yeah toback is more like cosby where it wasn't even an open secret, it was just... out in the open. i learned he was a sex creep before i knew any of his actual film credits (bugsy included). he doesn't even seem like a remotely powerful person in hollywood but he's acted like he's immortal for decades. when's the last time anyone's given a fuck about james toback's film career? would anyone have wondered where he went if he disappeared 15 years ago? he wasn't being protected by hollywood, he was allowed to be like this for decades for the same reason every unimportant man is allowed to be a sex creep without repercussion
― qualx, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 02:33 (six years ago) link
He doesnt even sound like that big of a bigshot hollywood deal, certainly not a breaker if a maker (like weinstein was able to shut people up). I'm not victim blaming here but I dont get how he fooled so many women into fucking gross shit like HUMPING THEIR LEG TIL HE ORGASMED. Ugh ugh fucking die.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 02:48 (six years ago) link
Tragically wearing a fedora in the photo attached to the article
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 03:11 (six years ago) link
https://twitter.com/search?q=terry%20richardson&src=typd
― Eazy, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 17:14 (six years ago) link
Er, meant that to be this.
Terry Richardson and woody Allen What a great picture!!!!! Wait , where is Weinstein ?#terryrichardson #WoodyAllen pic.twitter.com/SshGmsYdOM— Sovantha (@Sonith9) October 24, 2017
― Eazy, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 17:15 (six years ago) link
where is cuttyhorse
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
https://scobleizer.blog/2017/10/25/no-of-that-im-innocent-sexual-harassment-assault-accusations/amp
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 17:40 (six years ago) link
that is an *exceptionally* terrible statement
― nomar, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 17:42 (six years ago) link
icymi, neolib literary asshole takes a fall
https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/the-harvey-effect-reaches-leon-wieseltier/543897/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 17:54 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I love all the centrist dem pundits on twitter calling this "slander" when they were pushing that Jeff Stein Vox piece on "misogyny on the left" about a fucking podcast. this is otm:
Weren’t you just trying to call out misogyny on the left? It’s almost as if you don’t really care about female safety just scoring pts 🤔 https://t.co/y7L1UTAusM— Neo Liberal (@RickyRawls) October 25, 2017
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 17:57 (six years ago) link
Innocent of all sorts of things he innocently did.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
None of the women who came forward were ever in a position where I could make or break their careers. Sexual Harassment requires that I have such power.
I don't think this is part of the definition of "sexual harassment". This isn't a "bigotry" vs "racism" issue.
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 17:59 (six years ago) link
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/anna-faris-reveals-director-sexually-155003460.html
she's talking about Ivan Reitman here, i'm almost 100% certain
― nomar, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
Also, as these allegations mount and we tally them, it feels like we are starting to be more interested in keeping a tally on a scorecard than we are in helping the people victimized in these situations. I don't know what to do about that feeling.
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 18:01 (six years ago) link
Wait till it's the music industry's turn... watch out!
― Terry Micawber (Tom D.), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 18:13 (six years ago) link
xxp whoa. when this story broke 3 weeks ago, I thought about how many producers (strictly producers - not people like J.J. Abrams) have name recognition. Harvey was #1 with a bullet, and the only other two I could think of were Ivan Reitman and Bob Iger.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 18:16 (six years ago) link
have you heard of this guy Steve Mnuchin
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
he's kind of a big deal
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 18:19 (six years ago) link
Good call but he definitely did not have name recognition as producer before Trump admin.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 18:23 (six years ago) link
Dune Entertainment seems to have strictly been on the financing side, rather than the director/cast supervising side.
― prelude to abjection (Sanpaku), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 21:43 (six years ago) link
It adds to the scorecard as DJP noted, but:
http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/25/media/mark-halperin-sexual-harassment-allegations/index.html
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 October 2017 03:54 (six years ago) link
And this is worth noting
This has been another open secret in the media....kudos to @oliverdarcy for nailing down what others couldn't. https://t.co/lsC0n2kAXz— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 26, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 26 October 2017 03:58 (six years ago) link
Let's hear the joke pic.twitter.com/bAvyKeQnES— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) October 26, 2017
― j., Thursday, 26 October 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link
Add Artforum’s publisher and Leon Wieseltier to the list.
― Eazy, Thursday, 26 October 2017 06:09 (six years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/corey-feldman-crowdfunds-film-to-expose-child-sexual-abuse.html
― j., Thursday, 26 October 2017 06:59 (six years ago) link
go Corey go
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 26 October 2017 14:06 (six years ago) link
Poppy Bush's joke (and this was straight from my acquaintance whom he 'encountered') was this:
"Guess my favorite magician?
It's David Cop-A-Feel!"
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 October 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
i'd have gone with 'guess my favourite metal lawman? it's robo-cop-a-feel!' myself
― proton, neutron, electron and crouton (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 26 October 2017 15:09 (six years ago) link
favorite character from Mr Rogers Neighborhood? Mr McFeely
― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Thursday, 26 October 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
funny how it never seems to happen with men
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 26 October 2017 16:44 (six years ago) link
that joke is quoted here
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/26/george-hw-bush-issues-new-apology-after-second-actor-accuses-him-of-sexual-assault
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2017 16:48 (six years ago) link
maybe it's time to just have a... sigh... rolling sexual assault scandal thread
― Nhex, Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:39 (six years ago) link
A spokesman for Bush, who is 93, said then: “President Bush would never – under any circumstance – intentionally cause anyone distress, so any distress you may be feeling is on you, I'm afraid."
― Winky Carrothers (Old Lunch), Thursday, 26 October 2017 19:49 (six years ago) link
I doubt dragging GHW Bush into this will help the cause of reducing workplace sexual harassment.
― Sanpaku, Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
are we dragging him into it? or is he slithering into it?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
doddering into it
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:04 (six years ago) link
tbh wouldn't be surprised if it's dementia related
― nomar, Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
Possibly, but is the fact that he's at least twice done his "cop-a-feel" joke followed by a grab raise the possibility that it's not?
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:10 (six years ago) link
It doesn't seem the persons who's ass was intentionally or inadvertently grabbed by GHW Bush at a public event was in a position where their job was threatened, if they spoke out.
At some point, putting this into the same category as film producers who demand erotic massages or leg-humping directors, belittles the experience of those who face workplace harassment.
― Sanpaku, Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:13 (six years ago) link
People with dementia do the same things over and over again, it's a characteristic feature
― badg, Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:38 (six years ago) link
as do many people without it. but it's unlikely we're going to provided with clinical evidence...
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
I am having a lot of difficulty getting past "David Cop-A-Feel"
― Marcus Hiles Remains Steadfast About Planting Trees.jpg (DJP), Thursday, 26 October 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
It seems like all the stories (including my acquaintance's*) were at photo ops at things he was a guest at, so yeah.
*She's admitted the odd look on her face in the photo they took (which she's had up on FB since it was taken and also features other cast members of her show along with Mr. & Mrs. Bush) was because she was thinking "Did George Bush just goose me?"
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 26 October 2017 21:15 (six years ago) link
'david cop-a-feel' sounds like the most stereotypical joke an old rich ruling class creep would make in front of his CIA friends in the seventies while they're all smoking cigars in a golf club lounge
he's probably been doing it for decades
― qualx, Thursday, 26 October 2017 23:57 (six years ago) link
or y'know, Skull & Bones
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 October 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link
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― Οὖτις, Thursday, October 26, 2017
rolled into it
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 27 October 2017 00:33 (six years ago) link
groping his way through
― El Tomboto, Friday, 27 October 2017 00:39 (six years ago) link
it seems like calling out this behavior as shitty is key to reducing harassment, no?
lol dragging him into it. nobody made him act like a shithead. fuck this
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 27 October 2017 00:41 (six years ago) link
his wife was standing right there and joked about it. fuck these people
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 27 October 2017 00:45 (six years ago) link
by the time we're finished they're gonna wonder if david cop-a-feel was bush's running mate
― qualx, Friday, 27 October 2017 00:46 (six years ago) link