Before Dean Martin was everywhere ... He preferred afternoon golf to all-night revelry, once called the cops on a party at his own home when it raged too long, and was by all accounts hard ...

Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin got into a barroom brawl in Beverly ... Martin went to Lake Tahoe to play golf. He "had nothing to say" when he was questioned by police. "Frank was 50 at the time ...

Tosches makes his point on every page that Dean Martin just didn’t care about anything — not music, not movies, not his own performances nor anybody else’s — except his golf game and occasionally his ...