Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

That video is amazing.

Ron Jeremy

https://variety.com/2020/film/news/ron-jeremy-porn-charged-sexual-assault-1234646918/

xp
And the CYE music at the ends caps it perfectly (shoulda played a second or two longer).

Re: Ron Jeremy - how surprising that someone who describes the allegations as "buyers remorse" might turn out to actually be a rapist after all

ciro guerra, director of embrace of the serpent and birds of passage, accused of assault and harassment by eight women

https://volcanicas.com/2020/06/24/ocho-denuncias-de-acoso-y-abuso-sexual-contra-ciro-guerra/

Was there one of these threads specifically for the music industry or should I just leave this instagram full of Bassnectar allegations here?

https://www.instagram.com/evidenceagainstbassnectar/

i have zero idea who bassnectar is but my assumption about any allegation against an EDM DJ is that the allegation is true.

Apparently it's rife at Burger Records, a label that seemed pretty cool.

https://consequenceofsound.net/2020/07/burger-record-artists-sexual-misconduct

there's a new thread for music business example, btw: rolling #metoo thread for sexual harassment in the music industry so no one misses out when artists we don't give a fuck about like Tim Westwood and Bassnectar get caught

https://www.thecut.com/2020/07/jennifer-eckhart-lawsuit-fox-news-ed-henry-accused-of-rape.html

Alexander Payne. You sat me down & played a soft-core porn movie you directed for Showtime under a different name. I still remember your apartment in Silverlake. You are very well-endowed. You left me on a street corner afterwards. I was 15. pic.twitter.com/mVqiN4S9NW

— Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) August 17, 2020

Yikes!!

horrifying

This fuckin guy

The suit included complaints that date back four decades, and some of the plaintiffs involved are minors. The filing also alleged that Nygard kept a “database of potential victims” — over 7,500 women and underage girls — on his company’s server.

The FBI had also reportedly investigated trafficking claims against Nygard in 2015 and 2017, according to the BBC.

https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/peter-nygard-sons-accuse-father-sex-trafficking.html

I completely missed that Jeffery Ross was accused by a woman; she's accused him periodically over the years dating back to 2006. He's pretty adamant she has mental health and drug issues.

That is a fairly dismissive framing of Megh Wright's reporting.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/08/jeff-ross-jessica-radtke-alleged-sexual-relationship-at-15.html

that story is paywalled so I only pulled the first thing i saw about it, from another story, which was a quick synopsis and his statement.

incognito mode / private window

Paywall Bypass for Chrome

oh yeah incognito worked for this (half the time it doesn't). thanks.

Powerpoint comic James Veitch: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sarah-lawrence-alums-allege-rape-against-comedian-james-veitch

Big topic on the Sarah Lawrence alum pages today!

Long article on hotelier Andre Balasz Chateau Marmont property.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/rot-at-hollywoods-playground-chateau-marmont-staff-allege-racial-discrimination-sexual-misconduct-and-neglectful-management

Balazs, that is.

Powerpoint comic

There's a phrase I wish could wash from my brain.

Pretty much true for everybody though https://t.co/aT9FZNqrGb

— Jason IsBOO (@JasonIsbell) October 16, 2020

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Re: Ron Jeremy - how surprising that someone who describes the allegations as "buyers remorse" might turn out to actually be a rapist after all

― bob catley signature stage move (Matt #2), Wednesday, June 24, 2020 4:55 AM

Ron Jeremy charged with an additional 3 counts of rape and four of sexual assault, on women aged 15 to 54, across 17 years.

they should throw on an extra charge for wearing his mask below his upper lip

Fashion Executive Peter Nygard Indicted on Sex Trafficking Charges

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/fashion-executive-peter-nygard-indictment-sex-trafficking-charges-1104615/

While we're at it, Gilbert Rozon, founder of Just for Laughs, was acquitted:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/gilbert-rozon-rape-trial-1.5842309

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ugly-backstory-of-ben-shapiros-first-movie-run-hide-fight

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-right-wing-movie-studio-enabled-the-harvey-weinstein-of-indie-film

Daily Wire is branching out into film distribution and the first movie they acquire comes from a company - Cinestate - that has multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment swirling around it.

“Ride or die baby! I’m thrilled about this. You are a treasured colleague and an insane talent. So much to come! Looking forward to toasting,” wrote the assistant managing editor who oversees The New York Times’s audio report.

From Andy Mills' statement on leaving the New York Times under a cloud of misconduct allegations and the collapse of the key reporting in Caliphate.

We sorta missed talking about it in this thread a few months ago, but then again it bleeds over into wider religious hypocrisy as a result. But: evangelical leader who died last May turns out to be a nauseating abuser and probably worse:

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/february/ravi-zacharias-rzim-investigation-sexual-abuse-sexting-rape.html

Extensive, monstrous details about Shia LeBoeuf in this FKA twigs interview: https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a35460385/fka-twigs-shia-la-beouf-abuse/

LaBeouf eventually pulled over at a gas station, and twigs attempted to remove her bags to escape, but the actor slammed her up against the car and tried to choke her again. Screaming in her face, he forced her back into the car.

Jacket, $1,790, turtleneck, $850, trousers, $1,090, Ralph Lauren Collection. Hoop earrings, Cartier, $3,900. Long antique pendant necklace, Bentley & Skinner.

welp
https://gothamist.com/news/i-came-work-nauseous-ex-cuomo-aide-says-governor-sexually-harassed-and-forcibly-kissed-her

Here's the source: https://medium.com/@lindseyboylan4NY/my-story-of-working-with-governor-cuomo-e664d4814b4e

D’Elia hit with a lawsuit for violating federal child pornography and child sexual exploitation laws soliciting more than 100 sexually explicit photos and videos from, and having sex with, a Jane Doe who was 17 years old

He went silent for months then only a few days ago posted a video which was a semi-contrite "acknowledging and changing my behaviour" thing but also a flat denial of anything illegal or non consensual.

That now looks like a preemptive response to this suit.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pepe-le-pew-not-slated-for-future-warner-bros-television-projects

tbf the sexual-harassment skunk parody of Maurice Chevalier might be just a tad outdated no matter how you measure it

great news for the cancellation-take industry

why next they'll take Bosko and where will be then

It took watching a bunch of Chevalier musicals recently to a) realize Pepe Le Pew was meant as a parody of Chevalier and b) subsequently realize how tone deaf their parody of Chevalier was (as everyone was champing at the bit to knock boots with everyone else in those movies). The serial harassment angle was all W-B.

I thought Pepe was supposed to be based on Charles Boyer?

from the (surprisingly contentious!) wiki:

Jones wrote that Pepé was based (loosely) on the personality of his Termite Terrace colleague, writer Tedd Pierce, a self-styled "ladies' man" who reportedly always assumed that his infatuations were reciprocated. In a short documentary film, Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood, Jones told an interviewer (perhaps jokingly) that Pepé was actually based on himself, except that he was very shy with girls.

A prototype of Pepé appeared in 1947's Bugs Bunny Rides Again, but sounded similar to Porky Pig. When the character of Pepé was more fully developed for cartoons of his own, Mel Blanc based Pepé's voice on Charles Boyer's Pépé le Moko from Algiers (1938), a remake of the 1937 French film Pépé le Moko. Blanc's voice for the character closely resembled a voice he had used for "Professor Le Blanc", a harried violin instructor on The Jack Benny Program. There have also been theories that Pepé's voice was based on singer Maurice Chevalier.

Pepé's reputation suffered in later years. Comedian Dave Chappelle, in his 2000 stand-up film Killin' Them Softly, called him a rapist.

In October 2010, it was reported that Mike Myers would voice Pepé Le Pew in a feature-length live action film based on the character, although no information about this project has surfaced since. In July 2016, it was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con that Max Landis was penning a Pepé Le Pew feature film for Warner Bros. There has no new information since then due to sexual assault allegations against Landis in 2017.

a live-action Pepé Le Pew movie

at last

a more accurate parody might have had Pepé in a complex and possibly compromising relationship with the Vichy regime led by Elmer Fudd.

xp: I wonder if he was going to repurpose his Cat in the Hat costume

a max landis-scripted pepe movie starring mike myers....one hell of a bullet we dodged there