Here’s how that worked: “Go to the mansion and you’ll be able to model and maybe you’ll get a career or a centerfold. It’s opportunity! You’ll be a star, maybe!” That would be the Modeling Agency, aka procurer. How do I know this? I modeled in the late 80s and 90s in Chicago. the number of times I was told to show up…

Of course the obvious fact that the majority of these women were usually quite young, often intoxicated and most of the men were much older, richer and powerful than themselves. But fuck them for showing up to be exploited, amirite.

I was thinking about his civil rights activism. To me, it seems that it all worked to serve men. He fought for sexual freedom (for men to freely enjoy women), he fought for women to get the pill (so that pregnancies wouldn’t hinder men’s sexual activities with women and men wouldn’t have to worry about being…

I have been dream-casting the adaptation of this book since 1995 when I first read it. In my 22 years of thinking about it, I’ve not thought of anything better than Tennant as Crowley. *weeps tears of joy*

I remember when I was about eleven or so, reading an interview in a magazine with a stuntwoman, and she kept repeating all through the interview that every time you stepped foot on set you were putting your life, and depending on the stunt, quite possibly other lives at risk. She said the slightest wrong move, and…

It’s not a criminal case just a civil one. So he hasn’t been convicted of anything. She only asked for $1.

“He did not so much fall, as saunter vaguely downward.”

Not to do with driving stunts specifically, but I remember reading this Guardian piece on women stunt performers, and how it mentions that a risk specifically to women is that they often aren’t able to wear as much protective gear as men because women’s costumes in action movies tend to be quite more scanty and…

Wait. WAIT. Good Omens on Amazon starring DAVID MOTHERFUCKING TENNANT AS CROWLEY? I had no idea this was remotely on the horizon. I am ready.

If someone didn’t like her before this, her testimony should have won them over. Also, I’ve mentioned this before, but her 1983 concert was AWESOME. So much fun!!

I was neutral on Taylor Swift prior to this lawsuit. I now have a newfound respect for her. She acknowledges she has the privilege and bank account to fight. Her $1 settlement is an enormous win for all of us women who have been sexually assaulted (which sadly, is most women).

David Tenant as Crowley and Michael Sheen as Aziraphael?

There was a documentary about ten years ago called Who Needs Sleep? by one of the greatest cinematographers of all time, Haskell Wexler, about how sleep deprivation is really fucking bad, and since he was in the film industry, he focused mainly on film crews, if my understanding of the film is correct. I keep meaning…

She isn’t spotless, but I think she’s pretty fantastic.

it would be even worse for us without unions, hollywood needs more compassionate Producers and ADs who understand that people shouldn’t work longer than 12 hours a day. I work on a show that treats the crew well and doesn’t have us working too crazy hours, but it is a rarity.

I’m in the union but I don’t get to decide when what time the crew is done working. We make good overtime after 12 hours but the toll it takes on you is detrimental in ways you are too tired to understand. I’m extremely fortunate to have union benefits and a decent wage, but it is at the cost of seeing my family and…

I’ve worked 12, 14, 16, 18 hour days on studio films on 6 days weeks. Sometimes that means we transfer to night shoots as well (a 4pm-6am) within the same week. Don’t remember driving home for most of them. It’s dangerous and it needs to stop. That menatal high of overtime and creativity is a son of a gun though.

This whole thing is just really weird.

Sad. Had to be horrible way to go. My husband was hit by car that ran a stop sign while he was riding his motorcycle last year. He’s super lucky despite some horrendous injuries but damn did he have some bad PTS afterwards from it.

Not trying to be mean but you sound like a stringer. Tell the guy you have serious reservations and marriage talk is off the table.