Haven’t seen a thread on this, so thought I’d make one. Seems to be (along with the Cosby case) as big as saville and yew tree over in Hollywood. Known for years this guy was an arrogant pos, now he’s a rapist pos. he’s even openly admitted to hurting people. Hollywood celebs are slowly coming out of the woodwork to condemn him after he was thrown out of his own company earlier by his own brother (who was rumoured to be the ny times leak last week).
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The board of representatives issued the following statement: ”In light of new information about misconduct by Harvey Weinstein that has emerged in the past few days, the directors of The Weinstein Company - Robert Weinstein, Lance Maerov, Richard Koenigsberg and Tarak Ben Ammar - have determined, and have informed Harvey Weinstein, that his employment with The Weinstein Company is terminated, effective immediately.”
According to reports Weinstein flew from New York to Los Angeles and fought hard to stay during a heated meeting with a depleted all-male board after several members quit late last week. When he refused to explore a number of options presented to him, the board felt they had no alternative but to terminate his position.
There have been new complaints to emerge since devastating allegations of sexual harassment surfaced in an article in The New York Times that everybody is talking about in Hollywood.
Writing in The Sunday Times, UK freelance script reader Liza Campbell claimed Weinstein invited her to join him in the bath at a meeting in his room at the Savoy in London in 1995 when he ran Miramax. Representatives for TWC declined to comment to Screen.
This follows an allegation by former local cable news anchor Lauren Sivan in The Huffington Post that Weinstein cornered her in a private area of New York restaurant Cafe Socialista ten years ago and, she claims, masturbated in front of her. The allegation is one of several against Weinstein that have gone public since last Thursday.
TWC chaos
The firing follows a chaotic few days for TWC after Lisa Bloom, the attorney whose work for Harvey Weinstein drew the ire of her own mother and renowned lawyer Gloria Allred, quit as the embattled film mogul’s advisor.
Bloom’s departure came as Weinstein had begun an “indefinite leave of absence”, before his position at the company was terminated. Bloom, a renowned women’s rights advocate who played a role in the ousting of former Fox News presenter Bill O’Reilly, announced the move on Twitter on Saturday.
“I have resigned as an advisor to Harvey Weinstein,” Bloom wrote. “My understanding is that Mr. Weinstein and his board are moving toward an agreement.” The nature of that agreement was unclear at time of writing.
When Thursday’s article broke, Bloom initially said Weinstein denied many of the accusations as “patently false.” At the time she had described her former client as “an old dinosaur learning new ways” and said he had instructed her to review the company’s policies and practices towards women in the workplace.
Her work with Weinstein had also enraged celebrities, among them the actress Rose McGowan, who has been particularly vocal in her commentary on Twitter.
On Saturday US president Donald Trump weighed in on the scandal, telling reporters he was “not at all surprised” by the sexual harassment allegations against the film mogul. The dig came after Weinstein had issued a statement to the Times in which he spoke of channelling his anger issues into anti-NRA [National Rifle Association] activities and alluded to a joint retirement party for the organisation’s head Wayne LaPierre and the president.
Following a board meeting last Friday, TWC co-chairman Bob Weinstein and president and COO David Glasser assumed the reins. The board has instructed an investigation into the allegations of sexual harassment levelled against Weinstein in the Times article. It was unclear at time of writing whether that probe or the emergence of new public complaints triggered the firing on Sunday.
The scandal has become an embarassment to the Democratic Party. Weinstein has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to the cause and raised millions more through fundraisers, becoming close with former secretary of state and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, among others.
Senators including Senate minority leader Charles Schumer said they would give the donations to groups working with victims of sexual abuse. The Republican National Committee has called on the Democrats to return the donations.
Jodi Kantor, one of the two Times reporters who broke the story that has engulfed Hollywood, claimed that Lanny Davis, a member of Weinstein’s crisis management team and a former special counsel to US president Bill Clinton, was also departing.
Pretty sure there are a number of squeaky bums in Hollywood right now
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/weinstein-sexual-harassment-allegation_us_59d7ea3de4b046f5ad984211
Who do you think you are - a teacher? Are you going to mark our contributions?
How’s he being pompous for gods sake?
And this is not to say I don't think this kind of thing is not happening. Quite the opposite. I just don't know that it's so common as to be blase about it (and of course we should never be blase about sexual assault).
What I'm wondering is if you're confusing sex scandal and abuse scandal. Two adults having consentual sex is very, very, very different from someone using their power and sexually harassing and assaulting people over a number of years/decades.
To be honest, I learned to ignore it decades back.
Hollywood has a history of child exploitation that dates back to the early days and the studio system. MGM's treatment of Judy Garland for instance is a horrifying example of how wicked things could get.
Rose MacGowan has been pretty blunt on the subject of Harvey Weinstein for some time. She very rightly criticised the women of Hollywood for not speaking up about him, and I'm appalled at the quotes from the likes of Streep and Dench, saying they knew nothing. I don't believe them for one moment, and they should be ashamed of themselves for trying to squirm out of it.
Harvey could make or break careers. Not only did he abuse that, he has been consumed by it. The stories so far released speak to a man who felt he had an absolute right to do as he pleased. It's a culture for him, and I believe many others at a variety of levels.
While this may be the tip of the iceberg, I don't think we'll ever hear the true extent of what really goes on in Hollywood. Corey Feldman seems pretty sincere when he talks about how he and Corey Haim were mistreated (their argument on this subject in the otherwise-trash reality TV show, The Two Coreys, is heartbreaking), and Elijah Wood, not one to court controversy, said there's a darkness in the industry that nobody outside of it sees. I've heard a few unrepeatable stories, with one director's behaviour so reprehensible, I no longer watch any of his films!
But completely agree regarding child exploitation, regarding blatant sexism, racism, people in power using that power exploitatively, this list could go on for quite some time.
There is one point I don't necessarily agree with, and that's the idea of blaming women for not speaking up (be they victims or just women in general). The person who should be blamed here is Harvey Weinstein. If anyone helped to cover up these allegations, then they should be blamed too. But I think it's wrong that oftentimes people default to "women should have spoken up." Anyone who knew should have spoken up. But that should not deflect blame away from the person who committed these acts (potentially crimes).
Amber Tamblyn had a really good piece on her experience with speaking up against sexual harassment in Hollywood, and how it was dismissed out of hand.
Amber Tamblyn: I’m Done With Not Being Believed
https://nyti.ms/2jyKw9a
A huge number of actors and ctresses would have been aware, and would have feared for their careers had they breathed a word, and nobody can blame them for that, that was how Harvey Weinstein operated. But Streep is a different case entirely. She's arguably one of the most powerful actresses in the history of Hollywood, who once called Weinstein her "god", so I find it insulting to suggest she had no clue what he was like.
I think the likes of Ashley Judd and MacGowan were ostracised from Hollywood, and not given any support by the people now claiming to be in shock at the revelations. If Streep hadn't said anything I probably wouldn't pick on her, but by releasing a statement a day after the revelations, I think she's put herself in the mix.