Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

I'm still glad that the most scandalous thing to come out about him was that he and his wife were just keeping up the appearance of marriage for a number of years (and that he was dating Daryl Hannah at the time of his death, apparently?).

If any bombshells ever drop about Fred Rogers, I'm officially done with humanity.

Old Lunch is right.

My thought-flash was somewhere between "possibly best to refrain from idolizing celebrities, lest they disappoint you," a more pessimistic "some dirt always comes out about even the most beloved public figures, it's only a matter of time" and the deeply cynical black-hearted thought of "exit the stage while you're still a saint; death can be a great career move." I'm not proud of it but the thought did occur to me. I mean, Kevin Clash went from globally admired to nonexistent in like a month.

Even when it isn't mired in scandal, the inglorious fall of a beloved children's entertainer is a helluva blow (see: David from Sesame Street, or don't if you're still blissfully ignorant).

lambchop might have some dark secrets but i doubt it

im still not over those pics of grover shooting up

^you joke but those pics of the dad from Alf doing that came pretty close to feeling as bad for inner childhood me as if it had been Grover

correct i joke

i dont feel particularly responsible for the correlation in yr head btwn grover and another person fyi

my post wasn't intended to make you feel like you should!

the whole thing is a sorry mess *shakes muppets head*

some celebrities make it easier than others to believe the worst about them, re: Woody

California judge Aaron Persky, who in 2016 sentenced former Stanford swimmer Brock Turner to only six months in prison after he was convicted on three counts of felony sexual assault, was recalled from office after Californians voted Tuesday to remove him from the bench. He is the first California judge to be recalled since 1932, and the first in the United States since 1977.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/06/us/politics/judge-persky-brock-turner-recall.html

Wow.

hell yeah

✊🏼

Solid. F yeah fellow California voters.

this story about the case and the recall is pretty intense

https://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/brock-turner-michele-dauber

whoa wtf with david from sesame st. I didn't know about any of that. I'm shocked they kept him on the show after he beat a woman with an iron rod.

also, Bill Clinton, ladies & gentlemen! (should not do any more interviews, or "write" novels)

to wit:

https://splinternews.com/how-is-bill-clinton-allowed-to-keep-saying-things-1826734797

That event uninviting Monica Lewinsky because Bill Clinton was going to be there was wild.

i heard clinton on NPR the other week and he sounded so incredibly old and doddering, they should not truck him out for anything at this point.

Off topic but there must be like a million podcasts hatereading that novel by now right

Remarkable how much worse Bill Clinton sounds & looks compared to Jimmy Carter, who is 20 years older and survived brain cancer.

i wonder if a couple decades of being conspiracied by the right wing hasn't taken its toll, i bet that dude sometimes wishes he'd just pondered a run in 1992 and then decided to retire into some kind of private endeavor.

but then he thinks of all the bombing he may have missed.

he also lost a lot of weight very quickly on some vegan diet, which can really drew-carey a mfer up

i bet that dude sometimes wishes he'd just pondered a run in 1992 and then decided to retire into some kind of private endeavor.

nooooooooooooooo way

p sure he's stoked he received the most famous bj in American history

There's an alternate universe where he was manager of the most successful Walmart in Little Rock.

i think if we don't assign normal human thoughts to Bill Clinton then maybe he's completely content and tbh probably most of the time he is, but no doubt at times he has some "what if?" thoughts. though it's hard for a man of his apparent nature and vast wealth to do that for too long and with much actual regret, i'm sure.

i bet that dude sometimes wishes he'd just pondered a run in 1992 and then decided to retire into some kind of private endeavor.

^^ John Edwards' daily fantasy, I'm sure.

i dont' get this at all:

https://www.eater.com/2018/6/14/17462514/ashley-merriman-gabrielle-hamilton-spotted-pig-ken-friedman

I don't know much about these two, or even the Friedman thing, but her defense of this move sounds...incoherent?

Oh gosh oh gee quell surprise Chris Hardwick.

^ for reference

Truly horrible.

super fucking gross. always hated that dude tbh.

that article, my god...

well, i'm glad i have no idea who he is

I know someone who's BFFs with Hardwick and I'm waiting to see what she'll have to say about this, because it puts her in a really awkward place professionally standup-wise.

super fucking gross. always hated that dude tbh.

same

sorry but who cares if you always hated someone who turns out to be an abuser, what does it matter, you want points (as it were)

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just one more reason not to like him, I suppose.

ooof

it was just a sidenote? jeez.

xps

i guess it could be said that it doesn't matter if someone did or did not like the guy beforehand, since if we know anything about abusers it's that they're often extremely charming and likable, and sometimes seemingly very unlikable curmudgeons treat their friends and family with complete decency and respect and love.

that's not a shot at anyone here

at the very least i think we can maybe foresee that the person who is most "shocked" about these claims will be Chris Hardwick himself!

The palpable relief when the accused celebrity is someone you never liked and the open hand-wringing when it's someone you did are both ... not the important point.

true