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We should stop asking friends of these people because ultimately it doesn't matter. It' ends up being a very complicated matter for them but really it just adds more than we need.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 05:44 |
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# ? Apr 25, 2024 18:23 |
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https://twitter.com/AP/status/1087665453021970432 They should have put this piece of poo poo away years ago.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 12:23 |
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Sirotan posted:https://twitter.com/AP/status/1087665453021970432 I don't want to be cynical but I half expect he'll get out again, not go back to France, and his supporters will all 'you r just hater'
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 13:47 |
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I thought France was the country sex-offending creators go TO, not the other way round.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 14:02 |
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I hope they fuckin keep him.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 15:29 |
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Rhyno posted:I hope they fuckin keep him. Keep him in a toilet lol
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 15:39 |
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Coffee And Pie posted:Keep him in a toilet lol douche is french for uh bathing toilette is where you keep your necessaries and Chris Brown deserves scorn and a lot of things has not life punished him enough?
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 15:44 |
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Rami Malek is busy walking the tightrope on Bryan Singer: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-rami-malek-bohemian-rhapsody-oscar-nomination-20190122-story.html quote:Do you have any regrets about working with Bryan Singer? Did you weigh the allegations that were out there about him before signing on? This movie getting nominated for the Oscars is downright pathetic, and if it wins it will go down as one of the worst Oscar winners ever. It's an awful movie through and through. The script is Hollywood boilerplate fanfiction and it's not even shot well. Malek is great in it, but they also give him an absolutely comical set of prosthetic teeth.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 22:35 |
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between that and his weak-rear end response when asked about mercury's sexuality, malek kind of sounds like a coward
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 22:45 |
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If the night ends with Singer holding any kind of gold, the entire academy needs to be fired into the sun.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 22:46 |
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Fart City posted:If the night ends with Singer holding any kind of gold, the entire academy needs to be fired into the sun. He’s not gonna show up to the ceremony, maybe they’ll mail it to him wherever he’s hiding now.
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 22:48 |
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Fart City posted:If the night ends with Singer holding any kind of gold, the entire academy needs to be fired into the sun. That’s when the doors lock and a disembodied voice declares that it has a message for Germany
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 22:50 |
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Pirate Jet posted:He’s not gonna show up to the ceremony, maybe they’ll mail it to him wherever he’s hiding now. Does the Eyes Wide Shut mansion have a P.O. Box?
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# ? Jan 22, 2019 22:54 |
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starkebn posted:It's the same for so many people "I knew him as a friend so I'm willing to let things slide" Another male friend defending him too, to boot. It’s like this guy on reddit, who, in a thread about Harvey Weinstein, said “Well I worked on one of Harvey Weinstein’s movies once and he was cool and brought us crewpeople some pizza. He didn’t seen creepy at all.” It’s like, no poo poo Harvey Weinstein wasn’t going to seem or act creepy towards you, you weren’t a young woman. You weren’t the kind of person the creep targeted. Your interaction with him and if you thought he seemed like a good guy or not means absolutely nothing in the context of the allegations against him; he didn’t act like that to people like you. Ok, that’s veering a little off topic, but Brad Bird’s positive interactions with John Lasseter are just as irrelevant.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 03:34 |
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peer posted:between that and his weak-rear end response when asked about mercury's sexuality, malek kind of sounds like a coward I think it's also how the whole thing works. He could never get another role and hollywood would just role on. He's in a pretty drat vulnerable position.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 04:10 |
Snowman_McK posted:I think it's also how the whole thing works. He could never get another role and hollywood would just role on. He's in a pretty drat vulnerable position. Yeah, he's in the position where he's popular now but easily replaced (especially as a non-white actor approaching 40). If he speaks out too much, it wouldn't take much effort for Hollywood to forget about him. Sodomy Hussein posted:Malek is great in it, but they also give him an absolutely comical set of prosthetic teeth. Actually that's really what Freddie Mercury looked like. His teeth were gigantic. He was just so charismatic and cool that you didn't care. chitoryu12 fucked around with this message at 05:58 on Jan 23, 2019 |
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 05:55 |
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peer posted:between that and his weak-rear end response when asked about mercury's sexuality, malek kind of sounds like a coward i think the guy who a few years ago was the third male lead in a video game might have justifiable career concerns. he should have known better, but still. e: minor note, producers are the ones who get best picture oscars and since singer didn't produce and didn't get nominated for director he has no way of winning an award. bohemian rhapsody has a snowball's chance of winning anyway and was utter trash with the exception of malek's performance, but worth assuaging those concerns.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 07:53 |
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Fun fact, Mercury's weird teeth may have contributed to his voice being so unique.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 08:00 |
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Sucrose posted:It’s like this guy on reddit, who, in a thread about Harvey Weinstein, said “Well I worked on one of Harvey Weinstein’s movies once and he was cool and brought us crewpeople some pizza. He didn’t seen creepy at all.” I refuse to believe this happened. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone say a positive thing about Weinstein’s personality. Like basically anytime I read something about him there was always a part about how much of an rear end in a top hat he is. Not just nowadays, but stuff from years ago too.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 08:03 |
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esperterra posted:Fun fact, Mercury's weird teeth may have contributed to his voice being so unique. ???
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 09:07 |
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Samovar posted:??? Mercury thought if he fixed his teeth his voice would change lmao
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 09:28 |
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Nobody gave a poo poo about Jennefer Grey after the nosejob so Truth.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 10:18 |
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I can kind of buy Malek's excuse to be honest. Not everyone gets clued in to these things (And really, the only people who know the news about Singer are the types posting in this thread, did it even make any sort of news other than the trades?) and the last story about Singer - prior to production - was from 2014 and dismissed like a month later. And I mean there's a lot of steps between Malek and the movie. Between the studio, producers, agencies etc, it's easy to assume that whoever you're working with might be on the up and up. It could just as easily be bullshit, but I don't think it's all that far-fetched.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 10:38 |
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He’s a minor celebrity best known for starring in an acclaimed but not particularly popular TV drama. This was his big break. He’d have taken it if it was Polanski. He wouldn’t have been right but he’d have done it regardless. Few are moral enough to turn down opportunities like that.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 11:01 |
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Dr. S.O. Feelgood posted:I refuse to believe this happened. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone say a positive thing about Weinstein’s personality. Like basically anytime I read something about him there was always a part about how much of an rear end in a top hat he is. Not just nowadays, but stuff from years ago too. I worked with Harvey Weinstein's associate who I've previously called the only true man child I've ever met, as in he was a guy hurling around millions of dollars and tons of power and all I could picture is a giant cartoon baby wetting his pants every 5 minutes and crying. He was one of the dumbest, most clueless motherfuckers I've ever met. Everyone talked horrible poo poo behind his back to me about what a prick the guy was. I watched him verbally insult and threaten the IT guy because he had to call him into his office *several times* because the moron kept picking the wrong size paper to print to and jamming his printer, despite being told over and over. I also got to watch him scream the gently caress out of some celebrities and threaten - literally - that they'd never get a decent job again if they didn't go where he wanted when he wanted. He left a ton of movie scripts out on the desk I got to read (this was around the time I also had to go over the dailies for Cursed, so a long time ago); Final Destination was the only one I think that got made. This was the guy that'd decide to green light a movie or not. It was the moment I truly became spiteful about people like that because literally everyone surrounding the man was smarter, more capable and far more charismatic and he felt like the kind of lout who, in another environment, would be the shithead that gets fired for being too much of a dick at the Wal-Mart. He didn't deserve the power, money, or clout he had, not even a little bit and I can absolutely assure you he was not good at his job. It frustrated me to the point I couldn't keep working there, slaving away hoping to be made permanent. I never got to meet Weinstein directly during my time there, but I did make dinner reservations for the prick with the manbaby I've been ranting about. So yeah, that's a 'what the gently caress' memory. PS: While watching the dailies the people that DID work with Weinstein went off about what a fat loving prick he was for 20 minutes so there's that. Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 12:35 on Jan 23, 2019 |
# ? Jan 23, 2019 12:29 |
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I really don't get the obsession with requiring that all friends and coworkers publicly denounce sex pests. Like yes, of course if you knew something I think you have a responsibility to say something, but beyond that I don't know how we benefit from criticizing people for saying things like it's complicated. (note this is totally different from actually supporting said pests - I think Janeane Garofalo deserves some criticism.)
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 12:43 |
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here’s Esquire’s big Singer expose, except that The Atlantic ended up publishing it instead. It’s good stuff. hope the floodgates open after this https://twitter.com/theatlantic/status/1088046923444031488?s=21
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 13:28 |
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Chris Brown was released without charges
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 14:45 |
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twerking on the railroad posted:Chris Brown was released without charges Ah, good to know his checkbook still works.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 17:43 |
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Barry Convex posted:here’s Esquire’s big Singer expose, except that The Atlantic ended up publishing it instead. It’s good stuff. hope the floodgates open after this Singer released a statement about this story https://twitter.com/adambvary/status/1088113491985092608?s=21
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 18:14 |
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aware of dog posted:Singer released a statement about this story Oh what the gently caress ever. Spacey tried to use his sexuality as a smokescreen too. According to Singer there’s been a homophobic smear campaign raging against him for the better part of two decades, all the while he continued to thrive in Hollywood despite having a habit of walking off set.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 18:19 |
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I remember when Xmen Apocalypse premiered my local cinema had a guy come out just before the movie and quiz the audience on stuff (a fun excuse to do the "please turn off your cellphones " speech in person). Anyways, he finished off by asking us to please try and enjoy the movie despite the director, to which literally no one wondered what the gently caress he was on about. I guess what I'm saying is that Singer is a shitbag and everyone except Hollywood seems to know ir.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 18:22 |
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R. Guyovich posted:i think the guy who a few years ago was the third male lead in a video game might have justifiable career concerns. he should have known better, but still. Singer going down (again) while Bohemian Rhapsody is in contention may cause its campaign to fail out of embarrassment. In any case, it was really obvious watching the movie why Sacha Baron Cohen dropped out.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 18:26 |
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esperterra posted:Mercury thought if he fixed his teeth his voice would change lmao There might have been some truth to it, he had with an extra molar on each side that forced his jaw and windpipe into a weird configuration. He participated in a few studies about the condition from the London School of Medicine.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 19:01 |
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Svensken posted:I remember when Xmen Apocalypse premiered my local cinema had a guy come out just before the movie and quiz the audience on stuff (a fun excuse to do the "please turn off your cellphones " speech in person). I think the lead up to X-Men Apocalypse's release was when these stories first started to hit the mainstream where the public would be aware of them. At least I think that's how I remember the timing of it.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 19:09 |
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FWIW Malek is also between a rock and a hard place because if he goes nuclear on Singer then he will be viewed as the guy who derailed the Oscar campaigns of a bunch of powerful people.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 19:28 |
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Basebf555 posted:I think the lead up to X-Men Apocalypse's release was when these stories first started to hit the mainstream where the public would be aware of them. At least I think that's how I remember the timing of it. I'm pretty sure there were allegations made prior to Days of the Future Past which were in the news. It's a shame because I really like 3 out of the 4 X-Men films he's done and now they feel a bit tainted.
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 19:57 |
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I was compelled to do a Ctrl+F to see if any of this was leaking onto Ian McKellen and was not disappointed.quote:Collins-Rector arranged for Andy and his family to visit the set of Apt Pupil. “They were filming the scene where Ian McKellen’s character puts the cat in the oven,” Andy recalls. “It was really weird, because the cat was the most lethargic thing in the world. So they’re trying to make it seem like he was afraid—picking it up and spinning it around. The cat didn’t do poo poo.” (A source who worked on the movie confirmed this description of the cat’s behavior.) The cat is 2019
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# ? Jan 23, 2019 20:10 |
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Vagabundo posted:I'm pretty sure there were allegations made prior to Days of the Future Past which were in the news. It's a shame because I really like 3 out of the 4 X-Men films he's done and now they feel a bit tainted. Mark Harris on Twitter posted a piece he wrote way back in 97, asking if something happened on the set of APT PUPIL where an extra in a shower scene was forced to go nude. Whatever seems to have happened on THE USUAL SUSPECTS only got talked about recently. He seems to have done this right from the start.
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DrVenkman posted:Mark Harris on Twitter posted a piece he wrote way back in 97, asking if something happened on the set of APT PUPIL where an extra in a shower scene was forced to go nude. Whatever seems to have happened on THE USUAL SUSPECTS only got talked about recently. He seems to have done this right from the start. Is it this article? https://ew.com/article/1997/05/02/indecent-proposal-set-apt-pupil/ So basically, a room full of extras, including boys as young as 14, were asked to strip nude for a shower scene in the movie. This claim was backed up by three of the boys, including the 14 year old. I guess in Singer's uh, defense, he was not actually one of the ones who asked the minors to strip, that was assistant directors Fernando Altschul and Tom DeSantos. The article doesn't specifically say if Singer was on set while this was going on or not. But Singer was the director; if there was a scene calling for a bunch of teenagers to be filmed naked in the showers, he would have been the one to order it. And if you haven't read The Atlantic article yet, the new accuser against Singer, who is not one of the previously mentioned boys, says that he was a 13 year old extra on the set of Apt Pupil and that Singer had him strip down to a towel for a locker-room scene, then led him off to a more private area of the building and molested him.
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