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Frank Sinatra kirns fat off the top of the spaghetti sauce he made at the Kirk Douglas residence. Kirk's son took the photos. 1 mm 1 5 tMjjp," lf, ffj Sinatra and host Douglas strike, a happy pose for Peter Douglas while the sauce si mmers. HE'S GLAMOROUS, talented Frankie was asked to give his re-and popular but can he cipe for posterity, but he firmly cook? Yes indeed. Frank Sinatra declined, saying, "No great chef can cook.

It isn' often that Frankie gives away the secret of his master-dons a striped apron and starts die- piece." While sipping highballs, ing vegetables with a knife, but Frank and Kirk also took sips of once in a while he gets the urge to the sauce to check for flavor and create in the kitchen, and when he seasoning. does it's a cuisine solo in which he's At last, it was pronounced per- definitely a star. feet, and with a flourish, Frank On a recent weekend afternoon, served it to Kirk and Anne Douglas Frank happened to drop in to visit and assorted guests. No pictures his Palm Springs neighbors, the were allowed in this part of the Kirk Douglases. Somebody men- ceremony and, in fact, Frankie had tioned going out to dinner later, but no intention of posing for pictures Frankie decided he'd rather cook at all.

But Peter Douglas. Kirk's for everybody. The result was his son, is a photographer and he asked special, one-and-only learned it for a few souvenir pictures, which is from Momma, of spaghet- how this rare side of Frank Sinatra ti sauce. was recorded. You don't often see these guys wearing aprons.

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