Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/13/arts/music/ryan-adams-women-sex.html

Going to read more but saw that part: Mandy Moore was married to Adams for nearly six years. What she called his psychologically abusive behavior stalled her music career: “He would always tell me, ‘You’re not a real musician, because you don’t play an instrument.’ and yikes.

lots and lots of yikes in there. one of my best friends is a superfan and she is having a hard time with this. :(

http://www.tcj.com/hubris-and-chutzpah-how-lil-abner-kayod-joe-palooka-and-both-their-creators-came-to-grief-part-8/

thanks for posting that -- i've been reading every installment of that al capp/ham fisher story since it started running several weeks ago, it's a fascinating piece of deep reporting with some pretty shocking moments. i recommend starting from the beginning and reading the whole thing if you have some time. i knew capp was an appalling guy but he seems almost evil after reading that stuff.

I've been skipping it bcz I can't tell if it's newly written &/or expanded, or the same version Harvey published in TCJ in the '90s, but I'll dip into this chapter

i don't THINK this is old? i knew most of this story but some of the details are truly fucked up

read this one: seems to be much the same as the old version, except this time treating sexual assault as serious, and not inserting comedy asides about how amusing we all should find the idea of a man with one leg, chasing a teenager around a desk, in the office of people with a duty of care to her

Emma Thompson writes to the producers of "Luck" re their hiring of John Lasseter, who recently left Disney/Pixar following multiple allegations of sexual misconduct. https://t.co/Bfxcn2bgNB pic.twitter.com/6ouWBkClpv

— Letters of Note (@LettersOfNote) February 26, 2019

Warner Bros. CEO:

For 15 months, @kimmasters & have been working on this story. Today, we finally hit publish. https://t.co/yfw1ClSB3S via @thr

— Tatiana Siegel (@TatianaSiegel27) March 6, 2019

it’s always ratner

from the cursory read of that that's a very very different situation than the sorts of things we've talked about on this thread. is he accused of abuse in any way? This just sounds like the sort of scuzzy infidelity one assumes happens constantly in hollywood.

This is a weird story - in the sense that I don't even get *why* it's a story. No one comes across well in it, including Charlotte Kirk herself (hell my biggest takeaway from this is... who is Charlotte Kirk?).

I guess this could qualify as a casting couch scenario, but it's undercut by the fact that Kirk herself denies that there was any inappropriate behaviour involved, as well as her own texts, which made her come across as a conniving blackmailer as opposed to a young woman who was taken advantage of (which one could argue she was as well). Plus none of Tsujihara or Ratner's help even mattered in the end, because casting agents and directors just didn't like her enough. It's a gross situation all around but not exactly the bombshell one might expect.

The worst thing about the article is that it makes Brett Ratner seem somewhat reasonable and sane, which is just wrong.

Charlotte Kirk's quotes read like Ratner/et al.'s lawyer was (physically) holding her hostage.

more like her own lawyer wrote them, after a contract with Ratner

Roz: yes, it’s an average casting couch story. The casting couch is a repugnant and exploitative system that should be shamed out of existence.

(it’s fine if people give a leg up to ppl they’ve fucked bcz they like them & wish to see them do well. In this case, the very very bad son of one of the worst people to ever live explicitly pimped out an ex [or current? am on zing, can’t check timeline] to a colleague as a sweetener on a business deal.)

Don't disagree with any of that.

I think I'm just annoyed by the framing/reporting of it - which, considering it took 15 months, makes the abuses of powerful men look more your average sex scandal.

more like*

A federal court of appeals in New York on Monday took the first step in unsealing documents that could reveal evidence of an international sex trafficking operation allegedly run by multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein and his former partner, British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.

The three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit gave the parties until March 19 to establish good cause as to why they should remain sealed and, failing to do so, the summary judgment and supporting documents will be made public. The court reserved a ruling on the balance of the documents in the civil case, including discovery materials.

“We’re grateful that the court ruled the summary judgment papers are open and they are moving to expedite having them unsealed,’’ said Sanford Bohrer, the attorney representing the Miami Herald, which filed the motion last year to have the entire case file opened. The Herald’s appeal is supported by 32 other media companies, including the New York Times and Washington Post.

Ghislaine Maxwell was sued for slander after calling Virginia Roberts Giuffre, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers, a liar. Maxwell, a close associate of Epstein, sought to have documents from the court case remain sealed.
The case, which was settled in 2017, contains more than 1,000 documents, lawyers said during oral arguments in New York on Wednesday. Maxwell is the sole party fighting to keep the case sealed.

https://www.miamiherald.com/latest-news/article227411649.html

Kevin Tsujihara, head of WB, resigned.

Him and Brett Ratner and a minted nobody... what a team

lol @ that idea that James Packer is "a nobody" in business and media

oh my god

david blaine is under investigation. seems to be from his pussy posse days. no surprise.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvey-weinstein-accusers-and-former-board-members-reach-tentative-compensation-deal-11558655485

https://www.thedailybeast.com/max-landis-8-women-accuse-hollywood-filmmaker-of-emotional-and-sexual-abuse-were-not-people-to-him

Oh shit, the Carly Rae Jepsen weirdo?

was unaware of this until now but yes.

horrible read, fuck anyone who enabled this guy's abuse and career

eat shit max landis

he’s been awful forever and i’m glad it’s coming to light

https://images.app.goo.gl/99viy8G8nRVhuiRP7

Never forget this sweet, sweet Max Landis drag from DIFFICULT PEOPLE pic.twitter.com/PTGpWJ8KaK

— Jade Budowski (@jadebudowski) June 12, 2019

max landis is helpfully one of those people who looks as awful as he is. mega douche.

Someone should ID this attorney

As they were sitting in the waiting area of the courtroom, Dionne recalled Max’s attorney approaching them. “She began speaking and her tone was condescending and aggressive, asking if Callie understood what the process would be like. She indicated it would be long and she would have to talk about the assault over and over. The attorney came off patronizing as she said things like, I will make you look like an idiot and this is not going to be easy on you. The attorney said she was going to make a fool of Callie, talking about how much she drinks and talking about the nature of her relationship to Max. She then asked again if this is how Callie wanted to handle ‘this issue.’ I could feel that Callie was overwhelmed. Callie sat there, tears running down her face, holding hands with her mother and with me. Callie said she did not want to go through with ‘this process.’”

oh wait not finally, here's the facebook message he sent me after a mutual invited me to his halloween party and i laughed about it at my old job and one of max's friends who worked there told max. it was DURING HIS HALLOWEEN PARTY which is a totally normal way to act: pic.twitter.com/KCcEiLnvll

— Alicia Lutes (@alicialutes) June 18, 2019

xp. despicable behaviour but probably not unheard of (or actionable)

Max Landis is what happens when you have the ultimate helicopter parent.

— Allen Strickland Williams (@TotallyAllen) June 18, 2019

that's Neil Hamburger-level

WOW

This is still up on John Landis's Wikipedia page as of 3:18pm EDT

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9XdB2hXYAIL1M2?format=jpg&name=large

whoa

lol it's still there, and now it's footnoted with a link to today's article

wait what does the helicopter parent tweet mean

landis as a pushy director essentially killed three people with a helicopter on the set of twilight zone movie in the eighties

And two of the dead were a 6yo and a 7yo

oooooh fuckkk I didn't know he directed that lmao

(it's an anthology film - Landis was producer and wrote & directed one chapter and the wraparounds, Spielberg was also producer and directed one chapter, Joe Dante and George Miller [the Mad Max one, not the Man From Snowy River one] directed a chapter each - the non-Landis chapters were all remakes of TV episodes)

Hamburger-level otm

the details of the accident are pretty horrifying. it's still shocking to me that landis had a career after that.

landis as a pushy director essentially killed three people with a helicopter on the set of twilight zone movie in the eighties

― godfellaz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:47 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

And two of the dead were a 6yo and a 7yo

― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:49 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oooooh fuckkk I didn't know he directed that lmao

― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:57 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

vm enjoying this three post run

It's insane what a BUSTLING career he had after that. It happened in July 1982 and he still managed to do Trading Places and Thriller

And then 'Into the Night'

Wiki: The film was greenlit by Sean Daniel, president of Universal; he was the executive who had championed Landis on National Lampoon's Animal House. Three weeks into the 60-day shoot, Landis was ordered to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter arising out of the Twilight Zone shoot. Daniel told the press he thought Landis and his colleagues had been "unfairly sent to trial for what is obviously a human catastrophe, not a criminal act."[1]

Yes that one has always stuck with me. Fucking insane. IIRC some countdown show on VH1 had either stills or behind the scenes footage right before/after the accident, I remember seeing Vic Morrow carrying those kids in that fake lake or wherever they shot that.