Posted on 10/17/2017 9:25:53 AM PDT by walford
Scott Rosenberg, a friend from Miramax’s glory days, says he’s “sorry and ashamed”
Scott Rosenberg, a screenwriter who has worked on Miramax films such as “Beautiful Girls” and “Things to do in Denver When You’re Dead,” has taken to Facebook to voice his opinions on the Harvey Weinstein scandal that has been rocking Hollywood for the past few weeks.
Rosenberg says that he was at Miramax for what he calls the “golden age,” when films like “Pulp Fiction,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “Good Will Hunting” were made and released. He also said that he was young and “sure he had struck gold” by working with the Weinstein brothers, Harvey and Bob.
Now, however, he sees it differently.
“Everybody-f—ing-knew,” he wrote, saying that Harvey Weinstein had “a certain pattern of overly-aggressive behavior that was rather dreadful.”
“We knew about the man’s hunger; his fervor; his appetite. There was nothing secret about this voracious rapacity; like a gluttonous ogre out of the Brothers Grimm,” Rosenberg continued. “All couched in vague promises of potential movie roles.”
“And to me, if Harvey’s behavior is the most reprehensible thing one can imagine, a not-so-distant second is the current flood of sanctimonious denial and condemnation that now crashes upon these shores of rectitude in gloppy tides of bullshit righteousness,” he continued. “Because everybody-f—ing-knew.”
Rosenberg clarified that while the full extent of Weinstein’s misconduct was not known, something “was rotten.”
“Not the rapes. Not the shoving against the wall. Not the potted-plant f—ing”–he and several others did know that “something was bubbling under. Something odious. Something rotten.”
Rosenberg added that at the time, if he had wanted to do something, he would have been at a loss, because most of the accusers did not want to come forward, Weinstein “owned the press” and the internet wasn’t what it is today.
He said that although some actress friends told him horrible stories about Weinstein, he chose to believe it to be “a grotesque display of power; a dude misreading the room and making a lame-if-vile pass.”
He said that he is “sorry and ashamed,” because “in the end, I was complicit.”
“As the old joke goes: We needed the eggs,” he said. “Okay, maybe we didn’t NEED them. But we really, really, really, really LIKED them eggs. So we were willing to overlook what the Golden Goose was up to, in the murky shadows behind the barn … And for that, I am eternally sorry.”
“To all of the women that had to suffer this… I am eternally sorry,” he repeated. “I’ve worked with Mira and Rosanna and Lysette. I’ve known Rose and Ashley and Claire for years… Their courage only hangs a lantern on my shame. And I am eternally sorry to all those who suffered in silence all this time. And have chosen to remain silent today.”
And watch the reporterette’s reaction: raucous laughter.
They all knew Weinstein’s a serial abuser of women, and they all went along for money.
Hollywood’s moral authority to criticize the Western way of life should be destroyed for a generation.
With all this corruption and behind-the-scene subterfuge, you have to wonder if it isn’t the same power plays that are responsible for the sudden disappearance of certain actors. Mel Gibson. James Woods. Kevin Costner. Big names that vanished overnight, at least for a while. Did they refuse to “play ball” with the wrong people?
I love the idea of congressional hearings into corruption in Hollywood. Man, would the roaches scramble!
Hollywood = Demon'rats
Liberalism is not only a mental disorder...it's a disease killing America.
“But that pedophilia against young boys, that never happened” will be the narrative
Except that there are many in the GOP who would fall down too.
EPHESIANS 5:1-4
Carefully determine what pleases the Lord. 11 Take no part in the worthless deeds of evil and darkness; instead, expose them. 12 It is shameful even to talk about the things that ungodly people do in secret. 13 But their evil intentions will be exposed when the light shines on them, 14 for the light makes everything visible. This is why it is said,
“Awake, O sleeper,
rise up from the dead,
and Christ will give you light.”
I think Rosenberg explained it very eloquently and forthrightly....and he is clear about how much shame he will carry around with him for his inaction all those years. I couldn’t have asked for or expected a better statement.
Yeah, sort of like diarrhea.
“Hollywood’s moral authority to criticize the Western way of life should be destroyed for a generation.”
I’ve heard more than one Muslim fundamentalist respond to criticism of how Islam treats their women: “Look at how you treat YOUR women!”
It’s hard to answer that.
“I’ve worked with Mira and Rosanna and Lysette. I’ve known Rose and Ashley and Claire for years… Their courage only hangs a lantern on my shame. And I am eternally sorry to all those who suffered in silence all this time.
"The Press" covers for MANY types of liberal elite crimes... this is one category of many...
All one had to do over the past 20 or even 30 years, as an intelligent observer from the sidelines, is to be aware of the accumulating power in the industry of Miramax, and the ubiquitousness of HARVEY as the one Weinstein bro that was always there for the cameras, and thanked publicly for his invaluable influence, and then LOOK at Harvey and you would have to realize if you had a brain, that THAT Harvey would turn out to be precisely the kind of guy he is now revealed to be. He has been quoted from some of his victims as always manipulating them by reminding them what he had done for their careers,falling back on such time-worn manipulator classics as “I gave you your start!, so PUT OUT!”-—It would’ve been great if any one of the women, had turned it around on him, and said “YOU gave me MY start???! I gave you YOUR start!!!I and many others built YOUR career!”
New respect for Courtney Love.
“This guy is trying to make the world believe that Weinstein was the ONLY creep assaulting girls. He also wants people to look at Weinstein and not the pedophiles.”
I can promise you that the wagons will be circled around any such predators as the accusers, their families and commentators will be smeared as ‘homophobes.’
NAMBLA is still working hard to make men who sexually abuse young boys into a protected demographic, much as the Left has successfully done with homosexuals and ‘transgenders.’
Normalizing perversion while attacking the majority for not accepting it.
They will be pushing a “15 is practically an adult, legal to marry in some countries” narrative.
“New respect for Courtney Love.”
But the fact remains, that all she did was make an off-hand comment during an interview — which could be easily dismissed as idle gossip from a drug-addled bubblehead. She did not press charges. If Weinstein victimized her, she did nothing to prevent him from doing the same to others.
Kate Beckinsale said that he tried to corner her in a hotel room when she was 17. She may have told her friends — and maybe her parents. But apparently that was not enough for this chronic sexual predator to suffer any consequence.
Hence, he spent the next quarter century exposing himself, groping — and intimidating those he saw as vulnerable into service him sexually.
It may not be fair, but every sexual assault victim owes it to the next one to press charges to prevent further atrocities.
Never would I have guessed that THIS guy was a screenwriter.
Of course you do.
Now ask the victims what they think of Rosenberg keeping his mouth shut about these serial predators, then report back.
Sounds like the other 99.9999999% will keep theirs.
Some improvement...
He wasn't the only beast, and the insiders know of all of the others, and they are allowed to play on.
Four!
Get out of our way, we're playing through...
I think a subtle influence on this surge of women speaking out is Leah Remini’s Scientology special. She’s speaking out against a group that is known to use dirty tricks and influence. Add the Hollywood connection and I think actresses who see that are thinking subconsciously “I can speak out, too!”
***These guys hold the keys to fame, fortune, celebrity, and grandeur, a lifestyle people only dream about.***
Years ago, when PORKEY”S was being reviewed by Siskel and Ebert, Siskel wondered why young girls were so proud to show off their nudity in films.
Ebert said that if some girl had qualms about taking off their clothes for a film, there were hundreds of girls waiting in the wings for such an opportunity.
No doubt there are girls just waiting to show directors their “abilities” for movie parts.
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