Posted on 10/09/2017 9:20:53 AM PDT by drewh
Hollywood is full of Weinsteins, men whose erotic imaginations are fueled primarily by humiliation, who glut their sensibilities with the most exquisite refinements of shame. A journalist once told me about visiting another very famous Hollywood producer—you’d know the name—who exhibited for my friend his collection of photographs of famous female actresses—you’d know their names, too—performing sexual acts for his private viewing.
As with Weinstein, this man’s chief thrill was humiliation, and the more famous the target the more roundly it was savored: Even her, a big star—these people will do anything to land a role; they’re so awful, they’ll even do it for me!
One of the refrains you hear today is that they’d known about Weinstein’s transgressions for a long time. The problem, they say, was that no one was able to nail down the story.
Nonsense. Everyone had it, not just Waxman. Sure, reporters hadn’t been able to get any stars to go on the record. But that means the story journalists were pursuing wasn’t really about Weinstein’s sexual depredations. It means that what they wanted was a story about actresses, junior executives, or assistants who had been humiliated, possibly raped, and chose to remain quiet in exchange for money and/or a shot at fame.
Of course no one was going to get that on the record—very few journalists would even want to publish a story like that. But journalists always had the actual story of how a Hollywood producer humiliated and sexually assaulted women.
The real issue, as Traister notes, was that “there were so many journalists on his payroll, working as consultants on movie projects, or as screenwriters, or for his magazine.”
Or, to put it another way: More than 20 people in one magazine office alone all had the story about Harvey Weinstein’s “mistreatment” of women.
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Of course it’s important....*very* important.That’s true because Harvey Weinstein is symbolic of showbiz.He *is* showbiz.
Not unlike the Bill and Monica saga....
Because he controlled one of the most powerful distribution networks in Hollywood, in many ways he was more powerful than people like Lucas, Spielberg, or many studio heads.
If you can control what gets to the theaters, you control the product. Period.
Wasn’t he the executive who saw a lowly subordinate employee in the lobby of a hotel and then ordered one of his guards to bring her to his room?
And once she was there he exposed himself and told her to kiss his male member?
And when she sued later him for sexual harassment, the entire Democrat media rallied behind....him?
Even after he perjured himself during sworn testimony at a deposition?
My question is how many MEN did Weinstein abuse?
When’s that going to come out?
Just saw a headline that states Matt ‘dummy’ Damon and Russell Crowe both worked to keep this story hidden.
It’s my prayer that this is the crack that blows the cover on ALL the vile anti American pigs that invest media.
Tee hee hee. All those hilarious little quips about the cliché casting couch! SOOOOOO FUNNY!!! /sarc
(I want to know who knew what and when they knew it!)
I’ve assumed there was a “casting couch” in lots of offices in Hollywood since I was a young guy in the early 70’s.
It’s just taken this long for it to be more than just one of those background assumptions that you can never nail down to one person or act.
Correct. It’s also why hundreds of GOOD movies never get made-—because they can’t get a distribution deal with pervs like WhineStain.
I didn't want to find out the details.
Or how many children he abused...let’s not forget that pedophilia is a cornerstone of democrats and homosexuals.
So what did Malia Obama have to do to get her “internship” at Weinstein’s company, and why are her “parents” not outraged?
This is what is required of Democrats and their acolytes, until the pervs get caught. Then they feign outrage.
And these fools think they are better than us.
#stoppottedplantsexualabuse...
Weinstein sounds a lot like Harry Cohn, the producer who was known as “a son-of-a-bitch’s son-of-a-bitch”.
This reminds me of Cosby, and the things he was up to. It also reminds me of Bill Clinton. The charges women would make were so outlandish, everyone dismissed them.
That’s a powerful card to play, and Clinton used it all the time. He’d even bring out his accomplice in crime Hillary, to render their claims worthless.
If women had any idea how much Bill and Hillary denigrated women...
In a way though, female voters for Clinton were willing to excuse him and Hillary anything just to get them elected.
Good grief!
Do we accept this behavior or not? Look at Weiner. How long did it take to get him off the computer with minors.
no comment from Gwyneth Paltrow, Wynona Ryder, Gretchen Mol etc...nobodies who suddenly became Miramax ‘stars’ overnight
Jon Peters possibly?
Who is at fault the prostitute or the John?
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