I know this wasn’t the whole point of your post, but I would also like a lot more focus placed on the producers, funders and big corporations that are making Woody Allen films happen than on the actors that are hired. The actors themselves have a lot more to lose by speaking out than we do by speaking anonymously on…
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Preach. I really feel like this will be the creep’s last film.
Selena Gomez isn’t really a musician. She’s a Disney star packaged as a pop star to move merchandise. Not that she isn’t a real human being, but “musician” is a stretch.
There are so many musicians with so much to say, and you’re right - that is their (our) role...remind us of folly, inspire us, and move us…
the kid is only 22 and he has more integrity than Colin Firth, Joaquin Phoenix, Javier Bardem or any of the other men in his recent films. None of those actors needed the work or money and chose to make a Woody film anyway.
A good deed done for selfish reasons or by a bad person is still a good deed done.
Selena Gomez needs to pick a lane. She’s getting too old for the “gee gosh, I’m not sure I know what’s going on there” routine.
The girl who escaped is 17 but looked 10. Think about how you looked in fourth grade as opposed to how you looked as a junior in high school. She still had the courage and faculties to run and ask for help.
I believe the CoS would do this, absolutely.
Anyone heard of Scientologists actually doing this as a smear before though? I know they’ve used general tactics of labeling them malcontents, using family members still in the cult to shame them publicly, and have attacked their credibility so I can see this would be something they’d at least theoretically do...
Rooo - what would you like to see Jez do with this? Or do you think they won’t do anything?
Remember 6 short years ago when he was considered the heir apparent to the Republican Party, and people were so worried about the 2012 crop of republican presidential candidates, they considered mounting a late draft of Christie?
I think it’s clear that Jezebel like the guy, he’s been an ally and the events of the night aren’t as clear a violation as, say, the Weinstein assaults.
But, honestly, it’s these “difficult” cases that Jez needs to take a stand on.
This lady says she was assaulted, and much of the commentary I’ve read from women of her…
I don’t think it is “sea-lioning” to ask why a major feminist publication hasn’t touched a story that many of its readers are interested in.
Yes, I am — I have been checking since last night, and nothing. I find it very interesting they haven’t mentioned it.
Even further off topic I haven’t seen anything on Peter Thiel buying gawker. I thought that would have got a mention.
“ ... She wanted affection, kindness, attention. Perhaps she hoped to maybe even become the famous man’s girlfriend. He wasn’t interested. What she felt afterward—rejected yet another time, by yet another man—was regret. And what she and the writer who told her story created was 3,000 words of revenge porn.” - from…
I’m not buying that. If you pay attention, Jezebel definitely has a way of downplaying, and sometimes even outright ignoring, news stories that that they don’t like. I’m not surprised we haven’t seen an article on Aziz (a well-liked liberal person of color), just like we haven’t seen very much reporting (if any) on…
Can you imagine if he HAD instinctively hopped out, not realizing there was no one in front of him? What an incredible goddamn play. Hope they win it all