Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

NEWS: White House staff secretary Robert Porter is leaving his post amid allegations that he was abusive toward his ex-wives. Story coming soon to @WSJ.

— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) February 7, 2018

Well 'allegations' was too light a word, clearly.

Meantime...

http://www.indiewire.com/2018/02/quentin-tarantino-apologizes-roman-polanski-victim-samantha-geimer-1201926322/

When Howard brought up Polanski, I incorrectly played devil’s advocate in the debate for the sake of being provocative.

Indeed.

I love how in all the old Howard excerpts that have been periodically pulled out for nearly 2 years, Howard & Robin are p much always the sober voice of reason.

y'all missed the best part:

I am not alone in wanting Tarantino to keep making movies. He’s one of our finest and fearless filmmakers, no matter how idiotically he behaved on the Howard Stern Show. Who else could have envisioned Jews actually killing Hitler in “Inglourius Basterds” or slaves bucking their masters in “Django Unchained”? Political correctness is not his strong suit and never will be.

:/

it's true, no Jew ever imagined killing Hitler

who else could have closed their eyes and dreamed up the idea of killing slave owners but Quentin Tarantino

"bucking"

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/08/ed-crane-cato-institute-sexual-harassment-398989

Three former employees of the famed Cato Institute say they were sexually harassed by Ed Crane, the 73-year-old co-founder and president emeritus of the think tank and one of the most recognizable figures in the libertarian movement.

One former employee said Crane asked her to take off her bra. Another said he compared her breasts to pornographic images on his computer. A third said he sent her an email on breast augmentation. Crane also settled an additional sexual harassment claim by a former employee in 2012, her lawyer confirmed to POLITICO.

say it ain't so

The transcript:

Tarantino: No, that was not the case AT ALL. She wanted to have it and dated the guy and—

Quivers: She was 13!

Tarantino: And by the way, we’re talking about America’s morals, not talking about the morals in Europe and everything.

Stern: Wait a minute. If you have sex with a 13-year-old girl and you’re a grown man, you know that that’s wrong.

Quivers: ...giving her booze and pills...

Tarantino: Look, she was down with this.

Augment your freedoms!

A rare US version of the dumb-as-rocks "this metoo thing is typical american puritanism!" thing being vomited up by Euro cinema types who should know better on my timeline atm.

j f c

Did Conrad Black really just say this? https://t.co/oa4RNF5c4l pic.twitter.com/aa5FKo5ras

— Jake Reid (@JakeAReid) February 9, 2018

A rare US version of the dumb-as-rocks "this metoo thing is typical american puritanism!" thing being vomited up by Euro cinema types who should know better on my timeline atm.

― Daniel_Rf, Friday, February 9, 2018 8:28 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ku-tRgWZuc

if you know anything about conrad black this is the opposite of surprising xp

I'm completely unfamiliar with this person but the juxtaposition of "magnificently concupiscent" and "She offered to do me" tells me all I need to know

i'm not surprised CB wrote it, just surprised that anyone, including the paper he founded, would think it worth publishing

Conrad Black is our nation's finest public intellectual

I don't think the National Post is allowed to refuse, or to edit, his pieces

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/09/politics/trump-rob-porter/index.html

""I found out about it recently and I was surprised by it," Trump said. "We certainly wish him well. It's obviously a very tough time for him. He did a very good job while he was in the White House."
"We hope that he will have a wonderful career," Trump added"

man.

We finally found out what @ConradMBlack has to say before the @nationalpost actually dares to edit one of his lunatic columns. Political correctness run amok, I guess! pic.twitter.com/WEnMaai5Qi

— Jesse Brown (@JesseBrown) February 9, 2018

Michael Haneke: #MeToo has led to a witch hunt coloured by a hatred of men

oh ffs you cretin

he loves women though

lol

shouldn't it be a "warlock hunt" then?

just sayin.

#MeToo has led to a witch hunt coloured by a hatred of men

― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, February 12, 2018

said in the voice of Herzog

“what about the men” is maybe the 35073rd question anyone should ask, and yet because it’s provocative in that holding up the status quo while being a dick about it way (and also because of who’s still running the show in media) it’s right up top. amazing how hegemony asserts itself

maura otm; I'm sure he thinks he's being daring, and bravely speaking out, but the attitude is one that's ruled the world for centuries.

hot takes from white men

white men takes back

yes, septuagenarian white men sure do spend a lot of their scarce time left reminding the rest of us to put them on mute

when women speak out about being abused by powerful men it's like a "witch hunt" - those times when powerful men rounded up women whose behaviour they disapproved of and ritually killed them. it's just like that! same thing, basically!

Any pushback feels like oppression to the oppressor.

I mean “outspoken white guy” + “over 69” = guess what, more of them are Hanekes and Trumps than Bernies or Bidens

as in most of this entire saga you can usually tell the retrograde silverback wannabes by the fact that they are talking

open question to thread: what pop websites online are good for news with female perspective? thinking about jezebel, bust, mary sue variety; curious to see what other media is out there.

My first thought: who the hell is Michael Haneke?
My second thought: that question's not worth answering.

the 45th greatest director of all time

45th, eh. so, where did Woody Allen place?

97th

then he and woody belong to a highly distinguished group, no doubt.

Well, Hitchcock won, so...

I would love to hear Hitchcock's views on the respect that should be accorded to actresses, too. We could poll his, Woody's and Mr. Haneke's views on the subject.

Don't leave out Von Trier, I hear he has some ideas too.

Bresson too

korean director kim ki-duk's turn

Famed SKorean director #KimKiDuk was convicted of physically abusing an actress. Yet he has been invited to @berlinale film fest that publicly supported #MeToo campaign against abuse of women. I asked Kim's victim how she feels about it @AFP https://t.co/NaWp8dtYga #berlinale2018

— Hawon Jung (@allyjung) February 11, 2018

seems like korea has the most support for having an open conversation on men's sexual misconduct and women's rights issues, while in japan and china it's basically non-existent

cluck-clucking over every male filmmaker in history, goddamn i love atheist moral scolds

are you really saying every male filmmaker in history abuses or disrespects actresses?

no, you checklisters are coming close enough

so, it's only the great preponderance of them?

or maybe you'd agree that male filmmakers differ in this regard and by examining their words and actions those differences become apparent so that their views on the matter are open to judgment, including negative judgment?