Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

K.K. profiled in the NYT above was a friend of mine in the '90s. This was before Guiliani and all the rest.

I'm glad for his ex-wife, at least.

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K.K. profiled in the NYT above was a friend of mine in the '90s. This was before Guiliani and all the rest.

I'm glad for his ex-wife, at least.

― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, July 27, 2018 12:22 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I knew KK in '90-'93, and subbed for the drummer in his band a bunch of times. He asked me to drop out of college to join his band, which...would not have been a good idea, for many reasons. I found him generally creepy and unpleasant to be around. He was a staunch liberal in those days, though.

Moonves piece is out:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/06/les-moonves-and-cbs-face-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct/

Headlines I didn't need from all of this:

Who is Illeana Douglas, the actress who accused CBS executive Les Moonves of sexual misconduct?

TO DIE FOR remains criminally underrated

Aw man, I love Illeana Douglas. I'd like to kick this rich, old white man's ass myself. With each passing day of this situation, i'm more and more convinced that rich, old white men (not money alone) are the true root of all evil. And yes a few have been African-American but the overwhelming majority are the aforementioned ROWMs. Crap acronym too. I sincerely hope Miss Douglas emerges from this strong and happy.

https://i.giphy.com/media/l4FGuE8LtZg2wKmZi/200w.gif

Sweet gif Bizarro!

God Moonves is such a piece of shit

bdsm is really problematic for me these days. i understand very well why people want to submit. i have never understood, however, why people want to dominate. also, the older i get, the more i find that none of the "safe, sane, consensual" troika are either/or propositions. if bdsm is about pretending, ssc is part of that pretense.

Probably not the thread to go into a deep discussion on this topic, but I strongly disagree with all of that.

yeah, you're wrong

X-post yes, Vegemite grrl, he certainly is.

Was there a bdsm part to the Moonves piece?

I was wondering this too, didn't get the connection

jim, don't know what to tell you, but it seems really off base to me in a number of ways.

i have never understood, however, why people want to dominate.

really?

Right, do you have to relate to a (extremely common) sexual fetish for it to be valid?

this seems like the wrong thread for this

might I suggest the one about losing a coughdrop in that most sensitive of orifices?

True, sorry

xp

Might be related to the BDSM/Consent article I linked to right before Moonves, related specifically to Eric Schneiderman.

The Moonves/Douglas story, along with everything since Weinstein, makes it seem like women who act don't just "fall off the radar" because of aging but because of stories like these. Since she's mentioned in the article, makes me wonder why Penelope Ann Miller (big on Broadway, then in Carlito's Way et al) faded away.

Ok, makes more sense after reading that. It's definitely a tricky thing to sort out, and perhaps there are cases that represent a legitimate grey area, but I'd say the most straightforward solution is to give much more credence to women who come forward with stories of abuse. We, as a society, are much too eager to buy into this myth of the vengeful woman who wants to sully a good man's name.

Ah, the Schneiderman thing seems like ages ago now.

The Moonves/Douglas story, along with everything since Weinstein, makes it seem like women who act don't just "fall off the radar" because of aging but because of stories like these.

yeah, and then people use the fact that they fell off the radar as "proof" that they must obviously be lying

yeah its a hideous vicious circle

I really like Grace of my Heart

all the men Kool-Aid Manning into the sexual abuse thread to defend sexually dominating women, very cool

ATTENTION BOYS, THERE'S KINK-SHAMING IN YONDER THREAD

Jesus Whiney

90% of the time you accuse somebody of doing something you're literally doing it yourself at the same moment

http://mirror.uncyc.org/wiki/File:Kam-mugshot.gif

http://images.uncyc.org/commons/0/08/Kam-mugshot.gif

fp'd

wow imagine barging in a thread with the intent of derailing it

Not down with Kool-Aid Man shaming.

can we get back to kinkshaming bigfoot erotica please

"Since she's mentioned in the article, makes me wonder why Penelope Ann Miller (big on Broadway, then in Carlito's Way et al) faded away."

which article?

The Les Moonves article, where Illeana Douglas was working on a CBS pilot with Miller:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/08/06/les-moonves-and-cbs-face-allegations-of-sexual-misconduct/amp

got it

Penelope Ann Miller is on the next season of Riverdale BTW.

Moonves sounds like a fucking asshole only barely better than Weinstein. Surprised it's taking this long to come out.

Here's a shithead of a guy

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/05/us/bill-hybels-willow-creek-pat-baranowski.html

“How could he have done all this good when there were such dark things happening behind the scenes?” another accuser, Nancy Beach, who also worked at Willow Creek, asked the Times.

http://www.kuow.org/post/six-more-women-accuse-david-meinert-sexual-misconduct-and-assault

A wrinkle in this case:

Meinert did not respond to more than 50 questions about the allegations made by the newest accusers, despite multiple attempts to reach him. Strategies 360, which represented Meinert during the reporting for KUOW’s first story about Meinert, dropped him as a client after learning one of their employees had come forward to accuse Meinert of sexual misconduct.

I guess this belongs here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/nyregion/sexual-harassment-nyu-female-professor.html

When I was at Cal in the early 90's Ronnell was a professor there (in the comp lit department) and up-and-coming as a 'celebrity philosopher' the extent that such things exist. I was rather interested in the Telephone Book which is lovely although was mostly incomprehensible to me at the time (probably still would be). Even then on campus there were rumors that she would take particular interest in one graduate student a year and take them on as a lover, or something. Such behaviour was extremely prevalent in the 90's, my guess is a good amount of it was consensual, and a good amount of it probably hinged on these kinds of power dynamics that make things ugly. At any rate, Judith Butler comes across very poorly here IMO.

Big News In Houston: https://consequenceofsound.net/2018/08/omar-afra-assault-accusations/

up until a few days ago, Afra ran a couple of big music festivals and published Free Press Houston, the biggest free Alt Newspaper in the city.

has nobody on earth ever heard of "I have no comment"

that was one of the more bizarre & inscrutable recurring moves last fall/winter. In so many cases (I'd say more than half), the apology/damage control statement actually did more damage than the accusation would have on its own.

Nicki Minaj’s Ex Safaree Accuses Her of Violent Assault

Afra initially responded to the allegations in the comment’s section of Hamilton’s post. Posting under the pseudonym “Samuel Houston,” Afra said he has been “documenting this coordinated campaign for the past 10 months with lawyers, federal and local law enforcement… Much more will come out about this in the coming days, weeks, and months both online and in courts.”

oy

has nobody on earth ever heard of "I have no comment"

― faculty w1fe (silby)

i have no comment