Yeah, a prominent Danish film critic shared that. The same shit the author has said over and over (the Yale-investigation was discredited by the custody court, for instance). It's kinda creepy that he would create a whole webpage for it, though.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
people shouldn't be blamed for things their mother said 40 years ago
― Treeship, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 16:55 (eight years ago) link
People probably shouldn't even be blamed for things they themselves said 40 years ago. Also, wasn't a pretty big part of Ronans letter about how he himself fell into the same traps in his work in the media?
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
sometimes I wonder what weird psychodrama compels Ronan to maintain this fiction that Frank Sinatra is not his dad
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 16:57 (four years ago) link
i feel he doesn't lack for options in the psychodramas-to-hand dept
(tho i guess it wd be fun to discover it was actually one none of us had to date heard about)
― mark s, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:07 (four years ago) link
("fun")
Maybe it's weird enough to have a fake real dad 50 years your senior without having to entertain the notion of a real real dad who was old enough to have been your weirdly-old fake real dad's real dad.
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:08 (four years ago) link
This seems legit?
https://www.mercurynews.com/2015/11/24/frank-sinatra-is-definitely-not-ronan-farrows-biological-father/
In an interview Monday on NPR’s “Diane Rehm Show,” James Kaplan, author of the second volume of “Sinatra: The Chairman,” said there is no way the “My Way” singer could have gotten together with ex-wife Mia Farrow and conceived Ronan, 27, around March 1987.
That’s because, at the time, Sinatra was incapacitated and impotent following a major abdominal surgery three months earlier that involved removal of 12 feet of intestine. He was recovering in Hawaii with his fourth wife, Barbara, and wearing what was essentially a colostomy bag, Kaplan said.
― brownie, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
damn frank was 71 when he obviously fathered ronan
― american bradass (BradNelson), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:23 (four years ago) link
as w/ the JFK assassination, none of us know shit
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
Kaplan bio is what prompted my revive tbh
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
He was recovering in Hawaii with his fourth wife, Barbara, and wearing what was essentially a colostomy bag, Kaplan said.
"Damn, he's good."
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 17:35 (four years ago) link
When need to follow Ronan around and snag a cup he drank from, then do DNA testing, detective style.
― nickn, Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:11 (four years ago) link
I'm going to need him to cover "Some Velvet Morning" to see if there's any family resemblance.
― Greta Van Show Feets BB (milo z), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:14 (four years ago) link
Mia actually meant Frank Sinatra JR. when discussing Ronan's parentage.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 January 2020 18:45 (four years ago) link
Source involved in Weinstein trial tells me close to 50 potential jurors have been sent home because they said they’d read Catch and Kill.— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) January 10, 2020
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 10 January 2020 02:22 (four years ago) link
last time I checked you didn't need all your intestines to father a child
― akm, Friday, 10 January 2020 02:27 (four years ago) link
and as for whether mia would have fucked an old frank with a colostomy bag....well she married woody allen which is pretty much the same thing
― akm, Friday, 10 January 2020 02:28 (four years ago) link
yeah, she didn't.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 10 January 2020 02:29 (four years ago) link
Frank - 12 feet of intestine + colostomy bag > Woody Allen
― An Oral History of Deez Nutz (PBKR), Friday, 10 January 2020 02:42 (four years ago) link
How is there any doubt that Sinatra is his father?
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Friday, 10 January 2020 02:44 (four years ago) link
Because he can't sing?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMlUktaLv_w
― Josefa, Friday, 10 January 2020 02:51 (four years ago) link
neither can nancy really
― akm, Friday, 10 January 2020 02:54 (four years ago) link
lol
― Dan S, Friday, 10 January 2020 02:55 (four years ago) link
Frank Jr. a shittier singer than Nancy tbrr
― Οὖτις, Friday, 10 January 2020 03:16 (four years ago) link
Frank vs. Woody kinda an interesting matchup tbh. I’m not sure who’s got the superior body of work.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 10 January 2020 03:18 (four years ago) link
i forgot frank jr even existed
― akm, Friday, 10 January 2020 03:18 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKsbx4meBTY
― Josefa, Friday, 10 January 2020 03:58 (four years ago) link
xpost -- this old Tom Junod piece on Frank Jr. from 1994 is a hell of a thing
https://thestacks.deadspin.com/frank-sinatra-jr-is-worth-six-buddy-grecos-1000516479
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 10 January 2020 04:47 (four years ago) link
oooof
― Banáná hÉireann (darraghmac), Friday, 10 January 2020 09:47 (four years ago) link
― akm, Friday, January 10, 2020 2:54 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
You're saying nowadays Nancy can't even sing?
― ☮️ (peace, man), Friday, 10 January 2020 12:40 (four years ago) link
*applause*
― Pinche Cumbion Bien Loco (stevie), Friday, 10 January 2020 12:46 (four years ago) link
Pretty much every time Frank Jr. is evoked it takes a minute for me to remember that he isn't Garry Lewis.
― Drive Like a Demon From Steakhouse to Steakhouse (Old Lunch), Friday, 10 January 2020 13:01 (four years ago) link