In development for nearly seven years, the $18.5 million mini-series begins in 1920, when Sinatra was 5, and ends in 1974. Harden will show up in movie houses across the country in the widely anticipated family drama 'Used People,' as part of a starry cast that includes Shirley MacLaine, Sylvia Sidney, Marcello Mastroianni, Kathy Bates and Jessica Tandy. In the five-hour television mini-series 'Sinatra,' which will be broadcast Sunday and Tuesday on CBS, she plays Ava Gardner, who was, of course, Frank Sinatra's second wife and an actress of no little flamboyance herself. Harden is on the verge of breaking out of the pack in a big, dark, sensuous way.
Roughly a decade after she moved to New York to become an actress, preferably in movies, the 33-year-old Ms.
