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Firing him late is better than not firing him, isn’t it? There are plenty of good directors who haven’t made awful and crass jokes publicly. That Disney is a pile of hypocrites isn’t all that surprising. I wouldn’t be surprised if he was fired for contract negotiation reasons with this as cover, but either way I’m not losing sleep over this firing.
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Darko posted:I'm not a Faraci fan at all, but given the quality of that, maybe he's changed from when i last read him and I should give him a chance. The guy who got fired for sexual assault and then “found Buddhism” and came back? Forgive me if I take his ‘People like me should be forgiven’ article as slightly biased.
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Jul 23, 2018 15:28
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Yeah, that's basically it. You were great at comedy, but you abused the hell out of your power for sexual purposes. Find a new career! Unfortunately that's not the way society works, but it loving should.
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Aug 29, 2018 15:42
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I can believe that Black didn't know the full details. But, seriously, gently caress that guy. He basically denies anything happened and then claims to have accepted responsibility for it? Acting is a public profession that brings with it power and fame. Go work a regular job.
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Sep 6, 2018 22:15
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chitoryu12 posted:A movie that, according to the reviews, was pretty average and got most of Freddie Mercury's story wrong for the sake of creating a dramatic film narrative anyway. There's no way that decision wasn't something made behind the scenes, likely with dollars or favors exchanging hands. Ehhh, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association is weird and makes weird off-the-wall choices all of the time. All this probably means is that Rami Malek agreed to do go to all of the meals with members they have and was very charming.
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Jan 7, 2019 23:21
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quote:So now because Louis CK did a few bad jokes + we know he "is bad," Nah, dude, we know he’s bad because he masturbated in front of women in situations where actual consent wasn’t possible, and then slandered any of them who spoke out about it. His jokes don’t loving matter. You guys should hear Cosby’s new set it’s hilarious!
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Jan 14, 2019 16:31
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quote:Then he made a joke about a porn star’s rear end in a top hat, and concluded that the world needs porn because it somehow keeps men from molesting their colleagues at work. I feel like if it did this whole situation wouldn’t have happened.
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Jan 18, 2019 00:58
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chitoryu12 posted:I'm now starting to wonder if he's facing actual threats over the potential of him blowing the whistle. Nah, just enough negative publicity and backlash from his initial answers that his PR people made him say some stronger things.
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Feb 3, 2019 15:45
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Aziz had a pretty thoughtful initial response, I thought. Did he ever actually apologize? That's a pretty good joke though.
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Feb 12, 2019 21:15
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kaworu posted:That's so loving horrible. If anything, it shows that he had a guilty conscience and knew precisely how awful and wrong what he was doing was - wearing a disguise and appearing incredibly nervous on that particular shopping trip. Jesus. I don’t really buy that. I mean he really was super famous and probably would have to wear a disguise to not get mobbed. And he always seemed nervous. The way both reports just gloss over ‘shopping with a 12 year old friend’ as if that’s totally a normal thing for adults to do is pretty crazy.
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Mar 14, 2019 13:32
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“Designed her basement storage to look like a mall” is waaaay less cool than “has private mall”.
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Mar 23, 2019 14:25
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Samuel Clemens posted:Once again, reality proves to be a real downer. There’s a certain level of crazy respect I would have for a celebrity willing to pay a franchise fee and employees for a bunch of mall stores. Especially if they made it mall-accurate. Oh, yeah, that’s the Claire’s. I don’t shop there but I think my daughter will like it when she’s older.
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Mar 23, 2019 18:35
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Tart Kitty posted:DO IT WITH THE SOUTHIE ACCENTS COWARDS Oh god I can't wait to hear their loving accents for this trainwreck.
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Jul 23, 2019 17:46
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Drunkboxer posted:Not to get all conspiracy theorist in here but I doubt that was a suicide attempt. I mean he has to have some sort of failsafes in place, right? Or he'd be dead 1000 times over already.
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Jul 25, 2019 18:43
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A just punishment would ban him from any influence or power in the comedy community forever. He had one chance to do comedy. He hosed it up. He can't do comedy any more. It doesn't really matter what we think should happen, because what has happened is literally nothing. Am I supposed to feel bad about him losing 50-80 million? I feel bad that I spent money and time on his specials and performances and he was using that acquired clout and power to abuse people who trusted him.
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Sep 22, 2019 15:45
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I don't particularly like supporting people who turn out to be monsters, so yeah, I feel guilty about supporting him. That's mostly my Lutheran upbringing speaking, probably. We feel guilty about everything.
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Sep 22, 2019 16:01
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Bust Rodd posted:I really don’t understand the logic behind this at all. There is no court or ruling comedy hierarchy. What you’re proposing as Just sounds like nonsense. One chance? Why? Because he serially molested people. He hasn't had one chance he had lots of chances to not go up to up and coming women in comedy and do what he did. He had tons of chances to not send his manager to make sure the stories stayed quiet. You know how loving easy it is to not molest people? It's pretty loving easy. I said it wasn't a realistic punishment, but comedy is a hardscrabble career that talented people fail at all the time. What has he done to deserve a second chance? Not even a second chance but re-emerging from a vacation to go right back to headlining.
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Sep 22, 2019 16:42
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Bust Rodd posted:I think it’s important to point out also that when we say “Louis lost 35-40-50 million dollars” were also saying everyone who worked for Louis, his production company, his writers, his actors, his production managers, his set designers, and all the people who depended on him lost their jobs and immediately had to find to new work” Oh gently caress off with this disingenuous bullshit.
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Sep 22, 2019 17:03
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teacup posted:Now why don’t we start with both reform of the justice system to be more fair on this people and also on societies expectations on feeling sorry for this mans life being “cancelled” due to a poor decision on drugs, why don’t we start with this type of person. Because, unless I'm directly related to or friends with that person, odds are I have no idea who they are. But due to fame everyone has heard of Louis CK and lots of people liked him, so we have a personal connection to his crimes. It's possible to be upset about the miscarriage of justice on both levels, but this thread isn't the place for that.
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Sep 22, 2019 19:06
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Vintersorg posted:Glad to see some people keep their Excel sheets updated with the bad posts. You don't need an Excel spreadsheet you can just click the '?' under Bust Rodd's name.
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Sep 24, 2019 14:56
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Bust Rodd posted:My understanding from staff meetings and working within the city that he made several large anonymous donations early in his career and then once he started his production company in earnest and began to have shareholders and investors he switched to “real” donations for tax purposes, but I was never an accountant, I was an educator taking notes during meetings. Oh ok I guess he can use gay slurs then. That seems very generous of him do you think he should get a 'free rape' pass too?
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Sep 26, 2019 18:00
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Origami Dali posted:I don't give a poo poo about Hart or any other dumbass who says dumb poo poo, but what in the hell are these garbage responses supposed to be? Dude was answering a question. He didn't really answer the question, unless you accept those paragraphs as 'No, I don't have a source for him donating $50 million'. Despite Bust Rodd's efforts this isn't really the place to talk about the wonderful good works of slur-users or graventy fucked around with this message at 21:46 on Sep 26, 2019 |
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Sep 26, 2019 21:24
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Both Melissa McCarthy and Rebel Wilson can be very funny and it is disappointing that so much of the jokes they do revolve around how gross and fat they are.
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Dec 31, 2019 19:37
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I thought Bombshell was very good but half of the movie is harassment, which is hard to watch. Not a movie you can really recommend to people.
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Jan 10, 2020 17:03
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John Wick of Dogs posted:The Democrats including Gillibrand probably would have swept it under the rug except there was a special Senate election in Alabama against a republican accused of the same thing against teenagers, and Republicans were trying to both sides it, so Democrats wanted to set an example Quite frankly, I'm glad. Franken was a great senator for my state and arguably would be the presidential candidate now, but he should not get away with that bullshit. And I liked that democrats were taking a pretty strong no tolerance policy. *sigh* Not that it matters I'm sure he's going to worm his way back too. Coffee And Pie posted:Yeah from what I remember a big part of it was that Frankenstein took a picture pretending to grope the breasts of a sleeping female soldier. I think a lot of people saw it as him being made an example of so dems couldn’t be accused of covering for their own while condemning exposed republicans This was the part that got the most publicity, but there were other things that were done. And, a man in his 50/60s should know drat well better than to pretend grope someone for a photo.
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May 20, 2020 18:20
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Groovelord Neato posted:I will never understand these people with unlimited money deciding to spend their time like a NEET posting all day. Livin' the dream, man. I dunno I mean she's famous enough that she probably gets recognized everywhere, and rich enough to fear for her safety. Plus, what should she be doing? Travel? Now?
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Jun 11, 2020 18:01
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If anything maybe it will force them to take back more Oscars from abusers. hahahahhahahah *sigh*
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Aug 25, 2020 23:01
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Part of the problem is that people are loving dumb. If you have a slavery movie that does not show the brutality and inhumanity of slavery, just puts it offscreen or something, people will see the movie and proudly proclaim how not bad slavery is. I don't really think it's possible to have an effective movie about how society is teaching young girls that they are sex objects without some gross objectification. If it doesn't feel gross people are just going to "I had barbies when I was a kid what's the big deal" pooh-pooh it away. The message of the movie isn't "hey look at these hot tweens dancing" it's "These are YOUNG GIRLS who chose to act this way because society told them that's how girls are supposed to be and that's wrong". I'm not going to watch that clip because it's entirely without context. I will watch the movie, to see how it handles things.
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Sep 11, 2020 16:37
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Pasketti posted:But it really loving sucks that to make that statement, actual real life children had to do that dance routine, likely hundreds of times to get it just right, in front of probably a hundred actors and film crew members. over and over. and have it recorded and available for anyone to see. over and over, forever. It's a dance routine. Similar dance routines probably happen all over the world on a daily basis, and no one really bats an eye. My sister was in a group 30 years ago that did similar stuff. Not as overtly sexual, but, it was still leotards and pop music and no one batted an eye. I highly doubt anyone was left traumatized by performing a dance with friends in a movie. Pasketti posted:Best case scenario, it fucks over their ability to get "normal" acting roles in the future, they get harassed on social media, and all of their interview question forever are tied to the controversy of the movie. Best case scenario? Oh come on.
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Sep 11, 2020 19:03
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Almost no one was actually 'cancelled' for #metoo, so why get so worked up about the one false accusation?
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Oct 16, 2020 20:55
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JnnyThndrs posted:Al Franken got MeToo’d as well. He's also on his way back, just as a op ed commentator now, but I wouldn't be that surprised if he couldn't win again as a Senator. It angers me a lot how little empathy people have for victims.
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Oct 19, 2020 21:03
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It's not a good look for men to flirt with barely legal teens. But that's all he did. This really doesn't belong in this thread. This probably kills the app. If I was a 19-year-old famous enough to get on the celebrity dating app there's no loving way I would limit the ages. I'm swiping right on every drat face I recognize so I can talk at parties about how <random celebrity> likes my eyes or whatever.
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May 8, 2021 17:39
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Desperado Bones posted:I'm sorry for not being neutral, but it's loving disgusting what is happening. Why be neutral it's gross as hell! That recent Britney Spears documentary did a really great job of pointing out 1. how incredibly weird and awful her conservatorship is, and 2. how incredibly weird and awful the media treated her in the 90s/00s.
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Jun 24, 2021 03:44
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Desperado Bones posted:If I remember correctly, she had the mental breakdown out of stress, was forced to go and check in a hospital and while she was staying there her dad hurried up, got a his lawyer and worked on getting the conservatorship. She had zero chances to speak out against it or to prove that she was able to fend by herself. They also used the excuse that they were worried she was on drugs and an alcoholic. They also pretty much said “If you ever want to see your kids again, you have to agree to this.” It’s disgusting.
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Jun 25, 2021 12:11
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It's super cool that I can basically bribe a prosecutor to agree not to charge me and then I can never be charged for that crime. That's the only message I'm taking from this.
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Jun 30, 2021 22:57
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Skwirl posted:Bill Cosby is a monster, but I don't think the solution is making cops and prosecutors less accountable for their actions when they also violate the law. Oh? Will the prosecutor be charged for this incredible misconduct?
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Jun 30, 2021 23:22
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Goddamn my favorite part of this thread sure is when assholes come in here to defend pieces of poo poo. I sure do love it.
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Oct 14, 2021 15:49
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I thought this was a pretty good summary of the case:Megillah Gorilla posted:Yeah, if you make the small leap that it was racist cops looking to gently caress someone over during the height of Trump fever, it all falls into place. The CPD are an incredibly corrupt batch of assholes and siding with them anywhere is a bad idea.
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Yeah, sorry, I only brought up the summary because this thread was starting to do that “maybe it is the victims who are wrong” thing again and it pisses me off.
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pentyne posted:Please shut the gently caress up about Hassan in the sexual assault thread. For gently caress's sake, please.
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