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Enough of this blame-the-victim mentality. Trees need to breathe, too. The steel sheet should go around the Castle. All the way around. All the way to the top. With a roof. A good construction date: this week, when Frank Sinatra visits. Everyone will be inside. Let 'em rot there...
...turned to the Statistical Abstract. Working late nights to the relentless sounds of Frank Sinatra's "Love and Marriage," I compiled a portrait of the average American couple...
...growing part of the debate has focused on Kelley and her research tactics. A former Washington Post researcher who has written titillating bios of Jacqueline Onassis, Elizabeth Taylor and Sinatra, Kelley claims more than 1,000 people were interviewed for the book, and she flaunts a monstrous list of "acknowledgments" of people she alleges helped her (many of whom say they never spoke with her). But as readers inside and outside the Washington Beltway pored over the book last week, Kelley's journalistic methods were coming under sharp scrutiny. Did she write a responsible work of journalism or a sleazy...
...decency." A phalanx of Reagan friends and former advisers lashed out at the book, both in whole and in parts. Sheila Tate, Nancy Reagan's former press secretary, charged that there are 20 factual errors in the passages involving her alone. She described the purported Nancy Reagan-Frank Sinatra tryst in the White House as "pure horse manure." Michael Reagan, Nancy's stepson, also jumped to her defense. "Gossip is one thing, and smut is another," he said. "This is smut...
What surprised critics and readers, and possibly even Kelley herself, was the thoroughness of her next effort, His Way, a devastating biography of Frank Sinatra. Even before the manuscript was completed, the singer had mounted an all-out campaign to dry up Kelley's sources. When that did not prove sufficient, he filed suit claiming that Kitty was misrepresenting herself to sources and failing to disclose her reasons for writing the book. But Sinatra had never had to deal with so determined an opponent. Kelley argued that Sinatra was trying to prevent her from publishing freely; Sinatra's lawyers finally...