Celeb wisdom of Frank Jr.

FRANK Sinatra’s son, Frank Jr., gave a 16minute speech about the perils of fame during a book talk for the new tome “Sinatra 100.” “This business of celebrity means nothing,” Frank Jr. told a crowd including Gay Talese at an Upper East Side Barnes & Noble. Junior pointed to Michael Jackson’s death at 50, saying he warned pals back when he saw Jackson perform as a younger man: “One day they are going to go into his room and find him dead because of the pressure . . . This is ridiculous. This is tragic . . . All these people were consumed by the specter, the overhanging presence of this business that is named celebrity.” He added, “Let’s take a reality check here . . . Every night is not the Academy Awards.” Talese — who penned perhaps the most famous piece ever on Ol’ Blue Eyes, “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold” — was at the book store as a fan. Frank Jr. also compared his dad’s talents to the likes of Rudolph Valentino, James Dean, Marilyn Monroe and Elvis Presley. But Sinatra was different, he said — because he “lived to be a ripe old age.”