Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

This section may be the most relevant long term:

Reiter also raised doubts about the fairness of lifetime nondisclosure agreements. “A forever N.D.A. should not be legal,” he told me. “People should not be made to live with that. He’s created so many victims that have been burdened for so many years, and it’s just not right.”

These contractual constraints are perfectly legal. Allred, the victim’s-rights attorney, said that courts usually enforce them and view efforts to break them as “buyer’s remorse.” But in recent weeks lawmakers and legal experts have called for reforms to this system. Estreicher has proposed that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the government body that oversees workplace discrimination, track sexual-misconduct-related settlements and investigate employers who use them repeatedly. In addition to Congresswoman Jackie Speier’s legislation regarding congressional employees, state lawmakers in New York and California are pushing legislation to curtail the use of nondisclosure agreements in sexual-abuse cases. “These secret settlements perpetuate the problem. They allow rich men to continue to be sexual predators,” Connie Leyva, the California state senator who has announced legislation in that state, told me. “I hope that we can get this done in California, and that it will spread like wildfire around the country.”

Allred raised concerns about the potential reforms, which she feared could limit victims’ options. She noted that “anyone who agrees to enter into a settlement has a choice” and accepts both the costs and the—sometimes considerable—benefits. Good attorneys, she argued, explain the full implications of such agreements. “And then the client makes an informed choice.”

Gutierrez, Perkins, and other women who signed agreements with Weinstein told me that they felt their consent was far from informed.

My magazine, Radar, featured #Charlie Rose in our cover story about “Toxic Bachelors” TEN years ago, and refused to run a retraction when David Boies threatened to sue us. Others on our list: Jeremy Piven, Jeffrey Epstein, Colin Farrell, Joe Francis and Kevin Spacey. pic.twitter.com/tdM0RZ6hWw

— Maer Roshan (@MaerRoshan) November 21, 2017

Toxic Bachelors
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Radar on Charlie Rose in 2007—"while he's on good behavior in the office, he loosens up in the Long Island village where he has a vacation home." pic.twitter.com/XqBxIfJyjB

— Harry Siegel (@harrysiegel) November 21, 2017

something needs to be done about cy vance

https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/swedish-music-industry-rocked-by-sexual-assault-scandal/

The Swedish petition is signed by 1,993 women who work as producers, artists, songwriters, DJs, artist managers, A&Rs, booking agents, publishers and more besides. Their ranks include globally renowned performers such as Robyn, First Aid Kit and Zara Larsson (all pictured).

yeah well there's a reason i said that blowing it up and starting all over would be the only way to fix things

also the men responding to that traister tweet with INSISTENCES that clinton was a bad candidate really need some time in a corner

i still can't get over "the crusty paw". ewwwwwwww.

he was gross enough on t.v.

now thinking of him walking around nude in front of people who worked for him....ewwwwwwwwww.

BREAK: CBS has fired Charlie Rose. Memo that just went out to CBS News staffers pic.twitter.com/Db9NpKDv2l

— John Koblin (@koblin) November 21, 2017

Walking around in nothing but a chalk-stripe Purple Label jacket...

BREAK: PBS is ending its relationship with Charlie Rose: "In light of yesterday’s revelations, PBS has terminated its relationship with Charlie Rose and cancelled distribution of his programs."

— John Koblin (@koblin) November 21, 2017

"Two women told the Post they reported Rose’s inappropriate actions to Yvette Vega, a longtime producer on his show. Vega told the Post she “failed” to help those women.

“I should have stood up for them,” she said."

uh yeah you think? she should be fired too.

this bit...

That fall, she traveled with Rose to Aspen for a conference. On Oct. 1, after the trip, Bravo wrote an email to Vega, alluding to earlier issues with Rose:

“On a personal note, I know working for Charlie requires one to embrace his uniqueness and develop a professional relationship that can account for it. It’s taken a couple straight forward conversations between the two of us, but I feel I’m in a better place than previously. And that’s not to say that I was previously in a really bad place! It all might sound cryptic, but you seem to play somewhat of a motherly role for staff members and I just wanted you to know that I’m okay : )”

Vega responded the same day:

“I have some concerns for you especially in what you are trying to tell me in this email. Please know the following about me, I have worked with Charlie for 16 years, so there is nothing that I haven’t heard or possibly experienced – and that anything you ever reveal to me would be kept in confidence from anyone and from the top down, so that you can feel comfortable in that confidence...”

I have never liked Charlie Rose and couldn't bear to watch more than five minutes of him, no matter who his guest was. I am certain this was not because I have a highly sensitive "creep detector", but more because he seemed like there was nothing to him but an insufferable pose of gravitas.

I watched his PBS show religiously back in the day but oh well, peace out Crusty Paw.

aimless . . . otm

he was such an unbearable ass-kisser. drooling over the rich/powerful. it was hard to take. the big ego people definitely loved being on his show.

and he looked like the worst kind of '70s game show host drunk too

he had tons of big names and great artists on his show but was always so blatantly unprepared. he asked the most inane, softball, "I didn't do the homework" type questions. the David Foster Wallace interview is great, CR has obviously not read a word of any of his books and they start talking about movies.

CR: The English Patient.
DFW: ...you're seriously asking about The English Patient?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SIp6xSP7ds

creepypaws...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4uT6ou_ZGw&t=784s

sidebar: I hate this year for many reasons, but high on the list is having to even briefly think about naked Harvey Weinstein & naked Charlie Rose

This is on the vague tip...and yet.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-lasseter-taking-leave-absence-pixar-missteps-1057113

Not sure where to put this, touches on a bunch of the big names with a main focus on Woody Allen, but all through the lens of recent events.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/11/20/art-monstrous-men/#.WhSJRpJcrD0.facebook

those lasseter missteps might just be the Cars movies. they suck so bad!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DPLxwdhVoAAnQEA.jpg

yikes

http://www.toonzone.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2014_11_07_28_toy.story_..c9534.jpg

go get 'em!

I really tried with that Paris Review piece but my god the word count

damn, lassetter. apparently he was hitting on rashida jones who was cowriting toy story 4 (which I had no idea she was doing), and she quit.

Yep, more here

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/john-lasseters-pattern-alleged-misconduct-detailed-by-disney-pixar-insiders-1059594

his statement is such flowery bullshit

Did everyone already say "he kept trying to show women his little Woody"?

no. no one fucking said that.

ok just making sure

man, pretty fucking disappointed in Lasseter

I really tried with that Paris Review piece but my god the word count

no.

but that's okay and here's why

New piece

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/john-lasseter-pixar-disney-whisper-network-1202620960/

Separately, this is still looming. Ashley Feinberg's update:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/vice-sex-harassment-shane-smith_us_5a1063b9e4b045cf4371cbe4

xp eugh that Variety piece is so gross:

The company’s co-founder is known as a hugger.

check please!

A number of ex-employees described Lasseter as an overgrown boy, with a limited sense of boundaries.

Some told Variety that he would make inappropriate comments about women, or touch them on their legs or backs. Some described receiving hugs that went on a few seconds too long.

“There is a currency there — the currency is touch, and being touched by this person who is always in charge,” said another former Pixar employee. “It’s personal and intimate and probably not appropriate.”

Another former employee said that after Pixar grew out of its Point Richmond office and moved to Emeryville in 2000, Lasseter’s behavior became more brazen. She said he would walk up to women in the office and kiss them on the lips.

“I found it shocking,” she said. “That’s not a normal way of greeting a colleague.”

😳

from that paris review piece

Hemingway’s girlfriend, the writer Martha Gellhorn, didn’t think the artist needed to be a monster; she thought the monster needed to make himself into an artist. “A man must be a very great genius to make up for being such a loathsome human being.” (Well, I guess she would know.) She’s saying if you’re a really awful person, you are driven to greatness in order to compensate the world for all the awful shit you are going to do to it. In a way, this is a feminist revision of all of art history; a history she turns with a single acid, brilliant line into a morality tale of compensation.

And a further Lasseter piece

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/disney-pixar-john-lasseter-leave-allegations

"Hemingway’s girlfriend, the writer Martha Gellhorn" is maybe not the correct way to describe Martha Gellhorn.

Key line from the Lasseter Variety article:

She said she never reported these issues because the systems were not in place to address the problem.

after we delete men, can we delete everyone left in HR?

i dvr charlie rose & my local pbs station this morning aired antique roadshow instead in that slot & tbh im reasonably just as fine watching this

there’s a lot of egregious we usage and overreliance on rhetorical questions in the beginning of that paris review piece. i want to finish it but man i hate polemics in the platform age

he’s saying if you’re a really awful person, you are driven to greatness in order to compensate the world for all the awful shit you are going to do to it.

classic mid 20th century post-Freud twaddle, as if creation weren't often a matter of "I want to write, I can write, let me make stuff up."

what?

i think her point is just, if you're a shithead, try to channel shithead energies into making something good for other ppl