Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner had one of Hollywood’s most explosive marriages. The pair’s romance began as an affair and remained just as drama-filled until their divorce. They separated often, and during one of their off-periods, Sinatra came home to find Gardner in the house. A screaming match ensued, and Sinatra ultimately threw a douche filled with water at Gardner and Lana Turner.
Frank Sinatra once threw a douche at Ava Gardner
During one of Sinatra’s performances, Gardner believed he was singing to another woman in the audience. As a result, she stormed out, put her wedding ring in an envelope for him, and left the city. After several weeks apart, they reconciled, albeit briefly.
A few days into their reunion, the couple got into another argument. When Gardner told Sinatra to get out, he responded, “Okay, baby, I’ll get out. You can find me in Palm Springs.
Frank Sinatra once threw a douche at Ava Gardner
During one of Sinatra’s performances, Gardner believed he was singing to another woman in the audience. As a result, she stormed out, put her wedding ring in an envelope for him, and left the city. After several weeks apart, they reconciled, albeit briefly.
A few days into their reunion, the couple got into another argument. When Gardner told Sinatra to get out, he responded, “Okay, baby, I’ll get out. You can find me in Palm Springs.
- 9/11/2023
- by Emma McKee
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
On the JoBlo Movies YouTube channel, we will be posting one full movie every other day throughout the week, giving viewers the chance to watch them entirely free of charge. Today’s Free Movie of the Day is the 2006 thriller The Stranger Game, starring Mimi Rogers. You can watch it over on the YouTube channel linked above, or you can just watch it in the embed at the top of this article.
Directed by Terry Ingram from a script by Judy Skelton and Cynthia Weil, The Stranger Game has the following synopsis: A hard-working mother hires a male nanny to take care of her son, but soon discovers that he is an antisocial psychopath bent on destroying her family.
Rogers is joined in the cast by David Orth, Barclay Hope, Casey Dubois, Sonya Salomaa, Catherine Lough Haggquist, Liam Ranger, Karin Konoval, Fred Henderson, Missy Cross, Jordan Hoffart, Sean Whale, Charisse Baker,...
Directed by Terry Ingram from a script by Judy Skelton and Cynthia Weil, The Stranger Game has the following synopsis: A hard-working mother hires a male nanny to take care of her son, but soon discovers that he is an antisocial psychopath bent on destroying her family.
Rogers is joined in the cast by David Orth, Barclay Hope, Casey Dubois, Sonya Salomaa, Catherine Lough Haggquist, Liam Ranger, Karin Konoval, Fred Henderson, Missy Cross, Jordan Hoffart, Sean Whale, Charisse Baker,...
- 3/6/2023
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Franz Ferdinand are back with a new track, “Billy Goodbye,” which will appear on the Scottish outfit’s upcoming compilation, Hits to the Head, out March 11 via Domino.
“Billy Goodbye” finds Franz Ferdinand firmly in their wheelhouse, blending grin-inducing power pop with some clever art-rock flourishes. The track arrives with a black-and-white video — directed by Diane Martel, Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos, and Ben Cole — that captures Franz Ferdinand delivering a lively performance of the song as they and their friends joyously bounce around a studio space.
“Billy Goodbye” is...
“Billy Goodbye” finds Franz Ferdinand firmly in their wheelhouse, blending grin-inducing power pop with some clever art-rock flourishes. The track arrives with a black-and-white video — directed by Diane Martel, Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos, and Ben Cole — that captures Franz Ferdinand delivering a lively performance of the song as they and their friends joyously bounce around a studio space.
“Billy Goodbye” is...
- 11/2/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
Earlier this month, HBO’s “The Plot Against America” came to a rousing end. It was up to production designer Richard Hoover to help the multiple directors of the show create the look for the show’s alternate timeline which posits that aviator Charles Lindbergh, played by Ben Cole, a Nazi sympathizer, is elected president in 1940 instead of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Based on the 2004 Phillip Roth novel of the same name, the six-part series finale opened with a series of anti-Semitic crimes and the looting of businesses owned by Jews. Evelyn’s (Winona Ryder) husband was arrested and she turned to Bess (Zoe Kazan), her sister for sympathy.
And to close out the series, Frank Sinatra’s “That’s America to Me” played over a montage of the 1942 election with ballots being burned.
Field trips, research and the novel all helped Hoover. “I caught up with the book as I started scouting,...
Based on the 2004 Phillip Roth novel of the same name, the six-part series finale opened with a series of anti-Semitic crimes and the looting of businesses owned by Jews. Evelyn’s (Winona Ryder) husband was arrested and she turned to Bess (Zoe Kazan), her sister for sympathy.
And to close out the series, Frank Sinatra’s “That’s America to Me” played over a montage of the 1942 election with ballots being burned.
Field trips, research and the novel all helped Hoover. “I caught up with the book as I started scouting,...
- 4/23/2020
- by Jazz Tangcay
- Variety Film + TV
In his new HBO limited series, David Simon has just six hour-long episodes to cover the events of Philip Roth’s novel “The Plot Against America.” While the first episode took its time to set the stage, establish the players, and introduce the show’s fictionalized time period, the second episode did…pretty much the same thing. That’s not a good thing when you have limited time with which to tell a story. Things happened, sure, but even by the episode’s end, it still feels like Simon is putting the chess pieces in place rather than making any significant moves. What’s more, it’s easy to see 12 moves ahead, even if you haven’t read the book. The result makes for very dull TV indeed.
[Editor’s Note: The following review contains spoilers for “The Plot Against America” Part 2.]
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- 3/24/2020
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
This The Plot Against America review contains no spoilers.
It’s an old adage that most science fiction is written looking toward the future through the lens of the present. However, as recent period piece television series are proving, that trend seems to be turning backwards as well. Both ongoing and limited series like Chernobyl and The Americans are excavating specific points in our past for the sake of contemporary society.
While Philip Roth published his alternate-history novel The Plot Against America in 2004, the 2020 HBO adaptation helmed by The Wire co-creators David Simon and Ed Burns could not have been written for any time but the present. Told over only six hour-long episodes that span a little over two years (1940-1942), Plot tracks an alternate history in which aviator and national hero Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole) beats Franklin Delano Roosevelt to become president of the United States. Manipulating the country...
It’s an old adage that most science fiction is written looking toward the future through the lens of the present. However, as recent period piece television series are proving, that trend seems to be turning backwards as well. Both ongoing and limited series like Chernobyl and The Americans are excavating specific points in our past for the sake of contemporary society.
While Philip Roth published his alternate-history novel The Plot Against America in 2004, the 2020 HBO adaptation helmed by The Wire co-creators David Simon and Ed Burns could not have been written for any time but the present. Told over only six hour-long episodes that span a little over two years (1940-1942), Plot tracks an alternate history in which aviator and national hero Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole) beats Franklin Delano Roosevelt to become president of the United States. Manipulating the country...
- 3/13/2020
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
When Philip Roth published The Plot Against America in 2004 — an alternate history where pilot Charles Lindbergh is elected president in 1940 on an antiwar and barely veiled anti-Semitic platform — George W. Bush was nearing re-election and NBC was debuting the second season of The Apprentice, a game show judged by the cartoonish New York real estate mogul Donald Trump. With the country at war in Iraq and Afghanistan, this wasn’t a happy time for the U.S., but Roth’s story read more like a path thankfully avoided (the real...
- 3/10/2020
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
HBO has released the full official trailer for its upcoming limited series “The Plot Against America,” set to premiere this March.
Starring Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Winona Ryder, and John Turturro, the six-part series comes from executive producers and longtime collaborators David Simon and Ed Burns. Based on the prescient novel by Philip Roth, “The Plot Against America” takes place in an alternate-history version of America, in which the United States turns toward fascism during the Second World War. The story is told through the eyes of a New Jersey working-class Jewish family, as aviation hero and xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole) runs for President of the United States and wins.
HBO released the teaser trailer for the limited series back at the end of January, revealing just how tense things would get in the lead-up to Lindbergh’s election. The official trailer, however, includes more about the aftermath...
Starring Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Winona Ryder, and John Turturro, the six-part series comes from executive producers and longtime collaborators David Simon and Ed Burns. Based on the prescient novel by Philip Roth, “The Plot Against America” takes place in an alternate-history version of America, in which the United States turns toward fascism during the Second World War. The story is told through the eyes of a New Jersey working-class Jewish family, as aviation hero and xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole) runs for President of the United States and wins.
HBO released the teaser trailer for the limited series back at the end of January, revealing just how tense things would get in the lead-up to Lindbergh’s election. The official trailer, however, includes more about the aftermath...
- 2/18/2020
- by LaToya Ferguson
- Indiewire
HBO dropped the trailer for “The Plot Against America” on Tuesday, its upcoming limited series from David Simon and Ed Burns based on Philip Roth’s acclaimed novel of the same name.
According to the premium cable channel, the six-part show, which premieres Monday, March 16 at 9/8c, “imagines an alternate American history during World War II, told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey as they endure the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who captures the presidency and turns the nation toward fascism.”
In the 2-minute, 33-second trailer, which you can view above, that Jewish family, the Levins, becomes increasingly concerned about what their lives will be like if and when Charles Lindbergh (played by Ben Cole) is elected the president of the United States. Turns out he does beat out Fdr to become the 33rd Potus — and he and his...
According to the premium cable channel, the six-part show, which premieres Monday, March 16 at 9/8c, “imagines an alternate American history during World War II, told through the eyes of a working-class Jewish family in New Jersey as they endure the political rise of Charles Lindbergh, an aviator-hero and xenophobic populist, who captures the presidency and turns the nation toward fascism.”
In the 2-minute, 33-second trailer, which you can view above, that Jewish family, the Levins, becomes increasingly concerned about what their lives will be like if and when Charles Lindbergh (played by Ben Cole) is elected the president of the United States. Turns out he does beat out Fdr to become the 33rd Potus — and he and his...
- 2/18/2020
- by Jennifer Maas
- The Wrap
HBO has released the trailer for its upcoming limited series “The Plot Against America,” set to premiere this March. You can watch the two-minute preview below.
Based on the prescient novel by Philip Roth, “The Plot Against America” takes place in an alternate-history version of America, in which the United States turns toward fascism during the Second World War. The story is told through the eyes of a New Jersey working-class Jewish family, as aviation hero and xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole) runs for President of the United States.
Starring Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Winona Ryder, and John Turturro, the six-part series comes from executive producers and longtime collaborators David Simon and Ed Burns.
The trailer actually does a little more than simply tease the impending conflict that would occur with a Lindbergh presidency in this world. Like the novel, the story and the trailer follow Herman Levin (Spector...
Based on the prescient novel by Philip Roth, “The Plot Against America” takes place in an alternate-history version of America, in which the United States turns toward fascism during the Second World War. The story is told through the eyes of a New Jersey working-class Jewish family, as aviation hero and xenophobic populist Charles Lindbergh (Ben Cole) runs for President of the United States.
Starring Zoe Kazan, Morgan Spector, Winona Ryder, and John Turturro, the six-part series comes from executive producers and longtime collaborators David Simon and Ed Burns.
The trailer actually does a little more than simply tease the impending conflict that would occur with a Lindbergh presidency in this world. Like the novel, the story and the trailer follow Herman Levin (Spector...
- 1/30/2020
- by LaToya Ferguson
- Indiewire
David Jackson’s earnest debut is sumptuously shot on England’s south coast but hobbled by hackneyed plotlines
Former TV director David Jackson makes his feature debut with this earnest, technically assured piece of downbeat British social realism. The story is about a middle-aged guy living an almost feral existence at the margins of society who is forced to reconnect with his estranged teenaged son.
The film looks good, and evokes the wild beauty of England’s south coast, thanks to some great location work by cinematographer Ben Cole. Francis Magee delivers his lead performance with conviction, and there is a nice humorous cameo by Doon Mackichan as his neighbour. The problem is that the storytelling is unconvincing: there is a clash between the realist style and the patent unreality in much of the narrative. Moreover, the film winds up with some very naive assumptions about how easy it is...
Former TV director David Jackson makes his feature debut with this earnest, technically assured piece of downbeat British social realism. The story is about a middle-aged guy living an almost feral existence at the margins of society who is forced to reconnect with his estranged teenaged son.
The film looks good, and evokes the wild beauty of England’s south coast, thanks to some great location work by cinematographer Ben Cole. Francis Magee delivers his lead performance with conviction, and there is a nice humorous cameo by Doon Mackichan as his neighbour. The problem is that the storytelling is unconvincing: there is a clash between the realist style and the patent unreality in much of the narrative. Moreover, the film winds up with some very naive assumptions about how easy it is...
- 3/28/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Ben Cole (Demolition) has joined the Season 2 cast of the Wachowski siblings' Netflix drama series Sense8. Created, written and executive produced by Lilly and Lana Wachowski and J. Michael Straczynski, the sci-fi series centers on eight strangers around the world who suddenly are linked mentally and emotionally. Cole will play Todd, a new sensate who longs to be “normal,” rejecting the gifts he’s been born with. Cole, repped by Stewart Talent and One Entertainment, was…...
- 5/25/2016
- Deadline TV
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