Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

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.

I watched Network the day after the Charlie Rose story broke and it was pretty startling, as prescient as it is in many ways it also shows & celebrates that kind of "news is a flirty business" mindset. not to mention that movie is single-handedly responsible for Aaron Sorkin

The whole Matt Lauer Office Sex Button thing should be a really good jumping off point for figuring out how the bosses at NBC has indulged and protected him.

oh plz let geraldo disappear

The tweets that follow that are, how you say, 'interesting.'

the twist in al capones vault should have been that it turned into a real life cask of amontillado feat. Geraldo

the key thread of the Lauer Variety article is that he and his ilk are in-house philanderers so they can keep up their 'public face' bullshit.

ie I wonder if he had his remote door lock installed, or if it was inherited.

It's funny how he got into the biz to meet girls when most women think journalists and journalism majors are, with good reason, among the least concerned with personal hygiene and basic standards of dress.

the only positive thing Geraldo ever did was not avoid a chair thrown by a neo nazi on his tv show.

lol Ned OTM

https://www.amazon.com/Exposing-Myself-Geraldo-Paisner-Daniel/dp/B000ZPOWA4

what the--!

― omar little, Wednesday, November 29, 2017

decades' worth of macalester alumna shaking their heads like damn son you didn't know?

demanding someone suck your dick isn't flirting, Gerardo

There's no way to know if that door lock button was installed for Hugh Downs in 1965

Breaking News: NBC received at least 2 more complaints about Matt Lauer, hours after his firing https://t.co/w1gdKZlJcb

— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 29, 2017

Apparently these door lock switches are a thing at NBC.

FYI, as strange as it sounds in print, several execs at NBC News have this auto door close switch under their office desks at 30 Rock. I always found it to be intimidating but not unusual.

— Betsy Fischer Martin (@BFischerMartin) November 29, 2017

why... would you need to trap people in your office. or block people out, I guess?

well, it's TV!

Wouldn't want to expend valuable energy standing up and walking to the door to lock it.

It would be extremely intimidating if the door locked while both hands are still on the desk. I guess one would innocently assume they exist because rich people don't like walking across their giant offices to lock a door to have a private "business discussion".

how else would Ned Beatty be able to give that crazy speech in Network if not for automatic curtain sliders and door lockers

having a way to lock your door from your desk doesn't strike me as intrinsically creepy, but when you're known as a serial sexual harasser...yeah

can only assume these guys also have a trap-door button under their desk like mr burns

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onSbOXKDfaQ

Just a little flirting

having a way to lock your door from your desk doesn't strike me as intrinsically creepy

nah, it's really really fucking creepy.

if you want to lock your door behind you, you can just do that as you enter a room and close the door behind you. the reason you would need this button is for locking other people into the room with you. which is creepy. unless there is a good non-creepy reason to lock people into a room without their knowledge i am overlooking.

Don't want anyone walking in and stealing jokes.

if you lock the door remotely from the desk couldn't the person trying to escape just unlock the door on the way out?

of course higher level executives want to be able to close doors without having to get up. they might trip over their own shortcomings on the way from their desks

Yeah it's creepy af