Bad Edutn’s Gay Subject Slams 'Sordid' Depictn of His Sexualy

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• BAD EDUTN’S GAY SUBJECT SLAMS ‘SORDID’ DEPICTN OF HIS SEXUALY
• NOTOR GAY SCHOOL BOSS JAILED FOR EMBEZZLG LNS SLAMS NEW HUGH JACKMAN FILM ABOUT HIS CRIM FOR ‘BRGG HIS SEXUALY TO ’
• THE UNBELIEVABLE NEW YORK SCHOOL SNDAL THAT INSPIRED HUGH JACKMAN’S NEW MOVIEJACKMAN PLAYS FRANK TASSONE—A FORMER SUPERTENNT WHO ADMTED TO STEALG LNS OM HIS SCHOOL DISTRICT— BAD EDUTN, WHICH PREMIER AT THE TORONTO INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL THIS WEEKEND.BY JULIE MILLERSEPTEMBER 8, 2019LEFT, FRANK TASSONE 2004; RIGHT, HUGH JACKMAN BAD EDUTN.LEFT, BY WILLIE ANRSON/NY DAILY NEWS ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAG; RIGHT, URTY OF TIFF.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFRANK TASSONE WAS A MYTHIC FIGURE NEW YORK’S ROSLYN SCHOOL DISTRICT, WHERE HE SERVED AS SUPERTENNT. THE CHARISMATIC ADMISTRATOR ALLEGEDLY SISTED ON PERSONALLY MEETG EACH AND EVERY NEW STUNT. HE MA A POT OF REGULARLY LUNCHG WH HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS. HE EVEN LED A BOOK CLUB FOR THE DISTRICT’S PARENTS.BUT THERE WERE TAILS ABOUT TASSONE—PLAYED BY HUGH JACKMAN BAD EDUTN, A DRAMA PREMIERG THIS WEEKEND AT THE TORONTO INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL—THAT DIDN’T ADD UP. DETAILS THAT MIGHT HAVE WORRIED THE DISTRICT’S PARENTS AND STAFF MEMBERS, HAD TASSONE NOT BEEN SO CHARMG AND SEEMGLY VOTED TO HIS STUNTS. HE DROVE A MERCES, FOR EXAMPLE. HE WORE SHARP SUS AND SERVED LOBSTER TAILS AT A LUNCHEON. AND PUZZLGLY, SPE OF CREASG BUDGET REQUTS, WHICH SEEMED TO ALWAYS BE MET, THE SCHOOL ROOF NTUED TO LEAK.TASSONE WAS EVENTUALLY ARRTED AN $11.2 LN LARCENY SNDAL, SHOCKG ROSLYN. IN THE AFTERMATH, TAILS ABOUT TASSONE’S SURPRISG DOUBLE LIFE BEGAN LEAKG OUT TO THE PRS. THOUGH TASSONE CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN A WIDOWER TO A WOMAN—REPORTEDLY KEEPG AN OLD WEDDG PHOTO HIS OFFICE—HE WAS A DOMTIC PARTNERSHIP WH A MAN. (“MANY ROSLYN” REPORTEDLY SPECTED TASSONE ULD BE GAY.) WHILE PLAYG THE ROLE OF VOTED SUPERTENNT, HE WAS ALSO SIPHONG OFF $2.2 LN ON VATNS TO THE CARIBBEAN, GAMBLG TRIPS, RENT ON AN UPPER EAST SI APARTMENT, WEIGHT-LOSS TREATMENT, AND DRY CLEANG. THE ONCE PROUD LONG ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT SOON BEME THE SUBJECT OF TABLOID TERT. AND THIS WEEKEND, 15 YEARS AFTER THE ARRT, A BIG-SCREEN ADAPTATN OF THIS PAFUL CHAPTER OF ROSLYN’S HISTORY WILL MAKE S WAY TO THE TORONTO FILM FTIVAL.MAKG THE PREMIERE EVEN MORE SURREAL FOR THE LONG ISLAND TOWN, HOWEVER, IS THE FACT THAT BAD EDUTN WAS WRTEN BY ONE OF TASSONE’S FORMER CHARG: MIKE MAKOWSKY, WHO WAS A ROSLYN MIDDLE SCHOOL STUNT WHEN TASSONE WAS ARRTED 2004 FOR FIRST-GREE LARCENY.“FRANK TASSONE WAS THE FIRST PERSON I MET ROSLYN,” MAKOWSKY TOLD VANY FAIR LAST MONTH, RELLG HIS TRODUCTN, AT AGE SIX, TO THE MAN WHO WOULD BEE THE SUBJECT OF HIS SCREENPLAY S LATER. AFTER WORKG ON A UPLE PENNT FILMS, EXPLAED MAKOWSKY, “I WANTED TO WRE SOMETHG MORE PERSONAL ABOUT MY THIS STORY WAS OSTENSIBLY THE BIGGT THG THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED .”TASSONE HELD A UNIQUE PLACE THE ROSLYN ESYSTEM, SAID MAKOWSKY. “HE HAD BEEN THE ROSLYN SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR 10 OR 12 YEARS—AND THAT TIME, HE HAD GROWN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO THIS POT OF NATNAL MEANT THAT THE TOWN SELF WAS DOG WELL BEE THE REGARD OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT IS DIRECTLY TETHERED TO THGS LIKE PROPERTY VALU.”BUT WH GREATER PROSPERY ME GREATER PRSURE. “THE ADMISTRATORS WERE ASKG FOR MORE AND MORE MONEY, AND, BEE THEY WERE DOG AN CREDIBLE JOB, THE TAX PAYERS WERE HAPPY TO OBLIGE,” HE NTUED. “ALL THEIR KIDS WERE GETTG TO AMAZG SCHOOLS AND DOG GREAT ON THEIR SATS, AND PROPERTY VALU THE TOWN WERE GOG UP. SO WAS A REALLY SORT OF PLITED, AWFUL THG: THIS VERY AFFABLE, CHARISMATIC PERSON WHO PLACED A REAL EMPHASIS ON THE QUALY OF TN AND HELPG STUNTS, THEN AT THE SAME TIME, YOU HEAR THAT HE’S BEEN TAKG MONEY OM THE FFER AND WAS PART OF THIS $11.2 LN [LARCENY] SCHEME. IT REALLY SHOCKED EVERYONE MY MUNY, AND THERE WERE THE REALLY EP-SEATED FEELGS OF BETRAYAL.”TASSONE WAS NOT ACTG ALONE; THE ROSLYN SCHOOLS’ FORMER BS ADMISTRATOR, PAM GLUCK (PLAYED THE FILM BY ALLISON JANNEY), ADMTED TO STEALG $4.3 LN HERSELF. SHE AND TASSONE ALSO REPORTEDLY WHDREW OVER $1 LN OM ATMS. “THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WAS PAYG FOR THE RENOVATNS TO HER HOME THE HAMPTONS,” SAID MAKOWSKY. “HER SON HAD A DISTRICT CRED RD THAT HE WAS G TO BUY NSTCTN MATERIALS OM HOME-SUPPLY STOR. SHE BOUGHT JET SKIS, DOG FOOD...MEANWHILE FRANK WAS GOG TO VEGAS LIKE TWO OR THREE TIM A YEAR ON THE SCHOOL DISTRICT’S DIME.”MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDTASSONE WAS RELEASED OM PRISON 2010, AFTER SERVG ROUGHLY 3 YEARS OF A 4-TO-12-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE. BUT MAKOWSKY OPTED NOT TO REACH OUT TO HIS FORMER SUPERTENNT WHEN WRG HIS SCREENPLAY, STEAD SPEAKG TO TEACHERS, PTA MEMBERS, AND OTHER TAX PAYERS WHO HAD TERACTED WH TASSONE, AND WERE STILL TRYG TO GRAPPLE WH THE PLEXI OF HIS ACTNS OVER A LATER.“I KNOW THE FILM IS LLED BAD EDUTN,” SAID MAKOWSKY. “BUT ’S A B OF A MISNOMER THAT REGARD.... I HAD AN CREDIBLE TN THERE. AND I THK ’S LARGE PART, STRANGELY, DUE TO THIS MAN, FRANK TASSONE, WHO RECED MOST OF THE TEACHERS I HAD. WE WERE ONE OF THE TOP-RANKED SCHOOLS THE UNTRY WHEN TASSONE WAS ARRTED.”BIZARRELY, BAD EDUTN’S PREMIERE HAPPENS TO NFLICT WH MAKOWSKY’S 10-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL RNN. BUT THE SCREENWRER IS HOPEFUL—IF UT—ABOUT BRGG HIS FILM BACK TO ROSLYN DURG HIS NEXT HOMEG. “I’M SURE THAT THERE’S A SEGMENT OF THE MUNY THAT WOULD RATHER THIS THG JT DISAPPEARED. BUT FEELS LIKE A STORY—TO ME, AT LEAST—THAT’S EMENTLY WORTH TELLG.”“IT’S A STRANGE THG,” MAKOWSKY NTUED. “HOW N YOU RE SO EPLY ABOUT THE STUNTS, TN, AND VOTE YOUR WHOLE LIFE AND REER TO THIS VERY NOBLE AT THE SAME TIME, TAKE SUCH AN EGREG WAY OM THE STUNTS, OM THE MUNY, OM THE TAX PAYERS?.... I’M STILL KD OF HOPEFUL FOR A GREATER DIALOGUE.”JULIE MILLER

BAD EDUTN’S GAY SUBJECT SLAMS ‘SORDID’ DEPICTN OF HIS SEXUALY

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NOTOR GAY SCHOOL BOSS JAILED FOR EMBEZZLG LNS SLAMS NEW HUGH JACKMAN FILM ABOUT HIS CRIM FOR ‘BRGG HIS SEXUALY TO ’

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THE UNBELIEVABLE NEW YORK SCHOOL SNDAL THAT INSPIRED HUGH JACKMAN’S NEW MOVIEJACKMAN PLAYS FRANK TASSONE—A FORMER SUPERTENNT WHO ADMTED TO STEALG LNS OM HIS SCHOOL DISTRICT— BAD EDUTN, WHICH PREMIER AT THE TORONTO INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL THIS WEEKEND.BY JULIE MILLERSEPTEMBER 8, 2019LEFT, FRANK TASSONE 2004; RIGHT, HUGH JACKMAN BAD EDUTN.LEFT, BY WILLIE ANRSON/NY DAILY NEWS ARCHIVE/GETTY IMAG; RIGHT, URTY OF TIFF.SAVE THIS STORYSAVESAVE THIS STORYSAVEFRANK TASSONE WAS A MYTHIC FIGURE NEW YORK’S ROSLYN SCHOOL DISTRICT, WHERE HE SERVED AS SUPERTENNT. THE CHARISMATIC ADMISTRATOR ALLEGEDLY SISTED ON PERSONALLY MEETG EACH AND EVERY NEW STUNT. HE MA A POT OF REGULARLY LUNCHG WH HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS. HE EVEN LED A BOOK CLUB FOR THE DISTRICT’S PARENTS.BUT THERE WERE TAILS ABOUT TASSONE—PLAYED BY HUGH JACKMAN BAD EDUTN, A DRAMA PREMIERG THIS WEEKEND AT THE TORONTO INTERNATNAL FILM FTIVAL—THAT DIDN’T ADD UP. DETAILS THAT MIGHT HAVE WORRIED THE DISTRICT’S PARENTS AND STAFF MEMBERS, HAD TASSONE NOT BEEN SO CHARMG AND SEEMGLY VOTED TO HIS STUNTS. HE DROVE A MERCES, FOR EXAMPLE. HE WORE SHARP SUS AND SERVED LOBSTER TAILS AT A LUNCHEON. AND PUZZLGLY, SPE OF CREASG BUDGET REQUTS, WHICH SEEMED TO ALWAYS BE MET, THE SCHOOL ROOF NTUED TO LEAK.TASSONE WAS EVENTUALLY ARRTED AN $11.2 LN LARCENY SNDAL, SHOCKG ROSLYN. IN THE AFTERMATH, TAILS ABOUT TASSONE’S SURPRISG DOUBLE LIFE BEGAN LEAKG OUT TO THE PRS. THOUGH TASSONE CLAIMED TO HAVE BEEN A WIDOWER TO A WOMAN—REPORTEDLY KEEPG AN OLD WEDDG PHOTO HIS OFFICE—HE WAS A DOMTIC PARTNERSHIP WH A MAN. (“MANY ROSLYN” REPORTEDLY SPECTED TASSONE ULD BE GAY.) WHILE PLAYG THE ROLE OF VOTED SUPERTENNT, HE WAS ALSO SIPHONG OFF $2.2 LN ON VATNS TO THE CARIBBEAN, GAMBLG TRIPS, RENT ON AN UPPER EAST SI APARTMENT, WEIGHT-LOSS TREATMENT, AND DRY CLEANG. THE ONCE PROUD LONG ISLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT SOON BEME THE SUBJECT OF TABLOID TERT. AND THIS WEEKEND, 15 YEARS AFTER THE ARRT, A BIG-SCREEN ADAPTATN OF THIS PAFUL CHAPTER OF ROSLYN’S HISTORY WILL MAKE S WAY TO THE TORONTO FILM FTIVAL.MAKG THE PREMIERE EVEN MORE SURREAL FOR THE LONG ISLAND TOWN, HOWEVER, IS THE FACT THAT BAD EDUTN WAS WRTEN BY ONE OF TASSONE’S FORMER CHARG: MIKE MAKOWSKY, WHO WAS A ROSLYN MIDDLE SCHOOL STUNT WHEN TASSONE WAS ARRTED 2004 FOR FIRST-GREE LARCENY.“FRANK TASSONE WAS THE FIRST PERSON I MET ROSLYN,” MAKOWSKY TOLD VANY FAIR LAST MONTH, RELLG HIS TRODUCTN, AT AGE SIX, TO THE MAN WHO WOULD BEE THE SUBJECT OF HIS SCREENPLAY S LATER. AFTER WORKG ON A UPLE PENNT FILMS, EXPLAED MAKOWSKY, “I WANTED TO WRE SOMETHG MORE PERSONAL ABOUT MY THIS STORY WAS OSTENSIBLY THE BIGGT THG THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED .”TASSONE HELD A UNIQUE PLACE THE ROSLYN ESYSTEM, SAID MAKOWSKY. “HE HAD BEEN THE ROSLYN SCHOOL DISTRICT FOR 10 OR 12 YEARS—AND THAT TIME, HE HAD GROWN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO THIS POT OF NATNAL MEANT THAT THE TOWN SELF WAS DOG WELL BEE THE REGARD OF A SCHOOL DISTRICT IS DIRECTLY TETHERED TO THGS LIKE PROPERTY VALU.”BUT WH GREATER PROSPERY ME GREATER PRSURE. “THE ADMISTRATORS WERE ASKG FOR MORE AND MORE MONEY, AND, BEE THEY WERE DOG AN CREDIBLE JOB, THE TAX PAYERS WERE HAPPY TO OBLIGE,” HE NTUED. “ALL THEIR KIDS WERE GETTG TO AMAZG SCHOOLS AND DOG GREAT ON THEIR SATS, AND PROPERTY VALU THE TOWN WERE GOG UP. SO WAS A REALLY SORT OF PLITED, AWFUL THG: THIS VERY AFFABLE, CHARISMATIC PERSON WHO PLACED A REAL EMPHASIS ON THE QUALY OF TN AND HELPG STUNTS, THEN AT THE SAME TIME, YOU HEAR THAT HE’S BEEN TAKG MONEY OM THE FFER AND WAS PART OF THIS $11.2 LN [LARCENY] SCHEME. IT REALLY SHOCKED EVERYONE MY MUNY, AND THERE WERE THE REALLY EP-SEATED FEELGS OF BETRAYAL.”TASSONE WAS NOT ACTG ALONE; THE ROSLYN SCHOOLS’ FORMER BS ADMISTRATOR, PAM GLUCK (PLAYED THE FILM BY ALLISON JANNEY), ADMTED TO STEALG $4.3 LN HERSELF. SHE AND TASSONE ALSO REPORTEDLY WHDREW OVER $1 LN OM ATMS. “THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WAS PAYG FOR THE RENOVATNS TO HER HOME THE HAMPTONS,” SAID MAKOWSKY. “HER SON HAD A DISTRICT CRED RD THAT HE WAS G TO BUY NSTCTN MATERIALS OM HOME-SUPPLY STOR. SHE BOUGHT JET SKIS, DOG FOOD...MEANWHILE FRANK WAS GOG TO VEGAS LIKE TWO OR THREE TIM A YEAR ON THE SCHOOL DISTRICT’S DIME.”MOST POPULARAND JT LIKE THAT… PREPAR FOR ITS LAST SUPPERBY CHRIS MURPHYRILEY KEOUGH ON GROWG UP PRLEY, LOSG LISA MARIE, AND INHERG GRACELANDBY BRT HENNEMUTHTHE TV MOVIE IS MAKG A WEIRD, WONRFUL COMEBACKBY DAVID CANFIELDTASSONE WAS RELEASED OM PRISON 2010, AFTER SERVG ROUGHLY 3 YEARS OF A 4-TO-12-YEAR PRISON SENTENCE. BUT MAKOWSKY OPTED NOT TO REACH OUT TO HIS FORMER SUPERTENNT WHEN WRG HIS SCREENPLAY, STEAD SPEAKG TO TEACHERS, PTA MEMBERS, AND OTHER TAX PAYERS WHO HAD TERACTED WH TASSONE, AND WERE STILL TRYG TO GRAPPLE WH THE PLEXI OF HIS ACTNS OVER A LATER.“I KNOW THE FILM IS LLED BAD EDUTN,” SAID MAKOWSKY. “BUT ’S A B OF A MISNOMER THAT REGARD.... I HAD AN CREDIBLE TN THERE. AND I THK ’S LARGE PART, STRANGELY, DUE TO THIS MAN, FRANK TASSONE, WHO RECED MOST OF THE TEACHERS I HAD. WE WERE ONE OF THE TOP-RANKED SCHOOLS THE UNTRY WHEN TASSONE WAS ARRTED.”BIZARRELY, BAD EDUTN’S PREMIERE HAPPENS TO NFLICT WH MAKOWSKY’S 10-YEAR HIGH SCHOOL RNN. BUT THE SCREENWRER IS HOPEFUL—IF UT—ABOUT BRGG HIS FILM BACK TO ROSLYN DURG HIS NEXT HOMEG. “I’M SURE THAT THERE’S A SEGMENT OF THE MUNY THAT WOULD RATHER THIS THG JT DISAPPEARED. BUT FEELS LIKE A STORY—TO ME, AT LEAST—THAT’S EMENTLY WORTH TELLG.”“IT’S A STRANGE THG,” MAKOWSKY NTUED. “HOW N YOU RE SO EPLY ABOUT THE STUNTS, TN, AND VOTE YOUR WHOLE LIFE AND REER TO THIS VERY NOBLE AT THE SAME TIME, TAKE SUCH AN EGREG WAY OM THE STUNTS, OM THE MUNY, OM THE TAX PAYERS?.... I’M STILL KD OF HOPEFUL FOR A GREATER DIALOGUE.”JULIE MILLER

People the muny say that they long spected that Tassone might be gay. “I’m not ashamed of beg a gay man, and aga, they ma seem somewhat sordid.