Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

Speaking of, can't wait for the Tarantino statement. Oh wait I can.

Maybe he can direct the movie.

I posted on this thread 12 years ago jesus christ

lol the I DID IT thread has to do with Harvey's penchant for smoking cigars indoors in CA and not giving a fuck

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

bad week for Cyrus Vance, jesus christ

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!

Well, yeah. Straight shooter, that Vance.

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.

*Miramax

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

so many open secrets just like every other ____________ industrial complex.

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?

Both

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.

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.

It takes all kinds

there's a definite possibility he thinks women are attracted to him

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

Have fun with that, dude.

https://t.co/n0Ty3RiR04

That's an anonymously sourced Daily Mail story though.

Best kind! (I mean, thing is: at this point, sure seems like the thing he'd eventually claim.)

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/

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

lmao constantly pointing out that Weinstein was a major donor to the Dems doesn't seem like a well-thought out line of attack

it's no different and also not as bad as that picture of Bill & Hillary with Trump & Melania. and yeah Cilliza = moron

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."

"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.

doesn't this guy have the best crisis management & team of lawyers available???

including Obama WH Communications Director Anita Dunn

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?

yeah otm it definitely reminded me of Trump. also Ailes, O'Reilly, Cosby obviously...

a certain pain-feelin' president

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

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.

Powerful *old* people. Seems like a trend with so many of these cases. Shit, remember the Sandusky/Costas interview?

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 story so old that the very first tale in Boccaccio's Decameron is a hilarious take on this phenomenon.

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.

when is the last time you left a movie feeling something, anything, that perhaps pointed to a universal truth or insight?

Last night.

thanks for sharing, that sounds like a great movie

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.

weren't you just lolling about an publically elected official twice accused of sexual harassment and using his position to silence his abusers?

see, people are fine with it to a degree, even if it is sick, because the tribal thing is so strong, the consumer aspect of branding to one side or the other. to centrist liberals Bill Clinton's transgressions are a laughing matter, and if you are a leftist and bring it up, you are called a sexist or a Russian plant. "oh no! he has to apologize to his wife!" dismisses the voices of the abused. belittling the shit he did normalizes that behavior.

silence his victims

like if there is going to be a moral ground, it needs to apply to everyone, not just "the good guys" or "the bad guys".

Yeah hollywood's been a cesspit for, what, a century? But it's produced great films anyway. Its hit rate may be worse now than at certain points last century but here's the thing, films are being made outside of that particular system. It's kinda on you if you only watch flying punchman movies. Whether good films still exist is kinda a side issue to the topic at hand tho

Sorry on train, missed xposts. I'm against bill Clinton

Dying

lol sorry