at the festival.

Your line-up does a good job of incorporating elements of dance music without necessarily bending over for that side of the industry and fans, which a number of other major festivals have. How did you strike that balance?
The bottom line is that if you look at music festivals, the digestion of music is at an all-time high. People are listening to more and more types of music than ever before and their palates are more diverse. With our company being myself and our two business partners, at the end of the day, the music will be a reflection of people that we individually like. We're selling a product but we love every single band and artist that's performing. We listen to everything under the sun, but it has to be diverse while also being cohesive.

Who, in particular, are you looking forward to seeing live?
This is a crappy answer, but I'm really excited about all of them. There are no throwaway spots, from the first band coming on at 12:15 in the afternoon to the headliners. Like a lot of people, we're looking forward to seeing what Kanye's going to do -- it looks like he's dropping new music in June and we've seen his production rider and it's going to be incredible. But Kings of Leon are making their first return to New York since 2010, and of course Guns N Roses is huge.

What's your own background in music and event production?
I didn't study anything music-related really; I went to school in Washington, D.C. and studied history and political science. But everything I did outside of class was music-related, from writing about music for our school paper to volunteering on the school's programming board. I had an internship with Jason Flom when he was the chairman of Atlantic Records and after college I went to work for Paradigm as a music agent and then moved to New York to work under Marsha Vlasic at ICM in the rock division.

Hosting a festival in New York -- and on an island -- brings its own challenges with it. What were they, and how did you tackle them?
The great thing about Randall's Island is that you can access it by every type of transportation that exists. You can hop in a cab in Midtown and be there in 15 minutes. You can take the 4, 5 or 6th train up to 125th and walk over the bridge, for a 10 minute walk or a shuttle bus for about three minutes, or you can ride your bike or take your own car. There are many, many ways to get to the festival.

Are there any permitting or other issues that make New York a difficult place to host an event of this scale?
It's oddly ... well, "easy" wouldn't be the right word, but Randall's Island Parks Commission and NYPD and NYFD have been incredibly easy to work with, as long as you're prepared. If you work along with them, things go smoothly.

What's the festival's long-term plan over the next few years?
The plan is to bring a major, marquee music festival to our hometown. The same way that Chicago has Lollapalooza, that San Francisco has Outside Lands and Austin has Austin City Limits, we want Governors Ball to be everything to New York. This year, we've established that -- we're going to be 100 percent sold-out going into the festival, which is impressive given its our third year.

And what's the daily expected attendance?
Over 40,000 people a day. And there is a lot of ground on Randall's Island to add different stages and activities.

Angelina Jolie has had a preventive double mastectomy, writing for the New York Times that she is "very happy" with the decision, and paying tribute to her "loving and supportive" partner Brad Pitt.

The Hollywood star said she took the decision to have the procedure when doctors told her she had an 87% risk of breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer.

Writing in The New York Times, the Tomb Raider actress said she finished the three months of medical procedures on April 27, and added: "During that time I have been able to keep this private and to carry on with my work."

The 37-year-old star said she was writing about the ordeal, in an article titled My Medical Choice, in the hope that other women can benefit from her experience.

Jolie, whose mother had cancer and died at 56, said waking up from the operation can feel "like a scene out of a science-fiction film" .

She said the decision to have the mastectomy was not easy but that she was happy to have gone ahead with it.

"My chances of developing breast cancer have dropped from 87 percent to under 5 percent. I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer.

It is reassuring that they see nothing that makes them uncomfortable. They can see my small scars and that’s it. Everything else is just Mommy, the same as she always was.

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"And they know that I love them and will do anything to be with them as long as I can. On a personal note, I do not feel any less of a woman. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity."

Urging women to get checked out, the star said: "For any woman reading this, I hope it helps you to know you have options.

"I want to encourage every woman, especially if you have a family history of breast or ovarian cancer, to seek out the information and medical experts who can help you through this aspect of your life, and to make your own informed choices."

Paying tribute to Pitt, Jolie said: "I am fortunate to have a partner, Brad Pitt, who is so loving and supportive.

"So to anyone who has a wife or girlfriend going through this, know that you are a very important part of the transition.

"Brad was at the Pink Lotus Breast Centre, where I was treated, for every minute of the surgeries.

"We managed to find moments to laugh together. We knew this was the right thing to do for our family and that it would bring us closer. And it has."

Michelle Heaton hailed Jolie's decision to publicise her double mastectomy as "incredibly important" in giving support and encouragement to other women in a similar situation.

"I can't even stress how much of an impact I had, saying that I was going through this, on women - especially through Twitter and people writing to me.

"It was such a huge impact and I know that I have had hundreds of women who have gone for this test and subsequently found that they had the BRCA gene and they can then make an informed decision," she told ITV's Daybreak.

"Imagine what impact somebody as huge as Angelina Jolie can have on this."

Foreign Secretary William Hague, who in March visited refugee camps in the Democratic Republic of Congo with Jolie as part of a campaign to highlight the problem of mass rape in conflict areas, said she was "a brave lady" who would be "an inspiration to many".

Hague told Sky News: "She is a courageous lady and a very professional lady. She's done a lot of work with me in recent months.

"She also came over to the G8 foreign ministers' summit in London to work with me on our initiative on preventing sexual violence in conflict and travelled with me through some difficult places in the Congo.

"She gave no sign that she was undergoing such treatment and I think she's a very brave lady, not only to carry on with her work so well during such treatment, but also to write about it now and talk about it. I think that she's a brave lady and will be an inspiration to many."

It was getting hot on "The Voice" during Garrett Gardner's take on a Backstreet Boys classic. After he put his unique growl on "I Want It That Way," Usher was feeling so moved that he started taking his clothes off.

Okay, actually it was a technical problem in the studio. The air conditioning was out, making it a hot night for everyone. But this is a live show and the show had to go on. Usher's shirt, on the other hand, was under no such requirements to stay on.

"Usher’s taking off all his clothes, I just want to say that," Carson Daly pointed out. "Very distracting to me and Garrett having to watch that."

Buddy TV was all about Garrett's performance and disagreed with some of the flak coach Shakira got for the song choice. "It's just so different and cool and unexpected," they wrote. "I understand the coaches' criticisms because this isn't for everyone and it probably tastes bitter if it's not your cup of tea, but I adore it. I hope Shakira is right that lots of people download it because it's so damn cool."

Hollywood Life agreed, saying that they enjoyed both Garrett's performance as well as Usher's impromptu strip tease. Tuesday night sees two singers leave the competition, but who will it be?

Find out as "The Voice" continues on Mondays and Tuesdays at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.

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It was a tough night for Nedra on "Hell's Kitchen." One of the simplest tasks for any cook in a kitchen is boiling water. It's something that has to be done constantly, and honestly, how can you mess that up? Well, Nedra found a way and unfortunately caught Gordon Ramsay's attention in the process.

"Chef Ramsay coming to show us how to boil pasta is pretty pathetic,” Ja'Nel admitted.

“How hard is it to f*ck up linguini?" Nedra asked. "Evidently I f*cked it up.”

BuddyTV couldn’t believe someone competing in a cooking competition couldn’t boil water, while Celebrity Dirty Laundry pointed out that ultimately both teams failed to impress this special military service. Nedra survived her mishap, though, as it was Ray who went home after that challenge.

Nedra took to Twitter to reassure her fans that she bounced back, nothing that Ramsay didn't send back any of her completed dishes. The girls, in fact, took over on the next challenge, soundly beating the struggling blue team. The guys sent Michael and Zach, but Ramsay wanted them to choose one. Ultimately, Michael got the boot.

The competition gets tougher every week on "Hell's Kitchen," Mondays at 8 p.m. ET on Fox.

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When Castle decided to "DTR" (Define The Relationship) on the season finale of "Castle," he wasn't kidding around!

“I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about us, our relationship. What we have. Where we’re headed. I’ve decided I want more," Castle told Beckett. "Katherine Houghton Beckett, will you marry me?”

Of course, the season wrapped on Katherine's stunned expression, leaving Entertainment Weekly to write, "The question is: What is Kate going to do? We have all summer to think it over, gang. ALL. SUMMER.”

Buddy TV is feeling pretty confident that Beckett will say yes. "The lead up to Castle's surprise proposal made it seem like the characters were on the verge of splitting up for good," they said. "Yet the undercurrent of their issues was the couple's lack of commitment. And what says commitment more than ‘I do’?”

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While there weren't any major surprises in this latest episode of "Bates Motel" -- the last before next week's season finale -- Norma did have her worst fears realized. While the sheriff doesn't seem that interested in helping her, Jake Abernathy made it very clear that he was the one who put Shelby's body in her bed. He also was determined to get the $150,000 he assumes she has.

Terrified for her life, Norma agreed to get him the money, but she doesn't have it. She'd spent the episode trying to see if she could sell the motel and move her family away from the craziness in town, only to find out that the highway bypass had cut the value of her property in half -- and that's if she's lucky enough to sell it.

IGN thought Jake popping up in Norma's backseat with a gun to her head "served up a nasty taste of panic. He is a truly worthy foe." TV Equals felt a little let down overall, though, offering an alternative arc for this first season.

"With only one episode left in the series, it’s a little weird that it doesn’t feel like we’re really ramping up to a big conclusion," they wrote. "Maybe if they spent [time] fleshing out the seedy underbelly of the town and building up Shelby as a possible villain, it would have made the shootout in the motel and Shelby’s death a lot more effective. Seriously, wouldn’t that have worked perfectly as a series finale?!"

See how the first season wraps on the finale of "Bates Motel" next Monday at 10 p.m. ET on A&E.

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Portia de Rossi dropped by "Late Night" to chat up the new season of "Arrested Development" coming to Netflix later this month. But, of course, she found herself facing questions about the future of the cult classic beyond those fifteen installments. What about the "AD" movie?

"We thought that finally we’d just have to not answer that question anymore, but more than ever people seem to want a movie," she said. "We gave you 15 episodes and now you want a movie.”

She did say that she hopes a movie happens, too, but nothing is certain at this point -- except the new season. In 2011, the movie seemed a certainty, but times have changed and fans have 15 half-hour episodes to look forward to instead on May 26. But it could still all be leading up to a movie.

Jason Bateman told Rolling Stone that if a movie does happen, it's at least a year away. So you might want to pace yourself with the new episodes -- or just prepare to watch the whole series a few more times while you wait ... and hope.

Portia de Rossi and the entire Bluth family return for a new season of "Arrested Development." The entire 15-episode season will be available starting May 26 on Netflix. Tune in to "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" every weeknight at 12:37 a.m. ET on NBC.

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NEW DELHI — Amitabh Bachchan, Bollywood's biggest star, says he is willing to explore more Hollywood movies after his first small role in "The Great Gatsby," a 3-D extravaganza starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

Bachchan says he has never been offered Hollywood films before.

The 71-year-old said that at his age, it is difficult to expect that certain roles will come his way. "But yes, if there are people who want to cast me, I don't mind if something is offered," the Hindustan Times newspaper quoted him as saying in an interview published Tuesday.

The Indian screen legend has acted in more than 180 Indian films in a career spanning four decades.

Angelina Jolie opened up about her choice to have a preventative double mastectomy in an op-ed for The New York Times, revealing that she decided to undergo surgery today so that she can live to see her children's tomorrows.

In a piece titled "My Medical Choice," the 37-year-old actress writes candidly about carrying a "faulty" gene, BRCA1. BRCA1 works to help ensure the stability of the cell’s genetic material in the body, but if a woman inherits a harmful mutation of the gene, her risk of getting breast or ovarian cancer sharply increases, according to the National Cancer Institute. She will also often have multiple, close family members who have been diagnosed with these diseases.

Visit The New York Times to read Angelina Jolie's full op-ed.

Jolie had an 87 percent risk of getting breast cancer and 50 percent risk of ovarian cancer. Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died in January 2007 at the age of 56 after an almost 10-year battle with ovarian cancer.

"She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms," she writes, in part. "But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and gracious she was. We often speak of 'Mommy’s mommy,' and I find myself trying to explain the illness that took her away from us. They have asked if the same could happen to me. I have always told them not to worry ..."

Jolie, now a mother of six, considers her mother one of the greatest women she has known.

"I will never be as good a mother as she was," she said during a "60 Minutes" interview in 2011. "I will try my best. But she was just grace incarnate. The most generous, loving ... she's better than me."

Jolie has said that she learned much from her mother, including the fierceness she had when it came to protecting her children -- Jolie and her brother, James.

"She was the woman I relate to, who had that elegance and strength through just knowing what was right," she said during a press conference in 2008.

After starting the process in February, Jolie finished three months of medical procedures for the mastectomies on April 27.

"I can tell my children that they don't need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer," she writes for the Times. "It is reassuring that they see nothing that makes them uncomfortable. They can see my small scars and that's it. Everything else is just Mommy, the same as she always was."

As part of YouTube's Comedy Week, Ricky Gervais is launching a new series on May 20th called "Learn Guitar With David Brent." Here's the just-released teaser.

The first lesson: David isn't teaching you, you are teaching you.

The girls of Danity Kane may be returning to their show-stopping roots.

Formed by Sean "Diddy" Combs on MTV's "Making the Band," in 2005, Danity Kane had a successful four-year run, releasing hit singles such as the aforementioned "Show Stopper," and "Damaged." Signed to Diddy's Bad Boy Records, Shannon Bex, Aundrea Fimbres, Aubrey O'Day, Dawn Richard, and D. Woods released two studio albums as Danity Kane: 2006's "Danity Kane" and 2008's "Welcome to the Dollhouse," both certified platinum.

The girl group broke up officially in early 2009, after months of turmoil beginning with Diddy kicking out O'Day and rumors circulating of Woods allegedly getting groomed for a solo career.

Now, TMZ reports that it may be time for a Danity Kane reunion. Four of the five original members recently met for lunch with a new manager, making plans to get back together. When asked if they are working with Diddy for a reunion, the girls simply respond, "Who's that?" -- take a look in the video above.

Noticeably absent from the meeting was Woods, who has been working on her solo career with the release of various mixtapes and EPs. There is no word as to whether she would be included in a reunion. "It came to an end when it needed to," Woods told Hollyscoop about the end of Danity Kane. "There was a lot of outstanding issues and obviously that was the only way it could be resolved. And I know that I did my very best in the situation. I added to the group in the way that, I knew how to be a group member. I provided us with choreographers, with management, song writing, and everything that I could. But if your services are not being appreciated you gotta take it elsewhere."

We all have soundtracks of our lives. During my teen years there were hours spent listening to the same record album over and over, sometimes even the same song, convinced that the artist had written the lyrics especially for me. "OHMYGOSH" my friends and I would shriek. That's EXACTLY how I feel!!!!" Neil Young, Elton John, Supertramp, Queen, Linda Ronstadt... it wasn't until I got older that I realized -- that was exactly how everybody felt.

In college, music became the backdrop for parties, the thumping beat at bars and clubs -- it was the 80s, after all, and the Cars and Blondie, the B-52's and Toto didn't make the kind of music that made you want to cry from the emotions their songs evoked. We all just wanted to dance.

It was 1984 when I first fell for Sinatra. And when I say fell, I mean really, really fell. There was a period of about two years when he was virtually all I listened to, with a little Bruce Springsteen and old Motown mixed in, plus some Elvis Costello to stay current. But Sinatra was the soundtrack of my early twenties, keeping me company on cassette after cassette as I drove around Los Angeles for my first job out of college.

Falling for Sinatra was an enormous undertaking -- his catalog of songs is huge, and he recorded over 50 albums in his lifetime. I zeroed in on the albums from the 50s, when his voice was strongest and his phrasing was impeccable, when you could hear the joy and sorrow in his voice as clearly as if he was speaking to you. That intimacy and the promise of something -- love, romance -- those were the things that made him timeless.

The first year out of college was not easy for me, adjusting to being on my own, commuting to work every day, trying to prove myself at my job and find myself in the world -- but Sinatra was the soothing voice of reassurance for me, as I learned each and every trip and lilt and turn of phrase he used on the songs I loved best. From "Young at Heart" to "The Way You Look Tonight," "Love and Marriage" to "My Funny Valentine," there was a song for every mood, every time of day, every event. I, like a million girls before me and a million since, fell in love with Sinatra through his voice, and what a voice it is.

Sinatra became a passion for me to share with my family. There was always singing going on in my family... as strange as it may sound, we would often sing song lyrics to each other in lieu of speaking in sentences.

I continued my love affair with Sinatra, and my children were raised on him...there's nothing quite like a 4-year-old girl singing "The Lady is a Tramp," as my daughter did one evening, delighting us all. I saw him in concert at the very end of his life, but it wasn't great -- he was old, and his voice was wobbly and weak, and the teleprompter had letters that were at least a foot high -- but still, it was Sinatra. We even considered naming our son Francis, after my husband's grandfather... and Sinatra. I think my son is relieved we didn't.

On the morning Sinatra died, my husband woke me to tell me the news before I heard it anyplace else. He knew how sad I would be, and I was. But I listened to his music, and of course, that made me feel better, which is, I suppose, what Sinatra was all about -- making the world feel better through his music.

Sinatra liked to end his concerts this way:

"May you live to be 100, and may the last voice you hear be mine."

Not a bad way to go.