Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

wow @ that New Yorker article

Criminal prosecutions aside, surely to god there's an avalanche of lawsuits coming that will leave Weinstein bankrupt for life.

re: the new yorker article, god knows what other shit he pulled that we don't know about, if this came out...

Ronan Farrow deserves a vaca right about now.

I'm always amazed at how much work must go into those New Yorker articles. Makes me feel like an invertebrate.

an avalanche of lawsuits coming that will leave Weinstein bankrupt for life.

It's a nice thought, but I'll believe that when I see it. The accusations can all be true and yet have insufficient evidence to succeed in extracting damages in court. It's more likely he'll die rich, but largely shunned by everyone he knew in the movie industry.

wow this NYT statement to @brianstelter. Goes hard at David Boies for helping suppress Weinstein accusers while also representing the paper pic.twitter.com/2rXqtUTMxm

— Matt Mittenthal (@mattmittenthal) November 7, 2017

Boies is definitely the one taking the hit in that new story. Also just surreal having a spy on the books to talk to everyone to extract information.

horrifying
esp wrt sexual assault

oh god, I just got a promotional email from the local newspaper

Don't Miss Alec Baldwin Live

sorry, think I will

he's gonna be promoting his new book at a local prestige movie theater, sold out a while ago

feel bad for his co-author, timing sucks

if you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.

A-B-C. A-Avoid, B- Baldwin, C-Co-authoring.

maybe his co-author can come forward and explain how Baldwin never even read the book when he runs for president in 2024

Rae Dawn Chong = another woman with a promising acting career & I wondered what happened with that. Now I know. https://t.co/359BXHRVUU pic.twitter.com/zEi8wJTRmn

— Mo Ryan (@moryan) November 8, 2017

I didn't think I could think any less of Seagal.

http://radaronline.com/celebrity-news/charlie-sheen-sexually-assaulted-corey-haim-report/

lol Baldwin has always been such a useful idiot

hooooly shit @ Sheen allegation, didn't see that coming

you didn't see a Charlie Sheen allegation coming

Charlie Sheen is a piece of shit but people have always found him charming bc he's so self effacing and lol "winning" and so on. his post-scandal success is a pretty good example of ppl tolerating shitty behavior from shitty men and even celebrating it.

it's not that I ever thought Charlie Sheen is a good person, it's more that I forgot he was even in a movie w Haim and that the two had crossed paths during the time in question

xp I think all that 2011 tiger blood winning shit went away when he came out and said he had HIV in the fall of 2015. Bree Olson went on Howard Stern the same morning as Sheen was interviewed by Matt Later on the Today Show, iirc they were on at the exact same time.

Sheen's early 2011 run was definitely a watershed moment / turning point for media & pop culture in the USA... such a strange year

I know I've read basically that exact Sheen allegation before somewhere.

the closest thing our culture has ever come to a "run forrest!" moment.

Yeah, ever since Feldman began talking publicly about child molestation in Hollywood, I've heard the Sheen rumors.

Sheen's early 2011 run was definitely a watershed moment / turning point for media & pop culture in the USA... such a strange year

― flappy bird, Wednesday, November 8, 2017 10:29 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess???????? i can't for the life of me remember why ppl were paying attention to him

did he tweet a bunch of stuff

Yeah, ever since Feldman began talking publicly about child molestation in Hollywood, I've heard the Sheen rumors.

Yep.

The guy who makes the allegation in the Radar link above though has also been the subject of those rumors as well. Would be nice if Corey F. would just open up about everything.

Sheen's early 2011 run was definitely a watershed moment / turning point for media & pop culture in the USA... such a strange year

― flappy bird, Wednesday, November 8, 2017 10:29 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess???????? i can't for the life of me remember why ppl were paying attention to him

― brimstead, Wednesday, November 8, 2017 1:45 PM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the way the whole Two & a Half Men thing went down, his insane media blitz, the tweeting, getting together with one of the most famous porn stars at the time, that weird tour he did... it was unlike any other celebrity "breakdown" before. was of a piece with the Arab Spring imo, which happened just a month or two earlier, had a lot to do with traditional gatekeepers of information being undermined by social media

ah ok i wasn't aware it was a "breakdown", i thought he was just being a "bad boy" or something

nah he was completely gakked out on coke and steroids and giving all these insane interviews everywhere and posting videos on twitter and shit

i sort of get what you mean in the sense that i was like "wait why does everyone care about this, what is going on, did US magazine buy the internet"

xp

ah ok got it

Ancient bore Gay Talese tries to interject himself into the discussion, is annoying and stupid https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/11/08/author-gay-talese-feels-sorry-for-kevin-spacey-says-his-accusers-should-suck-it-up/

you didn't see a Charlie Sheen allegation coming

― imago, Wednesday, November 8, 2017 12:23 PM (forty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was actually a funny post gj

Gay Talese, living by the code of conduct he learned in 1950.

I feel like this could go in, um, any which direction. https://t.co/N0l6bpBxxE

— Justin Kirkland (@justinkirkland4) November 8, 2017

I didn't think I could think any less of Seagal.

Didn't he movie to Russia specifically because he felt (a la Gary Glitter) that the West was too uptight about sexual predators?

there is absolutely no way the keith urban thing is a good idea, holy shit

Will the Keith Urban song be better or worse than the Brad Paisley/LL song?

Has Nicole Kidman said anything about Weinstein yet?

_I didn't think I could think any less of Seagal._


Didn't he movie to Russia specifically because he felt (a la Gary Glitter) that the West was too uptight about sexual predators?

I like my country songs like I like my Law and Order episodes: ripped from the headlines

"The Angry Urbanian"

Country music world not known for boldly challenging conservative conventions. Hollywood is more likely to be his main target, not sexual predators.

Isn't he married to Nicole Kidman? I guess the best we can hope for is rage.

Imagine what the reaction would have been a year ago if Rose McGowan had said, "I'm surrounded by secret ex-Mossad agents who are taping our conversations and trying to destroy me" pic.twitter.com/v4KjakNY8a

— Jon Schwarz (@schwarz) November 8, 2017

I've got to say that the warrant for Rose McGowan's appearance for leaving a bag behind that had drugs in it is... extremely suspect