Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

Update re Fader

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/fader-vice-eric-sundermann-sexual-misconduct-1203398108/

Namely:

The sources said that publisher Andy Cohn and others at The Fader were aware of Sundermann’s alleged behavior before he was hired, and that Cohn had once behaved inappropriately at a 2011 company event. While a rep for the company told Variety Wednesday that Cohn was not under investigation, disputing the claim of an anonymous source quoted in a Billboard article on Sundermann’s firing, on Friday the company confirmed that he has been suspended.

the proprietor of a Toronto Yuk Yuks wrote an op-ed bragging about how well Louis CK did there recently, when said proprietor was brave enough to book him. One of the two women from the original, long-circulating jerk-off rumour has written in to the paper to respond:
https://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/counterpoint-i-didnt-consent-to-louis-c-k-masturbating-in-front-of-me

25 million dollar settlement and that's it for Weinstein, he's off the hook? Despicable.

this is the civil case. he has still to face a criminal trial regarding abuse charges involving over 20 women

although, as you know, it's not certain that he'll be convicted of any of these charges, many of them being historical and with the difficulty in securing convictions for these types of crimes

Not holding my breath on those other cases, but I'd love to see him face some sort of justice. As it stands today, it's just another reminder that rich and powerful white men can get away with whatever the fuck they want as long as they keep upping that settlement offer.

aw, diddums

Harvey Weinstein has complained he feels like “the forgotten man” and that his “pioneering” work championing movies directed by and about women has been “eviscerated” in the wake of multiple sexual assault allegations against him.

The 67-year-old producer, once one of the most powerful men in Hollywood, has faced accusations of sexual assault and harassment from dozens of women.

Ahead of the start of his rape trial, Weinstein gave an interview to the New York Post. He spoke while recuperating in hospital after spinal surgery and said he was doing the interview to prove he was not exaggerating the claims about his ill health. The former movie mogul appeared in court last week using a walking frame.

The New York Post reported that Weinstein showed little sign of remorse for the actions he is accused of.

“I feel like the forgotten man,” he told the paper.

“I made more movies directed by women and about women than any film-maker, and I’m talking about 30 years ago. I’m not talking about now when it’s vogue. I did it first. I pioneered it.

“It all got eviscerated because of what happened,’’ Weinstein said. “My work has been forgotten.’’

“I feel like the forgotten man,” he told the paper.

Not really! Surprised Trump hasn't intervened yet to promise him a pardon if convicted.

I checked Weinstein's profile, and in the 1980s he was indeed the co-executive producer for one movie directed by a woman: Joyce Chopra's The Lemon Sisters, from 1989. After that there's a gap of 9 years and something like 40 movies before his second movie with a female director, Penelope Spheeris's Senseless in 1998.

Though I guess, sadly, he's sorta right in that he's produced more films directed by women than most other Hollywood producers.

But yeah, for some reason people tend to "eviscerate" your work with women if you also happened to harass and abuse them at the same time.

I feel like people are overlooking all of the beautiful houses I built in the wake of that thing that happened where I subsequently burned all of those houses to the ground. It's like the world has forgotten all about my good works simply because I undid them with monomaniacal fervor. Ingrates!

I did it first. I pioneered it.

Loooooooool no sir u did not

so appropriate he's pulling the old mobster trick of doddering into court with a walker

just jonesing for plaudits

pathetic

won't someone think of the rapist

Drudge had the best headline: "BEST ACTOR?"

BREAKING: Jeffrey Epstein set Elon Musk's brother up with a girlfriend in effort to get close to the Tesla founder, sources tell @beckpeterson and @johnjcook https://t.co/ha8w2gUqUU

— graham starr (@GrahamStarr) January 13, 2020

There should be a thread for Dennis Perrin tweets.

idgi tbqh

half-joke a) this sounds like a Perrin premise that is failing to keep up with the on-the-nose-ness of reality

half-joke b) there is a busy and very relevant Jeffrey Epstein thread that might have taken this up for discussion, and also a busy Elon Musk thread, both of which you have eschewed in favour of a less relevant thread, in the same quixotic manner that you dispatch Perrin into the churning sails of other threadmills

i can't keep up w/ all the sizzlin' threads

Epstein, Weinstein, Monet, Manet...

musk's bro looks like a cursed amalgam of musk and ted bundy

The Onion can still deliver from time to time:

Increasingly Unwell Harvey Weinstein Arrives To Court As Jar Of Ashes https://t.co/z3GpY27TCD pic.twitter.com/TOVe1rkkTs

— The Onion (@TheOnion) January 14, 2020

lol

pic is great

welp


https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/21/arts/music/grammys-deborah-dugan-harassment.html


Ms. Dugan’s 44-page complaint details her clash with a number of powerful men at the academy during her tenure of just five months. But her accusations also represent an indictment of the academy itself, which has struggled to reform its reputation after coming under harsh criticism for its poor record recognizing women and people of color in the major categories.

The document, filed with the E.E.O.C.’s Los Angeles office and technically called a charge of discrimination, alleges that Ms. Dugan’s predecessor, Neil Portnow, had been accused of rape by an artist, and that the academy’s board had been asked to approve a bonus for him even though all of its members had not been told about the accusation. The complaint has little detail about the accusation, but said that a psychiatrist had said that the encounter was “likely not consensual.”

It also says that Ms. Dugan herself had received unwanted sexual advances from Joel Katz, a powerful industry lawyer who represents the Grammys.

wow. gonna get uglier still i imagine.

hfs @ this Annabella Sciorra testimony

there's more than what she has already come forward with?

well she testified in court about it today, I'm not sure how detailed her past comments were.

I just love her and feel so bad for her :(

her previous recounting of the details of her experience was graphic enough to have made an impression on me. i felt the same way -- total disgust and repulsion for the monster who would treat the exquisite goddess Annabella Sciorra with such contempt

Yeah exactly

i mean, treating serious people with contempt is the fetish, right?

That’s not a fetish that’s a major malfunction

https://www.vulture.com/2020/01/jessica-mann-harvey-weinstein-trial-testimony.html

I qwish someone had told me not to read that.

typo

I quite wish someone had told me not to read that

welp, i won't then!

Jesus, yup.

you guys did and I still did and why did I

guilty on two counts: first degree sexual assault and third degree rape

YES!!!!
I was nervous about the verdict. GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/-qJrhGnp3rCT9A-7VncF3jO0JWAbYRXyV4uk6XNS-xytZzEq53KydTDyWoSzPf9zEPZ4p2Zc25URijBwy88pahYQ0434YBB9DfNR1gTNXxAZEs8myQA

stoked for his entirely non-suspicious cell suicide in 3 weeks

Two not guilties and an acquittal though :(

whatever
he got some guilties

He is guilty!!!

Harvey Weinstein was found guilty of committing a criminal sex act in the first degree involving one woman and rape in the third degree involving another woman.

A New York jury acquitted the disgraced movie mogul on the more serious charges of predatory sexual assault involving the two women, Miriam Haley and Jessica Mann.

In doing so, jurors indicated that they did not find beyond a reasonable doubt that Weinstein had also raped Annabella Sciorra, another victim whose testimony prosecutors used in an attempt to establish Weinstein’s predatory behavior.

(from CNN). Two 'guilties' but still hardly anything to cheer about, if he gets away with the above. As long as he'll be locked away, I guess.

Very harsh on Sciorra, I mean.