Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

with the tip o' the Boot

LA Times reporting that 38 women have come forward about director James Toback, yet another in the endless line of gross predators

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/la-et-mn-james-toback-sexual-harassment-allegations-20171018-story.html

The final story in this piece is so gross & haunting

Writer, The Pick-up Artist (1987). Director, Seduced and Abandoned (2013) and The Private Life of a Modern Woman (2017)

Study finds 75 percent of workplace harassment victims experienced retaliation when they spoke up https://t.co/tm86j45Ngz

— Vox (@voxdotcom) October 21, 2017

What is wrong with these men. Kneeling in front of women and dry humping them like a dog? I mean that sounds fucking pathological.

whatever pathetically insufficient social mechanisms exist for regulating that sort of pathology just don't seem to function when the power imbalance is that great, so these guys just get to keep kidding themselves that it's all ok

Good piece

Why the Harvey Weinstein allegations could change our culture https://t.co/KWCoXfTTCT

— Rolling Stone (@RollingStone) October 22, 2017

Over/under on the first Btl comment referencing matt taibbi?

the dude who produced the "Open Secret" documentary is either right-wing or is taking what allies he can get, with his constant retweeting of Mike Cernovich regarding the film. i suspect he'd find plenty of sympathizers on the left so i suspect it's more the former.

This is fun: the 47 METERS DOWN director has Things To Say about Bob Weinstein, shooting in water tanks, etc. https://t.co/PNrpyzOnVQ pic.twitter.com/njsa8cdumh

— Vadim Rizov (@vrizov) October 23, 2017

This is just horrible.

Updating again: Since this story published on Sunday, 193 additional women have contacted me to talk about Toback. https://t.co/beVGHWpdmc

— Glenn Whipp (@GlennWhipp) October 23, 2017

the toback thing isn't even news. I guess the extremely gross explicit details are, but this has been on salon, gawker, everything for years. good to hear people are finally caring.

there was a Spy magazine article about it w/ interviews w/ a bunch of women back in like 1989 or something

yes, 1989.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/51476375/Spy-Magazine-March-1989

wow congratulations you all knew first - the line starts over there for prizes

you guys are such dicks sometimes

well i don’t think it’s a “prize” thing as much as it is “why the fuck has everyone waited so long to believe women” thing

true

it's gotta be Taibbi's turn soon right

Man I actually didn’t know that about Toback but his movies are so fucking gross I feel like I should have. Ughhhhhh I need 5000 drinks.

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

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.

Tragically wearing a fedora in the photo attached to the article

https://twitter.com/search?q=terry%20richardson&src=typd

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

where is cuttyhorse

https://scobleizer.blog/2017/10/25/no-of-that-im-innocent-sexual-harassment-assault-accusations/amp

that is an *exceptionally* terrible statement

icymi, neolib literary asshole takes a fall

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2017/10/the-harvey-effect-reaches-leon-wieseltier/543897/

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

Innocent of all sorts of things he innocently did.

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.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/anna-faris-reveals-director-sexually-155003460.html

she's talking about Ivan Reitman here, i'm almost 100% certain

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.

Wait till it's the music industry's turn... watch out!

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.

have you heard of this guy Steve Mnuchin

he's kind of a big deal

Good call but he definitely did not have name recognition as producer before Trump admin.

Dune Entertainment seems to have strictly been on the financing side, rather than the director/cast supervising side.

It adds to the scorecard as DJP noted, but:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/25/media/mark-halperin-sexual-harassment-allegations/index.html

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

Let's hear the joke pic.twitter.com/bAvyKeQnES

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) October 26, 2017

Add Artforum’s publisher and Leon Wieseltier to the list.

http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/corey-feldman-crowdfunds-film-to-expose-child-sexual-abuse.html

go Corey go

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!"

i'd have gone with 'guess my favourite metal lawman? it's robo-cop-a-feel!' myself

favorite character from Mr Rogers Neighborhood? Mr McFeely