Is there some peculiar sexual pathology that's attracted to, or bred by, dressing people in costumes and ordering them around a stage? Have you noticed the garbage they produce? The part about Judy Garland in Mayer’s lap harks back to her part in Judgment at Nuremberg, a 1961 movie with Judy, Spencer Tracy, Marlene Dietrich and William Shatner. When watching the movie’s sex scenes, all I could think of was whoever had come up with them obviously had no respect for women or even for love making and I was right. At this rate one could think Harvey is a swell dude just because a documentary said he was garbage. He is great, I’d love to watch his documentary if don’t have microsoft compatibility telemetry error to fix. I’ve had one or two total assholes for bosses in my time, but nobody ever tried throwing something at me or taking a swing at me. Once he is tried and convicted by a jury of his “peers” of course. A former Miami Herald foreign correspondent, columnist, and TV critic, he is the author of Everybody Had His Own Gringo: The CIA and the Contras and (with Ana Rodriguez) Diary of a Survivor: Nineteen Years in a Cuban Women's Prison. How fucken retarded and sufficiently illiterate do you have to be to actually by into this nonsense. The way they walked around having Y chromosomes and crania, they were asking for it. Jordan Hill. From whence one also comes to understand why being a Hollywood producer may be particularly attractive to a certain type of man who lacks the charisma that he might have needed had he chosen a different walk in life. turned into demands for topless massages and masturbation in front of mirrors and finally Caligulan depravity resulting in shattered toilets stained with blood. Plus, he drops out of J.Lo movie. Two years after it all came crashing down for former studio executive and alleged rapist Harvey Weinstein, a new Hulu documentary, Untouchable, paints a devastating picture of how it … Preventing this kind of harassment requires a sustained and purposeful effort. 1.12.2021 12:40 PM. Why do we care. I’m working online! No connection, no lust, passion and not even any fun. Start your free trial to watch Untouchable and other popular TV shows and movies including new releases, classics, Hulu Originals, and more. Getty Glenn Garvin is a contributing editor at Reason. Just look at the latest lame celebrity video on ‘equality’ led by Maya Rudolph and Melinda Gates. I’m not saying Weinstein is a nice guy, or even not a swine. Instead of pretending to be stupid, let’s not. But if the accusations come under the heading of ‘This person is now saying this half a dizen years after the fact.’ then the makers of this documentary and the publishers of this magazine article deserve to be sued into the stone age. I don’t want to back anyone or side with this person or that person, but I’m starting to notice that the majority of these documentaries on Netflix, Hulu, and even HBO are bogus. 1 hr 1 min. Not anymore, the APA removed homosexuality from the DSM in the 70s. He is just such a caricature of a Hollywood mogul that hasn't been around for decades.". You don’t have to act out every single love scene as if you’re a couple of rabid pigs knocking things off the table. Now they supposedly regret it sniffing around for some shekels. Michael B. Jordan & Lori Harvey's Adorable Pet Names. I didn’t think so. Of course, in all the hoopla, we can all name a half dozen men who he threw ashtrays at and can point to that moment at the Oscars where Seth McFarlane’s ashtray-throwing joke really outed the whole thing and kicked off the #metoo movement. If a normal boss behaved like Weinstein, nobody would want to work for him and he would be at a heavy competitive disadvantage. Actors and actresses are expected in engage in quasi-sexual stuff as part of their job, and in a sense Weinstein was taking that expectation to a horrible extreme. | I would bet that those that succeed see guys like Wienstein as their prey and feel pretty damn good about exploiting their weakness. As Untouchable makes clear, he abused everybody, sexually or otherwise. How to Watch Harvey Weinstein ID Documentary Online, Copyright © 2021 Heavy, Inc. All rights reserved. 1.15.2021 4:00 AM, Lenore Skenazy Documentary about the rise and fall of former Hollywood honcho and producer Harvey Weinstein, sentenced in 2020 to 23 years in jail for sexual crimes. | Couple alert! When you’re in an industry that attracts a large number of exceptionally attractive women who want nothing more than to be in your industry, and are willing to do just about anything to get into it, you’re going to have a metric fuck ton of sexual impropriety. Which means a fuck ton of competition. Are any of us in Hollywood and if so is there something we can learn from any of this? Crime. He has admitted nothing. Weinstein is my HERO!!! Yeah, but here’s the problem – I’ve seen too many documentaries. When a female reporter at a Manhattan book party asked him what he thought was an impertinent question about a Miramax film, Weinstein shouted, "Who let this cunt in here? Do they know why there are cheerleaders? Big money types can do as they please as the governmental offices who SHOULD be regulating them choose not to do so, but, instead, take advantage of the money these fiends have. Wear that badge with honor, sir. Untouchable. “If it’s strictly a show-biz phenomenon, why? For many women, however, the center of the Weinstein universe felt more like the bottom circle of Hell. My work didn’t exactly make me happy so I decided to take a chance on something new… after 4 years it was so hard to quit my day job but now I couldn’t be happier. Editor's Note: We invite comments and request that they be civil and on-topic. I’m sure it could have been made 5 or 6 years ago, but there wasn’t any interest then. Harvey Weinstein's lawyer says she's never been sexually assaulted 'because I would never put myself in that position' By Ray Sanchez, CNN Updated 0124 GMT (0924 HKT) February 8, 2020 Strange how the Clintons are friends with some of the scummiest people on the planet. The rise and fall of media mogul Harvey Weinstein and other public figures in the wake of sexual assault victims coming forward about their abuse. Yes. We’ll never see the end of it if people don’t realize that. Strange to me that everyone assumes these women are victims. Nothing to see here. Harvey Weinstein arrives at court for the verdict in his sex-crimes trial on Feb. 24, 2020. And if it's strictly a show-biz phenomenon, why? A documentary examining stories of people who've worked with Harvey Weinstein over the years is being released. Privacy Policy | "When you were with Harvey, you were going out to dinner with Sean Connery and Leonardo DiCaprio," explains one, looking into the camera but with obvious difficulty. If you can’t watch live, FuboTV comes with 30 hours of cloud DVR space, as well as a 72-hour look-back feature, which allows you to watch most shows within three days of their conclusion, even if you don’t record them. You can decide indeed. And in the end, both his hubris and temper had both grown so much that they could be contained neither by the walls of Weinstein's office or even any sense of public propriety. At least we still have Joss Whedon carrying the torch for straight cis-male feminism in Hollywood. On the other, if I don’t do it I go back to bartending and banging beaus in the bar. He had reportedly been working on a plan to make a documentary on himself. “It took a long time, an entire movement for some survivors to have the courage to come out,” she said, according to Page Six. ALDEN, N.Y. — Former movie producer Harvey Weinstein is being monitored by medical staff after falling ill with a fever, his representatives said Tuesday night. Report abuses. ", Robby Soave At least he still has his Harvard lawyer. I think the message is very clear: women should never go on a date with any major Democrat donor without fully equipping themselves with pepper spray, a taser, and a 1911 loaded with snake rounds just to be prepared if the asshole fails to control himself. Weinstein is facing charges of rape and a criminal sex act against two women. A look at the rise and fall of disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein featuring interviews with former colleagues and those who accused him of sexual misconduct. Any “Stop throwing five-pound ashtrays at my head!”s? Lots of filler, wasted time, and repetition. Just another ‘friend of the Clintons’. Meryl Streep. So low class. Powered by. I’m saying that he is being accused of a whole raft of behavior that nobody charged him with at the time, and now it’s years later. | I can’t stand those scenes in Hollywood. Probably not. Thanks. “Is there some peculiar sexual pathology that’s attracted to, or bred by, dressing people in costumes and ordering them around a stage?”. Harvey isn’t keeping anyone up at night. When the career of megaproducer Harvey Weinstein collapsed into a heap of #MeToo rubble a couple of years ago, there was a certain sensation of tumbling through a crack in time. “Caligulan depravity resulting in shattered toilets stained in blood”? We reserve the right to delete any comment for any reason at any time. Every day, more beautiful women turn 18 and new ones turn up in Hollywood every day, who are willing to do almost anything to become famous. If you can’t watch live, Sling TV comes included with 10 hours of cloud DVR. "I remember meeting him," says one former (male) minion during an interview for the documentary Untouchable, "and thinking, 'This person can't exist.' I think there are several factors at work here: 1. It’s just totally out of character. Do they have no “agency”? On the one hand I have to fuck this gross degenerate but I become famous and I can always pretend it never happened. Powerful men are frequently swine. Relatively unimaginative ploys like, "Oh, the hotel forgot to book your room, wanna stay in mine?" She’s married to big shot director Paul Anderson. Birds of a feather I guess. As Untouchable makes clear, he abused everybody, sexually or otherwise. IMO, the most shocking thing about the Weinstein scandal is that a man with such progressive and feminist political views — Democratic donor, pro-Planned Parenthood, anti-NRA, etc. Just doin’ it for doin’ its sake. Watch English movie Harvey Weinstein Scandal online with subtitles, starring Various and Various on VIU. And the Obamas have a show now. Apparently, it will take 208 years to ever reach full ‘equality’. What is surprising is the mystery some people are feigning about the whole process. I hope the courts get to the truth of the matter and a just decision is reached. Damon Root “But if you want a crash course in Weinstein’s thoroughgoing and possibly criminal loutishness (his trial on sexual assault charges is scheduled early next year)”. "I'm glad I'm the sheriff of this shit-ass fucking town," Weinstein bellowed. 2. I remember a filmmaker who was trying to make a deal with Weinstein and backed out, describing Weinstein as “Jabba the fucking Hut”. | Maybe it’s ok if it’s only 10%? But really? They’re pushing a narrative and so you really can’t trust anything. I quit working at shoprite and now I make $30h – $72h…how? ID Breaking Now: Harvey Weinstein airs this Sunday, April 12th at 10/9c. To some extent yes. 1.13.2021 11:34 AM, © 2020 Reason Foundation | Yes: If you’re a woman or gay man who is young and attractive, you can still fuck your way to the top, and never suffer any consequences for doing so, because if your whoring comes out, you’ll be seen as a helpless victim. “He’s been trying to get a documentary done on himself,” said a film insider of Weinstein to Page Six. The sex scenes in Hollywood are borderline porn and are to the point I ask how anyone could do this on camera? | Get a conviction and throw away the key. Getting famous requires exposure, and getting exposure often depends on the qualitative choices of certain men whose casting choices can be easily informed by beautiful women who are willing to make a trade. "He created an energy around him that made you feel like you were at the center of the universe.". With Erika Rosenbaum, Nannette Klatt, Ken Auletta, Ronan Farrow. Seriously, Weinstein was a producer, not a director. If you live anywhere within a hundred miles of Hollywood then you know at least one male who pretended to be a Hollywood producer to get a girl to fuck him. Also, why do we need to know about Harvey? Are the hallways at Microsoft and AT&T also playgrounds for predators? “I would hope that when the world finally gets back to business after coronavirus some of that momentum will continue.”. So, has he been proven guilty in any court other than the court of public opinion…which swallowed the ’80’s Satanic Ritual Abuse scare hook, line, sinker, and (for that matter) rod, reel, and waders? The way in which he overpowered me left me with no way out. "But that's not exactly right. It was a feeling familiar to many of Weinstein's employees. But in Hollywood there are so many talented people (particularly actors/actresses and writers) trying for so few positions that you can exploit them however you like. As it turned out, the moguls were, if anything, more numerous and more voracious than their predecessors. Anybody with even a passing acquaintance with Hollywood remembered the casting couches of the old studio strongmen like MGM's Louis B. Mayer, whose sexual proprietorship of his contract actresses extended even to ordering a teenaged Judy Garland to take her meetings with him while sitting on his lap. | 1.11.2021 3:45 PM, "This book will not be on our store shelves, and we will not promote it. “The vast majority” performed willingly? | None of this was any secret to Miramax employees. So what percentage of the accusers were actually raped? Do they know why guys pay $20 for an order of buffalo wings at Hooters? Close to the beginning of Ursula Macfarlane’s powerful film about the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein (2 September, 11:45pm) one of his former employees describes him as an “equal opportunities abuser”. There aren't really any answers to these questions to be found in Untouchable, an unremittingly harsh account (that's not a complaint but a compliment) of the Weinstein scandal that, after briefly appearing on the festival circuit early this year, gets its first real exposure this week on Hulu. | It also comes with a free seven-day trial: Once signed up for Philo, you can watch Harvey Weinstein: ID Breaking Now live on your computer via the Philo website, or on your phone (iPhone supported), tablet, Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV or or other supported device via the Philo app. The inside story of the rise and fall of Harvey Weinstein reveals how, over decades, he acquires and protects … ", Not that women were Weinstein's only victims. Sling TV’s “Sling Blue” package comes with 47 channels, including Investigation Discovery (ID). The judge in Harvey Weinstein's trial threatened to jail the movie producer Tuesday for his repeated use of his cell phone during court. Cut government at ALL LEVELS by at least 50%. Feminists were calling for him to be impeached? Not that there’s anything wrong with that…. ‘Hm. They don’t actually have dancing poles on the fields yet, but give it time. Harvey Weinstein’s sexual assault trial has unfolded this month in a 15th-floor courtroom in New York, but its reverberations are being felt far beyond, as his many accusers anxiously await the… There are so many questions raised by all this, even beyond the snarky ones. You can shoot sex scenes and still have passion, fun, love, romance, playfulness, raw physical lust or some type of intimate connection. DIRECTOR. I am doubtful though. They really aren’t documentaries anymore. Not wanting to “victim blame” here, but…how were the men *dressed*? A post shared by Investigation Discovery (@investigationdiscovery) on Apr 10, 2020 at 9:50am PDT. TV-14. Very few of them are actually documentaries though. I believe on scene the man is even having a conversation with Shakespeare. If you can’t watch live, Philo also allows you to DVR programs and watch them up to 30 days later. A secretary to Bob Weinstein was so horrified after opening and reading a detailed letter from an attorney representing one of Harvey's victims that she quit on the spot—and shouted "Your brother is a fucking pig!" Did any of them say “No, I don’t want to have a five-pound ashtray thrown at my head.” before he did it? Harvey Weinstein: ID Breaking Now premieres on Sunday, April 12 at 10 p.m. ET/9 p.m. CT on Investigation Discovery (ID). Do I really want this? So much for the suggestive powers of love. Bad behavior in media or Hollywood gets more press attention than bad behavior in say, the soybean wholesale industry. is there something we can learn from any of this? Here's how you can watch the Harvey Weinstein ID documentary online if you don't have cable. The series will also include interviews with actress Rosanna Arquette and Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez, as well as discussions with Weinstein’s lawyers and many others. Glenn Garvin No shit. why the fuck not, if it’s the cost of fame … work a desk job in Omaha. History and precedent both support impeachment trials for former federal officials. The 80s action star generation is probably the last collection of American Hollywood male stars with any significant testosterone measurements. Everybody from Dustin Hoffman to Louis C.K.—more than 250 men, by one count—was accused of behavior toward women ranging from grotesquely porcine to flatly rapacious. In many cases, the charges came from multiple women. Funny how he thought going after the NRA was his best possible diversion from all this. (there are lots of good-looking young women, not that I’ve been looking or anything…). 1.14.2021 3:50 PM. 1.15.2021 9:30 AM, Steven Greenhut If that had ever happened to me, or pretty much any man I know, the asshole in question would be explaining himself to the cops if he was lucky, or would get the shit kicked out of him if he wasn’t lucky.