![]() “It’s embarrassing … it’s just kind of rude,” Ready said in reference to having family members in the audience, including Franks’ great aunt, who asked a question earlier in the Q&A. ![]() “I really think that was irrelevant to put that in there,” added Ready. ![]() PHOTOS: Nas, Susan Sarandon and Robert De Niro at the Tribeca Film Festival Frank was accused of allowing his houseguest to run a prostitution ring out of his home, but after being investigated by the House Ethics Committee, he was found innocent and was reprimanded only for using his congressional office to fix his driver’s parking tickets. “That kind of bothered me.” What specifically bothered Ready was the movie’s inclusion of the 1989 scandal involving Frank hiring a male prostitute to be his live-in driver and housekeeper. “I don’t understand why the moviemakers would want to embarrass someone who went out of the way to let them make a movie about him,” Ready told Baldwin. The film is a positive portrayal of the politician, but based on Frank’s and husband Jim Ready‘s comments during the post-screening Q&A with executive producer Alec Baldwin, they seem less than thrilled with the final product. It even allowed the filmmakers to shoot his 2012 wedding, which made Frank the first member of congress to marry someone of the same sex. When introducing the world premiere of their documentary Compared to What: The Improbable Journey of Barney Frank at Tribeca, co-directors Sheila Canavan and Michael Chandler told the audience that they had asked Barney Frank for access to follow him “everywhere but the bathroom” and that the now-former congressman lived up to his end of the arrangement.
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