Whoa.
Most shocking news I heard all day.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | May 24, 2018 7:39 PM |
He sure is one ugly bitch.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | May 24, 2018 7:41 PM |
Maybe he has dirt on Trump and can leverage it.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | May 24, 2018 7:42 PM |
Good!
by Anonymous | reply 4 | May 24, 2018 7:46 PM |
YAY! I got a pen pal!
by Anonymous | reply 5 | May 24, 2018 7:47 PM |
I know nothing. Really.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | May 24, 2018 7:47 PM |
Wasn't there just a Frontline documentary about him on PBS?
by Anonymous | reply 7 | May 24, 2018 7:48 PM |
I’m sure he’d rather control it. Better to walk in the side door on your own than be hauled in handcuffed.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | May 24, 2018 7:48 PM |
Yup, r8. Enough time to tuck assets offshore and put in rehab time. All is good.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | May 24, 2018 7:51 PM |
Yes, R 7. It was scathing! He's a horrid, horrid man. It was on last night. They timed it well.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | May 24, 2018 7:51 PM |
I would rather kill myself than have to face the music HW is about to face. He might have money, but he will not get off the hook. He will be made an example of, and his punishment will be severe.
by Anonymous | reply 11 | May 24, 2018 7:51 PM |
I'm still at home. No bigee, r11.
by Anonymous | reply 12 | May 24, 2018 7:53 PM |
R10 - That's great! I have to find when it's repeated & DVR it.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | May 24, 2018 7:54 PM |
Is he coming from the hotel across the street from the "sex offender rehab"? Is that where he's been all this time?
by Anonymous | reply 14 | May 24, 2018 7:55 PM |
Brad threatened to kill him if he didn't turn himself him!
by Anonymous | reply 15 | May 24, 2018 7:58 PM |
They didnt get Strauss Kahn so what makes anyone so sure 1 prosecutable accusation from an unknown person is going to destroy this man?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | May 24, 2018 8:04 PM |
This is one accusation from 2004. Forced oral sex. Hopefully, this a very strong case.
by Anonymous | reply 17 | May 24, 2018 8:04 PM |
I didn't know.
by Anonymous | reply 18 | May 24, 2018 8:05 PM |
Not I, Georgina
by Anonymous | reply 19 | May 24, 2018 8:31 PM |
He must have found a loophole or an angle to play on this. No way this scumbag would man up and do his time, the way he ought.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | May 24, 2018 8:36 PM |
Weinstein probably saw Dotard's posthumous pardon of Jack Johnson as a signal to powerful and high-profile sexual abusers.
by Anonymous | reply 21 | May 24, 2018 9:03 PM |
I don't think orange is his best color.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | May 24, 2018 9:37 PM |
Who is writing the screenplay? Who will play Weinstein?
by Anonymous | reply 23 | May 24, 2018 9:43 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 25 | May 24, 2018 9:54 PM |
Oh plese the whale is trying to gain some sort of forgiveness, this will do nothing for him. He might as well stay locked up for the remainder of his miserable self.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | May 24, 2018 9:56 PM |
When do they haul in the other disgusting whale, Mario Batali?
by Anonymous | reply 27 | May 24, 2018 9:57 PM |
Supposedly, Paz de la Huerta's accusations were serious enough for an arrest warrant to be issued.
by Anonymous | reply 28 | May 24, 2018 9:57 PM |
Yeah, but Paz is a junkie whore. That must be Harvey's angle.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | May 24, 2018 10:01 PM |
God will beat this!
by Anonymous | reply 30 | May 24, 2018 10:03 PM |
Justice for Paz!
by Anonymous | reply 31 | May 24, 2018 10:03 PM |
Recruiting court reporters for high profile trial with PTSD therapy part of compensation.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | May 24, 2018 10:04 PM |
I wonder if they'll televise this.
by Anonymous | reply 33 | May 24, 2018 10:06 PM |
The trial - I wonder if they'll televise the trial.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | May 24, 2018 10:06 PM |
Too gross. Hope not, r34.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | May 24, 2018 10:08 PM |
We live in strange times. Rich and powerful men being brought down for sexual abuse of women while elsewhere white men are rewarded for their racism, sexism and homophobia at the highest levels of government.
by Anonymous | reply 36 | May 24, 2018 10:17 PM |
R36, I think the former is a response to the latter. If Hillary were president, I'm not sure #MeToo would have become a thing.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | May 24, 2018 10:20 PM |
Don't know what your point is, r36.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | May 24, 2018 10:20 PM |
How could HW and the rest (Matt Lauer, Cosby, et al), have acted with such casual impunity over such a long period of time unless this was business as usual and implicitly okayed by peers/boards of directors etc? I always think on the what Louis B Mayer told the young actress when she came complaining about a producers moves on her 'you'll get used to it my dear.'
by Anonymous | reply 39 | May 24, 2018 10:31 PM |
NBC News - Turning himself in tomorrow.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | May 24, 2018 10:34 PM |
Surprised there's no charges against LAUER.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | May 24, 2018 10:36 PM |
Harvey Weinstein, the disgraced movie mogul, is expected to surrender to investigators in Manhattan on Friday and face sexual assault charges after a monthslong inquiry into allegations by numerous women.
The charges follow an avalanche of accusations against him that led women around the world, some of them famous and many of them not, to come forward with accounts of being sexually harassed and assaulted by powerful men.
Those stories spawned the global #MeToo movement, and since then, the ground has shifted beneath men who for years benefited from a code of silence around their predatory behavior.
Mr. Weinstein, 66, who has been accused of sexually abusing and assaulting movie stars and employees of his former namesake company and then paying them or coercing them to stay silent, will face sexual assault charges in connection with the accusations of two women, according to law enforcement officials. One of the women is Lucia Evans, whose account was reported in The New Yorker. Ms. Evans said Mr. Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him during a business meeting in 2004.
The Manhattan district attorney’s office had also been investigating allegations that Mr. Weinstein raped an actress, Paz de la Huerta, in her home in New York City in 2010, as well as allegations by three to five additional victims whose accounts investigators found credible.
Mr. Weinstein, the subject of rumors in media and entertainment circles for years, began facing official inquiries in New York, Los Angeles and London after revelations in The New York Times and The New Yorker about his history of sexually assaulting women and paying or putting pressure on them not to speak out. Three years ago, the Manhattan district attorney’s office decided not to prosecute Mr. Weinstein after an Italian model, Ambra Battilana, accused him of groping her breasts during a meeting in his office.
Mr. Weinstein’s lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, declined to comment. In the past, he has said that Mr. Weinstein denies any allegations of “nonconsensual sex.”
In the recent inquiry detectives traveled to the United Kingdom and Canada to interview witnesses in the case and investigators were in Los Angeles as recently as late April and early May, several people briefed on the matter have said. Prosecutors have also combed through Mr. Weinstein’s financial records in an effort to uncover any possible improprieties, several people have said.
Federal prosecutors have also been investigating whether Mr. Weinstein’s abusive conduct violated federal stalking laws and examined the movie producer’s finances, several people with knowledge of that inquiry have said.
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In the course of the investigation, prosecutors created what amounted to an elaborate timeline of Mr. Weinstein’s whereabouts in an effort to take advantage of a section of New York State law that says the clock stops ticking toward the statute of limitations when a defendant is continuously outside the state. Investigators compiled instances in which Mr. Weinstein left New York to determine whether some accusations of assault, even if they appeared to fall outside the statute of limitations, could in fact be included in criminal charges.
The federal investigation of Mr. Weinstein, which began last year, focused on fraud allegations in connection with two auction items that were to be offered together at an AIDS charity fund-raiser in France in May 2015, the people have said. The items were a sitting with a famous fashion photographer and a package of tickets to a Hollywood awards event and party. That investigation expanded into a review of whether Mr. Weinstein violated federal stalking laws, the people said.
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by Anonymous | reply 42 | May 24, 2018 10:41 PM |
News outlets have reported on dozens of allegations against Mr. Weinstein, many of them sharing a common narrative: Women reported to a hotel for what they thought were work reasons, only to discover that Mr. Weinstein sometimes seemed to have different interests.
But it remains to be seen how sweeping the charges against Mr. Weinstein will be, and how much supporting evidence prosecutors will be allowed to introduce in seeking to show a pattern of criminal behavior.
That is one of many hurdles sex crime prosecutions often face, ever more so in cases of powerful men like Mr. Weinstein who come armed with high-priced lawyers and private investigators.
New York Police Department officials said as early as November that detectives were gathering evidence with an eye toward preparing a warrant to arrest Mr. Weinstein. But as Mr. Vance’s investigation continued, the pace of prosecutors’ work fueled tensions between the police and district attorney’s office.
Mr. Vance’s office faced added pressure because it decided not to prosecute Mr. Weinstein after Ms. Battilana accused him of groping her in 2015. Mr. Vance said the evidence was not strong enough to win a conviction and dropped the investigation, despite having an audiotape of Mr. Weinstein acknowledging he had touched her breasts and promising not to do so again. The decision by prosecutors followed lobbying by Mr. Weinstein’s lawyers, who pointed to shifting accounts by Ms. Battilana in sworn testimony in another sexual assault case in Italy.
In recent months, Mr. Vance has been under tremendous pressure from activists and elected leaders to resolve his office’s investigation into Mr. Weinstein. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo ordered a review of his handling of the 2015 allegations and women’s advocates have criticized the slow pace of Mr. Vance’s investigation.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | May 24, 2018 10:41 PM |
Morgan Freenan is now in the spotlight, r39.
The allegations include the claims a young production assistant who alleges Freeman, 80, tried to lift up her skirt repeatedly in 2015. Only one woman who claims to have been mistreated by him was named. She is Chloe Melas, the CNN reporter who wrote the article who claims Freeman called her 'ripe' and told her: 'Boy I want to be there' as she interviewed him while six months pregnant in 2017.
Other women said he behaved like a 'creepy uncle' at Revelations Entertainment, his production company, and that his unwanted glances and treatment of them forced them to stop wearing skirts or dresses in the office.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | May 24, 2018 11:10 PM |
A friend of mine is a writer in LA. He said Harvey’s defense to all of this is going to be that he never forced any woman to have sex with him. His claim is he offered to help with their career for consensual sex. But my friend says that Harvey’s ace in the hole is that he is going to start naming the actresses that took him up on his offers. And who are having major careers out of these agreements with him. This is gonna get uglier as time goes by. Fireworks!
by Anonymous | reply 45 | May 24, 2018 11:46 PM |
The public will sympathize with the women. It might work if he wasn’t so utterly grotesque. He’ll never convince anyone that these gorgeous, talented women wanted to have sex with him.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | May 24, 2018 11:50 PM |
If this means that JLaw and a couple of others will disappear for a while, I'm all for him naming names.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | May 24, 2018 11:55 PM |
Ooh yeah! Where's that popcorn Gif at?
Is there a link yet for that Frontline special on PBS for those of us outside the US?
by Anonymous | reply 48 | May 25, 2018 12:44 AM |
GOOP must be very afraid right now.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | May 25, 2018 12:49 AM |
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein is expected to turn himself in to authorities in Manhattan on Friday to face criminal charges, several media outlets reported on Thursday.
The development, first reported by New York Daily News and confirmed by the New York Times, Deadline and others, comes months after Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance’s office reportedly launched an investigation into allegations of sexual assault.
The exact charges, expected Friday, are still unclear but multiple reports say they will relate to accusations from at least one woman, Lucia Evans, who said Weinstein forced her to perform oral sex on him in 2004, as detailed in an October story in The New Yorker.
In November, New York police officials said the accusations made by actress Paz de la Huerta, including that Weinstein raped her twice in 2010, were “credible.”
“We have an actual case here,” said Robert Boyce, chief of detectives for the New York City Police Department.
A spokesman for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office declined to comment Thursday afternoon.
Weinstein had been a powerful force in the entertainment world until last year’s series of investigative stories from the Times and the New Yorker that detailed accusations of sexual misconduct made by several women.
Since then, scores more have come forward to claim Weinstein used his status to sexually assault and harass them. The revelations sparked a broader reckoning with sexism in Hollywood that has since touched other industries.
Authorities in several cities have also launched criminal investigations into Weinstein, including in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles and London.
Federal prosecutors have also started an investigation into the sexual-abuse allegations, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
Weinstein attorney Benjamin Brafman said in a court filing that Weinstein was the “principal target” of a federal probe. He also wrote that Weinstein “did not knowingly violate the law” and the allegations that Weinstein forced himself on women are “entirely without merit,” the Associated Press reported.
Brafman declined to comment on Thursday.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | May 25, 2018 12:51 AM |
R39 is correct, the worst thing about this scandal s that it's shown that the high-level managers are perfectly willing to tolerate horrific, long-term, expensive abuse of lower-level employees.
Remember, the board of Harvey's company made it official policy that he had to start paying off his victims put if his own pocket? Which means that the company was willing to make payoffs for years, and never did a damn thing to stop the actual abuses.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | May 25, 2018 12:52 AM |
What an absolute sack of shit. I can't believe he lasted this long.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | May 25, 2018 1:02 AM |
He's turning himself in because the DA let him know ahead of time that they were going to arrest him. Even as a sack of shit, he still gets privileges the rest of us don't. What a joke.
R45, I can't wait. I'm here for it all!
by Anonymous | reply 54 | May 25, 2018 1:12 AM |
Evil
by Anonymous | reply 55 | May 25, 2018 1:18 AM |
I'm drooling for the actresses names to be released or leaked or whatever ... I have been salivating when he was going to do it and wondered why he didn't name names immediately ....
How long will it take for these whore actresses -- some of them A+ list I'm betting --- to be made known???
by Anonymous | reply 56 | May 25, 2018 1:34 AM |
He never grabbed my pussy.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | May 25, 2018 2:07 AM |
"I'm drooling for the actresses names to be released or leaked or whatever ... I have been salivating when he was going to do it and wondered why he didn't name names immediately ...."
Why would he? What would it accomplish? Just because SOME women put out for him, doesn't mean they all did
by Anonymous | reply 58 | May 25, 2018 2:55 AM |
Just watched him turn himself in, sauntering around with a smile.
God, he's such a pig.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | May 25, 2018 11:56 AM |
Fuck off, Fake Duplicate Thread Troll. That's an old thread from last November and not about Hargey turning himself in today.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | May 25, 2018 12:02 PM |
I reckon the major A Listers I think who fucked him long term are Charlize Theron and Renee Zellweger. Charlize’s career in the 90s especially is total Miramax.
I believe Gwyneth got grossed out and went crying to Brad.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | May 25, 2018 12:09 PM |
LOL Hargey
A typo, yet somehow apt.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | May 25, 2018 12:10 PM |
Harvey Weinstein turned himself in to New York police Friday morning and was arrested on charges that he raped one woman and forced another to perform oral sex on him, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN. Manhattan prosecutors will charge Weinstein with first- and third-degree rape in one case and a first-degree sex act in a second case, a source said. He's expected to appear in court later in the day.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | May 25, 2018 12:17 PM |
It feels like a lot of the air has gone out of this scandal and no one really cares anymore and everyone has moved on. Would have been different if he was arrested a year ago. He’ll walk now.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | May 25, 2018 12:31 PM |
Thank you for your input Anthony Weiner, r65.
by Anonymous | reply 66 | May 25, 2018 12:33 PM |
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by Anonymous | reply 67 | May 25, 2018 12:34 PM |
I remember people saying the same about Cosby, r65.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | May 25, 2018 12:36 PM |
He's being slut shamed!
by Anonymous | reply 69 | May 25, 2018 12:38 PM |
What are his Israeli intelligence consultants saying?
by Anonymous | reply 70 | May 25, 2018 12:43 PM |
Cara Delevigne's Account of Her "Experience" with "Hargey."
The model wrote on her Instagram page about a meeting with Weinstein in which he 'asked her to kiss another woman.'
She wrote: 'As soon as we were alone he began to brag about all the actresses he had slept with and how he had made their careers and spoke about other inappropriate things of a sexual nature. He then invited me to his room. I quickly declined and asked his assistant if my car was outside. She said it wasn't and wouldn't be for a bit and I should go to his room.
'At that moment I felt very powerless and scared but didn't want to act that way hoping that I was wrong about the situation. When I arrived I was relieved to find another woman in his room and thought immediately I was safe. He asked us to kiss and she began some sort of advances upon his direction. I swiftly got up and asked him if he knew that I could sing. And I began to sing....i thought it would make the situation better....more professional....like an audition....i was so nervous. After singing I said again that I had to leave.He walked me to the door and stood in front of it and tried to kiss me on the lips. I stopped him and managed to get out of the room'.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | May 25, 2018 12:44 PM |
[quote]But my friend says that Harvey’s ace in the hole is that he is going to start naming the actresses that took him up on his offers.
Can't wait!
by Anonymous | reply 72 | May 25, 2018 12:54 PM |
DA Vance had been such an ass. It takes an exposé in the New Yorker to get someone prosecuted for rape.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | May 25, 2018 12:54 PM |
Can't wait for Bryan Singer's perp walk.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | May 25, 2018 12:55 PM |
Those gals were pretty dumb, if you ask me. They should have just had their boyfriends tell off Harvey!
by Anonymous | reply 75 | May 25, 2018 1:04 PM |
He's so gross.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | May 25, 2018 1:04 PM |
Dear God, please don't do this to me.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | May 25, 2018 1:06 PM |
Exactly what law has he broken?
by Anonymous | reply 78 | May 25, 2018 1:09 PM |
Harvey haters are anti Semitic!
by Anonymous | reply 79 | May 25, 2018 1:17 PM |
is he gonna be raped in jail?
by Anonymous | reply 80 | May 25, 2018 1:24 PM |
Does anyone remember Paz wandering into the shooting of Louis Theroux’s Scientology documentary because she heard a camera was rolling?
Weinstein will a million percent be using her hot mess status against her. And he can afford the very best defense money can buy. The only thing that might put him away is, he’s not an onscreen celeb so not beloved by the public, and there’s a mountain of negative press on him.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | May 25, 2018 1:45 PM |
Schneiderman can't protect Weinstein any longer? Does Weinstein sing any songs?
by Anonymous | reply 82 | May 25, 2018 2:01 PM |
Why are some people defending him? Are you retarded?
by Anonymous | reply 83 | May 25, 2018 2:40 PM |
For some reason, when he says that the sex was consensual, I just don’t believe him.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | May 25, 2018 2:41 PM |
[quote] He's turning himself in because the DA let him know ahead of time that they were going to arrest him. Even as a sack of shit, he still gets privileges the rest of us don't
This is not unique to Harvey. It is not about him getting "privileges the rest of us don't." Happens regularly with cases where the arrestee has a lawyer and arrangements are made to turn himself in. It even happens where the defendant has no lawyer yet but when there has been an ongoing investigation and the detective working the case will call the defendant-to-be and tell them to turn themselves in. I have made similar arrangements for clients.
Stop making shit up.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | May 25, 2018 2:57 PM |
[quote]Maybe he has dirt on Trump and can leverage it.
It is far more likely that he has dirt on his friends Bill and Hillary and he will throw them under the bus in a heartbeat. I wonder if he took any trips to Pedophile Island with Jeffrey Epstein and the Clintons. .
by Anonymous | reply 86 | May 25, 2018 3:17 PM |
I know nothing.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | May 25, 2018 3:22 PM |
R86 is a stupid freeper.
by Anonymous | reply 88 | May 25, 2018 3:25 PM |
Every "feminist" in Hollywood knew what Harvey Weinstein was.
Every major player in the Mainstream Media for the last thirty years knew exactly how Weinstein treated women.
Rich powerful Hollywood Jews are supposed to get to rape anyone they please. That was the unwritten rule every Hollywood and Media Liberal played by for the last fifty years.
They all knew and they all aided and abetted. Many profited from it.
These are your Progressive role models.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | May 25, 2018 3:26 PM |
R89 you gonna be banned by the DL police for sayin too much, brutha. Dey don like dat stuff. U in troubul gurl.
by Anonymous | reply 90 | May 25, 2018 4:23 PM |
R89 - Jews are allowed to rape and humiliate others because of The Holocaust.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | May 25, 2018 4:46 PM |
he raped women who has mental issues. like that asia what's her name...she claims that he raped her but then she went back and fuck him our of her own free will a few more times.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | May 25, 2018 4:56 PM |
Dolled up
by Anonymous | reply 93 | May 25, 2018 5:02 PM |
is there gonna be a trial? will they say he has herpes?
by Anonymous | reply 94 | May 25, 2018 5:04 PM |
I'm not sure how that is a defence though R45 - basically you're saying he's going to argue that because some women apparently had consensual sex with him he couldn't have raped/it doens't matter if her raped other women? it makes no sense. Also, I hate the idea that women who may have consented to sex with him are somehow guilty of something. If that did happen then they are actresses who wanted to have a career and found a grotesque man demanding sexual favours as a road block standing in their way - or a man who had power and decided to exploit it and them - a roadbloack that may also happen to male actors but is less likely too. How does that reflect on their reputations rather than his? even if it were relevant? In those scenarios the only people harmed by it were women and the one misused his power was Weinstein, every time, whichever way you look at it. Very strange that that could be seen as a defence of anything.
by Anonymous | reply 96 | May 25, 2018 5:14 PM |
They have been reporting on it all day. WHO CARES!
by Anonymous | reply 97 | May 25, 2018 5:18 PM |
With all the nonsense talk about 'naming names' of actresses above, I think some people genuinely don't get the difference between a woman having ostensibly consensual sex (in these instances probably coercive, even if it was only financially coercive in the sense that he could make or break their careers - an obstacle with a lot of power) and a man who rapes women. Is there some kind of link between these things? are they both just as bad? what's the bloody point to these posts? why are people so unable to think things through with any kind of coherency. I despair sometimes.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | May 25, 2018 5:22 PM |
You REALLY hate women don't you R56? It's quite sad really because it just comes across as bitterness.
by Anonymous | reply 99 | May 25, 2018 5:50 PM |
Who the hell is harvey's PR or advisors LMAO.
He's carrying the Elia Kazan biography .... and Rodgers and Hammerstein's Broadway Revolution.
Very specific choices for this event two be holding those two books.
by Anonymous | reply 100 | May 25, 2018 5:56 PM |
It's only just occurred to me that he probably still thinks he did nothing wrong, that he's being brought down by some kind of conspiracy. The minds of these men are such distorted places - like scary funhouse mirrors of misogyny and narcissism.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | May 25, 2018 6:01 PM |
When Weinstein finally came in to the courtroom, admitted through the same door that every other criminal must shuffle through, he looked awful. Ashen, dazed, handcuffed, he came into the courtroom leaning on two members of the NYPD investigative team. (Another reporter outside the courthouse later told a bewildered colleague that he seemed so loose and confused that he looked drunk.) He glanced around the room, apparently searching for a friendly face, and ultimately gave up when he couldn’t spot any.
It wasn’t just a far cry from the Harvey of his heyday; it wasn’t the same Harvey the world saw a couple of hours earlier, when he and his team strode into the First Precinct — blocks from his old Tribeca office — for Weinstein’s pre-arranged surrender. That Weinstein toted an armful of books — one later identified as “Something Wonderful: Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Broadway Revolution” by Todd S. Purdum — wore a blazer over a blue cashmere sweater, and even had a momentary smirk.
by Anonymous | reply 103 | May 25, 2018 6:42 PM |
[quote] If Hillary were president, I'm not sure #MeToo would have become a thing.
That's what I was counting on.
by Anonymous | reply 104 | May 25, 2018 6:51 PM |
It's fantastic to see a rapist losing all of his power in public, I feel like every detail of this is going to be reported and pored over. There are many men like him, but he was the one they managed to get hold of and he has (had) a lot of power to lose. Maybe it has finally hit him that it's all gone.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | May 25, 2018 6:58 PM |
It's a bit disquieting to see just how many men who shaped our entire culture are rapists and sex pests, or who at least think sex pests are no big deal.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | May 25, 2018 7:02 PM |
R101 Richard Rodgers was also known as a rampant womanizer; they rarely called them predators in those days or considered any of their behavior.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | May 25, 2018 7:02 PM |
The driver of disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has been arrested after allegedly damaging a camera during a tussle with a paparazzo.
Cristovao Proenca, 44, has been charged with criminal mischief and harassment in relation to a fracas with photographer Jason Winslow in Greenwich Village, New York.
Winslow, a freelance entertainment photographer based in the greater New York area, was following Proenca.
The driver was collecting Weinstein’s estranged wife, Georgina Chapman, and their daughter, before 11.30am on Thursday, in Manhattan, reports the New York Daily Times.
However, when the trio drove off, Weinstein’s driver is alleged to have stopped the vehicle, stepped out and snatched Winslow’s camera. He has been accused of damaging the equipment, according to authorities.
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Since when is assaulting a paparazzi is against the law. There should be a bounty on them.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | May 25, 2018 7:02 PM |
*Considered any of their behavior criminal.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | May 25, 2018 7:03 PM |
He saw his fate, r103.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | May 25, 2018 7:04 PM |
Totally agree R107 - And unfortunately we cannot avoid internalising so much of the culture which was created by these men - books, tv, films as it literally (like you say) shapes our world and our views on the world - they create our collective vision of what is 'normal' in so many ways, and that is horrifying. I'm horrified when I see images of women (or sometimes men) being raped or coerced into sex on screen, or assaulted, and the narrative of the film doesn't acknowledge that that is what has happened or that it is wrong (see Game of Thrones - even when it was pointed out to them the writers still didn't get it). I think when I was much younger those sort of things confused me and made me feel uncomfortable but I couldn't explain to myself why until I learned to watch things from a critical distance - but that doesn't and can't always work - still so many things are normalised in our unconscious sense of the world that we aren't even aware of so that we can critique them. And monsters like this are in charge of those narratives.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | May 25, 2018 7:15 PM |
R108 Yes, and rapists were treated greatly before state justice systems and the extended persecution of vigilantism; I know these things existed already in the 1950s and 1930s, but when people talk about the past in such things, Early Modern Age and Middle Ages can also be meant.
by Anonymous | reply 113 | May 25, 2018 7:21 PM |
R112 That's what the term "rape culture" really refers to, despite it's common misuse/overuse. And it's why the definitions of "consent" and "rape" need to be reexamined.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | May 25, 2018 7:22 PM |
Oh, dear. I'm worried for Harvey. Is he going to Rikers as we speak??? Will he be roomed with Baby Rackover?
by Anonymous | reply 115 | May 25, 2018 7:23 PM |
Wherever her is R115 I hope he SUFFERS.
by Anonymous | reply 116 | May 25, 2018 7:25 PM |
R62, so all the actresses who worked with Miramax fucked Weinstein? All of them, really?
Theron did four movies produced by Weinstein, the last one in 2002, and none of them memorable (The Cider House Rules, Reindeer Games, The Yards , Waking Up in Reno). Four out of nineteen movie, between 1995 and 2002. If there was a casting couch with Weinstein, it didn't get her very far. But of course, you should "know".
by Anonymous | reply 117 | May 25, 2018 7:34 PM |
[quote] Is he going to Rikers
The process of closing down Riker's has already begun, even without someplace readied to incarcerate New York's guests. The developers want that land as soon as possible for their new luxury condos, it will be worth billions in some loyal contributor's pocket. Harvey may have to serve his sentence at a condo in Central Park Tower.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | May 25, 2018 7:39 PM |
People Say Harvey Weinstein Hid ‘Sick’ Message in Plain Sight on His Way to Get Booked
Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein turned himself in Friday to face sex crimes charges and pleaded not guilty to rape. Many instantly wondered about the books he carried with him to the police station.
Some saw something seriously sinister going on. New York Magazine‘s Yashar Ali, for example, responded to the Hollywood Reporter‘s story that one of the books Weinstein was carrying was Hollywood director Elia Kazan‘s biography.
Hollywood Reporter ✔ @THR
One of the books Harvey Weinstein was carrying during his surrender was a biography of director Elia Kazan, a famous informant of Hollywood Blacklist era
“What a sick man… he knows what he’s doing and the message he’s trying to send,” Ali said. “For years when people would discover his history of predation he would threaten them with their own secrets.”
The Hollywood Reporter piece numbered Kazan among informants in Hollywood who “named names and derailed dozens of Hollywood careers” and “placed some 320 names on the Blacklist by the time the Red Scare finally died down in the late 1950s.”
The interpretation is that Weinstein, although there were instances of people calling him out over the years (see: Seth MacFarlane), survived by amassing dirt on other people and using it to neutralize threats against him. In other words, Weinstein’s jailhouse reading material about blacklisting is really about a subject some people think he already knows a lot about.
The New Yorker reports that Weinstein hired private investigators from the firm Black Cube. It describe them as an “army of spies” which would “collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations” against Weinstein. Why would someone need that kind of intelligence? One reason would be to have ammunition that could be used to discredit claims.
It’s also worth mentioning on the subject of blacklisting that Weinstein was accused of doing that by access Ashley Judd.
by Anonymous | reply 119 | May 25, 2018 8:10 PM |
Does a bright blue wool sweater the best choice to hide a beer belly?
by Anonymous | reply 120 | May 25, 2018 8:15 PM |
R119, standard mafia tactics. use anything to discredit your witnesses and victims. anything. Pelicano was a pro at this.
by Anonymous | reply 121 | May 25, 2018 9:29 PM |
These actresses must be shivering and quaking seeing the Kazan book.
Harvey aka H-Dub is about to drop names like dirt nasty.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | May 25, 2018 9:46 PM |
R101, those books must be... to send a message to his cohorts that he's naming names and they'd better get their passports and get on the next plane to Thailand.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | May 25, 2018 9:47 PM |
When he had so called consensual sex, did he have any game?
by Anonymous | reply 124 | May 25, 2018 10:49 PM |
I doubt any women, or at least very very few, have slept with him entirely willingly R124. The 'consensual sex' referred to above is in the context of actresses feeling pressurized into sleeping with him if they wanted a career. I can't imagine a woman has ever slept with him out of actual desire. Why so many men don't seem to even care if the people sleeping with them are actively disgusted by them or not baffles me to be honest.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | May 25, 2018 11:10 PM |
It's all about "consensual sex' and Weinstein's lawyer is attempting to set a legal precedent.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | May 25, 2018 11:18 PM |
did anyone catch that last night the FBI records bank dropped a lot of redacted documents on Epstein?
Because they made 8 drops of PDF docs that were posted to twitter. Some of them containing old news articles from Palm Beach in the 1990's about teenaged girls.
Is that weird? Or am I paranoid?
by Anonymous | reply 127 | May 25, 2018 11:19 PM |
Here's the thing: with the past year's campaign of MeToo, and the steady uncovering of Media/Entertainment Sexual serial abusers, I'm hoping the gloves are coming off as far as revealing the names of predators in other industry's/ institutions. Specifically the government. Yes, we've already seen a few get picked off the side like Greitens but now that the Floodgates have opened, what's to keep those who have been de-throned and prosecuted, from "naming names".?
by Anonymous | reply 128 | May 25, 2018 11:32 PM |
It might be embarrassing if he exposed the actresses, but I won’t think much less of them. We pretty much know who they are.
I would just view them as ambitious and in possession of cast-iron stomachs. I’m middle-aged now, but sometimes I regret not using sex to get further when I had those opportunities. They were there.
by Anonymous | reply 129 | May 25, 2018 11:33 PM |
It's not even that I would be so overjoyed that someone like JLaw gets dragged through the mud. I don't care much about her as an actress, as a person she may be perfectly nice (she was very nice to my dog, so there's that) but I will laugh at all those who pushed actresses like her and other clients of HW as "the second coming" - I'm looking at you, Vanity Fair! - since it'll be clear even to flyover fraus how they got all those breaks.
by Anonymous | reply 130 | May 26, 2018 12:00 AM |
There are women out there who had consensual sex with Harvey. Rape and consensual sex are two very different things.
As soon a person objects to sex, for any reason, at any time, yet the other person forces a sexual encounter, despite the objection, it is rape, even if it was consensual during previous sexual encounters, or started off as consensual, but the person changed her/his mind.
Consensual sex can be, someone agreeing to sex as a career boost, or for money, or whatever. If I am employed as a prostitute, and find myself in the company of a fat, ugly client who others deem as not worthy of sex, yet I agree to have sex with said client in exchange for money, then I just had consensual sex. It would be the same thing if the client was very attractive.
Harvey’s first wife and second wife both had sex with him consensually, and I personally know others who did as well. On that note, I also know women he coerced, who did NOT want to have sex with him, and I know of women who he raped.
Harvey engaged in all of these behaviors. Rape is rape. Consent is consent. He was able to abide inside and outside of the parameters of consent, often, at different times during the same day.
by Anonymous | reply 131 | May 26, 2018 12:08 AM |
Will all of you #MeToo bitches sleep easier tonight, safe in the knowledge that this "predator" is under arrest, while the Pussy Grabber in Chief is still safely ensconced in the White House, merrily pussy grabbing along.
by Anonymous | reply 132 | May 26, 2018 12:19 AM |
I’d do him.
The Kazan bio is a good read.
by Anonymous | reply 133 | May 26, 2018 12:24 AM |
Seriously R132? There's only one rapist in the world that we should care about arresting? no other rapist should be arrested? (or if he is it's a reason to hate women for caring about it?). Weinstein is hardly low hanging fruit - he's one of THE major players in Hollywood and has been getting away with this for decades. Or was your comment just a reason to hate women for caring about rapists? because it doesn't make sense otherwise. You're so transparent.
by Anonymous | reply 134 | May 26, 2018 1:13 AM |
“The New York Police Department issued a statement thanking "these brave survivors for their courage to come forward and seek justice".
Is this a typical thing for a police department to do? Make a statement like that? It doesn’t seem impartial.
by Anonymous | reply 135 | May 26, 2018 1:49 AM |
Jews are so dirty
by Anonymous | reply 136 | May 26, 2018 1:50 AM |
I can't wait for Paz to testify. If I were her, I'd pick a hat with a lace veil, and some classy number with shoulder pads.
by Anonymous | reply 137 | May 26, 2018 1:54 AM |
I don't even remember who started the ball rolling with him.
by Anonymous | reply 138 | May 26, 2018 2:13 AM |
He's getting what he deserves
by Anonymous | reply 139 | May 26, 2018 2:14 AM |
There is already "unnecessary social, political, and economic damage" caused by men like Weinstein. We were all denied the chance to see Mira Sorvino, Annabella Sciorra, and many other fine actresses have long artistic careers, just because they rejected his advances or tried to come forward against him. How many female directors and writers did he undermine because they didn't fit his vision or wouldn't sleep with him? Who's to say?
When you say, "Let's look at the collateral damage" -- why is the collateral damage of women's careers acceptable, but the collateral damage of men's careers not? The cost to art of a destructive force like Weinstein -- in terms of silencing women and their artistry -- is incalculable. That's the collateral damage we should be considering right now.
by Anonymous | reply 140 | May 26, 2018 2:52 AM |
They’re gonna rape him.
by Anonymous | reply 141 | May 26, 2018 2:54 AM |
Weinstein's repulsive behavior has had one superb result: It spawned a movement that is uncovering other slime balls and ruining their careers. That's the least that can happen to them. As for Weinstein I doubt that, given his financial capacity to retain the best legal counsel, he will serve any prison time. There's a different standard for rapists who are poor than those who are wealthy, though they all deserve severe punishment.
by Anonymous | reply 142 | May 26, 2018 2:57 AM |
"...the women who have made these allegations, when subjected to cross-examination... will not be believed by 12 people,” Mr. Brafman said.
Right, because who believes women! Am I right, 1000 B.C through 1693 A.D. and religious orthodoxies worldwide and assorted bigots?
What a terrifically sleazy start to the defense.
by Anonymous | reply 143 | May 26, 2018 3:06 AM |
Has Rise McGowan commented yet?
Is she still alive?
by Anonymous | reply 144 | May 26, 2018 3:08 AM |
Fucking monster! Hope he takes half of Hollywood down with him. All those who were accomplices, silent observes, or turned a blind eye should be named. This is shameful. They let it happen.
by Anonymous | reply 145 | May 26, 2018 3:17 AM |
His lawyer's argument is that Weinstein didn't invent the casting couch? So we are to infer that his exploitation of that culture makes it OK? What arrogance! These men are not just predators, they are megalomaniacs. The rules of mere mortals do not apply to them, nor do they care if they are caught red-handed. A million bucks bail is a drop in the bucket for Weinstein. I hope to the heavens the police have their ducks in a row, evidence-wise. There are very few people I'd like to see rot in jail, but he's near the top of the list second only to Donald Trump.
by Anonymous | reply 146 | May 26, 2018 3:19 AM |
I didn’t know.
by Anonymous | reply 147 | May 26, 2018 3:19 AM |
It's interesting to just browse through the long list of films he produced and see how many known actresses were cast in good roles. For example "Teaching Mrs Tingle" (1999) with Katie Holmrd, Molly Ringwald, and Helen Mirren.
Or "Cop Land" (1997) with Cathy Moriarty, Annabella Sciorra, and Janeane Garofalo. In 1997 just how badly did Janeane want to be in a movie.
by Anonymous | reply 148 | May 26, 2018 5:15 AM |
Sadly, I have a feeling he'll be "suicided" if truly has any worthwhile dirt beyond who he traded roles for sex with.
by Anonymous | reply 149 | May 26, 2018 5:24 AM |
All he'd missing is power, r149.
by Anonymous | reply 150 | May 26, 2018 5:38 AM |
[quote]R71 Cara Delevigne: “I quickly declined and asked his assistant if my car was outside. She said it wasn't and wouldn't be for a bit and I should go to his room.”
Oh god, so awful.
by Anonymous | reply 151 | May 26, 2018 5:59 AM |
R142, it was arguably Trump that spawned the movement. Women were galvanised in the wake of his election to the highest office in the land, at one time the world, despite being a serial abuser of women by his own admission.
by Anonymous | reply 152 | May 26, 2018 7:15 AM |
That was so disingenuous of Meryl. How could she not have heard something for as long as she’s worked in Hollywood? Could she possibly have had such a cocooned existence? She could’ve at least said, “I always heard runours but Hollywood is a business and if you want to succeed you do business with people. You shouldn’t take the fact that I worked with Harvey Weinstein as an endorsement of him but rather as a demonstration of how much I wanted to succeed. I still do.”
by Anonymous | reply 153 | May 26, 2018 7:20 AM |
[quote] it was arguably Trump that spawned the movement.
Which makes it all the more ironic how nearly evey scalp taken by the movement has been a hypocritical progressive, Harvey at the top of the list.
by Anonymous | reply 154 | May 26, 2018 7:25 AM |
Paz de la Huerta’s first real role was in a Weinstein production, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, in which she played a teenage orphan crushing on Tobey Maguire.
by Anonymous | reply 155 | May 26, 2018 7:32 AM |
r153 are you drunk or do you always sound this dumb? Your writing style is unmistakable across threads.
by Anonymous | reply 156 | May 26, 2018 7:40 AM |
If Hillary had won, he'd have gotten away with everything.
by Anonymous | reply 157 | May 26, 2018 7:42 AM |
R131 Please name names :-)
by Anonymous | reply 158 | May 26, 2018 12:19 PM |
Um...that's why Harvey was in court, r158.
by Anonymous | reply 159 | May 26, 2018 5:27 PM |
So Goop must have been one of the consensual ones- nary a peep from her, and there was no way that "Shakespeare in Love" was better than, "Elizabeth".
by Anonymous | reply 160 | May 26, 2018 7:01 PM |
There was some speculation on one of the threads about that, r160. The consensus was that he probably tried it on with her and she freaked out. She's stated that she told her boyfriend(Brad Pitt)at the time to make him back off. Personally I think she slept with him. She was cast in SIL and Weinstein went all out to buy her the Oscar.
Every single actress who got that kind of support from Harvey had to give something back, and there's no way he'd make an exception for her. I think she came out with the "Brad to the rescue story" as a way to save face, as a lot of people were side eyeing her over the way he helped her career. And Brad is probably willing to go along with it as it makes him look good.
by Anonymous | reply 161 | May 26, 2018 7:49 PM |
Regarding Goop, she was just on Howard Stern this week and he questioned her extensively about the Weinstein matter.
She said there was only one incident, in a hotel room, where he was inappropriate and made her uncomfortable. She said he was fully clothed and backed off when she resisted.
She said he had never acted like that prior to this incident, and it came out of nowhere and took her by surprise. She told Brad Pitt, who got in Weinstein’s face the next he saw him. Pitt told him to never make her feel uncomfortable again.
She said Weinstein never acted inappropriate again after that. They had one phone conversation about the incident, where she asked if they could just move past it and have a professional relationship.
She said they often argued after that about other matters like movie promotion, and she describes him as always being a bit of a bully, but never sexually inappropriate again with her.
That’s the gist of what she said about it.
by Anonymous | reply 162 | May 26, 2018 9:32 PM |
Goop is doing damage control right now. I could never understand how she made it so big, she wasn't hot and she couldn't act. Fucking Weinstein explains everything.
by Anonymous | reply 163 | May 26, 2018 9:40 PM |
"Rape and consensual sex are two very different things."
Not in this culture, they're not. Especially not in Hollywood.
by Anonymous | reply 164 | May 26, 2018 9:41 PM |
oh please, mira sarvino blacklisted herself, she is an awful actress.
by Anonymous | reply 165 | May 26, 2018 9:42 PM |
Agreed R164, the question of coercion is particularly significant in this story. Some people want to draw a nice neat line down the middle, probably with 'rape' as something very specific, and pretend that all other forms of sex are just fine and/or a reflection on the reputation of the actress herself. Sure he may have had non-coercive sex with some women but it's hardly like everything but rape is 'consensual' in the way that some people mean.
by Anonymous | reply 166 | May 26, 2018 10:38 PM |
Of course she's going to deny it, r162. She's never going to admit that she slept with him in order to help her career. He cast her in that stupid movie and then he rigged the nominations so she'd win the Oscar. Goop never deserved to win the Oscar for her performance in that film, Weinstein bought it for her. If the truth ever came out she'd be completely humiliated and shown up for the talentless skank that she is.
by Anonymous | reply 167 | May 26, 2018 10:51 PM |
[quote] mira sarvino blacklisted herself, she is an awful actress.
Like hell she is awful.
by Anonymous | reply 168 | May 26, 2018 10:52 PM |
R167, she seemed very sincere about her story.
by Anonymous | reply 169 | May 26, 2018 10:52 PM |
R168: She's an actress, albeit a very mediocre one. I'm sure she's telling a very convincing story so she can try to cover her ass.
Paltrow will never admit the truth.
by Anonymous | reply 170 | May 26, 2018 11:05 PM |
Sorry I meant r169
by Anonymous | reply 171 | May 26, 2018 11:06 PM |
I feel sorry for poor Rene. If Weinstein does start naming the ones who gave it up I'm sure she's at the top of the list.
by Anonymous | reply 172 | May 26, 2018 11:13 PM |
Renee most likely availed herself of the casting couch.
by Anonymous | reply 173 | May 26, 2018 11:17 PM |
Poor Renee, that's a sad picture.
by Anonymous | reply 175 | May 27, 2018 1:03 AM |
The guy is a street fighter, and knows a lot that can take a slew of people down with him. The book choices are no accident. My two cents, the leverage he has on some very powerful people will get him off or pled down to something manageable.
by Anonymous | reply 177 | May 27, 2018 1:07 AM |
YES^
by Anonymous | reply 178 | May 27, 2018 1:08 AM |
r174, Renee's lips may so no but her tightly closed legs say read my lips.
by Anonymous | reply 179 | May 27, 2018 1:11 AM |
R162 How believable is it that someone with the skeletons BP has is going to get in someone like HW's face? Really? He wasn't exactly easily cowed or one to meekly back up over anything especially by the likes of a Brad Pitt.
by Anonymous | reply 183 | May 27, 2018 1:39 AM |
The Brad Pitt and Harvey showdown is a bit of a stretch.
by Anonymous | reply 184 | May 27, 2018 1:55 AM |
R140, Harvey has fucked plenty of men over, as well. As a matter of fact, I’d wager that he has always been an equal opportunity cock blocker.
It’s all about power. He wants it, and no one else can have it.
by Anonymous | reply 185 | May 27, 2018 1:56 AM |
Yeah, they worried about the Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss releasing names r177 from her years running a massive prostitution ring until she was busted in 1993.
by Anonymous | reply 186 | May 27, 2018 5:15 AM |
[quote]R163 Goop is doing damage control right now. I could never understand how she made it so big, she wasn't hot and she couldn't act. Fucking Weinstein explains everything.
I don't think that's fair....and I'm not female, just to head you off from slamming the FRAU button.
She's a perfectly professional actress who's usually very good. She's never been anything like BAD, or someone who couldn't act. Her personality is literally like [italic]fingernails on a blackboard, [/italic] but she's very adept in SHAKESPEARE IN LOVE. Wonderfully moving and very articulate; perfectly cast, in fact.
I can't think of any of her major performances where anyone else could have necessarily done better. (I've only seen her big stuff, though.) (Well, and HUSH.) (Come to think of it, she was a little drippy in SYLVIA...but everything else, she shines.)
by Anonymous | reply 187 | May 27, 2018 6:02 AM |
Are they going after his assistants who were in on the arrangements? One of the accounts, I forget which one, describes a male assistant who was operating on Harvey's behalf in Cannes. These guys were literally setting up rapes.
by Anonymous | reply 188 | May 27, 2018 6:13 AM |
[quote]But my friend says that Harvey’s ace in the hole is that he is going to start naming the actresses that took him up on his offers. And who are having major careers out of these agreements with him.
How is that going to help him? It will make him even more despised, if that's even possible.
by Anonymous | reply 189 | May 27, 2018 6:15 AM |
Sinister dude that Weinstein. I remember reading about that too, r188. Getting his handlers to round up the victims.
by Anonymous | reply 190 | May 27, 2018 6:16 AM |
Naming names. What for? Inadmissible in a court of law. It's about him and the women and the impact.
by Anonymous | reply 191 | May 27, 2018 6:18 AM |
He's a creep and I'm glad he's being charged. It's unfortunate that women who were actually victimized and the ones that willingly layed down on the casting couch are all lumped together.
by Anonymous | reply 192 | May 27, 2018 6:48 AM |
r192=fish
by Anonymous | reply 193 | May 27, 2018 7:15 AM |
R45 Harvey’s ace in the hole is that he is going to start naming the actresses that took him up on his offers.
Can't wait to see this happen!
by Anonymous | reply 194 | May 27, 2018 7:33 AM |
Well, I won't be one of them.
by Anonymous | reply 195 | May 27, 2018 7:39 AM |
[quote] Her personality is [italic]literally[/italic] like fingernails on a blackboard
That word doesn't mean what you think it means.
by Anonymous | reply 196 | May 27, 2018 7:39 AM |
[quote][R45] Harvey’s ace in the hole is that he is going to start naming the actresses that took him up on his offers.
[quote]Can't wait to see this happen!
Seriously?
by Anonymous | reply 197 | May 27, 2018 7:44 AM |
‘Harvey Weinstein, we got you’: Hollywood producer out on $1m bail, but Twitterati happy to see him under custody
by Anonymous | reply 198 | May 27, 2018 7:48 AM |
Rose on Weinstein arrest: 'His face has terrorised me for so long'
by Anonymous | reply 199 | May 27, 2018 7:49 AM |
Whatever happened To Heidi Fleiss’s little black book?
by Anonymous | reply 200 | May 27, 2018 8:27 AM |
R199 sucking cock for mediocre roles can be annoying later on.
by Anonymous | reply 201 | May 27, 2018 11:21 AM |
If he is seriously using whatever leverage he has on big shots in Hollywood, not actresses as they don't have power to get him acquitted, my guess is he will die of suicide, under mysterious circumstances.
by Anonymous | reply 202 | May 27, 2018 11:30 AM |
From a position of great power I am sure he sexually assaulted plenty of women. A few of the rapes mention violence and physical menace. I'm sure there are some current stars who just fucked him like all the men they fucked to get their careers. I wouldn't really want my name on the last list but they are also the lesser of his victims as they "made lemonade", and they may not be victims at all.
by Anonymous | reply 203 | May 27, 2018 11:38 AM |
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by Anonymous | reply 209 | May 27, 2018 11:50 AM |
Am I the only one who thinks Harvey fucked both Damon and Affleck?
by Anonymous | reply 211 | May 27, 2018 11:51 AM |
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by Anonymous | reply 213 | May 27, 2018 11:53 AM |
from Dailyfail article
HARVEY WEINSTEIN FACING UP TO 54 YEARS IN PRISON ON CHARGES
Rape In the First Degree (Class B Felony) - Five to 25 years in prison and a fine of up to $5,000
A person is guilty of rape in the first degree when he or she engages
in sexual intercourse with another person:
1. By forcible compulsion; or
2. Who is incapable of consent by reason of being physically helpless; or
3. Who is less than eleven years old; or
4. Who is less than thirteen years old and the actor is eighteen years old or more.
Rape In the Third Degree (Class E Felony) - Up to four years in prison and a $5,000 fine
A person is guilty of rape in the third degree when:
1. He or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person who is incapable of consent by reason of some factor other than being less than seventeen years old;
2. Being twenty-one years old or more, he or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person less than seventeen years old; or
3. He or she engages in sexual intercourse with another person without such person's consent where such lack of consent is by reason of some factor other than incapacity to consent.
Criminal Sexual Act in the First Degree (Class B Felony) - Up to 25 years in prison
A person is guilty of criminal sexual act in the first degree when he or she engages in oral sexual conduct or anal sexual conduct with another person:
1. By forcible compulsion; or
2. Who is incapable of consent by reason of being physically helpless;or
3. Who is less than eleven years old; or
4. Who is less than thirteen years old and the actor is eighteen years old or more.
by Anonymous | reply 214 | May 27, 2018 11:55 AM |
If he decides to name Charlize Theron as someone who fucked for roles, he better watch out.
She might murder him herself. She’s unstable enough, and she did kill her own father.
by Anonymous | reply 215 | May 27, 2018 11:58 AM |
Why is Harvey Weinstein smiling?
by Anonymous | reply 216 | May 27, 2018 12:10 PM |
Harvey Weinstein's Hollywood accusers share reactions to his arrest
by Anonymous | reply 217 | May 27, 2018 12:12 PM |
The books mean something, but it's the whole outfit. He knew his photo would be all over the press with the charges, so he dressed up in some kind of "professor" look with sweater under the jacket and holding books. Not his usual look of slob in t-shirt or Hollywood suit.
by Anonymous | reply 218 | May 27, 2018 12:28 PM |
Thurman and uncle Harvey Jan 2016 in restaurant
by Anonymous | reply 219 | May 27, 2018 12:51 PM |
Harvey Weinstein and TV personality Heidi Klum (back, L) and actress Uma Thurman
by Anonymous | reply 220 | May 27, 2018 12:51 PM |
Has he lost some weight in the pic at R213?
by Anonymous | reply 221 | May 27, 2018 1:34 PM |
We like Harvey more every day!
by Anonymous | reply 222 | May 27, 2018 1:42 PM |
Stinkfish
by Anonymous | reply 223 | May 27, 2018 2:27 PM |
Charge the actresses with prostitution: a person, in particular a woman, who engages in sexual activity for payment.
by Anonymous | reply 224 | May 27, 2018 3:59 PM |
"Charge the actresses with prostitution: a person, in particular a woman, who engages in sexual activity for payment."
Yes, ONLY women are involved in prostitution. Male prostitutes don't exist.
by Anonymous | reply 225 | May 27, 2018 4:22 PM |
I feel a bit sorry for Renee. I always thought she was a good actress who put in some fine performances during her career. However, it's been more or less established that she slept with Weinstein in order to get cast in the roles of Bridget Jones and and Roxie Hart.
She also ended up breaking up with Jack White because of Weinstein. He apparently found out that the only reason she was cast alongside him in Cold Mountain, was due to her once again sleeping with Harvey.
by Anonymous | reply 226 | May 27, 2018 4:31 PM |
[quote]R226 She also ended up breaking up with Jack White because of Weinstein. He apparently found out that the only reason she was cast alongside him in Cold Mountain, was due to her once again sleeping with Harvey.
[italic]After all she did for him...!
by Anonymous | reply 227 | May 27, 2018 5:54 PM |
R226, Renee should always be cast as the awkward off beat best friend to the lead.
I do think there's a big difference between saying you'll sleep with someone for a role and a producer showing up an actress' residence and raping her.
by Anonymous | reply 228 | May 27, 2018 6:18 PM |
Did Nicole Kidman also sleep with him to get into Cold Mountain?
Did Renee and Nicole dyke out on the set??
by Anonymous | reply 229 | May 27, 2018 6:21 PM |
[quote]R228 I do think there's a big difference between saying you'll sleep with someone for a role and a producer showing up an actress' residence and raping her.
I'd say so, too. Some people just might be sexually adventurous, and compartmentalize everything, and have always operated that way. Give them a few Tequila Sunrises and they're fine.
We shouldn't blame actresses for basically being willing to act like gay men for a night (!)
by Anonymous | reply 230 | May 27, 2018 6:28 PM |
R228: I agree. I don't think he forced himself on Renee and I wasn't trying to imply otherwise. I think he laid out the terms and she agreed to the deal. Other women turned him down and they either had a lucky escape or paid the price careerwise.
Most of the ones he's been accused of physically attacking were young starlets, models and up and comers. They had no clout in the industry and he probably felt he could get away with it.
by Anonymous | reply 231 | May 27, 2018 6:36 PM |
R231, oh, no, sorry, I didn't mean to imply you were implying...I just wanted to put it out there.
thanks.
all good.
And, yes, he probably did think he could get away with it; if goes to jail, I wonder how long he'll be in there before he's forced onto his knees and a big dick is shoved in his mouth while three other guys hold him down and he's forced to swallow.
by Anonymous | reply 232 | May 27, 2018 6:47 PM |
Ashley Judd in R217 looks like the plastic surgeon pulled her face in the wrong direction.
Mira looks good. Not buying that she can’t work because she’s “blacklisted”. She might just be lazy.
by Anonymous | reply 233 | May 27, 2018 7:08 PM |
R233: I think she does work, just not in anything high profile. I've also heard that despite what Weinstein is alleged to have done to her reputation, she really was a diva bitch at the time and that was the real reason she ended up being blacklisted.
by Anonymous | reply 234 | May 27, 2018 7:14 PM |
The photos are requirements of us at every event. He demands to be photographed with his conquests + suppliers.
by Anonymous | reply 235 | May 27, 2018 7:26 PM |
I still didn’t know.
by Anonymous | reply 236 | May 27, 2018 7:28 PM |
LOL at Gwyneth being some one of a kind actress. She's the definition of mediocrity (like a lot of Harvey's output). Nothing terrible but nothing outstanding either. Renee could have done any of her roles, and probably did them better.
FWIW, Alicia Silverstone and Drew Barrymore were the two best young blonde actresses of the nineties. How they got supplanted by GOOP and the Elfin Witherspoon is mystifying.
by Anonymous | reply 237 | May 27, 2018 7:43 PM |
Alicia Silverstone ruined her career by complaining about having to lose weight during that batman flop.
by Anonymous | reply 238 | May 27, 2018 7:57 PM |
[quote]FWIW, Alicia Silverstone and Drew Barrymore were the two best young blonde actresses of the nineties. How they got supplanted by GOOP and the Elfin Witherspoon is mystifying.
Silverstone followed up her breakout role in CLUELESS with a huge studio production deal. The film she produced and starred in for it, EXCESS BAGAGE, was a production and commercial disaster, then she was plump in BATMAN RETURNS.
Sometimes the window for being the Next Hot Thing is very small.
by Anonymous | reply 239 | May 27, 2018 7:58 PM |
[quote] Alicia Silverstone and Drew Barrymore were the two best young blonde actresses of the nineties.
Drew was never best *anything*. She had certain likability about her but that was all it was.
by Anonymous | reply 240 | May 27, 2018 8:02 PM |
How about the actress who accused Harvey of misbehavior and specifically told her she had to "lose weight to compete with someone hot like Mila Kunis."
And Mila hasn't said a WORD about Harvey.
Same with Rooney Mara, oddly enough. Who was also mentioned.
Paltrow was electric at her peak, though she fizzled out. Ripley was an extraordinary performance and deserved best supporting actress; other highlights were Perfect Murder, Royal Tenenbaums, Hard Eight, and was even excellent in Two Lovers.
She's a corny fraud and a woeful human being and narcissist and washed up now, but don't bullshit -- there was a time when Gwyneth was a fantastic fucking actress.
by Anonymous | reply 241 | May 27, 2018 8:05 PM |
Tell me more about Harvey's lawyer, this cod Braffman.
What's his background and also what is his religion?
by Anonymous | reply 242 | May 27, 2018 8:06 PM |
[quote]I've also heard that despite what Weinstein is alleged to have done to her reputation, she really was a diva bitch at the time and that was the real reason [Sorvino] ended up being blacklisted.
Peter Jackson says that Weinstein specifically told him that both Judd and Sorvino were both “nightmares to work with” and shouldn’t be considered. Did she really get a chance to get herself blacklisted on her oown?
by Anonymous | reply 243 | May 27, 2018 8:08 PM |
Gwyneth was a good actress back in the day. I believe her account of Weinstein.
by Anonymous | reply 244 | May 27, 2018 8:13 PM |
[quote]R241 She's a corny fraud and a woeful human being and narcissist and washed up now, but don't bullshit -- there was a time when Gwyneth was a fantastic fucking actress.
I agree. One can't argue with the fact she's a very talented performer.
by Anonymous | reply 245 | May 27, 2018 8:15 PM |
I'm surprised Liv Tyler just sort of faded away. Maybe she made so much money off the LORD OF THE RINGS movies she just took the money and ran.
In STEALING BEAUTY she's about as beautiful as a human can be. (Granted, she was still a teen...and we all looked better then!)
by Anonymous | reply 246 | May 27, 2018 8:21 PM |
Mira was better off resisting Weinstein like she did.
Otherwise she’d have the career Renee has today, which isn’t much.
At least she has her dignity.
by Anonymous | reply 247 | May 27, 2018 8:23 PM |
[quote]Where was all this outrage after Russell called Lily a cunt?
I think part of the difference is people saw that footage, and got that Lily Tomlin was completely unfazed, ridiculed him, and is more than capable of taking anyone like that on.
It was non-traumatic, in that sense.
by Anonymous | reply 248 | May 27, 2018 8:26 PM |
I can’t get over his pure physical ugliness.
by Anonymous | reply 249 | May 27, 2018 8:47 PM |
I agree, r247. Poor Rene seems really damaged from all this.
by Anonymous | reply 250 | May 27, 2018 8:50 PM |
[quote] I can’t get over his pure physical ugliness.
But his checks were the most beautiful things in the world.
by Anonymous | reply 251 | May 27, 2018 8:52 PM |
Didn't Mila's father threaten to kill Weinstein?
by Anonymous | reply 252 | May 27, 2018 8:53 PM |
Why doesn't he shave? Did some actress tell him his 10'o clock shadow was really sexy?
by Anonymous | reply 253 | May 27, 2018 9:03 PM |
Still uglier on the outside.
by Anonymous | reply 254 | May 27, 2018 9:16 PM |
"FWIW, Alicia Silverstone and Drew Barrymore were the two best young blonde actresses of the nineties."
When was Silverstone the best anything? She always sucked as an actress. I like Drew, but she has always been more of a personality than an actress
by Anonymous | reply 255 | May 28, 2018 2:00 AM |
I don't get being difficult in the TV and film biz (or in life, I guess).
I've done extra work on movies and TV shows. You go to set and the clock is running; every second there is lots and lots of money.
There's a saying with extras that being a half hour early to the set is being on time, being on time is being late and being late is unacceptable.
As a friggin' extra I go where they tell me, do what I do and then the scene's over when it's over.
I can't envision being paid BIG bucks to play a part with lines where you come in and act difficult.
by Anonymous | reply 256 | May 28, 2018 2:14 AM |
[quote]Most of the ones he's been accused of physically attacking were young starlets, models and up and comers.
I actually went ahead and read Rose Mc Gowan's book BRAVE, and it was very interesting.
You can think what you will about her now, but when Harvey attacked her, she was poised for a very decent career. It's not like she was going to be the next Liz Taylor, but she was young and beautiful, and talented enough, and had been in a good combination of interesting indie features plus SCREAM.
She had a very abusive dad, and had been an adolescent runaway, and was overcoming a serious loooong eating disorder, and that attack and the industry's coverup of it was a huge emotional setback for her.
I mention the eating disorder because what's particularly sad is at that time she was putting herself in a better place (she'd been staying starved for a crazy boyfriend who helped her off the streets, then became her life) and she was actually making progress now on her own, and in her career....then the Weinstein disaster just blew her apart again.
She doesn't make herself out to be a saint in the book or anything. It's an interesting story. It made me feel a lot of genuine affection for her.
by Anonymous | reply 257 | May 28, 2018 2:37 AM |
And sorry to say all those emotional reasons lessen her credibility. Unstable persons may be preyed upon by people like Weinstein but they also may be more prone to manipulate others and misinterpret events.
Rose may be a pitiable figure but that's not sifficent excuse for her to lie and smear others in her pursuit of Weinstein.
by Anonymous | reply 258 | May 28, 2018 2:53 AM |
Exactly, Rose is a very weak person that let something insignificant like this essentially ruin her life.
Whereas someone like Gwyneth just told him to back off, then had her boyfriend go after him. And then had a successful working relationship with him after that.
Rose is a nut job.
by Anonymous | reply 259 | May 28, 2018 3:00 AM |
I think GOOP was protected. He may have tried something but more likely uncle speilberg got in his face instead of Pitt.
by Anonymous | reply 260 | May 28, 2018 5:51 AM |
[quote]R258 And sorry to say all those emotional reasons lessen her credibility.
Right....because actors are notoriously stable to begin with, and non of them escape dark pasts.
Rich girls from wholesome backgrounds like Streep, Weaver and Paltrow are the exception.
by Anonymous | reply 261 | May 28, 2018 5:56 AM |
Jews have to shit on happiness and destroy hope.
by Anonymous | reply 262 | May 28, 2018 5:57 AM |
This guy never used a condom from reports I've read. what kind of STDs does he have? gross! He must have herpes.
by Anonymous | reply 263 | May 28, 2018 6:04 AM |
r256, what is required of you, as breathing furniture, and what actors and the crew and the production team do are entirely different things.
by Anonymous | reply 264 | May 28, 2018 6:08 AM |
Was Liv Tyler cast by Harvey for LOTR? because it seems so
by Anonymous | reply 265 | May 28, 2018 8:42 AM |
Georgina Chapman, Harvey Weinstein. Halloween at Liv Tyler's House-NY Liv Tyler hosted her annual Halloween party.
by Anonymous | reply 267 | May 28, 2018 8:45 AM |
Why poor Liv? With that role she never had to work again
by Anonymous | reply 269 | May 28, 2018 8:49 AM |
'Insignificant'? What the hell is wrong with you R259? I feel like with people like you there's just a bit missing - a bit where imagination, empathy and intellect overlap to make a real person with a real-person understanding of the world.
by Anonymous | reply 270 | May 28, 2018 10:09 AM |
Harvey looks like he's lost weight. His face is still ugly, though
by Anonymous | reply 271 | June 5, 2018 3:23 PM |
Is he going to wave his dick at women on the grand jury?
by Anonymous | reply 272 | June 5, 2018 3:39 PM |
I've got a feeling he's going to go down over it all. He's widely despised and they'll therefore want to make an example out of him. Also, after Cosby was convicted many people will be comparing how Weinstein will be treated by the justice system.
by Anonymous | reply 273 | June 5, 2018 3:47 PM |
Harvey Weinstein lured me up to his hotel room, too. By the 14th time, I caught on, buddy. He just wanted to use me and degrade me like Steven Spielberg and Barbra Streisand did. Use me and throw me away because they're bitterly jealous of my charm, beauty, and talent. Sad. I hope Rosie McGowan gets justice. I think he molested Sally Struthers and DebraLee Scott, too.
by Anonymous | reply 274 | June 5, 2018 4:00 PM |
What did Harvey mean when he called Rose and said "You're my new special friend. Gwyneth is also my special friend."????
by Anonymous | reply 275 | June 5, 2018 8:21 PM |
[quote] Is he going to wave his dick at women on the grand jury?
If Harvey wants to impress them he should just toss it over his shoulder.
by Anonymous | reply 276 | June 5, 2018 8:47 PM |