lol @ that idea that James Packer is "a nobody" in business and media
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 19:58 (five years ago) link
oh my god
― seedy ron (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 20:48 (five years ago) link
david blaine is under investigation. seems to be from his pussy posse days. no surprise.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 06:19 (five years ago) link
https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvey-weinstein-accusers-and-former-board-members-reach-tentative-compensation-deal-11558655485
― StanM, Friday, 24 May 2019 18:27 (four years ago) link
https://www.thedailybeast.com/max-landis-8-women-accuse-hollywood-filmmaker-of-emotional-and-sexual-abuse-were-not-people-to-him
― devvvine, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 13:46 (four years ago) link
Oh shit, the Carly Rae Jepsen weirdo?
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 14:05 (four years ago) link
was unaware of this until now but yes.
horrible read, fuck anyone who enabled this guy's abuse and career
― devvvine, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 14:18 (four years ago) link
eat shit max landis
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 14:27 (four years ago) link
he’s been awful forever and i’m glad it’s coming to light https://images.app.goo.gl/99viy8G8nRVhuiRP7
― maura, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 15:48 (four years ago) link
Never forget this sweet, sweet Max Landis drag from DIFFICULT PEOPLE pic.twitter.com/PTGpWJ8KaK— Jade Budowski (@jadebudowski) June 12, 2019
max landis is helpfully one of those people who looks as awful as he is. mega douche.
― circa1916, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link
Someone should ID this attorney
As they were sitting in the waiting area of the courtroom, Dionne recalled Max’s attorney approaching them. “She began speaking and her tone was condescending and aggressive, asking if Callie understood what the process would be like. She indicated it would be long and she would have to talk about the assault over and over. The attorney came off patronizing as she said things like, I will make you look like an idiot and this is not going to be easy on you. The attorney said she was going to make a fool of Callie, talking about how much she drinks and talking about the nature of her relationship to Max. She then asked again if this is how Callie wanted to handle ‘this issue.’ I could feel that Callie was overwhelmed. Callie sat there, tears running down her face, holding hands with her mother and with me. Callie said she did not want to go through with ‘this process.’”
― jmm, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link
oh wait not finally, here's the facebook message he sent me after a mutual invited me to his halloween party and i laughed about it at my old job and one of max's friends who worked there told max. it was DURING HIS HALLOWEEN PARTY which is a totally normal way to act: pic.twitter.com/KCcEiLnvll— Alicia Lutes (@alicialutes) June 18, 2019
― jmm, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
xp. despicable behaviour but probably not unheard of (or actionable)
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
Max Landis is what happens when you have the ultimate helicopter parent.— Allen Strickland Williams (@TotallyAllen) June 18, 2019
― Simon H., Tuesday, 18 June 2019 19:04 (four years ago) link
that's Neil Hamburger-level
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 19:12 (four years ago) link
WOW
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
This is still up on John Landis's Wikipedia page as of 3:18pm EDT
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D9XdB2hXYAIL1M2?format=jpg&name=large
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
whoa
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 19:21 (four years ago) link
lol it's still there, and now it's footnoted with a link to today's article
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 19:24 (four years ago) link
wait what does the helicopter parent tweet mean
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
landis as a pushy director essentially killed three people with a helicopter on the set of twilight zone movie in the eighties
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:47 (four years ago) link
And two of the dead were a 6yo and a 7yo
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:49 (four years ago) link
oooooh fuckkk I didn't know he directed that lmao
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 18 June 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
(it's an anthology film - Landis was producer and wrote & directed one chapter and the wraparounds, Spielberg was also producer and directed one chapter, Joe Dante and George Miller [the Mad Max one, not the Man From Snowy River one] directed a chapter each - the non-Landis chapters were all remakes of TV episodes)
Hamburger-level otm
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 00:16 (four years ago) link
the details of the accident are pretty horrifying. it's still shocking to me that landis had a career after that.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 00:25 (four years ago) link
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vm enjoying this three post run
― godfellaz (darraghmac), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 00:57 (four years ago) link
It's insane what a BUSTLING career he had after that. It happened in July 1982 and he still managed to do Trading Places and Thriller
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 01:33 (four years ago) link
And then 'Into the Night'
Wiki: The film was greenlit by Sean Daniel, president of Universal; he was the executive who had championed Landis on National Lampoon's Animal House. Three weeks into the 60-day shoot, Landis was ordered to stand trial for involuntary manslaughter arising out of the Twilight Zone shoot. Daniel told the press he thought Landis and his colleagues had been "unfairly sent to trial for what is obviously a human catastrophe, not a criminal act."[1]
― space invaders are smokin penises!!!! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 19 June 2019 01:35 (four years ago) link
Yes that one has always stuck with me. Fucking insane. IIRC some countdown show on VH1 had either stills or behind the scenes footage right before/after the accident, I remember seeing Vic Morrow carrying those kids in that fake lake or wherever they shot that.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 02:28 (four years ago) link
I'm not watching it but there's a video of the accident on YouTube.
If the Wikipedia article is accurate it seems incredible Landis and others were acquitted.
― groovypanda, Wednesday, 19 June 2019 07:36 (four years ago) link
Chloe Dykstra (Chris Hardwick's ex) on Landis. Apparently they were part of this creep scene too.
This is a post I made on Facebook several days ago regarding my relationship with Max. pic.twitter.com/mmr1ozq99t— Chloe Dykstra (@skydart) June 18, 2019
― ☮ (peace, man), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:22 (four years ago) link
On a lighter note, Mamet's new Weinstein-inspired play opened in London to terrible reviews:
http://www.playbill.com/article/read-reviews-for-david-mamets-bitter-wheat-starring-john-malkovich
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 20 June 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/donald-trump-assault-e-jean-carroll-other-hideous-men.html
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 21 June 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
Jeeeeeesus.
― ☮ (peace, man), Friday, 21 June 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link
i never heard about this CRJ stuff with Max Landis. the guy sounds like a certifiable psychopath to me.
― akm, Friday, 21 June 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
I didn't know about it, and having googled and found an Anthony Fantano video titled "Screenwriter Max Landis EXPOSES Carly Rae Jepsen!!!" at the top of the results, I will continue to not know about it
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Friday, 21 June 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
sic: probably worth being a bit more aware as it's surprisingly more fucked up than you think no matter what you think it ishttps://www.ascarnooneelsecansee.com/intro
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 21 June 2019 18:51 (four years ago) link
this is a great cut story that's been doing the rounds today:
https://www.thecut.com/2019/06/babe-net-aziz-ansari-date-rise-and-fall.html
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 24 June 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
thank god that someone is finally speaking up for the long-term artistic legacies of k-pax and the adventure of sharkboy and lava girl 3-d
Dame Judi Dench has spoken out about her sadness at seeing her friends Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey shunned from the big screen.Despite condemning their behaviour publicly, Dench told the Radio Times she was concerned the pair’s work would be forgotten.Dench does not defend Spacey and Weinstein against allegations over their misconduct but rued the treatment of Spacey in particular, whose performances were removed from Ridley Scott’s 2017 film All the Money in the World after it was completed.“Are we going to negate 10 years at the Old Vic and everything that he did [as artistic director] – how wonderful he’s been in all those films? Are we just not going to see all those films that Harvey produced?”“You cannot deny somebody a talent. You might as well never look at a Caravaggio painting [he was a murderer]. You might as well never have gone to see Noël Coward [accused of predatory behaviour].”
Despite condemning their behaviour publicly, Dench told the Radio Times she was concerned the pair’s work would be forgotten.
Dench does not defend Spacey and Weinstein against allegations over their misconduct but rued the treatment of Spacey in particular, whose performances were removed from Ridley Scott’s 2017 film All the Money in the World after it was completed.
“Are we going to negate 10 years at the Old Vic and everything that he did [as artistic director] – how wonderful he’s been in all those films? Are we just not going to see all those films that Harvey produced?”
“You cannot deny somebody a talent. You might as well never look at a Caravaggio painting [he was a murderer]. You might as well never have gone to see Noël Coward [accused of predatory behaviour].”
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 09:38 (four years ago) link
Caravaggio >>> some film producer from Flushing.
― pomenitul, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
her point isn't completely off - Weinstein has 328 production credits on imdb, at least a few of which were good, and Spacey did do good work once upon a time
― Nhex, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 15:11 (four years ago) link
obv doesn't negate how horrible these people are but there's more to those films than one man
if only someone were arguing that these films should be erased from history
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 15:14 (four years ago) link
brad otm, dench is coming out swinging against an opinion that i can't recall anyone ever expressing
― big beautiful wario (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
controp: Knowing Spacey is a sexual predator makes re-watching Se7en better
(nb i probably don't actually believe this.)
― I don't get wet because I am tall and thin and I am afraid of people (Eliza D.), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 15:23 (four years ago) link
no one is saying it like that, but at least at my local repertory house, there's a lot of debate over these topics. they're doing a Rosemary's Baby screening soon, the host doesn't want to mention anything about Polanski's real life, others feel the opposite. i can see both sides, but the argument is starting to happen in some form
― Nhex, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
Can’t Polanksi at least get a moratorium until he’s dead, surely it can’t be long now
― don't mock my smock or i'll clean your clock (silby), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:00 (four years ago) link
This only really applies to onscreen talent and directors, tho. No one gives a fuck if Weinstein produced something, because we don't think of the producer role as "part" of the film in the same way.
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:18 (four years ago) link
^^^^Almost too obvious a point to make id have thought
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Tuesday, 25 June 2019 16:20 (four years ago) link