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Woody Allen ‘Sad’ About Harvey Weinstein Allegations for ‘Everybody Involved’ – Variety

15 Oct 2017, 9:52 am by Tom Smith

“The whole Harvey Weinstein thing is very sad for everybody involved,” Allen told the BBC. [read post]

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"At a fund-raiser for the president at his Westport, Conn., estate Monday night, Harvey Weinstein spoke in a softly lit room shimmering with pink dahlias, gold Oscars, silvery celebrities and black American Express cards."

15 Oct 2017, 7:13 am

"So let's see what press Dowd gave Weinstein in the heat of the 2012 presidential election. [read post]

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"The fundamental predatory nature of Hollywood is young, attractive people — largely females — putting themselves in front of men to be judged and appraised and chosen."

15 Oct 2017, 5:25 am

Why didn't you go after Weinstein? [read post]

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"Hollywood’s de facto governing body, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, voted overwhelmingly on Saturday to 'immediately expel' Harvey Weinstein..."

14 Oct 2017, 1:50 pm

"... breaking with 90 years of precedent and turning one of the biggest Oscar players in history into a hall-of-fame pariah. [read post]

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Defending a Hollywood mogul

14 Oct 2017, 11:49 am by Walter Olson

When the New York Times broke an explosive story of sexual misconduct, Harvey Weinstein’s legal team sprang into action [Mike Masnick, TechDirt] Tags: celebrities, libel slander and defamation, movies film and videos Defending a Hollywood mogul is a post from Overlawyered - Chronicling the high cost of our legal system [read post]

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Harvey Weinstein's brother says he was a victim of Harvey's abuse too, but he knows he can't expect any sympathy.

14 Oct 2017, 10:23 am

The Hollywood Reporter reports:I was also the object of a lot of his verbal abuse — at one time physical abuse. [read post]

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Reading Hillary's book, Part 1: "mustered."

14 Oct 2017, 8:03 am

I bought it because Meade asked me to put it in our Kindle account, because — a propos of the Harvey Weinstein exposé — he had some search terms to apply to the text.Now, Meade is doing something with the text that I'll call proto-blogging: He reads and speaks aloud the kinds of thoughts I might have if I were doing the reading. [read post]

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"The movie industry I’ve known for the past 30 years... is reconstituting itself in my mind this week like pieces of a broken mirror being glued back in place..."

14 Oct 2017, 5:15 am

"... the cracks now forever visible," writes Dana Stevens (at Slate), who's been writing about movies for something like a decade, yet claims she "truly didn't" know "any of the more sordid Weinstein rumors. [read post]

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Fighting ‘the Gawker effect’ in the wake of Weinstein - Columbia Journalism Review

13 Oct 2017, 4:45 pm by Tom Smith

I used to joke that I could wallpaper my house with threat letters during a career in which I’ve worked for publications including The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Time, and Esquire. [read post]

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