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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.

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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.

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Alicia’s Receipts:

Ava: My Story, by Ava Gardner

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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.

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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.

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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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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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Hello, and welcome to our season four closer and our last (regular) episode of 2019! This week, Alicia has the true crime story of Christmas crooner Andy Williams and his marriage to, divorce from, and defense of his ex-wife, alleged murderer Claudine Longet. Then, Stacie has the dirty details of Tommy Mattola's pursuit of and marriage to superstar Mariah Carey, with proof that a castle alone isn’t enough to hang onto a queen.

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We’re hopping into our time machine and heading back to merry olde England, circa 1560, to take a look at the original Staircase Murder. During the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, Bess held the affection of many men, but pony boy Robert Dudley found his feelings reciprocated. Until his wife Amy Robsart was found dead at the foot of a staircase, that is. An innocent accident, or something much darker? Alicia has all the deets.

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