So…Rose McGowan can’t be happy right now.
And no, when stories come up, you cannot post links to stolen videos or images on this MB.
AThere’s nothing to be said on the subject. Move on.
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This is meant to be a catch-all, not specifically for or immediately inspired by the recent McGowan situation.
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If chewers wish to talk about it, i.e., not “move on”, then they can and they will.
AHow can she blow a guy who films vertically? This is rewarding bad behavior.
I haven’t dug into it too much, I just know it’s out there, but I was thinking of the path she’s been on recently and for someone (whoever) to drop this in the middle of her doing her “fuck exploitive, misogynistic Hollywood” thing is just the last thing she probably wanted to deal with. I don’t know the woman and there are far too many other things for me to be upset about so I’m not going to act all offended on her behalf, but man, our comfort with technology is the trap.
ANow that Casey Affleck is riding some awards-buzz for Manchester By The Sea, some alleged sexual harassment (that was quietly settled) during the making of I’M STILL HERE is starting to bubble back up very quietly.
Kind of like Nate Parker all over again.
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I remember hearing about Affleck doing some untoward things back around that time, but I think it was only about him climbing into bed with one of his female crew members. The other stuff is new to me.
It reminds me of the accusations leveled against Shane Black by his ex-girlfriend some years back. The accusations are too specific in their weirdness for me to doubt them.
ASpeaking of college days, I had no idea that Jon Hamm had brutalized a guy during his frat days. Maybe I missed it, but it doesn’t sound like it got much press. Certainly not compared to Nate Parker. The victim looks like he’s in his 60s now. I think Hamm and the fraternity took a plea deal; I hope the guy he beat the crap out of took him, his family and the fraternity to the bank.
can we get a Kanye suicide watch thread? Or is this it?
So, the media is only going after Casey Affleck now because he’s an Oscar contender? He’s been in a lot of movies since 2010. Where was the outrage for the past six years?
I just think it’s wrong that Rose McGowan is using a private moment between two adults to extort Von Miller. Way outta line.
I saw someone reference this on Crazy Days and Nights gossip website today, that Casey often uses the pseudonym John Merrick (the elephant man) and I happen to know that this is true.
I don’t know why he does this, but the real irony for me anyway is that at the time I learned this, some 10 years ago or so, I worked with a guy really named John Merrick, who was a construction project manager for celebrity homes in LA. Because he had J-Lo as a client during the Bennifer era, he was the one who told me this about Casey.
This is probably the right place for this, but Bertolucci has confirmed that the infamous “butter scene” in Last Tango in Paris was filmed without Maria Schneider’s full consent:
[http://deadline.com/2016/12/last-tango-i…201864017/](Bertolucci Confirms Maria Schneider's Account Of 'Tango' Rape Scene)
That is…horrifying on basically every level.
ABut it’s ART!
Yeah…I’ve never seen Last Tango and this assures I never will. So Bertolucci waited until after she had died to reveal this?
…and now to decide how I feel about Brando..
AI have to mull this Bertolucci business over a bit. It’s shitty, insensitive and manipulative, but no one was actually raped. On the other hand, it shows just how much power men can have over women in these situations and how emotionally damaging even the act of simulation can be in the right context.
Will I swear off Bertolucci because of this? No, of course not. I’m not a fucking baby.
I thought that LAST TANGO story was old news, Maria Schneider voiced her complaints about the scene, and Bertolucci never actively denied he manipulated the actress to some extent. Even without knowing about the shooting itself I always felt the scene was gratuitous, but would have the film made back its budget 100 times (!) without it?
That’s fucked up.
Well, it didn’t cost *that* much (1,25 million of 1972 dollars) but according to wikipedia, it has made 96 millions (worldwide and probably over 40 years, but still). Which portion of the audience did come for the artistic value of the film and not for the sex, the nudity and *that* scene?