June 17, 2025 • 8 mins
Johnny Oleksinski joins Mendte in the Morning to talk about the premier of Mariska Hargitay’s new documentary about her Hollywood bombshell mom Jayne Mansfield and the secret that Hargitay kept for all of these years.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now let's go to Johnny Olazinski, New York Post entertainment
critic who was at the Tribeca Film Festival and actually
like something.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah so, And it wasn't only at the Tribeca Film Festival,
it was at Carnegie Hall. I'd never been to a
movie at Carnegie Hall, and you'd be surprised. It works
very very well as a movie. Then you so this
movie what I love a celebrity. If a celebrity is
going to do a project about themselves, call it a
vanity project. I want them to really go there and
(00:30):
shock me and dig deep. And this celebrity is a
Riska hargatea Olivia Benson from Law and Order SVU, and
I didn't really care to know anything about her, but
she made a movie about her mom, Jane Mansfield, the
kind of Marilyn Monroe want to be actress who very
tragically died at thirty four in a car accident, and
(00:50):
Risca was in the car with her siblings. All the
adults in the car died, but the siblings lived. And
it actually has a lot of shocking, shock fucking revelations.
Mariska Hargate's dad was Mickey Hargitae, the Mister Universe winner
who's passed away. Turns out not her dad. Mariska Hargatee
(01:11):
has a different father. She learned about him thirty years ago,
a Brazilian Italian entertainer named Nelson Sardelli, that when Mickey
and Jane were kind of splits for a little bit,
they had an affair Nelson and Jane and Olivia rather
around Olivia. Riska didn't find out about this until she
(01:31):
was about twenty five, and she's kept this secret until
this movie.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So nobody knew that. Nobody knew thirty years ago. You
were saying, she found that.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
She found out about thirty years ago, and she's sixty
and she's done everything she can, mostly out of respect
for the guy that raised her, Mickey hargita She didn't.
They spoke about it one time and then they never
spoke about it again. She kept at private, Nelson kept
it private. She's had a relationship with his daughters, and
now she's coming clean. For lack of a better word,
(01:59):
it really I never have seen a celebrity quite admit
to something like that in a movie. It's a very emotional,
exciting thing. And even though I've told you what happens.
I highly recommend watching it. It's coming to HBO. Max
on June twenty seventh.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You said they was full of surprises. Do you not
want to give away anymore? Because that's the biggest one,
that's enormous. But what else does she disclose in there
that we didn't know?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well, this was another one that got me. So I
mentioned that that tragic car accident, and we've always known that,
But what she'd never said before is she was forgotten
as a three year old little girl. She was forgotten
at the scene of the crime because all the adults
that knew the other kids in the car were dead,
and the ambulance and police officers they didn't see her.
(02:46):
Their wreckage were so mangled and her body was so
little that she was shoved under the passenger seat and
had a head injury, so she was unconscious. And then
her brother wakes up while they're driving away, her six
year old brother, and he goes, where's Mariska And they
had to go back, So that there is an absolute
chance that risk Hargitet could have just died by being
(03:07):
left alone in that car.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Well, her life is like a movie script. I mean
that's with all the twist and turns in it is amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It absolutely is, and it you know, it made me
think about that phrase nepo baby. I've never liked the
phrase nepo baby because I think it leaves out the
nuances of people's lives. Yes, she is the daughter of
a very famous Hollywood star, but that doesn't make losing
your mother at three years old and you know, having
(03:34):
to kind of climb your way back up any less
hard or tragic. It's not like her. The you know,
the road's success was paid for her. It absolutely wasn't.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh, it sounds wonderful. Give give the dates to when
people can see it one more time.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So the movie is called My Mom Jane, and it's
going to be on Max. So streaming is the streaming
service on June twenty seventh, and you should watch it.
It is exciting and emotional and I highly recommend it.
Which is always a sentence I say.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
No, I know, let's go to something you hate. How
about the play call me izy.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh this was a bummer too, because I really like
Jean Smart. Jean Smart, who's had such a cool career
resurgence on Hacks. She's so funny on Hacks, so likable
on Hacks, and she is kind of likable on Broadway,
kind of And what is a dismal cliche gloomy, gloomy
play about a Louisiana woman. It's fictional, a Louisiana woman
(04:28):
who lives in a trailer park and hiding from her
abusive husband. She writes poetry in the bathroom on toilet
paper and then steals it away in a tampax box.
And I gotta tell you while you know these are
these are serious issues. This is a this is a
bottom of the barrel. You know. If someone told me
(04:49):
it's like a lifetime movie. Answer, why do we have
to insult lifetime movies like this by comparison? Lifetime movies
are often very very well written and compelling. And they, oh, oh,
how bored I was. I was so bored. I didn't
want to groan out loud because that would be rude,
so I tried to keep my grown. They were internal groans,
but my oh, my eyes kept rolling. Your healths let
(05:12):
it out right, Because everyone loves on Broadway when people
start making a loud random noises our favorite.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Thing, especially groans. Loud random noises like laughter, that's.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Great, that's right. But you know, I think I have
a license to groan. James Bond has a license to kill.
Johnny has a license to groan.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So you stayed for the whole thing? Did anybody leave?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Of course I stayed for the whole thing? I want
to put that out there. I never I've never left
a show that I'm writing about, because what if it
gets better? It very rarely does, but one day, one
day it might, and I need to be there for
that day.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
He's an optimist, so you're required by law to be
there for the entire thing. Did anyone else leave?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
There were a couple walk outs? Sure, really it's hard.
It's a very quiet show, and there is no intermission,
so if you're gonna go, you're gonna you're the sort
of person that wants to make a scene about leaving.
There was one woman who just stomped out because at
Studio fifty four of the aisles or wood, they don't
even have the carpet to muffle your you know, your dissatisfaction,
(06:13):
So off she goes.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Much more fun when you don't like a movie, Sure
that's much more fun.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
No, because it's more fun after the fact. But during it.
It's really great if two two and a half hours
of my time were spent enjoying something. Life is very short.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
But I would imagine, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I don't always have to enjoy your job.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No, But also I'm sure he gets more readership from
negative reviews than.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Possibly not always. No, it's you. You get readership from
things people want to read about, and sometimes people want
to read. When I reviewed Top Gun Maverick, I love
Top Gun Maverick, and that did really well because readers
were just very interested in the movie Top Gun Maverick.
They wanted to like it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Change the premise. You have more fun writing about a
bad review.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I love to write. I am a paid writer, and
I write fun sentences about films and Broadway.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Come on you, They're more fun. I've heard other people
talk about this. Dennis Cunningham always talked about a bad
review is a lot more fun than a good review.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It is. They're the ones I read after the fact.
It's like it's like if you go to Sarities, you
know on the wall there's the post they don't keep
the hit posters, they have the flops. There's the wall
of flops. And so some of my most cherished reviews
are the mean ones. But yeah, yeah, I like to
I like to sharpen mine eye. Sure, I just love
your job description.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I write fun sentences.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yes, one of my others once told me. They said
the most we don't care what you think about anything.
The most important thing is that people get to the
bottom of your review, that they read the whole thing.
Entertain them with what you write, be it good or bad.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You saw the premiere of The Brad Pitt I did.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I was there last night.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
There have been ads about that movie. They must really
really love this movie, I mean for money making.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's and so the review will come out later today,
so I have to be vague. But okay, I highly
I liked it. I liked it. I liked it. And
it's finally, Apple, which has been pouring hundreds of millions
of dollars into these movies, schlocky, awful movies, made a
good one. It is good, and it's from the director
of of Top Gun, Maverick, so he knows how to
(08:28):
make kind of this high octane Sure, a movie with
an aging but still good looking star in a fast
moving vehicle knows how to do it.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I want to check your pulse. I want to check ID.
These are two good reviews, two things that you like today,
that's great and.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Would you believe there's going to be a third this
week too? Oh wow, everyone turned off their radio.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Sorry, Saiski New York Post entertainment critic, Thanks a lot.
Now let's go to Johnny Olazinski, New York Post entertainment
critic who was at the Tribeca Film Festival and actually
like something.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Yeah so, And it wasn't only at the Tribeca Film Festival,
it was at Carnegie Hall. I'd never been to a
movie at Carnegie Hall, and you'd be surprised. It works
very very well as a movie. Then you so this
movie what I love a celebrity. If a celebrity is
going to do a project about themselves, call it a
vanity project. I want them to really go there and
(00:30):
shock me and dig deep. And this celebrity is a
Riska hargatea Olivia Benson from Law and Order SVU, and
I didn't really care to know anything about her, but
she made a movie about her mom, Jane Mansfield, the
kind of Marilyn Monroe want to be actress who very
tragically died at thirty four in a car accident, and
(00:50):
Risca was in the car with her siblings. All the
adults in the car died, but the siblings lived. And
it actually has a lot of shocking, shock fucking revelations.
Mariska Hargate's dad was Mickey Hargitae, the Mister Universe winner
who's passed away. Turns out not her dad. Mariska Hargatee
(01:11):
has a different father. She learned about him thirty years ago,
a Brazilian Italian entertainer named Nelson Sardelli, that when Mickey
and Jane were kind of splits for a little bit,
they had an affair Nelson and Jane and Olivia rather
around Olivia. Riska didn't find out about this until she
(01:31):
was about twenty five, and she's kept this secret until
this movie.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
So nobody knew that. Nobody knew thirty years ago. You
were saying, she found that.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
She found out about thirty years ago, and she's sixty
and she's done everything she can, mostly out of respect
for the guy that raised her, Mickey hargita She didn't.
They spoke about it one time and then they never
spoke about it again. She kept at private, Nelson kept
it private. She's had a relationship with his daughters, and
now she's coming clean. For lack of a better word,
(01:59):
it really I never have seen a celebrity quite admit
to something like that in a movie. It's a very emotional,
exciting thing. And even though I've told you what happens.
I highly recommend watching it. It's coming to HBO. Max
on June twenty seventh.
Speaker 1 (02:13):
You said they was full of surprises. Do you not
want to give away anymore? Because that's the biggest one,
that's enormous. But what else does she disclose in there
that we didn't know?
Speaker 2 (02:25):
Well, this was another one that got me. So I
mentioned that that tragic car accident, and we've always known that,
But what she'd never said before is she was forgotten
as a three year old little girl. She was forgotten
at the scene of the crime because all the adults
that knew the other kids in the car were dead,
and the ambulance and police officers they didn't see her.
(02:46):
Their wreckage were so mangled and her body was so
little that she was shoved under the passenger seat and
had a head injury, so she was unconscious. And then
her brother wakes up while they're driving away, her six
year old brother, and he goes, where's Mariska And they
had to go back, So that there is an absolute
chance that risk Hargitet could have just died by being
(03:07):
left alone in that car.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Well, her life is like a movie script. I mean
that's with all the twist and turns in it is amazing.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
It absolutely is, and it you know, it made me
think about that phrase nepo baby. I've never liked the
phrase nepo baby because I think it leaves out the
nuances of people's lives. Yes, she is the daughter of
a very famous Hollywood star, but that doesn't make losing
your mother at three years old and you know, having
(03:34):
to kind of climb your way back up any less
hard or tragic. It's not like her. The you know,
the road's success was paid for her. It absolutely wasn't.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Oh, it sounds wonderful. Give give the dates to when
people can see it one more time.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
So the movie is called My Mom Jane, and it's
going to be on Max. So streaming is the streaming
service on June twenty seventh, and you should watch it.
It is exciting and emotional and I highly recommend it.
Which is always a sentence I say.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
No, I know, let's go to something you hate. How
about the play call me izy.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Oh this was a bummer too, because I really like
Jean Smart. Jean Smart, who's had such a cool career
resurgence on Hacks. She's so funny on Hacks, so likable
on Hacks, and she is kind of likable on Broadway,
kind of And what is a dismal cliche gloomy, gloomy
play about a Louisiana woman. It's fictional, a Louisiana woman
(04:28):
who lives in a trailer park and hiding from her
abusive husband. She writes poetry in the bathroom on toilet
paper and then steals it away in a tampax box.
And I gotta tell you while you know these are
these are serious issues. This is a this is a
bottom of the barrel. You know. If someone told me
(04:49):
it's like a lifetime movie. Answer, why do we have
to insult lifetime movies like this by comparison? Lifetime movies
are often very very well written and compelling. And they, oh, oh,
how bored I was. I was so bored. I didn't
want to groan out loud because that would be rude,
so I tried to keep my grown. They were internal groans,
but my oh, my eyes kept rolling. Your healths let
(05:12):
it out right, Because everyone loves on Broadway when people
start making a loud random noises our favorite.
Speaker 1 (05:18):
Thing, especially groans. Loud random noises like laughter, that's.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
Great, that's right. But you know, I think I have
a license to groan. James Bond has a license to kill.
Johnny has a license to groan.
Speaker 1 (05:30):
So you stayed for the whole thing? Did anybody leave?
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Of course I stayed for the whole thing? I want
to put that out there. I never I've never left
a show that I'm writing about, because what if it
gets better? It very rarely does, but one day, one
day it might, and I need to be there for
that day.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
He's an optimist, so you're required by law to be
there for the entire thing. Did anyone else leave?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
There were a couple walk outs? Sure, really it's hard.
It's a very quiet show, and there is no intermission,
so if you're gonna go, you're gonna you're the sort
of person that wants to make a scene about leaving.
There was one woman who just stomped out because at
Studio fifty four of the aisles or wood, they don't
even have the carpet to muffle your you know, your dissatisfaction,
(06:13):
So off she goes.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
Much more fun when you don't like a movie, Sure
that's much more fun.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
No, because it's more fun after the fact. But during it.
It's really great if two two and a half hours
of my time were spent enjoying something. Life is very short.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
But I would imagine, yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I don't always have to enjoy your job.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
No, But also I'm sure he gets more readership from
negative reviews than.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Possibly not always. No, it's you. You get readership from
things people want to read about, and sometimes people want
to read. When I reviewed Top Gun Maverick, I love
Top Gun Maverick, and that did really well because readers
were just very interested in the movie Top Gun Maverick.
They wanted to like it.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Change the premise. You have more fun writing about a
bad review.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
I love to write. I am a paid writer, and
I write fun sentences about films and Broadway.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Come on you, They're more fun. I've heard other people
talk about this. Dennis Cunningham always talked about a bad
review is a lot more fun than a good review.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
It is. They're the ones I read after the fact.
It's like it's like if you go to Sarities, you
know on the wall there's the post they don't keep
the hit posters, they have the flops. There's the wall
of flops. And so some of my most cherished reviews
are the mean ones. But yeah, yeah, I like to
I like to sharpen mine eye. Sure, I just love
your job description.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I write fun sentences.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yes, one of my others once told me. They said
the most we don't care what you think about anything.
The most important thing is that people get to the
bottom of your review, that they read the whole thing.
Entertain them with what you write, be it good or bad.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You saw the premiere of The Brad Pitt I did.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I was there last night.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
There have been ads about that movie. They must really
really love this movie, I mean for money making.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
It's and so the review will come out later today,
so I have to be vague. But okay, I highly
I liked it. I liked it. I liked it. And
it's finally, Apple, which has been pouring hundreds of millions
of dollars into these movies, schlocky, awful movies, made a
good one. It is good, and it's from the director
of of Top Gun, Maverick, so he knows how to
(08:28):
make kind of this high octane Sure, a movie with
an aging but still good looking star in a fast
moving vehicle knows how to do it.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I want to check your pulse. I want to check ID.
These are two good reviews, two things that you like today,
that's great and.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Would you believe there's going to be a third this
week too? Oh wow, everyone turned off their radio.
Speaker 1 (08:49):
Sorry, Saiski New York Post entertainment critic, Thanks a lot.
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