POP/ROCK - June 15, 1988

These are trying times for Frank Sinatra. First, the Chairman of the Board was stricken with a mild bout of food poisoning that forced him to cancel his performance at a star-studded AIDS benefit in Washington (Sinatra spokeswoman Susan Reynolds said Tuesday Sinatra was in Palm Springs and doing much better). Then--for the lack of a hedge to keep out prying eyes--Ol’ Blue Eyes nixed a real-estate deal in the Hamptons, just outside of New York. Southampton real estate sources told Newsday that Sinatra had decided last winter that he’d take a huge but insufficiently landscaped house this summer, at a price of $100,000 for the month. There was no comment on the deal from the Sotheby Agency in Southampton, which had rented the house to Sinatra.