The real Frank Tassone, the man portrayed by Hugh Jackman the new HBO film “Bad Edutn,” says he thought Jackman did a “good job” portrayg him but cricized how the film approached his sexualy and domtic partnership.“Bad Edutn” tells the te story of a Long Island supertennt who embezzled $2.2 ln of taxpayer money om the school district. The real Tassone, who was sentenced to four to 12 years prison for larceny but was released on good behavr 2010, spoke on the Coach Mike Podst wh host Mike Bayer and said that only about “40-50%” of “Bad Edutn” is accurate.“He did a very good job portrayg me,” Tassone said on the podst, even thankg Jackman for fendg his work as a supertennt durg a recent appearance on “Today.” “I thk he did a good job playg me, pecially at the end when I’m prison and I walk out and I see what I lost bee I did somethg so terrible. And that really h home for me.”Also Read: Hugh Jackman Plays a Charmg, Corpt Supertennt 'Bad Edutn' Trailer (Vio)Tassone was emotnal the terview and remorseful for his “terrible” actns, and he add that at tim the film was hard to watch.“It was difficult. Very difficult. You know, I regnize that what I did was wrong and I broke the law, but that was 20 years ago and I fally thought, you know, I uld go forward,” he said. “And for to e all back 20 years later brought back feelgs that were hurtful and that were warranted many rpects. So, was a challengg time to watch the movie.”Some SPOILERS for “Bad Edutn” follow.Tassone did however cricize how the movie portrayed his sexualy and certa tails of his relatnships. In the film, Tassone is revealed as a gay man who has an affair Las Vegas wh a former stunt, somethg he keeps a secret om a man whom we disver is his domtic partner of 35 years (now 45 years). While Tassone did buy a home Las Vegas as part of his affair, the man was never a former stunt, and Tassone says that his domtic partner Steven was aware that they were an open Read: 'Bad Edutn': Did Frank Tassone Really Buy a Hoe Wh a Secret Out-of-Town Boyiend?“I did not keep secrets om Steven,” he said. “What bothered me terribly was was never a former stunt.”The real Tassone is a widower of a marriage to a woman, as the film shows, but Tassone felt the film also implied that his partner Steven was unaware of his former marriage and that his marriage wasn’t strong.“There was a lot of implitn, or at least I felt, that i didn’t have a wonrful marriage or didn’t love her so very much, which I did,” Tassone said. “I almost felt was disrpectful to her, and I loved her very much.”Also Read: Hugh Jackman Doubted 'X-Men' Would Be a Succs (Vio)Tassone add that he didn’t unrstand why his sexualy was brought up and lled the film’s portrayal of “somewhat sordid.”“That upset me as well, bee I’m not ashamed of beg a gay man, and aga, they ma seem somewhat sordid,” Tassone said. “That bothered me and upset me when the tective qutned Steven, and he implied that Steven didn’t even know I was married. That was not the se. And I don’t unrstand why they had to brg my sexualy to the film.”Check out the whole podst here. “Bad Edutn” is streamg now on origal story ‘Bad Edutn’ Subject Frank Tassone Admir Hugh Jackman’s Performance, Criciz Film’s Portrayal of His Sexualy At TheWrap
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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
The movie impli that this was to hi his homosexualy. About six months later, he found himself visg a gay bar. People the muny say that they long spected that Tassone might be gay.
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