altho maybe it's just that nobody had thought about woody allen in decades until late-period masterpiece midnight in paris catapulted him back into the public eye
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:41 (ten years ago) link
(i read the vanity fair article but i feel like ronan's funny tweets are a bigger cultural force)
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:45 (ten years ago) link
Ronan's tweets end to end are funnier than MIP.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
it does kinda :/ me that these allegations and their associated evidence went unchanged for twenty years during which woody allen was nominated for a million awards and won several and now we're all suddenly having an important discussion about the appropriateness of honoring him because the victim's brother tweeted a bunch about it during the lead-up to his debut as a cable television personality; if every word the farrows say is true this still speaks badly for Us
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:39 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Actually, I think it's not exactly like that -- I think it was that dylan herself had never spoken publicly about it, or at least not as an adult, and then came forward late last year and spoke to Vanity Fair about it herself. So they were kind of lying dormant for much of that twenty year period and then very recently she reawakened them.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
these allegations and their associated evidence went unchanged for twenty years
why did you expect something to change over that period? idgi
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:04 (ten years ago) link
I dunno if you were around in the 90s but this stuff was definitely all aired the first time around and there was a LOT of coverage of it
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:05 (ten years ago) link
no yeah that's fair, and i'd never say there's an inappropriate time to talk abt this or that malone isn't right to speak about it, it's just my toxic information-age cynicism makes it impossible to stop feeling that responding to the highlighting by her much more public family members makes me complicit in somebody's promo cycle xxp
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:06 (ten years ago) link
I do kind of wonder whether the timing of Dylan coming forward was with knowledge of the lifetime achievement award forthcoming. At the same time, that doesn't necessarily make it less credible.
As for the "promo cycle" -- I think "my sister was molested" is kind of an awkward way to build buzz for your show.
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41ixvSqC3fL.jpg
and idk i think meting out quippy justice on the internet is a decent way to prepare for doing it on tv
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:50 (ten years ago) link
shouldn't act like this is the primary issue here, just thread title kinda otm is all i mean to say
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Tuesday, 28 January 2014 21:51 (ten years ago) link
I'm not sure how much advance publicity GG lifetime achievement awards get, esp if they're going to someone who never goes to award shows
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 03:13 (ten years ago) link
If anyone is creeped out by the notion of a 55-year old man becoming involved with his girlfriend’s 19-year old adopted daughter, I understand. That makes perfect sense.
it does! that's a pretty fucked-up power dynamic.
― mh, Tuesday, January 28, 2014 7:19 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Especially when "becoming involved" = took pornographic photos of said woman that 'Woody would later say publicly... had been taken because Soon-Yi was interested in modeling.'
― Walter Galt, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 09:50 (ten years ago) link
so....I just got this press release:
PresentsFADING GIGOLO Written & Directed By John Turturro Starring John Turturro, Woody Allen, Vanessa Paradis, Liev Schreiber, Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara & Bob Balaban Opens April 18th in Theaters FADING GIGOLO is a funny and moving film about people’s endless and never fully satisfying quest to find happiness through sex and love. Featuring an all-star cast, including a rare acting performance by Woody Allen, FADING GIGOLO marks John Turturro’s fifth film as writer & director. When best friends Fioravante (John Turturro) and Murray (Woody Allen) scheme to get out of debt by entering into the world’s oldest profession, neither is fully prepared for what awaits them. With Murray acting as pimp, he quickly secures a job for his friend. Murray’s beautiful dermatologist Dr. Parker (Sharon Stone) and her equally gorgeous friend Selima (Sofia Vergara) confess they’d like to experience a ménage à trois – Fioravante is hired, after a few “try out” meetings. Before long, Murray is successfully arranging several more clients for Fioravante. But, when Murray introduces him to Avigal (Vanessa Paradis), the widow of a revered Chasidic Rabbi, complications arise. Leaving her cloistered world for chaste visits with Fioravante, their tender meetings stir up feelings both has never felt before, eventually drawing suspicion – and jealousy – from Dovi (Liev Schreiber), a Chasidic man who has pined for Avigal for years. Soon, it is Murray who must resolve this love triangle…discovering the hard way that it’s not so easy to be a pimp!
― Zen Dawson (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
lol wat
― Mordy , Wednesday, 29 January 2014 15:55 (ten years ago) link
i was like you have to be fucking kidding me but it's this agency that's real and sends me stuff all the time, mostly movie stuff but i got on their list somehow....
― Zen Dawson (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:03 (ten years ago) link
read about that months ago
Bullets over Broadway is an imminent Broadway musical -- u know, the one where the Mia stand-in gets iced by gangsters
(can't imagine they got someone as trying as Jennifer Tilly to play it)
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:06 (ten years ago) link
Pimpin ain't easy
― Ayn Rand Akbar (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
http://www.i-italy.org/files/1image/0%20liberalizzazioni/john-turturro-e-woody-allen.jpg
"Anything goes when it come to hoes!"
― Zen Dawson (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:20 (ten years ago) link
Fading Gigolo, Hidden Pedo
― Burt Stuntin (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
i mean this is just so pathetic it makes me sad:
"urray’s beautiful dermatologist Dr. Parker (Sharon Stone) and her equally gorgeous friend Selima (Sofia Vergara) confess they’d like to experience a ménage à trois – Fioravante is hired, after a few “try out” meetings."
― Zen Dawson (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
Sofia Vergara and Sharon Stone want to experience a threesome but don't know how to get it together so they call Woody Allen and he brings them John Turturro.
I'm not shocked this was written and directed by John Turturro.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:22 (ten years ago) link
I believe WA is now the same age as Groucho was when he did Skidoo
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:23 (ten years ago) link
the trailer for the turturro movie looked funny, but also icky
― the "Weird Al" Yankovic of country music (stevie), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:33 (ten years ago) link
i think there have been more movies made using the premise of male gigolos than actual male gigolos
― if you stan for nothing you'll fall for everything (symsymsym), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:47 (ten years ago) link
where's the movie about Clark Gable's gigolo days, that's what I wanna know
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
this sentence is killin me
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:14 (ten years ago) link
and i say that as a john turturro doppelganger
man, you must've changed in recent years!
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:28 (ten years ago) link
oh my resemblance to j-turt is long established
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
that plot point (overqualified beauties stiffly discussing "experiences") is v late woody, hope there are scenes where sharon stone says of sofia vergara "she's always been the sexually experimental one. men are fascinated by her. she has a dangerous allure."
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
"you're a beautiful dermatologist! why this sudden fixation with unconventional lovemaking?"
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
turturro i love you but smh
― goole, Wednesday, 29 January 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
conversations anbout dangerous allure while looking at Monets hanging in bayside San Francisco loft.
― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 18:04 (ten years ago) link
u kno
― (D1CK$) (sic), Wednesday, 29 January 2014 23:33 (ten years ago) link
Dylan Farrow wrote an open letter: http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/02/01/an-open-letter-from-dylan-farrow/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:34 (ten years ago) link
yikesies
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:38 (ten years ago) link
hoo boy
― polyphonic, Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:42 (ten years ago) link
http://i.minus.com/ibwgSngC0kRa4D.gif
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
Jesus
― avant gardener (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:43 (ten years ago) link
Yikes, indeed...
― Frederik B, Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:46 (ten years ago) link
fuck
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:48 (ten years ago) link
Man, that is heavy reading
― pearly-dewdrops' bops (monotony), Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:53 (ten years ago) link
@NickPinkerton 32sGood question. I guess my favorite Woody Allen movie is Purple Rose of Cairo. :Tap-dances offstage:
― polyphonic, Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I was about to post that tweet. Ugh.
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 1 February 2014 21:55 (ten years ago) link
The people on my TL who, still, after this, are like, "it's impossible to know if it really happened!", oh my god. Way to miss the point, dumbasses.
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:09 (ten years ago) link
This made me nauseous.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:18 (ten years ago) link
I read it four times. I don't know how my faced looked when I was doing so, but my bf just looked over and asked me "what's wrong?"
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:24 (ten years ago) link
@drmabuseI think Nick Kristof just set up NYT for a defamation suit from Woody Allen on fair report privilege. http://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/new-york-defamation-law
― polyphonic, Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:28 (ten years ago) link
I guess I shouldn't be surprised a new media bro like nick pinkerton is cool with making fun of rape victims
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:28 (ten years ago) link
yeesh :(
― i want to say one word to you, just one word:buzzfeed (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 1 February 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link