Yes
I CanThe Story of Sammy Davis, Jr.: Autobiography being
read by Derek and a groupie during limo ride early in DiBergis
documentary. After driver Tommy Pishedda suggests the title should
have been "Yes I Can, If Frank Sinatra Says Its Okay"
and refers to a scene where "Sammy is coming out of the Copa,
its about 3 in the morning and he sees Frank. Franks
walking down Broadway by himself," the disinterested band
close the glass screen. The passage Pishedda describes appears
on pages 151 and 152 of the 1965 hardcover Farrar Straus Giroux
edition of "Yes I Can," which Davis co-wrote with Jane
and Burt Boyar: "I headed downtown, crossed 51st Street and
as I passed the Capitol Theater, I thought about Frank. Id
read that he was in town and I was wondering where he was staying
and how I could get in touch with him, when I looked across the
street and there he was. I started to run after him and call out
to him but I stopped, my arm in the air. He was slowly walking
down Broadway with no hat on and his collar upand not a
soul was paying attention to him. This was the man who only a
few years before had tied up traffic all over Times Square. Now
nobody gave a damn. God, how could it happen?....I was dying to
run over to him, but I felt it would be an intrusion. Or, maybe
I felt too much for him to want to see him this way. I didnt
want to walk anymore." See also Pishedda,
Tommy; Sinatra, Frank.