Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

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?

yeah otm it definitely reminded me of Trump. also Ailes, O'Reilly, Cosby obviously...

a certain pain-feelin' president

ha, this pic belongs in that thread of "faces of people who have to apologize for something in front of their wives"

http://static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/303385/2685363/1287687757153/bill-clinton-404_683090c.jpg

Seattle's child-rapist ex-mayor's response to the surfacing of accusations earlier this year was to publish a doctor's note confirming that there were no moles on his genitals. Powerful people just want to keep talking.

Powerful *old* people. Seems like a trend with so many of these cases. Shit, remember the Sandusky/Costas interview?

People with wealth and power who ruthlessly screw whoever they want throughout their entire lives have traditionally made deathbed conversions, so as to clear their path into heaven before they die. Confession is part of the deal. So is building a chapel or paying for masses in perpetuity, although making movies about the NRA probably counts, too.

A story so old that the very first tale in Boccaccio's Decameron is a hilarious take on this phenomenon.

yeah it's an age old tale. exploitation and the entertainment industry. there is the talent and there are the gatekeepers, leeching off both artists and the public. makes you tempted to say, fuck it, just go DIY, just go local. but these abusive power structures exist pretty much everywhere, whether you are CEO of movies or a local promoter who controls access.

this story in particular certainly explains how most movies are largely morality-free power fantasies and have been for decades. it's all cynical, there is no hope for humanity, just self-referential consumerism. Superman just stands there with a dumb look on his face while a room full of people explodes. when is the last time you left a movie feeling something, anything, that perhaps pointed to a universal truth or insight? look who is making them, amoral privileged power mongers.

when is the last time you left a movie feeling something, anything, that perhaps pointed to a universal truth or insight?

Last night.

Also, I mentioned it upthread, but Jennette McCurdy discussed Schneider's grooming in her memoir, I'm Glad My Mom Died (tw: child abuse, eating disorders).

Really feels like another shoe has been about to drop on Schneider for 10 years. Every time something comes out its always like he *massages* or he *yells* or he *makes suggestive content* but never seems to get up to any of the Bryan Singer-type stuff that could get tried in a court of law. Either theres some insane shit being held back or he was just a master at approaching the line between "creep" and "criminal" but never crossing it.

It's kind of a similar story to that of Brett Ratner*, nothing prosecutable yet but enough to completely torpedo his career forever.

*the X-Men franchise really leaned heavily on major creeps!

quinton of quinton reviews is editing a schneider video as an coda to his 43-hour long youtube series on icarly and victorious.

So the 'Quiet on Set' thing is news to me, but I have no intention of delaying my Dan Schneider video until April. I'm going to go ahead and finish it this month (or March). I'm sure there will be more specific revelations in this piece, but I frankly want to be done with it all.

— Quinton Reviews - #1 GARFIELD FAN 🎬 (@Q_Review) February 8, 2024

it is a horrible coincidence that Drake Bell’s costar shares the same last name as his abuser ie Josh Peck, Brian Peck

zero relationship between the two

but the way the article says PECK and mainly shows pics of Josh is unfortunate

This sounds like a huge breaking story, what the fuck is "ID"?

― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, March 14, 2024 11:32 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Investigation Discovery, a true crime cable network.

― peace, man, Thursday, March 14, 2024 11:35 AM (four days ago) bookmarkflaglink

Included w/MAX subscription, as I just learned.

tbf I think Ratner has multiple accusations of sexual assault and other crimes, beyond anything I’ve seen about Schneider, it just doesn’t seem like charges were filed (and he’s now left the country for good)

Stuff on Mo Troper today:

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/dan-schneider-quiet-on-set-video-interview-1235855562/