MCN Curated Headlines Archive for November, 2017
“Berkshire Theatre Group finds any victimization of people deplorable.”
“I’ve been fired over a story that I think is more interesting and more complicated than the version MPR heard. Most stories are. It’s some sort of poetic irony to be knocked off the air by a story, having told so many of them myself, but I’m 75 and don’t have any interest in arguing about this. And I cannot in conscience bring danger to a great organization I’ve worked hard for since 1969.”
Honey Badger Don’t Give A
“As the co-host of NBC’s ‘Today,’ Matt Lauer once gave a colleague a sex toy as a present. It included an explicit note about how he wanted to use it on her, which left her mortified. On another day, he summoned a different female employee to his office, and then dropped his pants, showing her his penis. After the employee declined to do anything, visibly shaken, he reprimanded her for not engaging in a sexual act. He would sometimes quiz female producers about who they’d slept with, offering to trade names. And he loved to engage in a crass quiz game with men and women in the office: ‘fuck, marry, or kill,’ in which he would identify the female co-hosts that he’d most like to sleep with.”
The $28 Million Dollar Man
“He had a button under his desk that allowed him to lock his door from the inside without getting up.”
“I’m not man-bashing. I’m not even newspaper-bashing. I just want to get to where this nonsense feels as archaic as smoking on planes—we put up with it, it harmed us, and we don’t miss it. I turned eleven years older over Thanksgiving. You should listen to me. I’m a straight up wizard.”
Kate Beckinsale, Straight-Up Wizard
“I find these views emerging: If you rule out confessed rapists and chronic abusers (the Harvey syndrome), the imposition of lifetime bans on artists and executives whose offenses date back many years seems like a throwback to ‘Les Misérables.’ Clearly some of the behaviors of a generation ago are unacceptable today. But must ‘a new civility’ be accompanied by a Stalinist-like blotting out of art – or careers? Must art be condemned because some of the artists once behaved reprehensibly? I understand the rush to erase Harvey Weinstein’s credits from current projects, but that doesn’t mean that projects that he fostered must forever live in a shadow.”
Lately, Peter Bart Obsesses On “Les Misérables” And Stalin
“Two sources recounted Lasseter’s obsession with the young character actresses portraying Disney’s Fairies, a product line built around Tinker Bell. At the animator’s insistence, Disney flew the women to a New York event. One Pixar employee became the designated escort as Lasseter took the young women out drinking one night, and to a party the following evening. “He was inappropriate with the fairies,” said the former Pixar executive, referring to physical contact that included long hugs. “We had to have someone make sure he wasn’t alone with them.””
Possibly the least constructive, least helpful, most weak-minded argument is “what about innocent men?” No innocent men have been accused.
— Heidi N Moore (@moorehn) November 29, 2017
“Getting fired is a real distinction in broadcasting and I’ve waited fifty years for the honor. All of my heroes got fired. I only wish it could’ve been for something more heroic… If I had a dollar for every woman who asked to take a selfie with me and who slipped an arm around me and let it drift down below the beltline, I’d have at least a hundred dollars. So this is poetic irony of a high order. But I’m just fine. I had a good long run and am grateful for it and for everything else.”
Garrison Keillor Breaks Out His Trademark Wit
From 2011, Keillor Pens And Croons A Love Song From Sally Hemings To Thomas Jefferson
From 2007, Dan Savage on The Serial Hypocrisy Of Thrice-Married Keillor
A day where a war criminal drinking poison on live television isn't even close to the biggest story of the day.
— Oliver Griswold (@originalgriz) November 29, 2017
“How do you reconcile your love for someone with the revelation that they have behaved badly? I don’t know the answer to that. But I do know that this reckoning that so many organizations have been going through is important, it’s long overdue and it must result in workplaces where all women, all people, feel safe and respected.”
NBC Fires Matt Lauer; Trump Gloats
“Darren just had these ideas and these metaphors. I thought it was amazing, and I trusted him. If he’s got some bombastic idea, like writing God as a narcissistic artist, it’s going to be pretty cool. So I was in before I read anything. The first time I read the script, I threw it across the floor. I didn’t even want it in my house. I thought it was so fucked up on such a deep level. But I knew that’s what he was doing. That’s the only way to say what he needed to say.”
Jennifer Lawrence
“Honestly, there’s an issue at the moment where there’s a lot of people being accused of things, they’re being accused by multiple victims, and it’s compelling and frightening. With Johnny, it seems to me there was one person who took a pop at him and claimed something. I can only tell you about the man I see every day: He’s full of decency and kindness, and that’s all I see. Whatever accusation was out there doesn’t tally with the kind of human being I’ve been working with… It’s a dead issue.”
Director David Yates On Not Recasting Johnny Depp
“Rodriguez and his filmmakers will have just two weeks to shoot their new features, and Rodriguez is apparently still eager to see if he’s got what it takes to make it work. So are we! The finished series will air on Verizon Media’s go90 (their “premium mobile entertainment destination”) and the Rodriguez-led El Rey Network.”
Indiewire Promotes New Robert Rodriguez TV Series (And Verizon)
“Christian viewers propelled God’s Not Dead to rank as the sixth most profitable film in cinema history.”
Vice Takes Income Claims Of PureFlix Church-Driven Productions At Face Value
“What makes a collaboration between siblings so compelling is exactly that kind of shared history. It forever defines aesthetics, ambitions, influences, dynamics. For the most part it’s implied, informing the work quietly. It’s rare for siblings to direct each other, as James does with Dave here, and also to co-star alongside one another. But it’s what makes the Franco x Franco collab work. The particular thing that The Disaster Artist is adding to the annals of sib flicks is a winking riff that’s palpable.”
“Why The Disaster Artist Needed The Franco Brothers”
“Of course dialogue is important, but Guillermo and I were thinking very much about the old style Hollywood way of making movies. For us it was important to tell the story by painting with light and painting with the camera.”
Cinematographer Dan Laustsen On Shooting Shape Of Water
Mystery-Cloaked National Board of Review Selects The Post; Director Greta Gerwig; Coco; Jane; Foxtrot; Laurie Metcalf, Willem Dafoe, Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep; Disaster Artist, Phantom Thread Scripts