Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

In addition to Michaels, Shoemaker, and Fallon, the potential cast members around to witness Sanz’s conduct would have included Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Darrell Hammond, Chris Kattan, Tracy Morgan, Chris Parnell, Molly Shannon, Rachel Dratch, Tina Fey, Jerry Minor, Maya Rudolph, Amy Poehler, Dean Edwards, Seth Meyers, and Jeff Richards.

lmao

Now I’m reading this in Don Pardo’s voice always

Reading everything in Don Pardo’s voice = people who have figured out how to live

well everything appears to be back to normal

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/18/nyregion/christopher-belter-rape-sentence.html

nothing much seemed to happen with that horatio sanz story, did it? maybe because he's frankly not famous enough to suffer a real career impact at this point.

silby's wish came true, at least.

Noted Harvey lookalike Jeff Garlin leaves The Goldbergs after complaints about on-set behavior.

https://deadline.com/2021/12/jeff-garlin-exit-the-goldbergs-hr-investigations-season-9-1234892030/?

In his VF interview, Garlin dismissed accusations of being verbally offensive by saying that he is just being “silly” as part of his shtick as a comedian. He did note his penchant for dropping the word “vagina” on the set.

According to a source on the show, a camera assistant made a complaint to her department head about Garlin’s use of the word. After the actor found out, he reportedly put his hands around her and kept saying “vagina” in her face over and over again. Overall, Garlin’s go-to jokes that a number of people on the show found offensive were talking about grandma’s vagina, balls and brassier, a co-worker said. Additionally, he would not address some longtime female crew members by name, using instead nicknames that some also considered offensive.

It's pretty weird that the writer said "balls" without quotes

grandma's balls
used to hand me
piece of candy

he was talking about whose grandma? his?

Grandma’s balls got run over by a reindeer

that show is so fucking terrible, maybe it was his negative abusive behavior to blame all along

how does one explain the steady solidity of Curb then?

Chris Noth

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/chris-noth-accused-of-sexual-assault-1235063596/

Saw some discussion of how a general accusation of "sexual assault" allows for some weaselly wiggle room. What Noth is being accused of is outright violent *rape.*

New accusations against Bryan Singer.

https://variety.com/2021/film/news/bryan-singer-blake-stuerman-1235136986/

no charges were ever brought against toback????

yes all my posts today are based on real names disallowed by the Spelling Bee

Sion Sono

https://deadline.com/2022/04/japanese-director-sion-sono-accused-of-sexual-harassment-1234994873/

Cary Fukunaga

Acclaimed Director Cary Fukunaga Accused of Grooming Young Women for Sex https://t.co/86h9z8eUZR pic.twitter.com/HtdPhEZ8Lk

— Jezebel (@Jezebel) May 9, 2022

(important to note that accusers here are all of legal age, there isn't much I would actually call 'abuse' here, and I also assume all people in Hollywood behave this way)

The parents of an 18-year-old from North Dakota have obtained a protective order against “The Flash” star Ezra Miller.

But the teen’s parents and law enforcement are having a hard time locating Miller to serve the actor with the order. https://t.co/B89xAGTEGx

— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) June 10, 2022

Presumably in restraints somewhere on the Warner Brothers lot.

for a while this spring all you had to do if you were looking for e. miller was camp out at my local a few nights until the flash showed up to try and fight you. haven’t had any encounters in the past month or two but have heard a lot of grim gossip about this relationship— a small and sad part of what’s lately felt like an accelerated wiring of this island into the international lawless playboy circuit. (for the state more broadly, of course, it’s always been a specialty.)

Paul Haggis accused again, and held in Italy.

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/paul-haggis-arrest-italy-sexual-assault-charges-1370822/

Scrubs Co-Executive Producer Arrested For Alleged Serial Sexual Assaults

https://laist.com/news/criminal-justice/eric-weinberg-scrubs-arrested-serial-sexual-assaults-rape-californication

Dan Price

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/technology/dan-price-resign-social-media.html

I'd heard the grumblings about him abusing his ex wife but bloody hell.

I never really thought about using good works/good social media prescence as a smokescreen, but its clearly an effective one.

it’s as old as the road to Savile

sadly the guy who started cult baseball comedy comic The Dugout did the same thing, white knighted all over social media but turned out to be an absolute creep

the dan price thing is irritating as fuck because there was a goddamned BLOOMBERG story about him waterboarding his ex that dropped BEFORE her TED talk was due to be posted (the one Price got nuked).

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2015-gravity-ceo-dan-price/

I read this when it was published and assumed he was toast going forward; not only was there that, but he was in weird legal disputes with his brother, I worked in the ecommerce space and no one took his payments company seriously, and it's been revealed they don't really do any development, they simply sell access to another software system. So the company is/was BS, their CEO an obvious grandstanding asshole, and the abuse allegations. And yet he's consistently been all over twitter and linkedin, constantly having his shit shared by people who you'd think would know better and who I guess were terminally incurious, because if you googled his name it was really not very hard to come across that story. I'm glad the NYT writer pointed out that the Times itself refused to investigate him in the past.

yeah i'm paywalled from that but there was already so much crazy shit about that guy that was already out there. and any time someone would bring up any of it on twitter or reddit they would get absolutely buried in hate, denial, victim blaming. all this guy does is post left-leaning tweets that could've been generated by AI and he had a million people ready to go to war for him.

I'm mad at myself for falling for this nonsense

But fuck, the media knew who he was before the pay hike and let him control his own narrative anyway

The worst part of it all is, there SHOULD be more CEOs doing what he did, taking massive paycuts and giving staff pay rises. People want this. But now it'll just give the right ammunition about sleazy leftist cheaters etc etc

There seems to be a slew of this shit on twitter though - "jojofromjerz" and that Teidrich guy who are constantly posting ra ra pro left stuff and I'm starting to wonder if theyre just shillbots.

Did Jeff Tiedrich or whatever his name is get busted doing something? I had to unfriend someone who was spamming screen caps of every one of his tweets during the Trump years.

The worst part of it all is, there SHOULD be more CEOs doing what he did, taking massive paycuts and giving staff pay rises. People want this. But now it'll just give the right ammunition about sleazy leftist cheaters etc etc

― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, August 19, 2022 8:37 PM bookmarkflaglink

I was thinking exactly this earlier

Teidrich just backed off after Trump was out; he was unbearable for a long time but he also eventually seemed to realize how unbearable he was getting. I did mute him though.

jojofromjerz: I can't fucking stand this lady, shillbot is right though she appears to be an actual person (like Teidrich); I just can't believe they have the time to sit around and think of dumb pithy liberal responses to every single conservative post.

Did Jeff Tiedrich or whatever his name is get busted doing something?

Is looking like Eric Clapton a crime?

no, but being Eric Clapton is a misdemeanor or a felony, depending on what state you live in.

It’s such an insidious use of plausible deniability/“but he seems like a good guy”/“he has always been cool to me” type situation. Insidious!! What a menace. Glad he is fully outed.

I can understand why we in the general public were eager to lap up the story uncritically. it was a feel-good story that progressive folk wanted to believe in, which is why I got suckered in. but the media was still writing what basically sounded like press releases for the fuckin' guy up until recently, ffs. like this one from last year: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dan-price-gravity-payments-ceo-70000-employee-minimum-wage/

Milkshake Duck strikes again.

It’s such an insidious use of plausible deniability/“but he seems like a good guy”/“he has always been cool to me” type situation

I'm reminded suddenly of a woman I used to work with a very long time ago, who I bumped into at a gig about 5 years after I'd left that job. She told me she'd basically been hounded into leaving because she was sexually assaulted by the office nice/popular guy, and because he was the nicest, helpful Mr Regular, NOBODY believed her and everyone accused her of making it up, until she had to resign from the harrasment.

Yes exactly. I would bet actual money that the pervasive feeling that people don’t believe her has stuck and will never go away. The assault/harassment is obviously damaging but the gaslighting leaves a deep scar too.
To exploit that in order to keep assaulting people like this guy did? I have no more words.

https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/the-goldbergs-jeff-garlin-killed-off-1235354528/

10 seasons!

Somebody somewhere is already working on their doctoral thesis about how a mass audience 'sees' the 80s in America through the lens of this show, Stranger Things and The Americans.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/anna-faris-reveals-director-sexually-155003460.html

she's talking about Ivan Reitman here, i'm almost 100% certain

― nomar, Wednesday, October 25, 2017 2:01 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink

You were right.

https://deadline.com/2022/10/anna-faris-ivan-reitman-director-slapped-ass-set-my-super-ex-girlfriend-1235148740/

Thompson also told jurors Weinstein has “unique things about his body” that most victims will describe, referring to Weinstein genitalia.

“What I’m referring to is the result of a surgery that the defendant had in 1999. That surgery caused pretty noticeable scarring, and you’ll see the pictures,” Thompson said. “Because of an infection, his testicles were actually taken from his scrotum and put into his inner thighs.”