His Way
Kitty Kelley, 1986
Kitty Kelley's unauthorized life of Frank Sinatra, built from the voices of family, lovers and hangers-on: a portrait of ambition, loyalty and the cost of being in the room.
Kitty Kelley
Sinatra refused to cooperate with Kelley, so His Way is assembled from interviews with family, friends and former lovers — a chorus of voices.
Feels like curiosity, family and unease.
What a man looks like after his wife has humiliated him.
“Marty came to my father’s house, and he was shaking,” she said. “He walked real slow and quiet, like he was a beaten man. Dolly made that man so low. He said, ‘Frank should respect his mother but when he doesn’t, she takes it out on me.’ You never embarrass an Italian man and make him low like that. As soon as I saw him I felt bad. He looked like a hobo at the door begging for something to eat. He didn’t even ask for help right away, but his face said it all. He was stunned when I let him in. He thought I was going to swear at him. My father came out and said, ‘You look bad. You want a shot of liquor?” Books by Kitty Kelley
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