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Just use the CGI Spacey from Call Of Duty: Advanced Warfare and a soundalike. Boom. Problem solved.
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Matt Lauer just got the ax. Can't say this surprises me one bit.
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Nov 29, 2017 13:03
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Nov 29, 2017 13:06
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They fired him after a single complaint and said there was likely to be more. I'd be interested in what makes them say that. I guess I'm just surprised somebody's acting decisively on these things for once.
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Nov 29, 2017 14:17
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Vegetable posted:They fired him after a single complaint and said there was likely to be more. I'd be interested in what makes them say that. I guess I'm just surprised somebody's acting decisively on these things for once. Don't know how credible this is as a news source, but they're claiming he sexually assaulted someone during the Rio Olympics coverage: https://pagesix.com/2017/11/29/matt-lauer-allegedly-sexually-assaulted-female-staffer-during-olympics/ He's always given me this real creepy vibe. The way NBC handled Ann Curry's leaving the Today show and his acrimonious divorce (where his wife described him as "cruel and inhumane") helped to cement that for me. Reading up on him I guess it's been an open secret that he's had affairs with quite a few women at NBC over the years.
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Nov 29, 2017 14:48
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Well, now Garrison Keillor just got fired by Minnesota Public Radio. I know nothing about him beyond general cultural osmosis about Lake Wobegon, so I can't really say if this was expected.
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This certainly puts Lauer's roundly-criticized interview of Hillary Clinton in an even harsher light.
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Nucleic Acids posted:Well, now Garrison Keillor just got fired by Minnesota Public Radio. I know nothing about him beyond general cultural osmosis about Lake Wobegon, so I can't really say if this was expected. I got a free Lake Wobegon audiobook once and all the stories were about sexual discoveries in the glorious days of the fifties or whatever so I'm not massively shocked.
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Keillor's always seemed like a hypocrite and a scumbag to me so good riddance
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Keillor has always been considered a reclusive weirdo, but I've never heard bad stories about him. People usually find the Prairie Home Companion annoying enough by itself.
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From that same Twitter feed, Keillor also literally had an op-ed get published last night defending Al Franken, and MPR has been dealing with these allegations for over a month, which means Keillor what his own situation was.
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dont even fink about it posted:This certainly puts Lauer's roundly-criticized interview of Hillary Clinton in an even harsher light. That's really funny, because it's one of the only non-softball interviews either candidate got. Journalism is debased. Nucleic Acids posted:Well, now Garrison Keillor just got fired by Minnesota Public Radio. I know nothing about him beyond general cultural osmosis about Lake Wobegon, so I can't really say if this was expected. Good, I hope they erase his bullshit from the archives too. gently caress Keillor.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:That's really funny, because it's one of the only non-softball interviews either candidate got. Journalism is debased. Sure, but instead of a substantive interview it was more "BUT YOUR EMAILS" poo poo, while Trump got softballed despite doing his normal absurdist clown routine. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/29/16715478/matt-lauer-today-hillary-clinton-anne-hathaway-interviews Essentially, Matt Lauer being terrible has been an open secret so long that this firing comes decades too late.
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Yeah, I mean, didn't CBS wind up offering a poo poo-ton of money to get Katie Couric to jump because it was known she hated Lauer, and then Curry was basically bullied off the show (presumably because she wouldn't sleep with him), as I recall.
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Timby posted:Yeah, I mean, didn't CBS wind up offering a poo poo-ton of money to get Katie Couric to jump because it was known she hated Lauer, and then Curry was basically bullied off the show (presumably because she wouldn't sleep with him), as I recall. Somehow it was kept out of the press that it was always sex stuff in so many words, but really the breadcrumb trail is everywhere.
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Nov 29, 2017 22:44
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The Lauer investigation had some really creepy reveals, like how he had a goddamn supervillain button on his desk that let him lock the door to his office without getting up. Thus making sure women couldn't escape.
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muscles like this! posted:The Lauer investigation had some really creepy reveals, like how he had a goddamn supervillain button on his desk that let him lock the door to his office without getting up. Thus making sure women couldn't escape. He is Dennis Reynolds in real life
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bobkatt013 posted:He is Dennis Reynolds in real life Because of the implication?
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muscles like this! posted:The Lauer investigation had some really creepy reveals, like how he had a goddamn supervillain button on his desk that let him lock the door to his office without getting up. Thus making sure women couldn't escape. Other way around, I think. He could lock the door so that no one could walk in.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Other way around, I think. He could lock the door so that no one could walk in.
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Sir Kodiak posted:Other way around, I think. He could lock the door so that no one could walk in. So not Dennis Reynolds, Ron Swanson.
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Chili posted:So not Dennis Reynolds, Ron Swanson. No, every higher-up at NBC had the button and it was in case of an active shooter or something similar; Lauer was just misusing his. So Dennis.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:No, every higher-up at NBC had the button and it was in case of an active shooter or something similar; Lauer was just misusing his. So Dennis. I like this better than the other two stories I read about the button: that it was for higher-ups to close the door for normal non-sexual-harassment conversations; or the implication that he had it installed and his office located in a secluded area specifically to trap women.
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I read that button-operated doors were common among NBC brass, but nothing about it being for defense against active shooters besides someone making a guess in the genchat thread. I figured it was a luxury option the contractor upsold the suits into thinking they needed.
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Here's our Geraldo story https://jezebel.com/heres-bette-midler-in-1991-talking-about-geraldo-rivera-1820856435
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https://twitter.com/TheAVClub/status/936761114230181888 Care to speculate?
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Davros1 posted:https://twitter.com/TheAVClub/status/936761114230181888 According to Variety, he didn't show back up to work after Thanksgiving and no one can get in touch with him. That's, uh, not at all troubling.
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He's probably out burying the bodies of his rape victims somewhere.
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Maybe he had some bad stuffing over Thanksgiving
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The Danny Masterson situation seems really eerie to me; the church of scientology is well known for protecting their own...
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That powerful Hollywood guy (Adam Venit) who groped Terry Crews is back at work with a pass, and it looks like Crews' career is over as result for speaking out: https://www.bet.com/celebrities/news/2017/11/30/terry-crews.html Jesus loving Christ. 
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viral spiral posted:Jesus loving Christ. Edit: one where no one will bitch in the thread if you dare to say that the show is poo poo. Toplowtech fucked around with this message at 21:13 on Dec 2, 2017 |
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Yeah, WME is basically the agency (CAA is still up there, but it's no longer the super-agency that it was with Michael Ovitz at the helm). They can and do make and break careers.
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viral spiral posted:That powerful Hollywood guy (Adam Venit) who groped Terry Crews is back at work with a pass, and it looks like Crews' career is over as result for speaking out: https://www.bet.com/celebrities/news/2017/11/30/terry-crews.html I'm not seeing what in the article suggests his career is over. Granted Brooklyn 99 will probably end soonish and then we'll have to see.
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Maxwell Lord posted:I'm not seeing what in the article suggests his career is over. Granted Brooklyn 99 will probably end soonish and then we'll have to see. Beyond "soonish," I'd say it's probably over after this season. It was on the bubble after this past season (especially because Fox doesn't own it, which is now one of their huge criteria for renewals) and it's now at the point that no one's watching it despite being as good as ever.
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Timby posted:Beyond "soonish," I'd say it's probably over after this season. It was on the bubble after this past season (especially because Fox doesn't own it, which is now one of their huge criteria for renewals) and it's now at the point that no one's watching it despite being as good as ever. WHAT!? But I watch all of it as soon as it's on Canadian Netflix!?
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Timby posted:Beyond "soonish," I'd say it's probably over after this season. It was on the bubble after this past season (especially because Fox doesn't own it, which is now one of their huge criteria for renewals) and it's now at the point that no one's watching it despite being as good as ever. Netflix effect? They gonna launch their own service? Also what kind of dummy grabs a big buff straight black man's junk?
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