People: Sep. 22, 1986

Whatever way he did it -- and he certainly seems to have done it -- Author Kitty Kelley has written about it her way. His Way: The Unauthorized Biography of Frank Sinatra is not yet in bookstores, and Kelley's unflinching portrait of the swaggering singer, said to be based on more than 800 interviews, is already causing a sensation. In PEOPLE magazine excerpts last week and this, % Kelley portrays Ol' Blue Eyes as a score-keeping Lothario whose list of discarded leading ladies includes Elizabeth Taylor, Judy Garland, Lauren Bacall, Victoria Principal and Natalie Wood. Sinatra, who tried unsuccessfully to stop...

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