Weinsteins step down as Miramax CEOs

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.”

Thread Delivers

DA' Inner Thigh Y'all

srsly guys

I thought this bump may have been about the depressing outcome of Anthony Rapp’s lawsuit against Kevin Spacey

i just wish they could drag spacey to the bottom of the ocean, it makes me so sad for ppl like Rapp that he still gets to walk around and charm juries

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/kevin-spacey-anthony-rapp-loses-40-million-sexual-battery-lawsuit-1235410119/

Thought She Said was good. Very straightforward account, but I liked it better than Spotlight. I think not knowing Carey Mulligan well, and not knowing Zoe Kazan at all (though I did see The Deuce) was an advantage; I was always aware of the performers with Spotlight. Almost put this in the Trump films thread--the story begins with him, and the actor who plays him on a phone call is very convincing--but then remembered this one. All the victims are very good, ditto Weinstein's lawyer. Best filmmaking was a tracking shot down an empty hotel hallway as a recording played, authentic enough that I initially thought it was real, but presumably it can't be.

Very much, of course, a descendent of All the President's Men, another celebration of the intrepid investigative journalist. (Will such films die forever in the next few years because they simply won't make sense anymore?) I wish they had paid explicit homage to Jason Robards at some point by having Patricia Clarkson--the ultimate in a supportive, even-tempered, perfect editor--lose her cool and growl, "Goddamn it, when is somebody going to go on the record for this story?!"

Just read a review, and apparently that is Weinstein's voice in the hallway scene I mentioned...He taped his encounters?

I guess the more obvious explanation is that the woman taped it.

it was widely/publicly known that she taped it -- and he still denied it!! god he is such an infected sore of a human being.

Didn't know that--it really is spooky the way they incorporate the tape (the shot almost evokes The Shining).

Whether you've seen the film or not, why was Weinstein so obsessed with whether or not Gwyneth Paltrow in particular talked to the Times?

Not getting Jeff Garlin to play Weinstein was such a missed opp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb2He8uQfDs

jeff garlin apparently has his own issues

haha yeah garlin was famously fired from his tv series in the past year for allegations

The way they do visually bring Weinstein into the film--I won't say--is effective.

Not at all insinuating anything about Scorsese--just about the least likely Weinstein in the industry, I'd say--but it's funny how they handle it when his name pops up in the film.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/30/entertainment/danny-masterson-mistrial/index.html

Was reading the Havana Syndrome article and saw this:

MoMA Trustee Leon Black Faces Second Rape Allegation

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/leon-black-second-rape-allegation-1234648737/

clemenza at 2:52 28 Nov 22

Thought She Said was good. Very straightforward account, but I liked it better than Spotlight. I think not knowing Carey Mulligan well, and not knowing Zoe Kazan at all (though I did see The Deuce) was an advantage; I was always aware of the performers with Spotlight. Almost put this in the Trump films thread--the story begins with him, and the actor who plays him on a phone call is very convincing--but then remembered this one. All the victims are very good, ditto Weinstein's lawyer. Best filmmaking was a tracking shot down an empty hotel hallway as a recording played, authentic enough that I initially thought it was real, but presumably it can't be.

Very much, of course, a descendent of All the President's Men, another celebration of the intrepid investigative journalist. (Will such films die forever in the next few years because they simply won't make sense anymore?) I wish they had paid explicit homage to Jason Robards at some point by having Patricia Clarkson--the ultimate in a supportive, even-tempered, perfect editor--lose her cool and growl, "Goddamn it, when is somebody going to go on the record for this story?!"

Until a friend pointed it out yesterday, I didn't know Zoe Kazan was Elia's granddaughter (by his first wife, not Barbara Loden) and Nicholas Kazan's daughter.

She's actually currently adapting East of Eden as a miniseries. (Elia directed the 1955 movie.)