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Ol' Blue Eyes is back for on-line fans

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If you lead an interesting life, people are bound to gossip about you. Frank Sinatra, the king of the crooners, died in May after living one of the most interesting and gossip-plagued lives this century.

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But Sinatra returned to the attention of the world media last week when the US Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) released a selection of the files it had been keeping on him since he was first arrested, for seduction, in 1938.

Frank would have been 83 last Saturday, so the release makes a strange birthday present. When the FBI releases files on a leading personality, it frequently publishes them on its Freedom of Information Act Reading Room Web site at [www.fbi.gov/foipa/main .htm].
Sadly, there are no plans yet to publish the 1,275 pages of Sinatra's files, but when they do eventually get round to it, this is where they will be. The FBI's reading room requires Adobe's Acrobat reader, which can be downloaded from [www.adobe.com/ prodindex/acrobat/].
In the meantime, the entire dossier has been collected and posted on the premier crime news site APB Online [www.apbonline .com]. For the truly dedicated, APB Online has converted the files into 20 MB of Acrobat PDFs that you can download and read at your leisure. But if it is just the juice you are after, APB has uploaded highlights as small image files.
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Following his death, CNNInteractive put together an excellent obituary on Sinatra - the songs, the voice, the style,[www.cnn .com/SPECIALS/1998/sinatra]. The site offers his basic life story, news reports and links, and plenty of Quicktime videos, photos and sound bytes.
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