so this guy's got presumably top dollar lawyers and crisis management teams working for him and... that's his statement?
"not used to this new day and age when leveraging your power to coerce young women eager to get a foot in the door into sleeping with you isn't cool. i'm workin' on it. also fuck the NRA and Trump, right guys?!"
― circa1916, Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:00 (six years ago) link
oh i forgot about the Jay-Z quote from 4:44
HEY GUYS LETS SHOW HOW CULTURALLY AWARE I AM
― Randall Jarrell (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:01 (six years ago) link
Weinstein told NYT he "sincerely apologize[s]" for his behavior, is going on leave.His lawyer tells Hollywood Reporter he is suing us.— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) October 5, 2017
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:02 (six years ago) link
wow what a total POS
that "apology" reads like a horrendous parody
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:34 (six years ago) link
Harvey the Hutt
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:42 (six years ago) link
surprised it wasn't written in crayon a la tarantino scripts
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 October 2017 20:51 (six years ago) link
Speaking of, can't wait for the Tarantino statement. Oh wait I can.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
Maybe he can direct the movie.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:13 (six years ago) link
I posted on this thread 12 years ago jesus christ
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:34 (six years ago) link
lol the I DID IT thread has to do with Harvey's penchant for smoking cigars indoors in CA and not giving a fuck
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 5 October 2017 21:35 (six years ago) link
BREAKING: Weinstein's lawyer gave Manhattan DA 0K after he declined to file sex assault charges against Weinstein https://t.co/LIKNFRWAUv— David Sirota (@davidsirota) October 5, 2017
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 5 October 2017 22:41 (six years ago) link
bad week for Cyrus Vance, jesus christ
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Thursday, 5 October 2017 22:42 (six years ago) link
also apparently being a DA in NYC is lucrative as fuck!
People are just tripping over themselves to give him money because they like him so much!
― jmm, Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:07 (six years ago) link
Well, yeah. Straight shooter, that Vance.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 5 October 2017 23:19 (six years ago) link
btw I thought I posted on this thread like 12 years ago noting what an asshole AND misogynist Harvey was and is, but I couldn't find it via search. Because back then I knew someone at Miramar who complained about this exact shit.
― Randall Jarrell (dandydonweiner), Friday, 6 October 2017 02:00 (six years ago) link
*Miramax
― Randall Jarrell (dandydonweiner), Friday, 6 October 2017 02:01 (six years ago) link
Goddamn this story is insane. Yeah I'm with Josh, there's no way a huge chunk of the film industry didn't know about this. For decades! So gross
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 October 2017 02:06 (six years ago) link
so many open secrets just like every other ____________ industrial complex.
― Randall Jarrell (dandydonweiner), Friday, 6 October 2017 02:14 (six years ago) link
Why don't these guys feel shame that these women have no actual interest in them, and/or are actively turned off by them? Do they just not conceive of the women's thoughts at all? Or is that part of the turn on?
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 6 October 2017 02:29 (six years ago) link
Both
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 October 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link
Probably. I mean it's such a bizarre fetish, dude looks fucking disgusting & he just wants massages & women to see his whole... situation. Getting off on power and humiliation.
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 October 2017 02:41 (six years ago) link
If I thought a dude was disgusted by me, I would feel so embarrassed to try and coerce that dude to sleep with me.
Even more so if the only things in my favor were power/ money/ ability to further their career.
I think you would just have to get to the point where you don't view the other people as actual humans having any sort of agency. They are just your playthings?
Also thinking of DJT lying in bed naked under a sheet because he's ashamed of his body trying to get some woman to come into his hotel bedroom.
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 6 October 2017 03:06 (six years ago) link
It takes all kinds
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 October 2017 04:58 (six years ago) link
there's a definite possibility he thinks women are attracted to him
― qualx, Friday, 6 October 2017 06:28 (six years ago) link
Good follow-up by Rebecca Traister at The Cut: https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/why-the-weinstein-sexual-harassment-allegations-came-out-now.html
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 6 October 2017 12:39 (six years ago) link
Have fun with that, dude.
https://t.co/n0Ty3RiR04
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 October 2017 13:18 (six years ago) link
That's an anonymously sourced Daily Mail story though.
― jmm, Friday, 6 October 2017 13:26 (six years ago) link
Best kind! (I mean, thing is: at this point, sure seems like the thing he'd eventually claim.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 6 October 2017 13:28 (six years ago) link
Jeffrey Wells may be the most loathsome blogger in Hollywood, but some of the comments are 'enlightening':
http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2017/10/pay-play-massages-payoffs-messy-behavior/
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 October 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
Someone please check the lead content in whatever Cilizza drinks at lunch.
They weren't major donors to the GOP like Weinstein is to Dems https://t.co/dIjVRzLRAq— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) October 6, 2017
― Monster fatberg (Phil D.), Friday, 6 October 2017 16:36 (six years ago) link
lmao constantly pointing out that Weinstein was a major donor to the Dems doesn't seem like a well-thought out line of attack
― frogbs, Friday, 6 October 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
it's no different and also not as bad as that picture of Bill & Hillary with Trump & Melania. and yeah Cilliza = moron
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 October 2017 16:55 (six years ago) link
http://gothamist.com/2017/10/06/harvey_weinstein_accuses_ny_times_o.php?_ga=2.148250871.19607542.1506960782-484564342.1476232601
what a piece of shit
Judd's memory of their encounter was also false, Weinstein insisted, before saying, "I know Ashley Judd is going through a tough time right now, I read her book [her memoir ‘All That Is Bitter and Sweet’], in which she talks about being the victim of sexual abuse and depression as a child. Her life story was brutal, and I have to respect her. In a year from now, I am going to reach out to her."
― nomar, Friday, 6 October 2017 17:10 (six years ago) link
"in a year from now"
completely perplexed by his statements & comments yesterday in the wake of the NYT piece. like someone said upthread, doesn't this guy have the best crisis management & team of lawyers available??? hasn't he learned that when this shit happens, you make a milquetoast statement & then GO AWAY for a while? it's just bizarre, you see this same thing happen to so many other huge figures that have been exposed & fallen so quickly.
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 October 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
doesn't this guy have the best crisis management & team of lawyers available???
including Obama WH Communications Director Anita Dunn
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 6 October 2017 17:22 (six years ago) link
easier to sell drones vs sex in America
xp I guess he's just ignoring any advice he gets? kind of like Trump, you can get to a certain level where you are too powerful for anyone to protect you from your own worst instincts?
― soref, Friday, 6 October 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
yeah otm it definitely reminded me of Trump. also Ailes, O'Reilly, Cosby obviously...
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 October 2017 17:27 (six years ago) link
a certain pain-feelin' president
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 6 October 2017 17:35 (six years ago) link
ha, this pic belongs in that thread of "faces of people who have to apologize for something in front of their wives"
http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/303385/2685363/1287687757153/bill-clinton-404_683090c.jpg
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 October 2017 17:37 (six years ago) link
Seattle's child-rapist ex-mayor's response to the surfacing of accusations earlier this year was to publish a doctor's note confirming that there were no moles on his genitals. Powerful people just want to keep talking.
― .oO (silby), Friday, 6 October 2017 17:47 (six years ago) link
Powerful *old* people. Seems like a trend with so many of these cases. Shit, remember the Sandusky/Costas interview?
― flappy bird, Friday, 6 October 2017 18:22 (six years ago) link
People with wealth and power who ruthlessly screw whoever they want throughout their entire lives have traditionally made deathbed conversions, so as to clear their path into heaven before they die. Confession is part of the deal. So is building a chapel or paying for masses in perpetuity, although making movies about the NRA probably counts, too.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 6 October 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
A story so old that the very first tale in Boccaccio's Decameron is a hilarious take on this phenomenon.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 7 October 2017 11:00 (six years ago) link
yeah it's an age old tale. exploitation and the entertainment industry. there is the talent and there are the gatekeepers, leeching off both artists and the public. makes you tempted to say, fuck it, just go DIY, just go local. but these abusive power structures exist pretty much everywhere, whether you are CEO of movies or a local promoter who controls access.
this story in particular certainly explains how most movies are largely morality-free power fantasies and have been for decades. it's all cynical, there is no hope for humanity, just self-referential consumerism. Superman just stands there with a dumb look on his face while a room full of people explodes. when is the last time you left a movie feeling something, anything, that perhaps pointed to a universal truth or insight? look who is making them, amoral privileged power mongers.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 7 October 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
when is the last time you left a movie feeling something, anything, that perhaps pointed to a universal truth or insight?
Last night.
― Frederik B, Saturday, 7 October 2017 15:20 (six years ago) link
thanks for sharing, that sounds like a great movie
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 7 October 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link
yeah that happens
/when is the last time you left a movie feeling something, anything, that perhaps pointed to a universal truth or insight?/Last night.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 7 October 2017 16:00 (six years ago) link
It's kind of a similar story to that of Brett Ratner*, nothing prosecutable yet but enough to completely torpedo his career forever.
*the X-Men franchise really leaned heavily on major creeps!
― omar little, Friday, 15 March 2024 16:37 (two weeks ago) link
quinton of quinton reviews is editing a schneider video as an coda to his 43-hour long youtube series on icarly and victorious.
So the 'Quiet on Set' thing is news to me, but I have no intention of delaying my Dan Schneider video until April. I'm going to go ahead and finish it this month (or March). I'm sure there will be more specific revelations in this piece, but I frankly want to be done with it all.— Quinton Reviews - #1 GARFIELD FAN 🎬 (@Q_Review) February 8, 2024
― adam t. (abanana), Friday, 15 March 2024 18:01 (two weeks ago) link
it is a horrible coincidence that Drake Bell’s costar shares the same last name as his abuser ie Josh Peck, Brian Peckzero relationship between the two but the way the article says PECK and mainly shows pics of Josh is unfortunate
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 15 March 2024 21:28 (two weeks ago) link
This sounds like a huge breaking story, what the fuck is "ID"?― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, March 14, 2024 11:32 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglinkInvestigation Discovery, a true crime cable network.― peace, man, Thursday, March 14, 2024 11:35 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, March 14, 2024 11:32 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Investigation Discovery, a true crime cable network.
― peace, man, Thursday, March 14, 2024 11:35 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink
Included w/MAX subscription, as I just learned.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 18 March 2024 23:19 (one week ago) link
tbf I think Ratner has multiple accusations of sexual assault and other crimes, beyond anything I’ve seen about Schneider, it just doesn’t seem like charges were filed (and he’s now left the country for good)
― JoeStork, Monday, 18 March 2024 23:28 (one week ago) link
Stuff on Mo Troper today:
this is about mo troper https://t.co/4dMaoKrnEk— floating room (@floating_room) March 17, 2024
In light of recent information, we will no longer be releasing Mo Troper’s album Svengali. Refunds will be available at point of purchase. We are sending healing thoughts to Maya and victims of abuse everywhere.— Lame-O Records (@LameORecords) March 18, 2024
― sean gramophone, Tuesday, 19 March 2024 00:32 (one week ago) link
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/dan-schneider-quiet-on-set-video-interview-1235855562/
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 19:24 (one week ago) link