Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

I'm surprised he actually did turn out to be as dark as his image, albeit in a pitiful disgusting way.

I never heard or read anything about this.

Or rather, if I did I don't remember it.

folks i think it's time for u2 to cover the entire marilyn manson catalog to take these songs back from the sexual abuser who perverted them

xpost djp it was just a few days ago she testified

I think the idea was that he was publicly fantasizing about murdering her years ago and no one seemed to give a shit

^^ i read it and came away with the same message
it happened, people reported on it, and that was that
no one seemed concerned about her and mostly it was "how weird and messed up is this guy?!"
(pretty weird and messed up apparently -- i had forgotten about this too but the cutting himself when he called her and she didn't answer? wtf, and it's not like i haven't seen my share of messed up behavior)

but viewing him as weird and messed up would undermine that tremendously clever "onion" article

It's not often I side with the NYPD, but

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nypd-is-ready-to-arrest-harvey-weinstein-will-district-attorney-cy-vance-finally-agree-to-let-them

from ann friedman:

I’m listening to This American Life's Five Women episode. It's about a man I once worked for, Don Hazen, and the effect of his abuse and harassment on five different women. Don hired me for my first full-time, non-internship journalism job when I was 24. He is the only boss I've ever had who harassed me, and one of the primary inspirations for The Island -- a fantastical place that other young women and I invented as a shorthand for warning each other about the terrible men in our industry we wished we could banish. One of the women who came up with the Island metaphor with me is among the Five Women.

I know every women interviewed in that episode, actually -- from the woman observing weird behavior at a company dinner to the unnamed roommate who says matter-of-factly, "If you take this job you're definitely going to get sexually harassed." If you think it's intense to listen to #MeToo stories in general -- and it is -- try revisiting the details about your own first abusive boss in narrative audio. It instantly snapped me into the person I was more than 10 years ago, the vulnerability I felt, the exhaustion and futility of trying to constantly direct my boss's attention away from my personal life and toward my work.

Of course, thanks to the archival power of Gmail, I could go much deeper than This American Life to remind myself what it felt like to be around Don, and how his behavior was accepted and endured. My chat archive reveals an ex of mine joking, "who among us hasn't been squeezed hard by don hazen." It shows a friend asking me about working for him, and my reply: "in order to work there you basically have to shut off your emotions." I also find myself using Don as a trope, simultaneously damning and excusing one young DC journo dude with the description, "he's kind of a young don hazen. that's all." That's all. After I wrote about The Island in 2012, a young woman who worked for Don emailed me: "I used to think that the sexual harassment was just part of the package, something you have to deal with, sometimes, to get ahead. I was sexually harassed, but i went from intern to editor!" I talked to her on the phone and tried to help her find a new job. She is another one of the Five Women.

What makes the episode so good is that the women are not simply victims -- they are portrayed in all of their complexity and bravery and complicity. I only worked for Don for two months. My aforementioned ex helped me get a new job at a magazine in DC (which directly contributed to my next challenge in the Game of Starting Your Career As a Young Woman: Impostor syndrome). When I gave notice, Don screamed and slammed desk drawers, but at least I was out. After I left, a former coworker who was still there wrote me, "job search is sorta non existent right now... the idea of being unwittingly sucked into another don-esque situation frightens me." Chatting with her from my new office, thousands of miles away, I felt guilty that I had gotten out so quickly. I felt the survivor's guilt again when I listened to Five Women this week. Because long after I had the power to call out Don by name -- when there was nothing he could do to harm my career -- I was still writing blog posts that used clever metaphors and did not name him.

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/03/how-to-lose-your-job-from-sexual-harassment-in-33-easy-steps/555197/

Is there any move to impeach Vance or even a mechanism to remove a NYC DA?

The last line of the editor's note speaks volumes:

Karklins confirmed to The Atlantic that there is no process for writers who aren’t on staff to file complaints.

yeah, freelancing sucks

BREAKING NEWS: @MetOpera fires James Levine, says its investigation “uncovered credible evidence that Mr. Levine had engaged in sexually abusive and harassing conduct both before and during the period when he worked at the Met.” My story:
https://t.co/WKAU0FtmRk

— Michael Cooper (@coopnytimes) March 12, 2018

terry gilliam sucks

http://variety.com/2018/film/news/terry-gilliam-metoo-mob-rule-1202728819

he sucks but also he's 77 and has no clout anymore, why do we keep publishing these irrelevant old jerks' opinions

lol, good question!
who cares what terry gilliam thinks? not me.

yeah he's made a couple of my favorite movies but I wouldn't dream of soliciting his opinion about current events in the year of our lord 2018

he must've felt a need to pipe up, i doubt his opinion was solicited. right?

he was being interviewed by the french press agency, probably decided to pick a stance to blend in in france

Only otm part of the interview:

I’ve gotten very old

lol mh

apologies to all french people who aren't misogynistic jerks though

Terry Gilliam being a clueless idiot was immortalised in that documentary terry gilliam being a clueless idiot but it's like totally admirable probably

is he still trying to make that failed don quixote movie or did i daydream that

he apparently actually is don quixote now

he's actually decided to remake it irl it's just now the windmills are ladies xp lol

lololol
he's gotta dream the impossible dream!

a few months ago i hungover-edly watched most of 'erik the viking' and wow was that amazingly awful

i know it was the other terry's work, but it could easily have been his

wow, Gilliam is beyond a clueless idiot in that interview, into reprehensible

but also he's 77

i def read this and for a split second thought 'terry gilliam is an ilxor??'

lol

when did gilliam make his last good movie

Last one I saw in the theater was Munchausen. I'm kinda content with that.

when did gilliam make his last good movie

I was gonna say "1995" but realised I haven't seen any of the ones since then in full

I have seen Tideland

it was

well, it was something

The Zero Theorem is one of the worst films I've ever seen.

Of note:

http://money.cnn.com/2018/03/19/media/weinstein-company-bankruptcy/index.html

At the same time as the bankruptcy announcement, the company said it will release victims of, and witnesses to, Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct from any non-disclosure agreements.

"Effective immediately, those 'agreements' end," the company said in a press release.

The company said "no one should be afraid to speak out or coerced to stay quiet."

!

Nickelodeon just "parted ways" with Dan Schneider and this sure feels like getting out in front of some story

btw Time Bandits and Brazil are Terry Gilliam's good movies

(at least one more than Spike Lee, j/k)

there was this thread about dan schneider a few months ago, I'd never heard of him before but it seems incredibly dark and grim:

thread of how much of a pedophile creep with disgusting fetishes dan schneider is and what really goes on behind the scenes of his shows:

— ‏ً (@deludedkiss) September 16, 2017

^probably should stress that it's really haunting nightmarish stuff, reminiscent of jimmy saville

^^ GIFs you don't want on your desk if you work in an open-layout office like I do!

I always forget he's the dude from Head of the Class and Better Off Dead.

yeah it's one of those cases where the rumors are awful and have been around for ages, but even the public stuff is very questionable on its own

^^^ This was way way way too late (the parting of ways).

The rumors of Schneider's pedo behavior are boiling over and some investigative journos have been working for nearly a year on a big story. It's imminent.

is there a source on that or can you not elaborate further