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Yeah, the owners of one place I worked treated it like a waitress buffet. They’d have ‘a lineup’ of all the women applying for waitstaff jobs, then ogle than all and hire the prettiest. I was hired as a bartender months before it opened so I didn’t know any of this. Of course I treated it like normal sexist world stuff at the time. I wasn’t offended the way I would be now, or happy to be working with so much ‘talent’, as they called it, the way I would have been were I not already in a relationship... My favorite other story is how the owner would take out $100s from the bar till and vanish with the dishwasher after closing. Oh yeah, Black people were called Canadians as a code and they were deemed non-tipping l. And I got a weird phone message from a regular asking to get his buddy a hookup with one of the waitresses. Christ, telephone tech support was such an upgrade.
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Action was too good for this world. And Beverly Hills Gun Club is STILL a great movie title. I’ll never forget the image of the boss going helicopter golfing on production funds while preaching austerity to the point of ‘if it’s yellow let it mellow’.
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What the hell is G? Can you get me some?
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Jan 17, 2018 14:29
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Feet are funny, they make for easy kid-friendly jokes. They're awkward, weird looking, bad-smelling hands that you walk on. I don't think it means any more than that.
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esperterra posted:Only thing I can really say about it is I hope that's a sign he was regretting his actions. But he should have just done his time and tried to rehabilitate rather than taking his own life. Goddamn tragic when people go to that extreme imo.
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Hugo Chavez was pretty cool. And he had UNBELIEVABLE coke.
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Vagabundo posted:Bryan Singer prior to being dragged into the Weinstein stuff. The lawsuits against him around the time of Days of the Future Past were withdrawn at the accuser's request. Withdrawn doesn't mean he wasn't guilty.
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May 15, 2018 19:34
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chitoryu12 posted:"If you don't have sex with me, I won't give you the part" is coercion unless you're an rear end in a top hat. If I say "There are multiple decisions that go into the casting process" while looking down at my dick is THAT coercion? What if I gesture at my dick?
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drat, some of those were good jokes. The alt-right thinks they got a skull but I heard he was being ‘Difficult’ in contract negotiations. And wanting more creative control. He’s been made an example of, such don’t bite the three-fingered, gloved, hand that lifted you from obscurity.
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Jul 20, 2018 22:36
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All this equivocation around Gunn getting fired reminds me of the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo shootings and makes my gut churn. Nazis and religious nuts don’t get to determine what speech is appropriate. Or dole out consequences.
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esperterra posted:Oh LiLo ...
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Oh Goddamnit. My take on Norm is that he's a weirdo that appears to be smart but is really just charming, stupid, and mean with a great verbal memory. Kinda like Dennis Miller. Norm is still funny as hell though, generally, but his last special was unwatchable. Then again in retrospect I say 'still funny as hell' based on youtube 'best of' clips from his podcast that's now a netflix show.
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What everybody needs to remember about the Polanski case is that there was no loving internet. Now it’s trivial to look up the facts of the case, but for the longest time people just repeated vaguely-remembered poo poo they heard someplace. Hell, I remember when in was in high school (pre-common-internet) somebody laying out the ‘facts’ of the case for me. Stuff like it was consensual, it’s just that her mom was mad, he thought she was an adult, blah blah blah blah. I’m curious where these ‘facts’ came from, but if a high school kid in Indiana is getting this interpretation I’m not surprised if a bunch of actors already primed to disbelieve the press heard the same thing. Polanski got the Oscar in 2003, most people were not Extremely Online then, I don’t think that happened for most people until about 2008-2010. Which is around the time people started backing out of support for the guy.
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Not Operator posted:I can't find a clip...Maybe Steve Agee. Jesus is Magic and yep, Steve Agee.
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Deliberately going too far, losing, then and getting back the audience was always his thing. Now that I think about it, getting the audience to applaud terrible things was also his thing. There has to be some ‘risk it all’ element to his work / life / drive that somebody who cared could write about, if they wanted.
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If a gay man can objectify women enough to deliver an ‘accurate’ Red Sonja movie then, uh good business decision I guess? He’s crapped out some good films, but without McQuarrie writing or a great male cast (or both) there ain’t much there. Has there ever been a great, or even notable female performance in anything he’s directed? Minor X-men is all I got.
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We're kidding ourselves thinking that these tradeoffs between complicity and failure is limited to Hollywood.
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the escape goat posted:Having worked for the guy, I can at least say his checks don't bounce and he treats his touring crew with respect?  .
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Moby was core to the rave / x / club kids scene in nyc in da 90’s. An utter disregard for limits was kinda the point in the scene, but these encounters were not IN the scene. Also I thought the dude was gay.
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porfiria posted:What the gently caress did she actually do anyway? The Wikipedia is extremely unenlightening.
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Stolen from another thread, but can’t find it to credit 
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Stop loving listening to people arguing in bad faith. It’s not that hard.
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Timeless Appeal posted:See Anthony Anderson somehow being a sitcom dad and game show host on ABC despite multiple rape allegations. Game show host WITH HIS MOM! The Riverdale story is crazy. lovely news programs have car service, why not goddamn money factories like that show?
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Bust Rodd posted:It’s crazy that they have $50,000,000 for one comedian’s hour long stand up special but don’t have $5,000 for an actor on what was easily the biggest show in the world for at least a whole summer. He did it for free - what kind of idiot would pay him?
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All ya’ll talking about Polanski or Allen 25+ years ago remember there was no internet. The papers only announce his clearance, and past issues weren’t available without actual research. If there was enough talking about whatever bullshit was thrown into the wind people simply wouldn’t know. So you get a lot of people repeating what they heard. IMO that’s why they both had so many defenders until relatively recently when any idiot could find reality on the internet. Also, goddamn now that I think about it the good friends in high school that talked about Polanski’s innocence, liked that Winger song 17, and knew all the details about Tracy Lord’s (underage) porn career were one guy, not multiple guys. Quite creeped out now.
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ONE YEAR LATER posted:Never underestimate the ability of mediocre white men to bounce back with enough time. Granted, this was at the top of his confidence & fame, but again, he is NOT mediocre. At least as a live comic.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:It really is, primarily because (spoilers if you want to go in blind) the guy fully admits to everything and one of the last episodes is an interview with him explaining in extreme detail exactly how he forged everything. So: Joseph Smith?
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ruddiger posted:Who’s that supposed to be in the flying ship? That Swedish giant dick cartoon guy.
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I didn’t know about the ‘Polacks’, presumably, thing though. And Google doesn’t seem to know either.
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Groovelord Neato posted:Spiro Agnew. Ah hell of course. How do we tell our children about Spiro Agnew? He seems like a creature of the fairy tales, like the Wormtounge ofTolkien, or George H.W. Bush, surely fictional. Remulak fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Aug 10, 2021 |
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New Abel Ferrara movie? Hell ya, I don’t care if it stars Cosby!
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Ebert was a MOTHERFUCKER of a writer, in everything else he was an enlightened amateur. Dude wrote a cookbook after he couldn’t eat anymore, which was just dick waving and hysterically funny. It’s easy to forget how much copy newspaper dudes used to crank out back when it was a working-class job. On topic, dude wrote BVD for Meyer and had crazy access, but I never heard about him being a gross lecher in person, even though his writing can acknowledge horniness in a pretty big way.
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This Vulture article is so incredibly goddamn brutal and perfect that no celebrity will ever talk to Lila Shapiro again ever. poo poo, I wouldn't agree to an interview with her.
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Spanish fly, I remember that bit. Or I made it up in my head.
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I’ll never forget the dude arrested for jerking off on a plane the day after CK won a Grammy. It’s so stupid the seemingly useless pain in the rear end to keep track of what celebrities have done lovely things. But if we don’t make them pay then people think the same lack of rules apply to them. It’s Also so loving annoying that relatively OK people pay the highest price. Gunn and Franken FIRED, Trump (hell Clinton) president. Biden still No Idea as manufacturing outrage is so much easier than anything else. I still believe that Gunn is probably the least terrible major Hollywood Director as a person, after Raimi. And that Al Franken is probably still the least terrible major politician.
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Ror posted:Is this based on anything at all?
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The Polanski thing fascinates me. Before wide-scale internet, most people simply didn’t know what happened; they’d just know what they heard from friends. Even if they were well-informed, anything not in the papers THAT WEEK may as well have never happened since you couldn’t research it without going to the library and looking at microfiche of old newspapers. In that environment, people with money, and interest in making more, can push the dialogue anyplace. It’s also about the narrative that people carry. We’re all narrative driven, like it or not. The murder of his wife was the story of the decade. People remember that and had sympathy for him, and kept the narrative where he was sympathetic until, due to the Internet, the reality of the story became so clear and so well repeated that they couldn’t keep that narrative anymore. I remember in high school I was basically told it wasn’t “rape” rape. I didn’t know, didn’t have the internet, and was probably only 14 or 15 myself, so a 13-year-old girl seemed like she had a lot more agency.
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CPL593H posted:When he announced this special he said "[He wants] to get cancelled.". So he's basically being a teenage reddit poster but no one is paying attention to him because he's a pathetic washup no one cares about. He wants that Chapelle level controversy but the problem is that he was never as popular or well liked as Dave Chapelle. And certainly never as good a stand up comedian as Dave Chapelle. He's also not a standup, he's a comic actor.
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