And, ugh, the comments on the NYT piece are just making me despair. People ranting about hypocritical democrats, cowardly women, selfish Hollywood people who will do anything for fame and approval. Sometimes I deeply fucking hate humans.
The Bay City Rollers, now that's music.
Giles ,'Sleeper'
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JZ - Oct 10, 2017 10:08:25 am PDT #1043 of 3463
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Vonnie K - Oct 10, 2017 10:21:39 am PDT #1044 of 3463
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
The victim blaming going around makes me want to vomit. The New Yorker article meticulously lays out why it was almost impossible for any of the women involved to come forth until now. It's heartbreaking how many of the survivors of the assault and victims of harassment were forced make nice and work with the scumbag, sometimes for years afterward, with resultant shame and self-loathing. And how many just left the industry, their dreams broken.
Dana - Oct 10, 2017 11:13:51 am PDT #1045 of 3463
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Such bullshit. Fuck him, and fuck anyone who had the power to affect this, and kept quiet. I don't mean people like the women he abused or employees who were forced to be complicit. I mean Matt fucking Damon.
Zenkitty - Oct 10, 2017 11:14:13 am PDT #1046 of 3463
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
Anytime someone says "Well, why didn't she just-" I want to step on their foot so they choke on the rest of that sentence. It's so arrogant and hard-hearted.
Steph L. - Oct 10, 2017 11:25:13 am PDT #1047 of 3463
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Anytime someone says "Well, why didn't she just-"
Goddamn that Donna Karan. What the shit, lady.
Jesse - Oct 10, 2017 2:01:20 pm PDT #1048 of 3463
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Holy crap this Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment expose in The New Yorker: [link]
And I just noticed it's by Ronan Farrow, which is an extra bit of something.
Vonnie K - Oct 13, 2017 11:03:53 am PDT #1049 of 3463
Kiss me, my girl, before I'm sick.
Went to see Stronger in theater last night before it left the multiplex, the real life story about Jeff Bauman who lost his legs at the Boston Marathon bombing, mostly because Tatiana Maslany plays his girlfriend and I wanted to do my part to support her having a film career. Surprisingly solid film, with minimal mawkishness! Jake Gyllenhaal plays the lead and he is excellent. Maslany is also great, no surprise there.
Annoyingly, there were TWO movies headlined by Miles Teller shown during Coming Attraction, playing a solider and a firefighter, respectively, that struck me as uncomfortably right wing politically. Heroic white dudes with traditionally manly occupations doing heroic white dude stuff, sometimes with PTSD, set to inspiration music, etc. I mean, the solider one was apparently made by the people who did American Sniper so while I am a bit oversensitive these days, I don't think I'm that far off the mark. Both trailers made me cringe. Although that might partly be because Miles Teller has the most punchable face in the industry.
Matt the Bruins fan - Oct 13, 2017 6:43:20 pm PDT #1050 of 3463
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
I thought the Josh Brolin firefighter movie looked interesting right up to the moment the trailer revealed it stars Teller. Maybe I'll catch it on cable in a few years so I can record it and fast forward through all his lines.
DavidS - Oct 13, 2017 7:32:17 pm PDT #1051 of 3463
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So Miles Teller has a Do Not Watch notice on in his chart.
I don't know him enough to care but I have made a personal commitment to never watching anything with Kevin James in it.
Who is on everybody else's Do Not Watch list?
[goes ahead and puts Connie down for Julia Roberts]
Connie Neil - Oct 13, 2017 7:47:39 pm PDT #1052 of 3463
brillig
[goes ahead and puts Connie down for Julia Roberts]
It's a fair cop. And who I first thought of.