Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Rod Blue is surfer with shoulder-length hair in Sydney, Fact2: trip like this be good thing at point for singer 's career, Fact3: Sinatra With lawyer in agrees to go assent, Fact4: members of media At airport in ask blunt and impolite personal questions Australia, Fact5: Barbara does n't wish to rush him into marriage
Output (English): In 1974, Rod Blue is a surfer with shoulderlength hair in Sydney, Australia who also stages rock concerts, unsuccessfully most of the time. Needing a big idea, he decides to fly to Los Angeles, make himself more presentable and try to persuade Frank Sinatra to come to Australia to sing. Sinatra takes a liking to the kid, overhearing him express why Sinatras music means so much to him and to everyone. With his lawyer Mickey Rudin and righthand man Jilly Rizzo in assent that a trip like this would be a good thing at this point for the singers career, Sinatra agrees to go. At the airport in Australia, members of the media ask blunt and impolite personal questions as soon as Sinatra and his companion, Barbara Marx, step off their private jet. One of the prying reporters is Hilary Hunter, who angrily claims that Sinatra or someone in his entourage spat on her as they went by. Rod and his new assistant, Audrey Appleby, who has known him since their youth and long had a crush on him, do their best to make Sinatras party comfortable in the penthouse of a Sydney hotel. Audrey strikes up a fast friendship with Barbara, who praises Sinatra as a lover but doesnt wish to rush him into marriage. Before going to Melbourne for the tours first show, Rod suggests to Sinatra that the Australian press can be very sensitive to criticism, so the singer should try to avoid the subject. Doing it his own way as usual, Sinatra proceeds to further insult the woman reporter from the airport, calling her nothing more than a twodollar whore. A restaurant needs to be his way, too, with its chef insulted by Barbaras meddling about how Franks food needs to be prepared. Trade unions instantly react. Banding together, they decide to cut off all services to Sinatra immediately, including food, drink and maid service at his hotel. Newspapers mock the singer with headlines like Frankie, Go Home, but even that is problematic, inasmuch no one is willing now to supply fuel for his jet, either. An apology is demanded, but the best Sinatra is willing to do is permit Rudin to try to work out a satisfactory compromise with Bob Hawke, the trade unions leader and Australias future prime minister. Audrey, meantime, becomes furious at finding Rod kissing reporter Hilary, after which Rod gets into a bloody fistfight with Sinatras sidekick, Rizzo, who refuses to release tapes of the concert that Rod has already presold. It is ultimately proposed that Sinatra will do a benefit concert for the trades people, but as soon as he gets back on stage, rather than apologize for calling the reporter a twodollar hooker, he says: I overpaid. Enjoying himself nevertheless, the singer calls Barbara up to the stage, introducing her to Australia as the girl Im going to marry.