People

By Guy D. Garcia

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 the book with a $2 million lawsuit three years ago, is declining comment on what his publicist dismisses as "regurgitated material." Instead, he was back doing it his way last week, at the opening of the renovated Chicago Theater, where he got an ovation for his finger-snapping rendition of My Kind of Town. Says Kelley of her subject: "He's the most fascinating man on earth."