Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

Sounds carefully phrased

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/azeenghorayshi/neil-degrasse-tyson-sexual-allegations-four-women

A spokesperson for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where Tyson has led the Hayden Planetarium for over 20 years, said that it has never received a complaint about him, but was also looking into the allegations.

lena dunham has taken to the pages of the hollywood reporter to talk about her response to the girls writer being accused of rape and folks, it is not good

When someone I knew, someone I had loved as a brother, was accused, I did something inexcusable: I publicly spoke up in his defense. There are few acts I could ever regret more in this life. I didn't have the "insider information" I claimed but rather blind faith in a story that kept slipping and changing and revealed itself to mean nothing at all. I wanted to feel my workplace and my world were safe, untouched by the outside world (a privilege in and of itself, the privilege of ignoring what hasn't hurt you) and I claimed that safety at cost to someone else, someone very special.

To Aurora: You have been on my mind and in my heart every day this year. I love you. I will always love you. I will always work to right that wrong. In that way, you have made me a better woman and a better feminist.

a public apology is not an apology

she’s such an ass

turning it into another chapter in The Life of Lena.

I'd go as far as to say she's not really a feminist, as that would require not being a blinkered narcissist

.... necessarily so?

yeah. a blinkered narcissist can repeat feminist nostrums ad infinitum, but it would have about as much meaning as if they were singing the alphabet. the moment any of it came into conflict with their convenience, it would be instantly pitched overboard.

Aurora suffered for our SINS

http://loudwire.com/kiss-gene-simmons-sued-sexual-battery/

yikes

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/woody-allens-secret-teen-lover-manhattan-muse-speaks-1169782

Assumed this revive would be for Yael Stone/Geoffrey Rush.

"Open and thoughtful, Engelhardt unspools a life story that took root in a strict German immigrant household and blossomed into a Zelig-esque series of adventures as she attempted to break into modeling: partying with Iman, jet-setting with Adnan Khashoggi, dining with Stephen King, working as a personal assistant to Jeffrey Epstein, the billionaire financier later convicted for soliciting an underage girl. Following her time with Allen, she went on to become a platonic muse to Federico Fellini during the auteur's late-life journeys in Rome and Tulum, Mexico, then spent years tending to egos as a hostess in the executive dining room at Paramount before landing her current gig, working as an assistant for producer Bob Evans. What's made her attractive to these powerful men, both personally and professionally, she posits, is in part what Allen appreciated in the first place: "I was pretty enough, I was smart enough, I was nonconfrontational, I was non-judgmental, I was discreet, and nothing shocks me."

Jeffrey Epstein is rarely far from these stories huh (xp!!!)

seriously. so gross

i have to read the yael stone piece. the times one was written by bari weiss ugh

I mean, Bananas?!

https://pitchfork.com/news/kool-ad-formerly-of-das-racist-accused-of-sexual-assault-by-four-women/

https://news.avclub.com/eliza-dushku-has-now-released-her-own-account-of-harass-1831216368

the fact that a 21st century Joe Penny like Michael Weatherly would be allowed to talk like that to Eliza Dushku says quite a bit about the continuing power dynamics of Hollywood.

i blame old people and their terrible love for NCIS

the dushku piece is worth reading

https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2018/12/19/eliza-dushku-responds-what-happened-cbs-took-job-and-because-objected-being-sexually-harassed-was-fired/OCh7h0pwg4Aq7xfwOUasyO/story.html

I've been reading those pieces with a sense that something was different, without being able to put my finger on it. But I figured out what it is: The villains in the story are portrayed as being pitiful, sad and stupid. Weatherly doesn't really seem dangerous, nor does CBS, they seem utterly clueless and pathetic. And of course still misogynistic as fuck. This does actually seem like an important next step in the #MeToo movement. It portrays the mens club at CBS as behind the times, instead of just being the norm.

perhaps you're right. although, it might be because Weatherly seems like such an obvious douche from his normal onscreen persona it's easy to imagine he's like at in real life, and he's a B-list star to boot. with Moonves, he still seems like a powerful, awful creep like the others.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/kevin-spacey-facing-felony-sexual-assault-charges-alleged-incident-teen-193240674.html

jesus christ he tweeted a video in character, what a colossal, delusional prick

jesus

That video is so weirdly Alex Jones-y.

weeeird

"Like I ever played by anyone's rules before. I never did, and you loved it."

Nobody told him that maybe he shouldn't say that?

it's like he decided to give a version of the Nicholson speech in A Few Good Men but forgot that the speech just made it worse

i just realized kevin spacey tried to grade his video like fincher would rofl

— cd (@CDWritten) December 25, 2018

I wonder if he monetized his youtube for his legal fund.

or his presidential campaign

Guys no one makes money off of YouTube anymore except racist gamers

the double down / galaxy brain approach taken by CK, Harvey, and now, once again, by Kevin "I identify as a gay man" Spacey

KEVIN SPACEY: and you’re sure this will help
DIRECTOR WHO LOOKS A LOT LIKE THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY WITH A FAKE MUSTACHE: absolutely. for sure

— KT NELSON (@KrangTNelson) December 24, 2018

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/bryan-singers-accusers-speak-out/

“Underage men”??

y’know, adult boys

Statement from reporters Maximillian Potter and Alex French on investigation of Bryan Singer published in @TheAtlantic: pic.twitter.com/iouvNZGQtz

— The Atlantic Communications (@TheAtlanticPR) January 23, 2019

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/03/bryan-singers-accusers-speak-out/

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This is notable.

Statement from reporters Maximillian Potter and Alex French on investigation of Bryan Singer published in @TheAtlantic: pic.twitter.com/iouvNZGQtz

— The Atlantic Communications (@TheAtlanticPR) January 23, 2019

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i want this story to get real, longlasting traction so badly. not just Singer, but the whole ring. drag them into the light like cockroaches. they’ve skated by for SO long undermining the believability of their victims.

not to get all red stringed out here but it makes me crazy that Singer’s still getting awards & kids like Brad Renfro who were in his circle die by their own hand & this sex ring just keeps right on being the worst-kept secret for the last, what, 30 years?

i get how easily this could/can devolve into gay panic & homophobia...but i also think this kind of extreme coordinated predatory behavior has to be called out and ~believed~

honestly my hope is that ppl with more clout can back up the named victims & come forward to support them & get some kind of justice

on another note

https://entertainment.theonion.com/bryan-singer-celebrates-bohemian-rhapsody-oscar-nomin-1831988697

There were active rumors about Singer going around when I first moved to L.A. twenty (fucking Christ) years ago. not like Apt Pupil stuff but a lot of stuff like this. Parties and drugs and rape.

But to me when I read the Apt Pupil stories at the time even from the far outside they sounded very credible and creepy in a way that other stories didn’t but they never gained traction bc by he was a hot new director and also the ones coming out with the stories being even more powerless than the ones coming out with stories now.

It should also be noted that Singer is not especially talented, his films are mostly extremely boring to look at and staged unimaginatively and whatever good qualities they have I’m not willing to give him much credit for. I think Usual Suspects was mediocre but the good bits were McQuarrie-related, X2 was good despite him, X1 could have been better if not for him. And yet this very boring filmmaker kept getting work despite the rumors.