Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

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/

sic otm

I wasn’t trying to rank which is worse

Sorry, if I was glib, I was just reacting to “guy I like is cancelled.” I haven’t read the allegations yet but it’s a good bet they’re terrible

he was mad as a cut snake already so partly i am not surprised? but also simultaneously horrified

i liked some of his stuff but that really doesnt matter ughhh jesus christ

Maybe read them before declaring that it's "weak" of people to think that they're bad, idk

yikes, yes, read her whole post, it's really terrible. I'm glad I saw Color Out of Space before this so at least I enjoyed it when I saw it; no interest in watching his work now really.

Maybe read them before declaring that it's "weak" of people to think that they're bad, idk

“cinnamon toast shrimp guy is married to Topanga and also a serial abuser who has physically and sexually assaulted multiple women” is quite the plot twist! disappointed but not surprised! anyway

— abby govindan (@abbygov) March 24, 2021

That is confusing and perplexing. Who is it even about?

Jensen Karp

who like has had a whole career separate from tweeting about shrimp and being married to Topanga but I guess his big breakthrough was the shrimp thing?

I thought “married to Topanga” meant he really loved Topanga the place, but it’s a Boy meets World character hello I am your elderly aunt

anyway

Seriously, who the fuck is Jensen Karp? Is this like when Black people talk about Morris Chestnut?

He had a podcast?

So… yes

He also runs this art gallery or used to

https://nineteeneightyeight.com/pages/current-west

white people in north america should not be allowed to name their own children

What’s the window on caring about Boy Meets World or drama involving anyone from it - people born 1983 to 1987?

Dan, buckle up:

Ummmm @CTCSquares - why are there shrimp tails in my cereal? (This is not a bit) pic.twitter.com/tTjiAdrnVp

— Jensen Karp (@JensenKarp) March 22, 2021

and then this
https://twitter.com/search?q=milkshake%20duck

i kinda feel like this is something whiney would be talking about

that first hot karl explainer video is a perfect storm of 2000s horribleness

What’s the window on caring about Boy Meets World or drama involving anyone from it - people born 1983 to 1987?

I think goes into the '90s. Seems like I know a bunch of younger millennials who went apeshit when it hit streaming.

Of course, the weirdest thing about the show is that Maitland Ward (the secondary actress in later episodes) has become a pretty huge porn star.

What’s the window on caring about Boy Meets World or drama involving anyone from it - people born 1983 to 1987?

Not to be Capn-Save-a-General-Mills but like...what plant is processing cereal and shrimp at the same time?

I was thinking disgruntled worker at first, but the company claims those "shrimp tails" are actually just clumps of the coating that formed in the manufacturing process. Looking at the picture again I can believe this.

oh shit

UPDATE: we killed the shrimp guy. He was blended and is now in every box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch

— Cinmamon Toast Crunch (@holyduck) March 24, 2021

does this mean that, at the end, he had a blended haircut

lol, but I only saw this after buying a box of Cinnamon Toast Crunch Churros on sale at Walgreen's. I have no idea who those people are either ... though I had heard of the gallery and in my mind it is somewhere in the historical progression from high art to NFTs

In light of the reporting on Scott Rudin, I am thinking a lot about this interview I did in 2017 with Steven Soderbergh. In it, he said that when he talks to students, part of the discussion is about running a humane set. https://t.co/eto1u8pqc0 pic.twitter.com/HjpVOLPsTS

— MZS (@mattzollerseitz) April 10, 2021

Scott Rudin story (huge temper, volatile, no sexual harassment, classic “lol Ari Gold” material):

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/everyone-just-knows-hes-an-absolute-monster-scott-rudins-ex-staffers-speak-out-on-abusive-behavior

I mean, fkn SPY reported on Rudin 30 years ago. This is not a breaking story.

disclaimer: back in the 90s I worked briefly in the offices of both Rudin and equally famed bully Lynda 0bst. Good times. It was no secret.

The THR article cites several other reported pieces, as well as the 1994 film Swimming With Sharks. It is not pretending to break the story.

I mean, fkn SPY reported on Rudin 30 years ago. This is not a breaking story.

Neither was Weinstein having a rep.

I just saw somewhere that the Weinstein-inspired Law & Orderverse ep w/Jeff Garlin as HW is over 10 years old.

love the 'oh, this is news to you? *i* always knew better' response

go on. I’d love to know what the story is here beyond “known asshole remains asshole.”

is it that the industry still tolerates all sorts of cruelty? is it that the streaming revolution has shaken up previous hierarchies sufficiently that people feel more empowered to speak out? is it that a new generation is coming up that might do things differently? is it that Rudin’s weak enough now that this can be said out loud in the trades?

MZS tweet says more than the THR piece does.