WRITERS AND WRONGS

It's hard to make a buck on a fair-minded portrait anymore. Biographers must trumpet the grisliest allegation-Walt Disney was an FBI informer? Wow!-or starve for attention. But will the gimmicks be all we remember in the future? Here are some of the more explosive recent revelations destined for immortality. BOOK JFK: RESTLESS YOUTH Nigel Hamilton MEMORABLE ACCUSATION The reason JFK's father, Joseph Kennedy, okayed his daughter's lobotomy may have been because he was sexually abusing her.

BOOK ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Blanche Wiesen Cook MEMORABLE ACCUSATION The First Lady may have had a lesbian affair with Associated Press reporter Lorena Hickok.

BOOK MARILYN MONROE: THE BIOGRAPY Donald Spoto MEMORABLE ACCUSATION Marilyn Monroe died of an enema.

BOOK OFFICAL AND CONFIDENTIAL Anthony Summers MEMORABLE ACCUSATION FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover paraded around hotel lobbies in dresses and lace stockings.