Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

Seriously, Dude, Where's My Bard?

Shakespeare In Love 2: Rotten In Denmark

Just finished Peter Biskind's Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. (Awful title.) Was actually published only a couple of months before the event that started this thread--he gives no indication that that's around the corner. Anyway, as someone who's mostly ignorant about the business end of things, I now know more about these people than I ever wanted to know, and I'm amazed a single movie ever gets made.

Hello.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/harvey-weinstein-lawyers-battling-ny-times-new-yorker-potentially-explosive-stories-1045724

boom

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/us/harvey-weinstein-harassment-allegations.html?smid=tw-share

This is...something.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/05/us/statement-from-harvey-weinstein.html

I want to buy the movie rights

— rose mcgowan (@rosemcgowan) October 4, 2017

that statement really keeps you guessing huh

how the fuck can his lawyer let him make that statement.

He's always been an asshole of the highest order.

the odds of decades worth of actors, actresses, directors, fellow producers, or any number of people not knowing about this stuff seems to me next to nil.

Lisa Bloom, one of Weinstein’s attorneys who specializes in sexual harassment cases, adds that she has been advising him on “gender and power dynamics” for the past year, calling him “an old dinosaur learning new ways.” She adds that she’s “explained to him that due to the power difference between a major studio head like him and most others in the industry, whatever his motives, some of his words and behaviors can be perceived as inappropriate, even intimidating.”

http://catholicap.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/skd229428sdc.jpg

so this guy's got presumably top dollar lawyers and crisis management teams working for him and... that's his statement?

"not used to this new day and age when leveraging your power to coerce young women eager to get a foot in the door into sleeping with you isn't cool. i'm workin' on it. also fuck the NRA and Trump, right guys?!"

oh i forgot about the Jay-Z quote from 4:44

HEY GUYS LETS SHOW HOW CULTURALLY AWARE I AM

Weinstein told NYT he "sincerely apologize[s]" for his behavior, is going on leave.
His lawyer tells Hollywood Reporter he is suing us.

— Nick Confessore (@nickconfessore) October 5, 2017

wow what a total POS

that "apology" reads like a horrendous parody

Harvey the Hutt

surprised it wasn't written in crayon a la tarantino scripts

Speaking of, can't wait for the Tarantino statement. Oh wait I can.

Maybe he can direct the movie.

I posted on this thread 12 years ago jesus christ

lol the I DID IT thread has to do with Harvey's penchant for smoking cigars indoors in CA and not giving a fuck

BREAKING: Weinstein's lawyer gave Manhattan DA 0K after he declined to file sex assault charges against Weinstein https://t.co/LIKNFRWAUv

— David Sirota (@davidsirota) October 5, 2017

bad week for Cyrus Vance, jesus christ

also apparently being a DA in NYC is lucrative as fuck!

People are just tripping over themselves to give him money because they like him so much!

Well, yeah. Straight shooter, that Vance.

btw I thought I posted on this thread like 12 years ago noting what an asshole AND misogynist Harvey was and is, but I couldn't find it via search. Because back then I knew someone at Miramar who complained about this exact shit.

*Miramax

Goddamn this story is insane. Yeah I'm with Josh, there's no way a huge chunk of the film industry didn't know about this. For decades! So gross

so many open secrets just like every other ____________ industrial complex.

Why don't these guys feel shame that these women have no actual interest in them, and/or are actively turned off by them? Do they just not conceive of the women's thoughts at all? Or is that part of the turn on?

Both

Probably. I mean it's such a bizarre fetish, dude looks fucking disgusting & he just wants massages & women to see his whole... situation. Getting off on power and humiliation.

If I thought a dude was disgusted by me, I would feel so embarrassed to try and coerce that dude to sleep with me.

Even more so if the only things in my favor were power/ money/ ability to further their career.

I think you would just have to get to the point where you don't view the other people as actual humans having any sort of agency. They are just your playthings?

Also thinking of DJT lying in bed naked under a sheet because he's ashamed of his body trying to get some woman to come into his hotel bedroom.

It takes all kinds

there's a definite possibility he thinks women are attracted to him

Good follow-up by Rebecca Traister at The Cut: https://www.thecut.com/2017/10/why-the-weinstein-sexual-harassment-allegations-came-out-now.html

Have fun with that, dude.

https://t.co/n0Ty3RiR04

That's an anonymously sourced Daily Mail story though.

Best kind! (I mean, thing is: at this point, sure seems like the thing he'd eventually claim.)

Jeffrey Wells may be the most loathsome blogger in Hollywood, but some of the comments are 'enlightening':

http://hollywood-elsewhere.com/2017/10/pay-play-massages-payoffs-messy-behavior/

Someone please check the lead content in whatever Cilizza drinks at lunch.

They weren't major donors to the GOP like Weinstein is to Dems https://t.co/dIjVRzLRAq

— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) October 6, 2017

lmao constantly pointing out that Weinstein was a major donor to the Dems doesn't seem like a well-thought out line of attack

it's no different and also not as bad as that picture of Bill & Hillary with Trump & Melania. and yeah Cilliza = moron

http://gothamist.com/2017/10/06/harvey_weinstein_accuses_ny_times_o.php?_ga=2.148250871.19607542.1506960782-484564342.1476232601

what a piece of shit

Judd's memory of their encounter was also false, Weinstein insisted, before saying, "I know Ashley Judd is going through a tough time right now, I read her book [her memoir ‘All That Is Bitter and Sweet’], in which she talks about being the victim of sexual abuse and depression as a child. Her life story was brutal, and I have to respect her. In a year from now, I am going to reach out to her."

"in a year from now"

completely perplexed by his statements & comments yesterday in the wake of the NYT piece. like someone said upthread, doesn't this guy have the best crisis management & team of lawyers available??? hasn't he learned that when this shit happens, you make a milquetoast statement & then GO AWAY for a while? it's just bizarre, you see this same thing happen to so many other huge figures that have been exposed & fallen so quickly.

doesn't this guy have the best crisis management & team of lawyers available???

including Obama WH Communications Director Anita Dunn

easier to sell drones vs sex in America

xp I guess he's just ignoring any advice he gets? kind of like Trump, you can get to a certain level where you are too powerful for anyone to protect you from your own worst instincts?

I actually get the March 31st holiday off work, as do many in the West

They should switch it to Dolores Huerta Day

it is insane (and so horribly familiar) what these women have had to endure just to get any kind of acknowledgement… like, it becimes a bargaining thing that it would take too much get justice,as if it’s a bridge too far, but just for us to SEE them has taken all of this anguish

it’s fucked

and my god, carrying all of that in ~this~ movement?

sorry if i’m stating the obvious, it’s glib to say “it’s a lot” but jfc

yeah this quote from Huerta is heartbreakingly familiar

“I carried this secret for as long as I did because building the movement and securing farmworker rights was my life’s work,” Huerta wrote. “The formation of a union was the only vehicle to accomplish and secure those rights and I wasn’t going to let Cesar or anyone else get in the way.”

sorry for multiposting but messing w DOLORES HUERTA alone is enough to crack my heart open

i need to log off

Also that she dl gave away the babies and now she’s 96
It’s devastating

Sorry for that rogue dl

Here's a gift link if anyone needs it. Terrible story and also it's good that it has finally come out — although certainly raises the possibility of other unknown abuses.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UFA.XK70.m3MWWWFO7y4H&smid=url-share

Well that was quick:
California legislative leaders are moving to rename Cesar Chavez Day as Farmworkers Day in light of sexual abuse allegations against the late labor leader.

but it will still be on his birthday? not sure

yeah Sacramento city mayor already working on renaming Cesar Chavez park as of yesterday

there’s also a statue but no indication of what they’ll do w that yet

i have heard that a lot of schools are struggling to know what to do re a potential name change. it's so sad and depressing, everything about it.

yeah there's parks and streets and schools all over the place with his name

(but there's still also a lot of Jefferson Boulevards and things despite what we now know about him)

yeah it’s really hard to comprehend the level of this & the impact it’s going to have on so many corners of life.

when i moved here from Aus I knew zero abt Chavez, but living in Sacramento you really cannot avoid knowing about him & his legacy, his name on schools, parks, statue, public holiday, let alone often meeting ppl even in casual life, not just government, who worked w the movement or knew him, it’s wild

I'll have to ask my old boss about this. She worked on UFW campaigns in the '70s, and I know she was around Chavez some. She's always talked about him glowingly, I'm going to guess it's a shock to her. But who know what people know or hear rumors of and don't say anything about, because of "the movement."

yeah exactly

he's almost become a secular saint in the west, can't count how many times I've seen him depicted in murals as a kind of Latino Moses

definitely

yeah i was kind of thinking he’s at MLK levels in these parts, maybe