"You don’t want it to lead to a witch-hunt atmosphere, a Salem atmosphere, where every guy in an office who winks at a woman is suddenly having to call a lawyer to defend himself. That’s not right either."
"You don’t want it to lead to a witch-hunt atmosphere, a Salem atmosphere, where every guy in an office who winks at a woman is suddenly having to call a lawyer to defend himself. That’s not right either."
"You don’t want it to lead to a witch-hunt atmosphere, a Salem atmosphere, where every guy in an office who winks at a woman is suddenly having to call a lawyer to defend himself. That’s not right either."
If I had any doubt about the Woody Allen accusations being true (which I don't, I absolutely believe Dylan farrow) his response here definitely would have wiped them away. his disgusting response makes it very clear that he identifies with Weinstein and is incapable of determining what behavior is and isn't appropriate.
Post by litebright on Oct 19, 2017 19:39:03 GMT -5
Lupito Nyong'o wrote a very powerful piece for the NYT on Weinstein harassing her, multiple times, starting while she was a Yale drama school student trying to make a start in the industry. He lured her to his home, tried to get her to drink alcohol; met her at a restaurant and his assistants disappeared and he told her to go to a private room with him, etc. It is chilling how calculating he was about putting young women in the most vulnerable possible position.
Excerpt:
I share all of this now because I know now what I did not know then. I was part of a growing community of women who were secretly dealing with harassment by Harvey Weinstein. But I also did not know that there was a world in which anybody would care about my experience with him. You see, I was entering into a community that Harvey Weinstein had been in, and even shaped, long before I got there. He was one of the first people I met in the industry, and he told me, “This is the way it is.” And wherever I looked, everyone seemed to be bracing themselves and dealing with him, unchallenged. I did not know that things could change. I did not know that anybody wanted things to change. So my survival plan was to avoid Harvey and men like him at all costs, and I did not know that I had allies in this.
Fortunately for me, I have not dealt with any such incidents in the business since. And I think it is because all the projects I have been a part of have had women in positions of power, along with men who are feminists in their own right who have not abused their power. What I am most interested in now is combating the shame we go through that keeps us isolated and allows for harm to continue to be done. I wish I had known that there were women in the business I could have talked to. I wish I had known that there were ears to hear me. That justice could be served. There is clearly power in numbers. I thank the women who have spoken up and given me the strength to revisit this unfortunate moment in my past.
“I grew up in a time when it was as much the woman’s responsibility as it was a man’s ― how you were dressed, what your behavior was,” Johnson said. “I’m from the old school that you can have behaviors that appear to be inviting. It can be interpreted as such. That’s the responsibility, I think, of the female. I think that males have a responsibility to be professional themselves.”
“I think we also need to start talking about the power that women have to control the situation. There’s law enforcement, you can refuse to cooperate with that kind of behavior,” she said. “I think that many times, men get away with this because they are allowed to get away with it by the women.”
Post by Jalapeñomel on Oct 20, 2017 19:18:30 GMT -5
Still all this talk of Weinstein but not of others in Hollywood who are guilty as well. Where are the people in the industry who continue to employ Casey Affleck and Michael Fasbender? Where are the people who back R Kelly and Chris Brown’s albums?
EDIT: not sure why it autocorrected to Alabama...can't say I've typed Alabama more often than albums.
Still all this talk of Weinstein but not of others in Hollywood who are guilty as well. Where are the people in the industry who continue to employ Casey Affleck and Michael Fasbender? Where are the people who back R Kelly and Chris Brown’s Alabama?
axios
"Last January, six months after Fox News ousted [Roger Ailes], ... Bill O'Reilly, struck a $32 million agreement with a longtime network analyst [Lis Wiehl] to settle new sexual harassment allegations," the N.Y. Times' Emily Steel and Michael Schmidt scoop:
The next month, 21st Century Fox "granted him a four-year extension that paid $25 million a year.
"[T]he network's parent company ... acknowledges that it was aware of the woman's complaints about Mr. O'Reilly. They included allegations of repeated harassment, a nonconsensual sexual relationship and the sending of ... sexually explicit material to her."
"It was at least the sixth agreement — and by far the largest — made by either Mr. O'Reilly or the company to settle harassment allegations against him."
"Publicly known harassment settlements involving Mr. O'Reilly have totaled about $45 million."
Post by litebright on Oct 22, 2017 19:32:07 GMT -5
Harvey, you're trying to rush the "redemption" part of this story. You're a big-time movie producer, don't you know how this goes? You have to let the depth of the transgression run its course and then disappear for months or years to "work on yourself" while people half-forget the horrible things you did (but not *actual* jail time, God no -- that's for people without expensive lawyers and/or women, like Martha Stewart!). Then you reappear, with a public mea maxima culpa and a spiritual and/or moral transformation and a few supporting characters to testify to what a changed man you are, and people marvel and there are flattering profiles in the press that acknowledge your sins but focus on how much you say you've changed; and THEN you get to be a power player again. Only then can the women who remember what you did and don't forgive you and give you a "clean slate" be properly categorized as bitter old hags who just need to get over it, because GOD, you're TRYING, EVERYONE can SEE THAT, nobody's PERFECT, SHEESH.
You're trying to skip all that middle part, and the American public will not stand for it, Harvey.
Post by jeaniebueller on Oct 23, 2017 6:29:31 GMT -5
Has anyone gotten into what his brother knew? Because I find it difficult to believe that other higher ups in the Weinstein Company had no idea this was going on. Please.
Post by CheeringCharm on Oct 23, 2017 8:06:28 GMT -5
I've never heard of this guy before but I thought this was interesting. In the wake of the Weinstein scandal, director James Toback has been accused of harassing 38 women in a similar way ("if you sleep with me, I'll make you a star" and masturbating in front of them during "business" meetings). Despicable.
I've never heard of this guy before but I thought this was interesting. In the wake of the Weinstein scandal, director James Toback has been accused of harassing 38 women in a similar way ("if you sleep with me, I'll make you a star" and masturbating in front of them during "business" meetings). Despicable.
And that's why I roll my eyes at the Taratinos and Kevin Smiths and the Whoever Elses with their apologies and promises to do betters. Weinstein's hardly the only one who behaved this way in Hollywood, and you fuckers are connected enough to know who else does. (Well, maybe not Kevin Smith. But Tarantino and Clooney and Affleck and Damon and Pitt and and...) So unless you start calling them out, too, it's all just blahblahblah.
"In the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He began to hire private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations." "[F]irms that Weinstein hired included Kroll, which is one of the world's largest corporate-intelligence companies, and Black Cube, an enterprise run largely by former officers of Mossad and other Israeli intelligence agencies." "The explicit goal of the investigations, laid out in one contract with Black Cube, signed in July, was to stop the publication of the abuse allegations against Weinstein that eventually emerged in the New York Times and The New Yorker." "Weinstein had the agencies 'target,' or collect information on, dozens of individuals, and compile psychological profiles that sometimes focussed on their personal or sexual histories." "Two private investigators from Black Cube, using false identities, met with the actress Rose McGowan, who eventually publicly accused Weinstein of rape, to extract information from her." "One of the investigators pretended to be a women's-rights advocate and secretly recorded at least four meetings with McGowan." "The same operative ... met twice with a journalist to find out which women were talking to the press." "In other cases, journalists directed by Weinstein or the private investigators interviewed women and reported back the details." "In some cases, the investigative effort was run through Weinstein's lawyers, including David Boies, ... who ... personally signed the contract directing Black Cube to attempt to uncover information that would stop the publication of a Times story about Weinstein's abuses, while his firm was also representing the Times, including in a libel case."