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1) @jeffbezos I told the head of your studio that HW raped me. Over & over I said it. He said it hadn’t been proven. I said I was the proof.
posted today that when she was 17 Weinstein lured her to his hotel room and answered the door in his bathrobe, then proceeded to try to coax her into sex. She refused and for the next twenty years refused to work for him.
how much of a scumbag Weinstein is. Entourage referenced it years ago (and no doubt wasn't the only one).
This is above even O'Reilly & Ailes (which is not to excuse how gross & creepy they are). Weinstein is a true predator. Probably won't see jailtime though...too rich and likely minimal hard evidence.
how much of a scumbag Weinstein is. Entourage referenced it years ago (and no doubt wasn't the only one).
This is above even O'Reilly & Ailes (which is not to excuse how gross & creepy they are). Weinstein is a true predator. Probably won't see jailtime though...too rich and likely minimal hard evidence.
Seth McFarlane made a joke about it when announcing the best supporting actress nominations for the 2012 Oscars. Something like "congratulations, you don't have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein anymore".
Twitter said they banned her for posting someone's phone # Â
also said they were molested as children by Hollywood types and said there was a known pedophile ring that took advantage of children actors. I was surprised at the time it wasn't a bigger deal but after seeing the power of Hollywood to cover up, threaten and manipulate the media I wonder if those child actors will have the strength to start naming names like these actresses have.
Feldman has been saying this stuff for years but because it was Cory Feldman nobody really took him seriously. He alleged both he and Corey Haim were molested.
"What level were these people? Were they studio heads, were they low-rent producers?
I'm not able to name names. People are frustrated, people are angry, they want to know how is this happening, and they want answers — and they turn to me and they say, "Why don't you be a man and stand up and name names and stop hiding and being a coward?" I have to deal with that, which is not pleasant, especially given the fact that I would love to name names. I'd love to be the first to do it. But unfortunately California conveniently enough has a statute of limitations that prevents that from happening. Because if I were to go and mention anybody's name I would be the one that would be in legal problems and I'm the one that would be sued. We should be talking to the district attorneys and the lawmakers in California, especially because this is where the entertainment industry is and this is a place where adults have more direct and inappropriate connection with children than probably anywhere else in the world."
“This has been going on for a very long time,” concurs former “Little House on the Prairie” star Alison Arngrim. “It was the gossip back in the ‘80s. People said, ‘Oh yeah, the Coreys, everyone’s had them.’ People talked about it like it was not a big deal.”
Arngrim, 49, was referring to Feldman and his co-star in “The Lost Boys,” Corey Haim, who died in March 2010 after years of drug abuse.
“I literally heard that they were ‘passed around,’” Arngrim said. “The word was that they were given drugs and being used for sex. It was awful – these were kids, they weren’t 18 yet. There were all sorts of stories about everyone from their, quote, ‘set guardians’ on down that these two had been sexually abused and were totally being corrupted in every possible way.” Link - ( New Window )
Seth McFarlane made a joke about it when announcing the best supporting actress nominations for the 2012 Oscars. Something like "congratulations, you don't have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein anymore".
this for bonkers... director (Victor Salva) molests a 12 year old (on video), serves 15 months and he's back directing movies (even for Disney) as if nothing ever happened.
Farrow had a lot of material already. In March, he had acquired a damning and much-coveted audio recording in which Weinstein admits to having groped an Italian model. He had interviews with former executives and assistants who’d worked closely with Weinstein who spoke about the culture of harassment and abuse he perpetrated. And now he had someone ready to accuse Weinstein of rape, on camera.
But at that moment Farrow was also caught in the pincers of an NBC News edict. He had been told by executives at NBC News that he didn’t have enough reporting to go on air with his Weinstein story, according to four sources, and he had been told by the network to stop reporting on it. NBC tried to put a stop to the interview with the woman accusing Weinstein of rape. The network insisted he not use an NBC News crew for the interview, and neither was he to mention his NBC News affiliation. And so that was how Ronan Farrow wound up paying out of his own pocket for a camera crew to film an interview.
rots. Think its the tip of an iceberg of predation in Hollywood though.
I know enough people who are in that world, sex for roles is pretty much the defacto way it works (for men, women and probably more). I mean, do people really think there's some inimitable ability to 'act' which sets the famous ones apart? I cast a movie, there's a dozen pretty girls who'd suit the bill, look who's willing to go further for the part, look who's gets it. Eventually when you are considered a marketable star I imagine the necessity of that sort of stuff disappears, but they've all made their own Faustian bargain to get there so most people shut the fuck up about the reality of it, with plausible deniability provided by the handful that actually do organically come to fame through performance.
The kingmakers have been getting away with this shit for decades, LA is a place that just chews up and spits out every guy or girl who thought they were something special - porn is filled with hundreds of them. Harvey Weinstein is probably a uniquely awful lecher but part of the whole apparatus in place. Its most telling how everyone was willing to not say shit about it til the wind turned and made it okay, which tells you this is systemic.
the country for "rehab" as a sex addict. I wouldn't be shocked if he stays abroad for a while. or forever.
That seems like a rumor more than anything else. He's in Arizona per all reports. Supposedly he "considered" Switzerland but didn't go.
mea culpa.
At least I used alleged.
PJ,
Only reason I "know" this is a girl I know is extremely heated over this stuff story and said she read he was going to pull a Roman Polanski aka what you are suggesting but apparently his legal team told him to go to Arizona.
"Harvey Weinstein's private flight to an Arizona rehab facility was diverted at the last minute, and he touched down in a different city than originally planned ... TMZ has learned.
Weinstein is now getting treatment somewhere in the Scottsdale area ... according to well-connected sources. As we reported, the private jet that took off from L.A. Wednesday evening was scheduled to touch down in Wickenburg, AZ ... near The Meadows rehab center.
We're told there had been continued debate in Weinstein's camp about where he should go. You'll recall, there was also talk of him going to Europe -- but ultimately a last-minute decision was made to touch down in Scottsdale."
Ronan Farrow if you recall also called out Woody Allen Â
and said he molested his sister when they were kids and couldn't believe how Hollywood praises him and can work with him.
Also you have Roman Polanski who anally raped a 13 year old girl. He was arrested in Europe in 2009 and 100 actors/film makers/directors etc signed a petition to have him released including some big ones:
Woody Allen
Monica Bellucci
Buck Henry
David Lynch
Michael Mann
Martin Scorcese
Tilda Swinton
Wait. What? 15 minutes are up so she has to come out as being a rape victim? Is that what you're saying? Please clarify.
This is a marginal actress that seems to delight in stirring up shit. Most recently this includes her whining about Twitter, and her whining about Amazon. In the past it involves her outrageous statements about gay men.
I believe Ashley Judd's and Angela Jolie's accounts about Weinstein. This loon ? I'm not so sure.
A decade ago and I'm not even in the industry, though I have friends who are and told me stories. As Overseer said, this was pretty well known in Hollywood.
Seth McFarlane made a joke about it when announcing the best supporting actress nominations for the 2012 Oscars. Something like "congratulations, you don't have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein anymore".
30 Rock had a Weinstein joke once too Link - ( New Window )
You must have heard the same NY Times podcast.
Remember that adult ent star that named tiger woods? Â
Yeah full a shit. But they were both consenting adults with a purpose. She was right. Let's bury the story though. People only care about sports afterall when they tune in. The behind the scenes stories are irrelevant.
This is real dirtbagery. To say anything other than these women deserve the time and room to tell their stories this day and age and be heard is repugnant.
My 2 cents worth as an entertainment journalist: Â
I was briefly on the Disney beat when they owned Miramax. My beat moved into post-production, visual effects and technology, so I didn't have much occasion to get into Miramax & Weinsten Co. stuff, but:
It was an "open secret" that Harvey Weinstein was an abusive boss, a bully, a screamer, a guy who'd thrown things at employees and injured them and had to pay settlements to them, and also a guy who was gross with women. But I don't think it was widely known how bad it was over there. It was a criminal enterprise. The whole company was diverted by Harvey's predatory activities. He turned his female assistants and executives into accomplices (and I use that term deliberately-some may face criminal liability).
Lots of reporters tried to nail the abusive-Harvey story over the years. The two stories that recently broke are amazing work. Good for those reporters. The abusive-boss story is still out there to be broken, but will be an anticlimax.
NBC should be ashamed of itself.
And while Harvey certainly had media enablers and accomplices, he had to pay those women off because he knew that if he didn't, and enough of them went to the press, someone would run the story. If not Variety, the Hollywood Reporter. If not the Reporter, the LA Times. If not the LA Times, the NY Times. Or the Wall Street Journal. Someone. He didn't have enough clout or enough friends or enough money to silence everybody, so he silenced the victims and his employees. Until now.
A lotta shoes still to drop. There are probably hundreds of victims. Maybe thousands, over a decades-long career.
That proves it's not about sex with these sickos, it's about the gratification of power over someone in making them do something against their will. Very sick and dangerous person.
Harvey's right hand? Pun intended?
When did he have time to eat? - ( New Window )
Wait.....so you're Christopher Moltisanti's cousin?
Didn't have a potted plant handy.
Picks or never happened
Guy is a complete and total scumbag.
Her suspension wasn't because of any accusations she made, it was because she posted a private phone number.
This is above even O'Reilly & Ailes (which is not to excuse how gross & creepy they are). Weinstein is a true predator. Probably won't see jailtime though...too rich and likely minimal hard evidence.
Maybe they weren't heads of studios but it seems obvious he's not the only one.
This is above even O'Reilly & Ailes (which is not to excuse how gross & creepy they are). Weinstein is a true predator. Probably won't see jailtime though...too rich and likely minimal hard evidence.
Seth McFarlane made a joke about it when announcing the best supporting actress nominations for the 2012 Oscars. Something like "congratulations, you don't have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein anymore".
"I don't believe it. I practically threw myself at Harvey and he never did anything inappropriate."
-Lena Dunham
"What level were these people? Were they studio heads, were they low-rent producers?
I'm not able to name names. People are frustrated, people are angry, they want to know how is this happening, and they want answers — and they turn to me and they say, "Why don't you be a man and stand up and name names and stop hiding and being a coward?" I have to deal with that, which is not pleasant, especially given the fact that I would love to name names. I'd love to be the first to do it. But unfortunately California conveniently enough has a statute of limitations that prevents that from happening. Because if I were to go and mention anybody's name I would be the one that would be in legal problems and I'm the one that would be sued. We should be talking to the district attorneys and the lawmakers in California, especially because this is where the entertainment industry is and this is a place where adults have more direct and inappropriate connection with children than probably anywhere else in the world."
Right. They have a lot more clout than the accusers of Cosby, O'Reilly, Ailes, and Trump, so it'll go places.
Arngrim, 49, was referring to Feldman and his co-star in “The Lost Boys,” Corey Haim, who died in March 2010 after years of drug abuse.
“I literally heard that they were ‘passed around,’” Arngrim said. “The word was that they were given drugs and being used for sex. It was awful – these were kids, they weren’t 18 yet. There were all sorts of stories about everyone from their, quote, ‘set guardians’ on down that these two had been sexually abused and were totally being corrupted in every possible way.”
Link - ( New Window )
30 Rock had a Weinstein joke once too
Link - ( New Window )
Wait. What? 15 minutes are up so she has to come out as being a rape victim? Is that what you're saying? Please clarify.
Farrow had a lot of material already. In March, he had acquired a damning and much-coveted audio recording in which Weinstein admits to having groped an Italian model. He had interviews with former executives and assistants who’d worked closely with Weinstein who spoke about the culture of harassment and abuse he perpetrated. And now he had someone ready to accuse Weinstein of rape, on camera.
But at that moment Farrow was also caught in the pincers of an NBC News edict. He had been told by executives at NBC News that he didn’t have enough reporting to go on air with his Weinstein story, according to four sources, and he had been told by the network to stop reporting on it. NBC tried to put a stop to the interview with the woman accusing Weinstein of rape. The network insisted he not use an NBC News crew for the interview, and neither was he to mention his NBC News affiliation. And so that was how Ronan Farrow wound up paying out of his own pocket for a camera crew to film an interview.
Link - ( New Window )
That seems like a rumor more than anything else. He's in Arizona per all reports. Supposedly he "considered" Switzerland but didn't go.
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the country for "rehab" as a sex addict. I wouldn't be shocked if he stays abroad for a while. or forever.
That seems like a rumor more than anything else. He's in Arizona per all reports. Supposedly he "considered" Switzerland but didn't go.
mea culpa.
At least I used alleged.
I know enough people who are in that world, sex for roles is pretty much the defacto way it works (for men, women and probably more). I mean, do people really think there's some inimitable ability to 'act' which sets the famous ones apart? I cast a movie, there's a dozen pretty girls who'd suit the bill, look who's willing to go further for the part, look who's gets it. Eventually when you are considered a marketable star I imagine the necessity of that sort of stuff disappears, but they've all made their own Faustian bargain to get there so most people shut the fuck up about the reality of it, with plausible deniability provided by the handful that actually do organically come to fame through performance.
The kingmakers have been getting away with this shit for decades, LA is a place that just chews up and spits out every guy or girl who thought they were something special - porn is filled with hundreds of them. Harvey Weinstein is probably a uniquely awful lecher but part of the whole apparatus in place. Its most telling how everyone was willing to not say shit about it til the wind turned and made it okay, which tells you this is systemic.
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the country for "rehab" as a sex addict. I wouldn't be shocked if he stays abroad for a while. or forever.
That seems like a rumor more than anything else. He's in Arizona per all reports. Supposedly he "considered" Switzerland but didn't go.
mea culpa.
At least I used alleged.
PJ,
Only reason I "know" this is a girl I know is extremely heated over this stuff story and said she read he was going to pull a Roman Polanski aka what you are suggesting but apparently his legal team told him to go to Arizona.
"Harvey Weinstein's private flight to an Arizona rehab facility was diverted at the last minute, and he touched down in a different city than originally planned ... TMZ has learned.
Weinstein is now getting treatment somewhere in the Scottsdale area ... according to well-connected sources. As we reported, the private jet that took off from L.A. Wednesday evening was scheduled to touch down in Wickenburg, AZ ... near The Meadows rehab center.
We're told there had been continued debate in Weinstein's camp about where he should go. You'll recall, there was also talk of him going to Europe -- but ultimately a last-minute decision was made to touch down in Scottsdale."
Also you have Roman Polanski who anally raped a 13 year old girl. He was arrested in Europe in 2009 and 100 actors/film makers/directors etc signed a petition to have him released including some big ones:
Woody Allen
Monica Bellucci
Buck Henry
David Lynch
Michael Mann
Martin Scorcese
Tilda Swinton
:(
I remember going to a Yanks/Rangers game in ‘96. The Rangers were massive human beings.
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She'll probably be Kaepernicked
Wait. What? 15 minutes are up so she has to come out as being a rape victim? Is that what you're saying? Please clarify.
I believe Ashley Judd's and Angela Jolie's accounts about Weinstein. This loon ? I'm not so sure.
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I 100% believe her. And she had a whacked out childhood.
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Seth McFarlane made a joke about it when announcing the best supporting actress nominations for the 2012 Oscars. Something like "congratulations, you don't have to pretend to be attracted to Harvey Weinstein anymore".
30 Rock had a Weinstein joke once too Link - ( New Window )
You must have heard the same NY Times podcast.
This is real dirtbagery. To say anything other than these women deserve the time and room to tell their stories this day and age and be heard is repugnant.
It was an "open secret" that Harvey Weinstein was an abusive boss, a bully, a screamer, a guy who'd thrown things at employees and injured them and had to pay settlements to them, and also a guy who was gross with women. But I don't think it was widely known how bad it was over there. It was a criminal enterprise. The whole company was diverted by Harvey's predatory activities. He turned his female assistants and executives into accomplices (and I use that term deliberately-some may face criminal liability).
Lots of reporters tried to nail the abusive-Harvey story over the years. The two stories that recently broke are amazing work. Good for those reporters. The abusive-boss story is still out there to be broken, but will be an anticlimax.
NBC should be ashamed of itself.
And while Harvey certainly had media enablers and accomplices, he had to pay those women off because he knew that if he didn't, and enough of them went to the press, someone would run the story. If not Variety, the Hollywood Reporter. If not the Reporter, the LA Times. If not the LA Times, the NY Times. Or the Wall Street Journal. Someone. He didn't have enough clout or enough friends or enough money to silence everybody, so he silenced the victims and his employees. Until now.
A lotta shoes still to drop. There are probably hundreds of victims. Maybe thousands, over a decades-long career.
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That's your takeaway? Imagine if she was your daughter
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She was in a bad accident a few years ago and had to have reconstructive surgery.
That proves it's not about sex with these sickos, it's about the gratification of power over someone in making them do something against their will. Very sick and dangerous person.
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