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S5E9: The Lady is a Tramp | Shirley MacLaine & Zsa Zsa Gabor Mar 01, 2020

Show notes

This week, Stacie dives into Rat Pack friend Shirley MacLaine and her 28-year-long marriage to Steve Parker. Spoiler: The revelations that set off the divorce are out of this world!

Then, Alicia brings us the story of a genuine Trashy Divorces All Star: Zsa Zsa Gabor, and her eight to ten (?) husbands. Some are more notable than others, but all are part of the Zsa Zsa mystique.

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Stacie’s Receipts

Lucky Me: My Life With – And Without – My Mom, Shirley MacLaine, by Sachi Parker

Shirley MacLaine at Wikipedia

Shirley MacLaine reveals all on her affair wit former Foreign Minister Andrew Peacock. Samantha Maiden, National Political Editor. The Sunday Telegraph. April 17, 2011.

Shirley MacLaine interviewed on ‘The Oprah Winfrey Show.’ Nicole Wilson. Best Syndication. April 11, 2011.

Shirley MacLaine Biography. Biography.com Editors.

Shirley MacLaine spills about “sexcapade” with three people in one day. Michelle Castillo. CBS News. April 12, 2011.

Shirley MacLaine’s Own Words Come Back to Lend Credence to Daughter’s Tell-All Memoir. Stacy Jenel Smith. Creators.com. February 12, 2013.

Divorced Shirley MacLaine’s Basis for Marriage is ‘Sleeping With Other People.’ Yahoo News. March 18, 2016.

‘Sweet Charity’ for Shirley MacLaine? Not So Much In Her Daughter’s Heartbreaking Memoir Lucky Me. Liz Smith. Huffpost. 2/18/2013.

Alicia’s Receipts

35 Epic Zsa Zsa Gabor Quotes. Sarah Lindig. Marie Claire. December 19, 2016.

Inside Zsa Zsa Gabor’s sex goddess rise – and descent into madness. Hailey Eber. New York Post. July 27, 2019.

Zsa Zsa Gabor Biography. Biography.com Editors.

It’s a Mad, Mad, Zsa Zsa World. Leslie Bennetts. Vanity Fair. September 6, 2007.

Felipe de Alba IMDB entry.

Jack Ryan and Zsa Zsa: A Millionaire Inventor and His Hungarian Barbie Doll. Richard Warren Lewis. People Magazine. July 14, 1975.

Jack Ryan Dies at 65; Designer of Barbie Doll. New York Times. August 21, 1991.

Herbert L. Hutner, Arts Adviser, Is Dead at 99. The Associated Press. December 19, 2008.

George Sanders’ Suicide. Rebecca Ascher-Walsh. Entertainment Weekly. May 8, 1992.

The Tragedy of Francesca Hilton, Daughter of Zsa Zsa Gabor and Hilton Founder. Danielle and Andy Mayoras. Forbes Magazing. January 13, 2015.

The Lives They Lived: Jolie Gabor; Mother Dahling. Alex Witchel. New York Times Magazine. January 4, 1998.

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S5E8: That’s Life | Porfirio Rubirosa & Halle Berry and David Justice Feb 23, 2020

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Welcome back! Have you ever wondered how the men of the Rat Pack developed their sense of style? In our eighth episode of Ocean’s Eleven: 12 Degrees of Frank Sinatra, Alicia shares the strange but true life story of international man of mystery, James Bond inspiration, and husband to two American heiresses (among a few other women) Porfirio Rubirosa, the most famous person you’ve probably never heard of.

Then, Stacie has an Atlanta hometown with the sordid tale of Atlanta Brave David Justice and his short-lived marriage to Academy Award winner Halle Berry back in the go-go 1990s.

Alicia’s Receipts

The Last Playboy, by Shawn Levy.

The Legend of Rubirosa, by Gary Cohen. May 18, 2009. Vanity Fair.

Stacie’s Receipts

Justice Prevails, by John Ed Bradley. June 6, 1994. Sports Illustrated.

The Slut-Shaming of Halle Berry, by Stereo Williams. April 13, 2017. The Daily Beast.

David Justice, by People Staff. May 9, 1994, People.

Hurts So Bad, by Karex S. Schneider. May 13, 1996. People.

Justice is Served, by People Staff. October 21, 1996. People.

Halle Berrys’ Ex-Husband David Justice Rants About Their Marriage on Twitter: ‘I Had to Say Something,’ by Michael Miller. November 3, 2015. People.

David Justice is Way Off… She Never Said He Was Abusive. November 3, 2015. TMZ.

‘I Never Hit Her’: David Justice Opens Up about His Divorce from Halle Berry, the Abuse Rumors and His Life Now, by Michael Miller. November 9, 2015. People.

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S5E7: Strangers In The Night | Jane Wyman and Ronald Reagan & Diahann Carroll Feb 16, 2020

Show notes

Sinatra was a big booster for Ronald Reagan as California governor, part of Sinatra’s own shift from Democratic to Republican politics. This week in our Ocean’s Eleven: 12 Degrees of Frank Sinatra season, Stacie has the 1940-1949 marriage and divorce of Academy Award winning actress Jane Wyman and future president Ronald Reagan. Then, Alicia has the incredible life and loves of icon and trailblazer Diahann Carroll, a friend and frequent performing partner of the Rat Pack.

Stacie’s Receipts

An American Life, by Ronald Reagan.

The President’s Ladies: Jane Wyman and Nancy Davis, by Bernard F. Dick.

Reagan: American Icon, by Iwan Morgan.

Jane’s Turn, an interview with Jane Wyman by Dominick Dunne. November 1989, Vanity Fair.

Reagan Played Informant Role for FBI in ’40s. Chicago Tribune, 1986.

Jane Wyman Obituary, New York Times, September 11, 2007.

Ronald Reagan lobbying on the AMA’s behalf in 1961, arguing that universal healthcare for retired Americans will vanquish liberty for all time. Again, he was kind of a jumpy guy. https://youtu.be/AYrlDlrLDSQ

Alicia’s Receipts

Diahann: An Autobiography, by Diahann Carroll and Ross Firestone.

The Legs Are the Last to Go: Aging, Acting, Marrying, and Other Things I Learned the Hard Way, by Diahann Carroll.

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S5E6: Luck Be A Lady | Angie Dickinson and Burt Bacharach & Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett Feb 09, 2020

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This week in our Ocean’s Eleven season, we take a look at the two Tess Oceans. In 1960, the Rat Pack – plus Angie Dickinson – starred in a heist flick called Ocean’s 11. In 2001, a more modern set of actors, including Julia Roberts, built a new Ocean’s franchise. Both women portrayed mastermind Danny Ocean’s estranged or former wife.

Alicia has all the Rat Pack details of screen legend Angie Dickinson’s marriage to and divorce from musician and songwriter Burt Bacharach. Stacie has Julia Roberts’s early forays into love, including her short marriage to musician and actor Lyle Lovett.

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S5E5: I’ve Got the World on a String | Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr. Feb 02, 2020

Show notes

Are you ready for some Rat Pack? This week, Stacie has so much #trashcandy about Dean Martin, whose ethics seem highly situational, and Alicia covers Sammy Davis Jr., whose life was threatened anytime he fell in love.

Booklist:

Memories Are Made of This: Dean Martin Through His Daughter’s Eyes, by Deana Martin.

Dean & Me (A Love Story), by Jerry Lewis.

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S5E4: Swinging on a Star | Patricia Kennedy Lawford and Peter Lawford & Maria Shriver and Arnold Schwarzenegger Jan 26, 2020

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You can’t talk Sinatra without eventually talking about some Kennedy trash, so in week four of Ocean's Eleven: 12 Degrees of Frank Sinatra, Alicia brings us the first ever Kennedy divorce. Patricia Kennedy Lawford, sister to JFK, RFK, and Ted, married Hollywood heartthrob Peter Lawford and probably expected he'd settle down. He did not, and after years of putting up with his addictions and affairs, she divorced him in 1966.

Then, Stacie has Kennedy Divorces: The Next Generation, with the extremely trashy behavior of bodybuilder, actor, and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, before and during his 25-year-long marriage to Maria Shriver, niece of JFK, RFK, Ted, and Patricia. Did you stock up on soap? You may want to run to the store, because you're going to feel dirty after this one.

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Alicia's Receipts

Book: The Kennedy Women. Pearl Buck

Stacie's Receipts

Book: Arnold and Me: In the Shadow of the Austrian Oak. Barbara Outland Baker (foreward by the Gropinator himself)

Book: Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold on Wikipedia

On his childhood abuse

Brigitte Nielsen discusses their affair

The LA Times kicks off Gropinator coverage just ahead of the 2003 recall election. If only we had listened.

The Evening Standard's Wendy Leigh was as horrified by it all as we should have been back in 2003.

Mike Redmond writing at NickiSwift.com has so many details about Arnold's trashy life, but especially David Pecker's apparent extortion of him on behalf of AMI/The National Enquirer. Some things never change, I guess.

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S5E3: In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning | Ava Gardner and Frank Sinatra & Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner’s Work Divorce Jan 19, 2020

Show notes

Alicia’s been tangling the web, but you may not be ready for the trashy affair, marriage, affairs, and divorce of Frank Sinatra and his second wife, movie legend Ava Gardner. It’s our third installment of Ocean’s 11: Twelve Degrees of Frank Sinatra, and this one’s got all the #trashcandy.

Then, it’s Dolly Parton’s birthday today, and to honor the queen of our hearts, we get into the start of her career, when country superstar Porter Wagoner plucked her from obscurity to be his “Girl Singer.” Seven years later, her split from him drove him off the stage and into a courtroom, but Dolly would always love him anyway.

Alicia’s Receipts:

Ava: My Story, by Ava Gardner

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S5E2: One For My Baby (and One More For The Road) | Johnny Carson & Mickey Rooney and Ava Gardner and Artie Shaw Jan 12, 2020

Show notes

For our second dive into the Ocean's Eleven: 12 Degrees of Frank Sinatra season, Stacie has the Rat Pack-adjacent comedian and original King of Late Night, Johnny Carson. He was a private person who was possibly America's most beloved and public figure for three decades. His three divorces – and final, apparently happy marriage, reveal the split-screen that was his life.

Then, Alicia has the tragic early years of Ava Gardner: her rural North Carolina upbringing, her discovery by the MGM star machine, and her first marriages, to Mickey Rooney and Artie Shaw. It's all prelude to her final, tumultuous marriage to Sinatra, which is coming up later this season.

Stacie's Receipts:

Fifteen Years of the Salto Mortale, a profile of Carson, by Kenneth Tynan. The New Yorker, 2/20/1978.

Obituary of Joanne Carson, Los Angeles Times, May 2015.

Classic Hollywood: The timeless humor of Johnny Carson captured on new DVD sets, Susan King, Los Angeles Times, September 23, 2017.

Johnny Carson, Low-Key King of Late-Night TV, Dies at 79, Richard Severo and Bill Carter, New York Times, January 24, 2005.

Johnny Carson wikipedia.

The Tonight Show wikipedia.

Alicia's Receipts:

Ava: My Story. Ava Gardner's autobiography, published shortly after her death in 1990.

Lana: The Lady, the Legend, the Truth. Lana Turner’s autiobiography, published in 1982.

Music and more at trashydivorces.com.

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S5E1: Love and Marriage | Frank Sinatra and Nancy Sr. & Charles Dickens, Victorian Trashbag Jan 05, 2020

Show notes

It’s the #trashpack, y'all! For our fifth season launch, Alicia is deep-diving into Frank Sinatra’s trashy life and loves. This week we kick off with Ol’ Blue Eyes’s first marriage and divorce to Nancy Barbato; Nancy Senior, if you will. Are you ready for "Ocean’s 11: 12 Degrees of Frank Sinatra?"

Then, Stacie has the surprisingly trashy tale of Charles Dickens's public abandonment of his wife of 22 years and the secret, 13-year-long affair that he conducted with a young actress throughout the rest of his life. Turns out that so-called "Great Men" only hold up if their followers are willing to keep their secrets.

Receipts:

The Invisible Woman: The Story of Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan, by Claire Tomalin

The film version of The Invisible Woman, starring Felicity Jones and Ralph Fiennes

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It Had To Be You | Happy Couples (First Anniversary Bonus) Jan 01, 2020

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Happy New Year, everybody! Can you believe it: January 1 is one year to the day since we launched Trashy Divorces. What a ride 2019 has been!

To celebrate, we’ve decided not to trash up your first day of 2020, but instead to share some sterling examples of lasting, enduring love.

Thank you so much for making this year and this podcast such an incredible experience for us. We are looking forward to bringing you plenty more #trashcandy in the new year and beyond!

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