Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

_I didn't think I could think any less of Seagal._


Didn't he movie to Russia specifically because he felt (a la Gary Glitter) that the West was too uptight about sexual predators?

I like my country songs like I like my Law and Order episodes: ripped from the headlines

"The Angry Urbanian"

Country music world not known for boldly challenging conservative conventions. Hollywood is more likely to be his main target, not sexual predators.

Isn't he married to Nicole Kidman? I guess the best we can hope for is rage.

Imagine what the reaction would have been a year ago if Rose McGowan had said, "I'm surrounded by secret ex-Mossad agents who are taping our conversations and trying to destroy me" pic.twitter.com/v4KjakNY8a

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) November 8, 2017

I've got to say that the warrant for Rose McGowan's appearance for leaving a bag behind that had drugs in it is... extremely suspect

http://flavorwire.com/611280/five-fun-facts-about-daddys-home-2-co-star-mel-gibson

uh has this been covered? did not look before the fold but appears to be recent news

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/nov/08/ex-israeli-pm-introduced-weinstein-to-agents-who-suppressed-abuse-allegations

I really liked Lindy West's op-ed today: https://nyti.ms/2j8W5nT

Wow: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/kevin-spacey-cut-completed-money-world-christopher-plummer-015010574.html

i guess???????? i can't for the life of me remember why ppl were paying attention to him

He was the poor man's Robert Downey Jr. comeback story - seemingly wasted his career on drugs, made a big comeback starring on the most popular TV sitcom of the '00s, then proceeded to meltdown again.

Also he seemed to be genuinely deranged, so mean lols.

The lyrics of Keith Urban's new song "Female," which he wrote because of Harvey Weinstein, are really something elsehttps://t.co/7BwItDE5ot pic.twitter.com/nvWQBCjkk2

— Max Tani (@maxwelltani) November 8, 2017

lol!

that keith urban songwriting process in full:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0332/6549/products/3632-nastywoman.jpg?v=1498150940

Lyrics perfect for yarling. I don't know if he yarls, but he looks like he does.

Here’s the outro:

Mhm

Female

Keith Urban demonstrating how the creative process can be aided by fishing discarded notebooks out of junior high trashbins.

there seemed to be a brief window after sheen meltdown #2 or 3 where it seemed like he was going to have a 'comeback' and then he admitted to having HIV and I believe perhaphs knowingly sleeping with women and not telling them, and then that was over. I can't really remember the last time he came up though. where is he now?

Rerererehab

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/9/11_(2017_film)#/media/File%3A9_11_(2017_film).png

Keith Urban - "Female"

"These are all the types of female that exist, and Keith was very thorough."

there seemed to be a brief window after sheen meltdown #2 or 3 where it seemed like he was going to have a 'comeback' and then he admitted to having HIV and I believe perhaphs knowingly sleeping with women and not telling them, and then that was over. I can't really remember the last time he came up though. where is he now?

He did 100 episodes of a sitcom that Sam Simon wrote on, and played the president in Machete Kills

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/louis-cks-movie-premiere-canceled-advance-ny-times-story-1056585

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/woman-says-roy-moore-initiated-sexual-encounter-when-she-was-14-he-was-32/2017/11/09/1f495878-c293-11e7-afe9-4f60b5a6c4a0_story.html?tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.312accd3cb84

O_O

“These allegations are completely false and are a desperate political attack by the National Democrat Party and the Washington Post on this campaign,” Moore, now 70, said.

Of course, lol.

Don't know if the Louie one 'deserves' to be on this thread yet, though it's HR's choice to leave allegations against CK completely out of it, even though it's prob the reason?

If the published allegations end up lining up with the rumors it'll definitely be thread-worthy.

Well yeah

I've seen the movie and tbh he was dreaming or simply a moron if he thought he was going to get away with making *that* without his (apparent) skeletons getting dug up

"We’re at the bleeding edge of 'That’s not OK to do now,' but those people are still around," C.K. said about dealing with the controversial topics dealt with in the film. "That’s a very interesting line to be on.”

hmm yes

ahh the complicated struggles of the modern intellectual artist man trying to come to grips with his own demons, isn't it fascinating, fellow gents?

Thread has definitely been keeping a seat warm for LCK iirc

*films self in black and white, regards 18(ish?) yr old woman w/desire, struggles w/self furiously*

This might not be a fair comment, I've never seen Louie, but I was hanging out with a bunch of dudes once, kinda performatively woke dudes, and we were listening to some Louis CK standup & it was funny but I was like "these rape jokes are kinda off no?" and they reassured me "no it's ok he did an episode about that"

& in my head that's basically what Louie is

*struggles w/self furiously* good euphemism

"no it's ok he did an episode about that"

this is killing me

he sucks i don't like him

I loved Louie, and I have a lot of affection for a lot of his standup and other work, but a lot of the core of stuff he acts in boils down to: have your onscreen avatar express the wrong position on an issue, get taken to task for it by other (usually female) characters in an amusing way, with CK-as-writer demonstrating enough of a command of each side of the issue that we tend to think of CK *himself* as virtuous by extension, having successfully dumbed himself down/denigrated himself onscreen. I think creating that kind of viewer-text relationship has helped to keep these questions at bay for a long time.

bums me out that vernon chatman is so closely involved with that grotesque project. maybe he's just been an asshole all along? but such an impressive asshole ;_;

"no it's ok he did an episode about that"

this episode is fucking terrible btw

a guy who was heavily involved w/South Park might be an asshole?

I've never gotten into his show or stand-up but I will not let this tarnish my memory of Pootie Tang

His relationship to women has always been the worst part of his work, both in his standup and his show. I think I posted this after seeing him a couple of years ago:

in his stand-up there's a lot of stuff that's really self-loathing with regard to heterosexual relationships and put into general women/men terms, i often find myself thinking "nah i think this is just very specific to your issues, dude."

― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:31 (two years ago) Permalink

and i appreciate comedy and art that's vulnerable and specific, but it's precisely because it comes off as not self-aware that it bothers me.

― festival culture (Jordan), Tuesday, 2 December 2014 21:32 (two years ago) Permalink

xp

Simon H. otm and that episode indeed sucks.

a guy who was heavily involved w/South Park might be an asshole?

― omar little, Thursday, 9 November 2017 18:29 (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

south park + wonder showzen + xra = obv an asshole but also some sort of comedy wizard. this is a different and lower kind of assholism

I disagree that his work isn't self-aware - if anything it's *so* self-aware that it acted as a kind of shield from this sort of criticism. Again this is all over the new film.

in his stand-up there's a lot of stuff that's really self-loathing with regard to heterosexual relationships and put into general women/men terms, i often find myself thinking "nah i think this is just very specific to your issues, dude."

I have had this exact same reaction