Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

i groaned in pain when i read the part in a news story about how he is working on a lake wobegon book AND a memoir of his childhood. they shoot horses, don't they?

his whole life is a memoir to his childhood and then you read profiles about how he is a shut-in who never talks to anyone and man oh man i don't even know what to think about him. he's kind of a good sherwood anderson character, i guess. or a melville character. The Tiresome Guest.

he always gave me tall brian peppers vibes

― omar little, Wednesday, November 29, 2017 12:57 PM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yoooo

there is a heavy nostalgia thread with some of the folks mentioned on this thread. the desire to relive childhood memories. woody. cosby. louis. woebegon dude. they remind me of each other. in a jean shepherd kinda way. i can only hope that jean shepherd kept his hands to himself.

Lasseter as well. reports of him described as "a 13-year old boy in a middle-aged man's body" eeeughkkskskge

who here has childhood memories of louis ck

my parents wouldn't take me to see Pooty Tang when it came out

even just that they are now perhaps experiencing some panic & self doubt for the first time

― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:00 PM (eight minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the most delicious thing of all IMO. delicious and just.

take it easy, scott, next you'll be coming for Mr Rogers.

In plain sight

"A world in which there is no sexual harassment at all is a world in which there will not be any flirtation" -- radio humorist Garrison Keillor at @PressClubDC April 7, 1994... at 31:05 in this video: https://t.co/9ChxtCdZqD pic.twitter.com/nTtJXar3nK

— Howard Mortman (@HowardMortman) November 29, 2017

hooo boy

"take it easy, scott, next you'll be coming for Mr Rogers."

i don't think its necessarily true of him! he created a world for children but i don't remember it being the world of his childhood. i don't really remember him talking about his childhood much at all. he was very much in the present. mindfulness and all that.

but those other guys definitely wanted us to live in their childhoods.

the serenity of Mr. Rogers & Bob Ross doesn't scan as creepy to me, more like a reaction to fighting in wars

Michael Jackson asked if we'd seen his

xp

I'm a bit of a Writer's Almanac stan tbh

OK, I really don't understand this (first sentence in The Daily Beast on Matt Lauer):

In perhaps the most shocking media firing in years, NBC News Chairman Andy Lack on Wednesday fired the Today show’s Matt Lauer, the longtime star and mainstay of the news division’s most profitable franchise.

"the most shocking media firing in years"????? uh

Lazy "perhaps" tossed in there.

it's shocking that they fired him that quickly after allegations were raised yesterday, at least to me. but there must be more historical issues at play here, the allegations said "longtime". also nymag or someone has been working on a story about him for months so something was about to come out and they probably wanted to get in front of it.

it's not shocking at all, like i said Lauer seemed like he was gonna get the axe for inappropriate behavior and/or his whole weird vendetta against Ann Curry over 5 years ago. he's like, at the bottom of the list when it comes to shocking firings in the past couple months

xp that's true, but again, it seemed like a long time coming, and from what i've read, there's a ton of more information that they know about but has yet to come out

ehhh, it's shocking in that they've been willing to pay him obscene amounts of money and fire co-hosts he didn't like to keep him around

I didn't know anybody but me watched anything but five minutes of morning shows in 2017. I guess The Today Show still makes a tidy enough profit to have justified Lauer's obscene salary?

Part of the deal with 'hosts' is that once the viewing public gets comfortable with a host, they don't like to see any changes. Even new hairdos bother them. So, networks are willing to pay big bucks to keep them happy.

George Stephanopoulos has to be looking over his shoulder right about now.

ehhh, it's shocking in that they've been willing to pay him obscene amounts of money and fire co-hosts he didn't like to keep him around

― President Keyes, Wednesday, November 29, 2017 2:07 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i don't know, not in the post-Weinstein era. would've been shocking before certainly, but like i said i'm shocked he made it this long

also, jesus:

Garrison Keillor joked with DC journalists about sexual harassment, warned against making a world so perfect 'that you and I can't enjoy living in it' https://t.co/tX4WvEsrr7 via @dcexaminer

— Philip Wegmann (@PhilipWegmann) November 29, 2017

Fuck the world

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51vvhDZSfkL._SX322_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

I guess I never noticed this before, but Keillor is future schrute.

http://filmpopper.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/dwight-k-schrute-3.jpg

i have good memories of keillor's woebegone stories. from i guess the mid-80s. they were touching and thoughtful and slow. my family would sit around and just listen. we lived surrounded by republicans and racism and bullshit and it felt like a kind of reflective oasis. i haven't thought about him in years and years though.

Keillor looks like Chewbacca's father from the Star Wars Holiday Special.

http://www.i-mockery.com/minimocks/starwars-holiday/8.gif

can't find the "this face" thread so
HEY THERE FUCK FACE, HEY THERE FUCK FACE

this facial expression

that's different though, that's the "got caught cheating on my wife" face

Variety's Lauer story is live.

http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/matt-lauer-accused-sexual-harassment-multiple-women-1202625959/

"His office was in a secluded space, and he had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up."

wtf

everything in that article was fucking gross

i have good memories of keillor's woebegone stories. from i guess the mid-80s. they were touching and thoughtful and slow. my family would sit around and just listen. we lived surrounded by republicans and racism and bullshit and it felt like a kind of reflective oasis. i haven't thought about him in years and years though.

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, November 29, 2017 1:56 PM (thirty-five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel you on this

It is pretty bad when the least offensive thing you've done is played FMK with coworkers about other coworkers.

yeah that's so quaint

What not to do!

Sad about @MLauer great guy, highly skilled & empathetic w guests & a real gentleman to my family & me. News is a flirty business & it seems like current epidemic of #SexHarassmentAllegations may be criminalizing courtship & conflating it w predation. What about #GarrisonKeillor?

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) November 29, 2017

"News is a flirty business"

I've... no words

Okay so Geraldo is in the queue for some primo allegations, is my takeaway from that.

geraldo’s nervous flopsweat is palpable in that tweet

waiting for the shoe to drop i presume

I'm a fool to do your flirty work

or dan otm iow xp

I have never heard of anyone say "I got into the news game to meet girls"

lol rogue "of" there, you know what I mean

you get to wear a hat taht sez 'press' in it, totally takes the pressure off introducing yourself, it's a readymade excuse to chat whoever up!

Lol @ Dan's DN

'News is a flirty business' is an insane thing to say. What it's saying is: 'sexual harassment is part of the news business'. That may be closer to the truth. But then try and make it not so.