Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

Quinn Cummings:

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a13097605/quinn-cummings-child-actress/

The ending is particularly good.

But the whispers don’t stop with these obvious, public examples. The same women who spoke among themselves about Harvey, about Terry, also speak about well-known actors who are not quite the loving family men their publicists would have you believe. Instead of a bathrobe, it’s a private meeting. Instead of a clumsy grope, it’s a “helpful” lingering brush of your breast. Instead of a disgusting proposition, it’s a greasy little implication that a few minutes together could lead to something better down the road.

This is no longer black and white. It’s gray. And people don’t like gray, especially when it comes to sexual assault, which they really don’t want to be thinking about at all. They like their sexual assault clear, recognizable, and not committed by men who are America’s marital hall pass. Should these stories come out, the public’s response to the victims might not be nearly as supportive. But the fact remains, you can like someone very much and they can still be capable of terrible things. Unless Hollywood reconciles itself to the fact that not all sex criminals look like ogres, the question we should ask ourselves is what solidarity hashtag we’ll be using a year from now when nothing has changed.

Ronan Farrow's new story has run.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/weighing-the-costs-of-speaking-out-about-harvey-weinstein

Annabella Sciorra's story is a really horrific one

Please read my statement below. pic.twitter.com/8ld8k8DC6O

— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) October 27, 2017

Nah

Just cried reading the latest Farrow piece - Annabella Sciorra's story is heartbreaking. Rosie Perez though is a national treasure.

Also it can't be said enough but fuck Tarantino. He knew this happened to Mira Sorvino and Daryl Hannah, on separate occasions ten years apart. Yet he didn't think Weinstein had a serious problem.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/robert-rodriguez-says-casting-rose-173449389.html?soc_src=social-sh&soc_trk=fb

yeah god their stories are just... haunting is too mild of a word but ugh. that line where she decides to speak “oh you want RAPE?” ... fucking devastating

a friend posted this on FB and it dovetails into this area well i think. it’s not THE problem but it’s def a contributing factor

http://verysmartbrothas.com/men-just-dont-trust-women-and-this-is-a-problem/

annabella sciorra's story brought more realness than i could handle. esp when she talked about the way she thought and felt about it afterward. my god.

men don't trust women is otm though, i doubt i need to read that article

Definitely don't need to read the comments unfortunately (and predictably.)

no way, i never read comments

Why would you ever read the comments on anything unless you're a hardcore masochist

In this case I gladly avoided the comments, but I often find comments better than the main piece on a lot of sites.

Taibbi now?

That’s been the last few days, yes. And now there’s this:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/adambvary/anthony-rapp-kevin-spacey-made-sexual-advance-when-i-was-14?utm_term=.grMV96ry99#.buvANzm7NN

“now”

Well the story makes clear Rapp’s been talking in various ways with others about this for years. This is the first full on-the-record story without name redaction.

ahh

Spacey 1) Apologizes 2) Blames it on drunkenness 3) warns there will be more stories and 4) Comes out.

There's a lot happening here. https://t.co/qOJTw3ziPS

— Jessica🎃BOOseman (@JessicaHuseman) October 30, 2017

well, there’s living as a private person who has sexual relations, and then there’s whatever Spacey’s been doing for the last 30 years which is...not that

What an awful response, holy shit

What a transparent, horrible way to try and force a different conversation

"i don't remember it because it was 30 years ago but i'm cool just blaming it on being drunk"

Put more succinctly than I did

Celebrity Frames Horrible Allegations As Start Of Personal Growth Arc

— Pixelated Borat (@pixelatedboat) October 30, 2017

this makes me SO angry jesus

throwing the queer community under the bus to defend yourself against allegations you sexually assaulted a minor. absolutely despicable

For real. It's not like gay men have had to defend themselves against accusations of pederasty for all of time...oh wait, yes they have. Thanks, Kevin!

This is beyond awful.

It's evil.

(Kevin Spacey beats a man to death with an accordion)

“I’m sure you’ve heard the rumors. They’re true. I am indeed an accordion player.”

— Jason Steele (@FilmCow) October 30, 2017

grim lol.

Halperin got the full kibosh.

NBC News has terminated Mark Halperin’s contract, following HBO, Showtime and Penguin in severing ties with him.

— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) October 30, 2017

Spacey at this point indistinguishable from Frank Underwood

And now, more

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/us/harvey-weinstein-sexual-assault-allegations.html

how does Corey Feldman square his current crusade with his past friendship w and support of a certain very very famous accused child molester

(I say this as someone who is generally sympathetic to Feldman, but it is weird)

selective outrage is one possibility

I see no connection at all

Breaking: HOUSE OF CARDS, which stars Kevin Spacey, ending with its 6th season, say @mikeylikestv https://t.co/kRM9SAOhmo

— Borys Kit (@Borys_Kit) October 30, 2017

how does Corey Feldman square his current crusade with his past friendship w and support of a certain very very famous accused child molester

According to this Matt Lauer interview...

FELDMAN: “I told the police. In fact if anyone wants to go back to 1993, when I was interviewed by the Santa Barbara Police Department. I sat there and gave them the names. They are on record. They have all of this information, but they were scanning Michael Jackson. All they cared about was trying about to find something on Michael Jackson.”
LAUER: “Who you said, by the way, did not abuse you.”
FELDMAN: “Who Michael was innocent. And that was what the interview was about with the pollice in 1993. I told them, he is not that guy. And they said, maybe you don’t understand your friend. And I said, no, I know the difference between pedophiles and somebody that is not a pedophile because I have been molested. Here’s the names, go investigate.

I figured he was on record there

yeah my feeling is that there’s no way Feldman would proclaim the innocence of a child molester if he was being abused himself or knew MJ was abusing others. it just wouldn’t happen.

I can totally imagine Feldman not knowing about MJ abuse though, or just not wanting to believe it.

Surely House of Cards ending has more to do with the Trump presidency making it redundant.

did anyone watch more than 1.5 season of it? I watched two and I watch nearly anything

I can totally imagine Feldman not knowing about MJ abuse though, or just not wanting to believe it.

― Οὖτις, Monday, October 30, 2017 3:49 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup

Spacey Singer Spacey Singer Spacey Singer Ancier Geffen good afternoon. How are you today? pic.twitter.com/bh49XvN0ea

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 30, 2017

I can totally imagine Feldman not knowing about MJ abuse though, or just not wanting to believe it.

― Οὖτις, Monday, October 30, 2017 3:49 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup

― gbx, Monday, October 30, 2017 4:52 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

In which case... it's not really a mystery how he could reconcile his crusade with his friendship with MJ.

I didn't say it was a huge mystery, I just raised it as an interesting point. Humanity's capacity for compartmentalization is always interesting.

if MJ were really the molester he was portrayed to be I would have expected loads more information to have started flowing after his death, and it never did.

fair point

I can't recall any MJ tell-alls coming out either, which is interesting.