Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

(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.

I'm not watching it but there's a video of the accident on YouTube.

If the Wikipedia article is accurate it seems incredible Landis and others were acquitted.

Chloe Dykstra (Chris Hardwick's ex) on Landis. Apparently they were part of this creep scene too.

This is a post I made on Facebook several days ago regarding my relationship with Max. pic.twitter.com/mmr1ozq99t

— Chloe Dykstra (@skydart) June 18, 2019

On a lighter note, Mamet's new Weinstein-inspired play opened in London to terrible reviews:

http://www.playbill.com/article/read-reviews-for-david-mamets-bitter-wheat-starring-john-malkovich

https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html

Jeeeeeesus.

i never heard about this CRJ stuff with Max Landis. the guy sounds like a certifiable psychopath to me.

I didn't know about it, and having googled and found an Anthony Fantano video titled "Screenwriter Max Landis EXPOSES Carly Rae Jepsen!!!" at the top of the results, I will continue to not know about it

sic: probably worth being a bit more aware as it's surprisingly more fucked up than you think no matter what you think it is
https://www.ascarnooneelsecansee.com/intro

this is a great cut story that's been doing the rounds today:

https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/babe-net-aziz-ansari-date-rise-and-fall.html

thank god that someone is finally speaking up for the long-term artistic legacies of k-pax and the adventure of sharkboy and lava girl 3-d

Dame Judi Dench has spoken out about her sadness at seeing her friends Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey shunned from the big screen.

Despite condemning their behaviour publicly, Dench told the Radio Times she was concerned the pair’s work would be forgotten.

Dench does not defend Spacey and Weinstein against allegations over their misconduct but rued the treatment of Spacey in particular, whose performances were removed from Ridley Scott’s 2017 film All the Money in the World after it was completed.

“Are we going to negate 10 years at the Old Vic and everything that he did [as artistic director] – how wonderful he’s been in all those films? Are we just not going to see all those films that Harvey produced?”

“You cannot deny somebody a talent. You might as well never look at a Caravaggio painting [he was a murderer]. You might as well never have gone to see Noël Coward [accused of predatory behaviour].”

Caravaggio >>> some film producer from Flushing.

her point isn't completely off - Weinstein has 328 production credits on imdb, at least a few of which were good, and Spacey did do good work once upon a time

obv doesn't negate how horrible these people are but there's more to those films than one man

if only someone were arguing that these films should be erased from history

brad otm, dench is coming out swinging against an opinion that i can't recall anyone ever expressing