Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

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oh yeah incognito worked for this (half the time it doesn't). thanks.

Powerpoint comic James Veitch: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sarah-lawrence-alums-allege-rape-against-comedian-james-veitch

Big topic on the Sarah Lawrence alum pages today!

Long article on hotelier Andre Balasz Chateau Marmont property.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/rot-at-hollywoods-playground-chateau-marmont-staff-allege-racial-discrimination-sexual-misconduct-and-neglectful-management

Balazs, that is.

Powerpoint comic

There's a phrase I wish could wash from my brain.

Pretty much true for everybody though https://t.co/aT9FZNqrGb

— Jason IsBOO (@JasonIsbell) October 16, 2020

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Re: Ron Jeremy - how surprising that someone who describes the allegations as "buyers remorse" might turn out to actually be a rapist after all

― bob catley signature stage move (Matt #2), Wednesday, June 24, 2020 4:55 AM

Ron Jeremy charged with an additional 3 counts of rape and four of sexual assault, on women aged 15 to 54, across 17 years.

they should throw on an extra charge for wearing his mask below his upper lip

Fashion Executive Peter Nygard Indicted on Sex Trafficking Charges

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/fashion-executive-peter-nygard-indictment-sex-trafficking-charges-1104615/

While we're at it, Gilbert Rozon, founder of Just for Laughs, was acquitted:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/gilbert-rozon-rape-trial-1.5842309

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ugly-backstory-of-ben-shapiros-first-movie-run-hide-fight

https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-right-wing-movie-studio-enabled-the-harvey-weinstein-of-indie-film

Daily Wire is branching out into film distribution and the first movie they acquire comes from a company - Cinestate - that has multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment swirling around it.

“Ride or die baby! I’m thrilled about this. You are a treasured colleague and an insane talent. So much to come! Looking forward to toasting,” wrote the assistant managing editor who oversees The New York Times’s audio report.

From Andy Mills' statement on leaving the New York Times under a cloud of misconduct allegations and the collapse of the key reporting in Caliphate.

We sorta missed talking about it in this thread a few months ago, but then again it bleeds over into wider religious hypocrisy as a result. But: evangelical leader who died last May turns out to be a nauseating abuser and probably worse:

https://www.christianitytoday.com/news/2021/february/ravi-zacharias-rzim-investigation-sexual-abuse-sexting-rape.html

Extensive, monstrous details about Shia LeBoeuf in this FKA twigs interview: https://www.elle.com/culture/celebrities/a35460385/fka-twigs-shia-la-beouf-abuse/

LaBeouf eventually pulled over at a gas station, and twigs attempted to remove her bags to escape, but the actor slammed her up against the car and tried to choke her again. Screaming in her face, he forced her back into the car.

Jacket, $1,790, turtleneck, $850, trousers, $1,090, Ralph Lauren Collection. Hoop earrings, Cartier, $3,900. Long antique pendant necklace, Bentley & Skinner.

welp
https://gothamist.com/news/i-came-work-nauseous-ex-cuomo-aide-says-governor-sexually-harassed-and-forcibly-kissed-her

Here's the source: https://medium.com/@lindseyboylan4NY/my-story-of-working-with-governor-cuomo-e664d4814b4e

D’Elia hit with a lawsuit for violating federal child pornography and child sexual exploitation laws soliciting more than 100 sexually explicit photos and videos from, and having sex with, a Jane Doe who was 17 years old

He went silent for months then only a few days ago posted a video which was a semi-contrite "acknowledging and changing my behaviour" thing but also a flat denial of anything illegal or non consensual.

That now looks like a preemptive response to this suit.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/pepe-le-pew-not-slated-for-future-warner-bros-television-projects

tbf the sexual-harassment skunk parody of Maurice Chevalier might be just a tad outdated no matter how you measure it

great news for the cancellation-take industry

why next they'll take Bosko and where will be then

It took watching a bunch of Chevalier musicals recently to a) realize Pepe Le Pew was meant as a parody of Chevalier and b) subsequently realize how tone deaf their parody of Chevalier was (as everyone was champing at the bit to knock boots with everyone else in those movies). The serial harassment angle was all W-B.

I thought Pepe was supposed to be based on Charles Boyer?

from the (surprisingly contentious!) wiki:

Jones wrote that Pepé was based (loosely) on the personality of his Termite Terrace colleague, writer Tedd Pierce, a self-styled "ladies' man" who reportedly always assumed that his infatuations were reciprocated. In a short documentary film, Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood, Jones told an interviewer (perhaps jokingly) that Pepé was actually based on himself, except that he was very shy with girls.

A prototype of Pepé appeared in 1947's Bugs Bunny Rides Again, but sounded similar to Porky Pig. When the character of Pepé was more fully developed for cartoons of his own, Mel Blanc based Pepé's voice on Charles Boyer's Pépé le Moko from Algiers (1938), a remake of the 1937 French film Pépé le Moko. Blanc's voice for the character closely resembled a voice he had used for "Professor Le Blanc", a harried violin instructor on The Jack Benny Program. There have also been theories that Pepé's voice was based on singer Maurice Chevalier.

Pepé's reputation suffered in later years. Comedian Dave Chappelle, in his 2000 stand-up film Killin' Them Softly, called him a rapist.

In October 2010, it was reported that Mike Myers would voice Pepé Le Pew in a feature-length live action film based on the character, although no information about this project has surfaced since. In July 2016, it was revealed at San Diego Comic-Con that Max Landis was penning a Pepé Le Pew feature film for Warner Bros. There has no new information since then due to sexual assault allegations against Landis in 2017.

a live-action Pepé Le Pew movie

at last

a more accurate parody might have had Pepé in a complex and possibly compromising relationship with the Vichy regime led by Elmer Fudd.

xp: I wonder if he was going to repurpose his Cat in the Hat costume

a max landis-scripted pepe movie starring mike myers....one hell of a bullet we dodged there

would have been better with Louis CK

I was aware of all the hoopla around Dr. Seuss and knew it was more fabricated culture war bullshit, but it wasn't until those clips on Last Week Tonight that I knew just how insidious and flat out untruthful they were being about it.

I know I know, hardly a fresh insight at this point, but my god, the brainrot that must set in being subjected to that bullshit 24-7. Imagine being a patient somewhere or working at a reception desk where you forced to have that pumped in against your will.

tbrr i am offended that this puritanical culture refuses to recognize this dr seuss classic and keep it in print for children everywhere
http://imgur.com/opKVHQy

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Thread revivals always get my hopes up that one of the Weinsteins died.

Be Do the change you want to see in the world.

mods!

I am excited for the moment when conservatives start demanding Shel Silverstein's playboy cartoons be shown to children

Director Richard Stanley: his former partner has made a long blog post after learning another woman has filed charges.

https://sharedhallucination.blogspot.com/2021/03/777-truth-will-out.html (cw: violence & other abuse)

I’m sorry I wasn’t brave enough to speak up at the time. And to hear he has kept on abusing other women, physically, emotionally, sexually, financially and spiritually, kills me. I had been living in such a toxic environment for so long that once free I felt small and powerless--damaged and tainted. I suffered intense nightmares, PTSD, and literally could not get my shit together. All I could do was write for the first many months. Write and write until the poison was out of my veins. Then, I started to piece my life back together.

I cannot believe the magnitude of destruction Richard has left in his wake and managed to conceal. And not so cleverly I might add. The party line when I finally left him in 2014 was that if I hadn’t been so ‘crazy’ and if he was with another woman who was less ‘crazy’ he would cease to act in such a way--that I drove him to it. This is what he told people and they believed him. And yet, as numerous women come forward, all with shockingly similar stories to mine, it’s pretty clear that his patterns are well established and they stem from his own seriously dangerous anger management issues. He is a serial predator par excellence. I am not perfect, but in no way did I deserve the shit that he did to me for so many fucking years.

SpectreVision, the distributor of his comeback film early this year, will be donating future revenue from the project to DV charities.

Arrow Films have noted "our planned Hardware and Dust Devil Blu-rays are as cancelled as he is."

(A producer for Arrow has etc.)

Weak

what

dunno if this is what Whiney meant but I assumed he was referring to a distribution company seizing the opportunity to seem hip and with it by punning on cancelling someone when the triggering event is people disclosing traumatizing abuse and harassment (if that's what he meant, i agree)

I'm just saying it sucks that Stanley is dunzo, I liked his stuff

LS - that's why I reflected and clarified that it was just one dude personally saying that, not the company making a formal statement.

Personally I think it sucks worse that Stanley abused, terrorised, assaulted and injured multiple women for years than that the only feature production company to fund him in the last 29 years won't work with him again because of him abusing, terrorising, assaulting and injuring multiple women.

good to know, man, thanks!

Anyway,

https://variety.com/2021/biz/news/armie-hammer-rape-allegation-effie-woman-victim-1234933830/