Movie City News Archive for October, 2017
NBC News Fires Mark Halperin
NBC News Fires Mark Halperin
Read the full article »Kevin Spacey ‘Apology’ Slammed by Gay Activists and Celebrities
Nope to Kevin Spacey's statement. Nope. There's no amount of drunk or closeted that excuses or explains away assaulting a 14-year-old child. — Dan Savage (@fakedansavage) October 30, 2017
Read the full article »Jessa Crispin on David Fincher’s Antisocial Network
“Peak Michael Douglas’ is the pathology director David Fincher has made his career exploring and criticizing.” Jessa Crispin on “David Fincher’s Antisocial Network”
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pic.twitter.com/X6ybi5atr5 — Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) October 30, 2017
Read the full article »Male-Driven New Republic Takes Action After Publisher Ham Fish V Charged With Sex Harassment
Male-Driven New Republic Takes Action After Publisher Ham Fish V Charged With Sex Harassment
Read the full article »Anthony Rapp Levels Kevin Spacey Charges
Anthony Rapp Levels Kevin Spacey Charges explicit
Read the full article »Writer-Director Sally Potter
“Look, if women don’t get to use their full powers, and their full creativity, and their full glory, it’s a waste for the world, it’s a waste. It’s not just Harvey Weinstein; he’s just a very visible symptom of the problem. It’s not about individual men. It’s much deeper than that. It’s about a society…
Read the full article »Roman Polanski Headed To Paris Retrospective
“True to its values and independent tradition, the Cinémathèque does not see itself as a substitute for the law. We don’t give out prizes or certificates for good behaviour. Our ambition is different: to show the complete work of filmmakers and to place them in the permanent history of the Cinémathèque.” Roman Polanski Headed To…
Read the full article »Rose McGowan
“What happened to me behind the scenes happens to all of us in this society and that cannot stand and it will not stand. I came to be a voice for all of us who have been told that we are nothing. For all us who have been looked down on. For all of us…
Read the full article »Anthony Bourdain On Quentin Tarantino
“It would have been a lethal compromise, a slow-acting poison that would have eaten away our souls until we ended up like Quentin Tarantino living a life of complicity and shame and compromise.” Anthony Bourdain On Quentin Tarantino
Read the full article »“TWC’s board of directors has begun to view Bob Weinstein as a “liability”: he’s been Harvey’s stalwart business partner since the startup days of Miramax and now must carry the taint of the Weinstein surname in a Hollywood forever altered by the scandal.”
“TWC’s board of directors has begun to view Bob Weinstein as a “liability”: he’s been Harvey’s stalwart business partner since the startup days of Miramax and now must carry the taint of the Weinstein surname in a Hollywood forever altered by the scandal.”
Read the full article »LAPD Investigating Former APA Agent Tyler Grasham Over Sexual Assault Allegations
LAPD Investigating Former APA Agent Over Sexual Assault Allegations
Read the full article »Profitable Alt-Weekly City Paper Shutdown Announced At Same Meeting Where Unionization Recognized, Which tronc’s Baltimore Sun Mysteriously Overlooks
Profitable Alt-Weekly City Paper Shutdown Announced At Same Meeting Where Unionization Recognized, Which tronc’s Baltimore Sun Mysteriously Overlooks
Read the full article »Lionsgate Exec Andrew Kramer, Formerly Of WeinsteinCo, Exits On Harassment Allegation
Lionsgate Exec Andrew Kramer, Formerly Of WeinsteinCo, Exits On Harassment Allegation
Read the full article »Actor-Director Kathy Burke: “Lifelong member of the non-pretty working classes”
Actor-Director Kathy Burke: “Lifelong member of the non-pretty working classes”
Read the full article »Linda Bloodworth-Thomason On Witnessing Four Decades of Harassment in H’w’d
The number one casting criterion in Hollywood is that, above all else, an actress must be ‘hot and fuckable.’ The late Don Simpson had his own way of measuring hotness; he bragged about which actresses’ butts he was able to bounce a dime off of.” Linda Bloodworth-Thomason On Witnessing Four Decades of Harassment in Hw’d
Read the full article »From 2013, Ron Rosenbaum And Errol Morris Dissect The Twenty-Six Seconds And 486 Frames Of The Zapruder Film
From 2013, Ron Rosenbaum And Errol Morris Dissect The Twenty-Six Seconds And 486 Frames Of The Zapruder Film
Read the full article »Harvey Weinstein Sues WeinsteinCo for Access toHarvey Weinstein Records
“Mr. Weinstein believes that his email account — which is the primary, if not only, account he used during the term of his employment by the Company — will contain information exonerating him, and therefore the Company, from claims that may be asserted against him or the Company.” Harvey Weinstein Sues WeinsteinCo for Access toHarvey…
Read the full article »From 1978, “Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction No. 71”
From 1978, “Joan Didion, The Art of Fiction No. 71”
Read the full article »Going Oral With “Oz”
Going Oral With “Oz”
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