Skwirl posted:

Yeah, he actually apologized and faced consequences.

Zogo posted:

Female MMA fighter attacks man who allegedly exposed himself to her on the beach
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/female-mma-fighter-attacks-man-allegedly-exposed-beach-135727447.html

TheHeadSage posted:

Sets a good precedent for the ProJared case.

Snowglobe of Doom posted:

Macdeo Lurjtux posted:

I saw a trailer for Anna in front of the new John Wick. They used the “From the Director of Lucy and the Professional” without ever mentioning Luc Besson by name, I wonder why.

Krankenstyle posted:

He and Joss Whedon should get together some time, see what happens

Tim Minnear posted:

[Inara] had this magic syringe. She would take this drug. And if she were, for instance, raped, the rapist would die a horrible death. The story was that she gets kidnapped by Reavers and when Mal finally got to the ship to save her from the Reavers, he gets on the Reaver ship and all the Reavers are dead. Which would suggest a kind of really bad assault. At the end of the episode, he comes in after she's been horribly brutalized, and he comes in and he gets down on his knee, and he takes her hand. And he treats her like a lady. And that's the kind of stuff that we wanted to do. It was very dark. And this was actually the first story that Joss pitched to me when he asked me to come work on the show. He said, 'These are the kind of stories we're going to do.'

Doctor Spaceman posted:

Also

AceOfFlames posted:

BTW, dunno if this is old news, but apparently Lorne Michaels at one point tried to pimp out Chris Kattan to get a female director for Night at the Roxbury:

https://news.avclub.com/chris-kattans-got-a-disturbing-story-about-lorne-michae-1835065317

https://twitter.com/sasimons/status/1132695376694091777

If you want a sobering look at how sexual assault/coercion for male victims is still looked at, just check out the comments on that AVClub article. Most are variations on "Yeah, as if ANYONE would want to gently caress Chris Kattan"

Sucrose posted:

Apparently this person was bitten by a dog though?

Edit: It was apparently Mark Harmon’s dog. Mark Harmon himself did not tear up someone’s face.

chitoryu12 posted:

https://twitter.com/rimonima/status/1140459466845876224

Sodomy Hussein posted:

Because all the sex pest comedians, which at the end of the day is a lot of them, possibly even most, have nothing but their solidarity to protect them

thrawn527 posted:

https://twitter.com/MaraWilson/status/1141058428900536320

Chris James 2 posted:

Alan Smithee posted:

yeah, sorry for the derail

back to landis

I didn't even realize how lovely John Landis was on a personal level (I mean I'm not surprised when you let kids die like that)

This old Playboy interview with Eddie Murphy of all people is pretty wild
http://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/john-landis-feud-with-eddie-murphy-over-twilight-zone-movie-deaths.php

some choice quotes




everyone says like father like son but more than they know

Timeless Appeal posted:

It is really, really important that nobody explain to Trump what deep fakes are

bad day posted:

I'm having trouble parsing this sentence. What really blew me away when learning the nuts & bolts of nuclear technology and solar towers and stuff is they're basically just glorified steam engines. We have photovoltaic cells and everything but the most efficient way of generating power is still just making water hot and using it to turn stuff, for the most part.

So if digital power was actually a thing that existed, steam power would probably still be better.

Nevertheless Trump is an awful man who constantly says embarassing and stupid things.

Trump posted:

I said, “You don’t use steam anymore for catapult?” “No sir.” I said, “Ah, how is it working?” “Sir, not good. Not good. Doesn’t have the power. You know the steam is just brutal. You see that sucker going and steam’s going all over the place, there’s planes thrown in the air.”

It sounded bad to me. Digital. They have digital. What is digital? And it’s very complicated, you have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out. And I said—and now they want to buy more aircraft carriers. I said, “What system are you going to be—” “Sir, we’re staying with digital.” I said, “No you’re not. You going to goddamned steam, the digital costs hundreds of millions of dollars more money and it’s no good.”

GrandpaPants posted:

Because people don't like to realize that they're bigots because they find bigoted jokes funny.

Davros1 posted:

Brian Regan works clean and he's loving hilarious. I wouldn't say John Mulaney is a vulgar comedian either. Jim Gaffigan too.

Bust Rodd posted:

Just, as a thought experiment, can anyone name a single big name female comedian who works clean? Like I feel like Tig Notaro is the only one currently working, I can't think a single other working woman in comedy who doesn't have a large body of gross or extremely sexual material. Maybe Hannah Gadsby?

Also if working clean is so easy, then why are there only like 3 clean comedians (Brian Regan, Jim Gaffigan, ?) and every other comedian swears?

Finally, food for thought: Bill Cosby was famously super clean and in fact dedicated the daytime parts of his life to rallying against that type of material and chiding other comedians for being dirty.

GrandpaPants posted:

Big is pretty subjective, but Paula Poundstone's act always seemed pretty clean.

DC Murderverse posted:

i read this and now you all have to suffer too

aware of dog posted:

https://twitter.com/ap/status/1151591700487430146?s=21

Vagabundo posted:

If we're talking plain ol' garden-variety assault, did you feel the same way about Richard Spencer being fed a knuckle sandwich?

Alan Smithee posted:

he was not the same as the skyrim music guy or the Splash Damage right, like mass shootings these things just come in threes I swear

Zogo posted:

Jeffrey Epstein's 'fixer' who ran major modelling agency vanishes 'like a ghost'
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/jeffrey-epsteins-fixer-who-ran-19122659

LividLiquid posted:

Comedians are almost uniformly professional bad people.

They all look up to Carlin and Lenny Bruce but then they use their bully pulpit to browbeat people beneath them on the social ladder and act like they're a revolutionary for doing so.

Worse than that, when people decide that poo poo ain't funny, they get super fuckin' sanctimonious and for a group that uniformly mocks safe spaces and thinks the marginalized are entitled, they super want comedy venues and theaters to be their safe space and they feel entitled to people's laughter.

Stand up needs new stars so fuckin' bad. Bo Burnham went from a lovely edgelord teen to a much more mature performer, but he's just one dude.

Sodomy Hussein posted:

Scarlett's not backing away from the ledge on her Woody Allen hot take.

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/11/scarlett-johansson-oscars-issue-cover-story


Perhaps actors who have always been in show business and formed their earliest relationships in that environment might be more than a little blind to larger social issues and the reputations of the people they're trafficking with.

Also, as the article points out, despite her status as an in-demand actress, Johansson also has a few more ambitions to fulfill.

Sirotan posted:

Zardoz remake when

Davros1 posted:

Braff called the then underage Joey King "My little muse" which is pretty loving creepy.

-Blackadder- posted:

Yeah, I remember the same thing with American Beauty, I think people soured on that even before people found out Spacey was basically playing himself in House of Cards.

I feel like one of the only really big movies of this type people hated almost immediately was Crash, but even then there was some split.