Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

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

Asia Argento, a #MeToo Leader, Made a Deal With Her Own Accuser

So Aziz Ansari played a small comedy club here in Madison last night, tickets went on sale the day before, absolutely zero press, just an email to the club's list (with the unfortunate header "EXCLUSIVE MEMBER ON SALE"). Presumably the beginning of his "let's see if people still like me?" comeback.

I don't think Aziz will have too much problem

he'll be fine

Louis could probably come back next fall

yup

Also low-key on the road: TJ Miller, Jeremy Piven...

feel pretty bad for the kid in the argento settlement. he's had a rough time on several fronts.

it helps that the Aziz story was... debatable... from the get-go

Miller is possibly not really likable enough to regain what he had, he was already considered trouble before that (and before the fake bomb thing on the train or whatever.). Piven could reinvent himself, maybe start with taking the dead badger off his head and go back to bald.

did the Aziz thing really ruin his career?

Too early to say, but it was definitely not great for his image/persona.

lets wait and see how next season of Master of None does (assuming there is one?)

yea I don't really know if the Aziz thing penetrated the public consciousness the way Louie did, especially b/c Louie's way of being a creep was kind of unique and memorable in a way the Aziz thing wasn't ? but like if he's doing Madison with no press that seems kind of significant, his show in Milwaukee a few years back was huge and sold out pretty quickly iirc

the way that aziz was a creep was so intensely relatable though

I think the Aziz story was way more criticized and was not as widely accepted as others.

i don't think the comparison to other stories matters really -- unless that is what people are using to mentally justify going to see his comedy show

I don't really know if the Aziz thing penetrated the public consciousness the way Louie did
try "permeated" instead of "penetrated" the next time you want to talk about sexual assault
just saying

Louis also wasn't a revelation, the story/stories had been out there for years. and being a creep/perv was a huge part of his act, as opposed to Aziz or Eric Schneiderman, where their public statements/work were completely at odds with what they were accused of. that's much harder to recover from.

huge eyeroll that Aziz's work was completely at odds with what he was accused of

there was a huge amount of support on social media for Aziz Ansari after that stuff came out, in a way that didn't happen with Louis due to, I guess, the multiple accusers and admission of guilt in his case.

Schneiderman's stand-up was next level tho

xxxp ...Master of None ?

xxp and yeah, like I said before, Aziz will be back. his was a unique case, afaik one of the only #MeToo story to be heavily criticized.

xp u know what i mean

comedians = bad dates

Ansari wrote a book on dating!

"maybe start with taking the dead badger off his head and go back to bald."

I've a cousin who is a pub rock/wedding band vocalist/guitarist whose lover paid for his arse-hairs to be transplanted onto his head, or something like that. Earlier my mum was saying he looks so young these days, not even slightly troubled by the creepiness that he has more hair now than when he was 18, and the way he suddenly stopped wearing hats 24/7! I find it troubling that people get past their mid-40's and their biggest worry is how much hair they haven't got. And I get annoyed when actors with a full barnet do fake bald, rather than using a genuine baldy for the role.

it wasn't a bad film but i was always a bit bummed when STATHAM put a brillo pad up on his dome for The Bank Job.

here is Statham in The Bank Job:

https://jayfan.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/bankjob12.jpg

but like if he's doing Madison with no press that seems kind of significant, his show in Milwaukee a few years back was huge and sold out pretty quickly iirc

this is how comedians develop material. I've seen Aziz play a basement unannounced at half past midnight to fifty people who were already there, the night before he played a sold-out theatre to 3,191 people.

So Aziz Ansari played a small comedy club here in Madison last night, tickets went on sale the day before, absolutely zero press, just an email to the club's list (with the unfortunate header "EXCLUSIVE MEMBER ON SALE"). Presumably the beginning of his "let's see if people still like me?" comeback.

― change display name (Jordan), Monday, August 20, 2018 8:12 AM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he's headlining the Orpheum tomorrow

i think i must have misremembered,i guess statham growing out the hair he has for that '70s look was just a very formative experience.

he's headlining the Orpheum tomorrow

I saw that, but it was literally just announced today. Maybe he'd be doing these 'working out new material' shows anyway, but also seems pretty clear he wants to avoid press.

aziz's low-level brohamminess was both what made that story (which had its problems!) super relatable and open to "what, it's not like she was ASSAULTED" criticism

(insert long rant about how capitalism and the entertainment industry are both inherently mean-reverting)

aziz also had ONE accusation compared to about 74627 accusations against Louis CK going back years. Louis CK will not have a comeback any time soon. Aziz may well.

Louis CK was part of a larger problem extending back for a long time, since I guess Carlin? Pryor?, which will probably continue forever, is this really bad idea that nightclub comics are the great philosophers and truth tellers of our age

duh, Lenny Bruce

(not to say that the problem was larger than #metoo! i just meant that his fall from grace as perceived harder because so many people had invested all this energy in thinking he was a lot deeper and more meaningful than he was)

I mean, everyone lives in different whisper circles I guess

this story got a little more complicated

I just received this statement from @AsiaArgento in response to the NYT story published late Sunday evening. pic.twitter.com/jAOo7TAULX

— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) August 21, 2018

It's tough. Obviously I want to believe people who are vulnerable—especially given the way Hollywood's exploitative nature damages so many people. But I have to say, the huge network of bad actors working for Weinstein and the way the insane V1g1l4nt C1t1zen/P1zz4g4te/Q4n0n types who have taken over the comment section of my guilty pleasure blind item site LOATHE Asia give me pause.

Louis CK was part of a larger problem extending back for a long time, since I guess Carlin? Pryor?, which will probably continue forever, is this really bad idea that nightclub comics are the great philosophers and truth tellers of our age

― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, August 21, 2018 6:44 AM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i've seen climate change/"extinction is bad" disbelievers use a Carlin routine to substantiate their beliefs. all this bite size "guy at the bar talking at you" bullshit is extremely easy to digest and they make for perfect encapsulations to people who just want to say "This." and toss a link at you.