Celebrity Sexual Harasment Apocalypse Thread

[naff]

A lot of the writing there makes me think of Cindi, but pretending to be a sassy 22 y/o trolling for clicks.

[Assimilate]

A lot of the writing there makes me think of Cindi, but pretending to be a sassy 22 y/o trolling for clicks.

 

Is it Cindi?

 

[Thirty-Ought-Six]

Edit: here’s the caliber of person that wrote that article. She should post on the bore 

She sounds like a 22 year old female version of Donald Trump.

On a sexual assault accusation: "After arriving at his apartment in Manhattan on Monday evening, they exchanged small talk and drank wine. “It was white,” she said. “I didn’t get to choose and I prefer red, but it was white wine.”

On a military strike: “I was sitting at the table, we had finished dinner. We’re now having dessert—and we had the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake that you’ve ever seen—and President Xi was enjoying it.”

On an accused sexual assaulter: "The Claw."

On a nuclear threat: ""Little Rocket Man."

On a woman in the media: "I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!"

On a woman in the media: "The way your colleague Ashleigh (?), someone I'm certain no one under the age of 45 has ever heard of, by the way, ripped into my source directly was one of the lowest, most despicable things I've ever seen in my entire life. I hope the ratings were worth it! I hope the ~500 RTs on the single news write-up made that burgundy lipstick bad highlights second-wave feminist has-been feel really relevant for a little while."


Not that I really disagree with that last sentiment, because the media ripping on the girl who went on the date has been awful. But you shouldn't elect a twitter troll president, and you shouldn't give them serious journalism tasks either.

[kingv]

I actually thought it was pretty low of the girl on the date to put him on blast after he apologized.

I think there is a chance that the writer and Grace are personal friends, and The writer urged her to share her story after already knowing some of the details to grow her journalism E-peen. There is no real evidence of that, other than the writer saying that she went after the girl, and not that the girl came to her and obviously they are the same she in the same city.

Also, really low of the writer to publish the story without giving Aziz a chance to respond. I expect this whole episode and her childish response to criticism will backfire on her career in journalism, even if it’s not unheard of for 23 year olds.

Well probably see an article in 5 years reflecting on how she regrets making herself part
of the story or something like thatx

[Thirty-Ought-Six]

The story is really weird but it is possible to read it from his perspective (bolded parts added):

"But he kept asking, so I said, ‘I want to fuck you Next time.’ And he goes, ‘Oh, you mean second date?’ and I go, ‘Oh, yeah, sure,’ and he goes, ‘Well, if I poured you another glass of wine now, would it count as our second date?’”

Here he may think he is being funny.

“I want to fuck you but I don’t want to feel forced because then I’ll hate you, and I’d rather not hate you" ‘Oh, of course, it’s only fun if we’re both having fun.’ He sat back and pointed to his penis and motioned for me to go down on him.

Here he may think she is saying he was too aggressive, so by sitting back he is doing the most non-forceful move possible.

There is no way we can know if he picked up on what she actually meant and ignored it, or genuinely perceived it in a way where he was acting ok. I can understand how her perception of events would be entirely different than his. So I'm mainly blaming the writer because they are the one who sought out the story and framed it how they did, and they are the one who exploited it for personal gain.

[Rufus]

But what I'm sensing here is that men have a responsibility to read all signals correctly and women have little responsibility because they're weak little girls.

You're willfully ignoring that conditions are not equal and then act confused that responsibilities aren't divided equally, either? Huh. What we have in place of equal conditions is cultural patchwork in the forms of morals and laws, but they don't actually guarantee anything in the moment.

[Assimilate]

But what I'm sensing here is that men have a responsibility to read all signals correctly and women have little responsibility because they're weak little girls.

You're willfully ignoring that conditions are not equal and then act confused that responsibilities aren't divided equally, either? Huh. What we have in place of equal conditions is cultural patchwork in the forms of morals and laws, but they don't actually guarantee anything in the moment.

Can we stop pretending Aziz Ansari is a brooding 6ft 200lb male? Please? Nor that in this situation there was any indication that he was going to get violent or forceful.

All he was in this thing was pushy and obnoxious. That's it. GTFO. Grace is an idiot and her judgement to allow this article to go through shows a lot about where she's at mentally, her overall character and credibility.

[Mandark]

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/tech/2018/01/18/msu-president-told-nassar-complaint-2014/1042071001/

Reports of sexual misconduct by Dr. Larry Nassar reached at least 14 Michigan State University representatives in the two decades before his arrest, with no fewer than eight women reporting his actions, a Detroit News investigation has found.

This is the guy who was molesting girls on the US gymnastics team. First time a victim tried to report him was 20 years ago.

[Huff]

I'm kinda surprised Nassar hasn't been talked about here

his scale of rape/harassment far out scales anything we've seen

[Mandark]

Yeah, I'm surprised it hasn't been a bigger deal nationally. He was basically raping America's sweethearts for years.

[Steve Contra]

The Nassar stuff is really hard to deal with. It doesn't involve adults and it's too monstrous to wrap your head around. NPR had some of the audio from the victims and I started crying hearing it.

[Brehvolution]

Nassar should be sent to a prison where he will be raped repeatedly.

[Huff]

Michigan State student paper calls for university president to resign

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ftw/2018/01/18/michigan-state-paper-calls-for-university-president-to-resign-in-powerful-editorial/109571504/

With the way this was swept under the rug for decades, feels like a lot more heads should roll than ones that have

[Huff]

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2017/12/11/house-speaker-msu-president-resign/108511184/

The DeWitt Republican is the first high-rannking state official to call for Simon to step down in the wake of the scandal. He’s joining calls for an independent probe of MSU after internal investigators cleared university officials of wrongdoing but did not produce a report of their findings.

“The best-case scenario for Michigan State University is that there was absolutely gross negligence all the way to the top, and worst-case scenario, something’s being covered up,” Leonard told The Detroit News.

Leonard said he was “appalled” internal investigators did not document their findings in any report. A former assistant prosecutor for Genesee County, Leonard said his office went through hundreds of investigations and thousands of warrants during his three-year tenure.

“Not once was there ever a situation where we had an investigation and a report wasn’t produced,” Leonard said. “There were often times that a report didn’t produce charges, but there was always a report that was produced.”

[etiolate]

yah the Nassar story is horrible

Not much attention paid to it in comparison to the other stories and how heinous this story is.

[TVC15]

Recent blind item about It’s Always Sunny:

This long running FX show which recently switched channels might have set the record for most behind the scenes settlements with actresses and crew that has ever been recorded. One person told me that right before she quit, one of the actors came up to her and asked how come she had not"blown him" yet and they should go to his trailer and change that. She proceeded to kick him in the balls and enjoyed watching him bend over in pain.

[Joe Molotov]

[Phoenix Dark]

Recent blind item about It’s Always Sunny:

This long running FX show which recently switched channels might have set the record for most behind the scenes settlements with actresses and crew that has ever been recorded. One person told me that right before she quit, one of the actors came up to her and asked how come she had not"blown him" yet and they should go to his trailer and change that. She proceeded to kick him in the balls and enjoyed watching him bend over in pain.

IS this real? Link.

[TVC15]

Recent blind item about It’s Always Sunny:

This long running FX show which recently switched channels might have set the record for most behind the scenes settlements with actresses and crew that has ever been recorded. One person told me that right before she quit, one of the actors came up to her and asked how come she had not"blown him" yet and they should go to his trailer and change that. She proceeded to kick him in the balls and enjoyed watching him bend over in pain.

IS this real? Link.

I personally don’t buy it after reading further comments, but I figured I should post it in the interest of alarmism.

http://www.crazydaysandnights.net/2018/01/blind-item-3_13.html

[Tasty]

One person told me that right before she quit, one of the actors came up to her and asked how come she had not"blown him" yet and they should go to his trailer and change that. She proceeded to kick him in the balls and enjoyed watching him bend over in pain.

[kingv]

You don’t get on your knees to blow Danny devito, you gotta lie down.

[Steve Contra]

In regards to Nassar, MSU should never be allowed to have an athletics program ever again (same thing with Penn State)

[Madrun Badrun]

My worst fears about this that it would affect the MCU
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42745150

[VomKriege]

Glad to learn he never was sexually assaulted.

[Let's Cyber]

In regards to Nassar, MSU should never be allowed to have an athletics program ever again (same thing with Penn State)

You're correct.

However the precedence has already been established after PSU. These athletic departments are deemed too big to fail and all of this will be forgiven. The media treat Penn State football like a fucking redemption story because they've stung together a few 11+ win season while collectively ignoring the decades they systematically enabled a child rapist. Our society is insane.


:barf

[chronovore]

Nassar should be sent to a prison where he will be raped repeatedly.

Just to be super clear, it should not be a prison full of female athletes.

[Brehvolution]

Nassar should be sent to a prison where he will be raped repeatedly.

Just to be super clear, it should not be a prison full of female athletes.

The kind where he'll be forced to use kool-aid as lipstick.

[VomKriege]

In regards to Nassar, MSU should never be allowed to have an athletics program ever again (same thing with Penn State)

You're correct.

However the precedence has already been established after PSU. These athletic departments are deemed too big to fail and all of this will be forgiven. The media treat Penn State football like a fucking redemption story because they've stung together a few 11+ win season while collectively ignoring the decades they systematically enabled a child rapist. Our society is insane.


:barf

Is the problem really the programs in themselves though ? It's a genuine question. Maybe the only way to curb the terrible culture they groom at a particular place is to cut them out entirely.

[Joe Molotov]

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/01/23/gop-congressman-meehan-harassment-soulmate-362461

Meehan, who is married with three children, acknowledged to the Philadelphia Inquirer that his feelings for the woman were progressing “in a way in which I was struggling to make sure that I would never put that into our professional relationship.” Meehan’s office also showed the newspaper and other local media outlets a letter the fourth-term Republican wrote to his then-aide on May 4, the day the House voted to repeal Obamacare.

“As I walked this evening and glanced over at the White House I smiled at the irony that on a day that I had to say ‘no’ to the President and to the Speaker of the House, I got to say ‘yes’ to you,” Meehan wrote the woman.

...

He said that he asked her to ice cream, which he had perceived as an opening to discuss the nature of his feelings for her, and recalled telling her that “I was not interested in a relationship, particularly not any sexual relationship, but we were soul mates.”

He described the settlement with the woman as a “severance,” according to the Inquirer. Conyers’ settlement with his former aide who alleged harassment was also structured as a severance payment, made confidentially after consultations with the Office of House Employment Counsel.

The former aide pursued a harassment claim against Meehan, first reported Saturday by The New York Times, after she believed he had become jealous of a relationship she began last spring with another man who did not work in the office. Meehan admitted to the Inquirer that he became “rough” on the job with the woman, linking it to the intense political climate that surrounded last year’s Obamacare repeal vote.

“Sometimes I have the tendency to lash out to others on the staff,” Meehan told the Inquirer, adding that “you go hardest on the ones that you care the most about.”

 

[kingv]

That was going by for a walk in the appalachians level of bad.

Meehan is going to have to resign in the coming weeks, I suspect. That soul mate comment was laughably bad and will be hung around his neck.

Of course, just like the dude from SC, he can come back as a Senator in a few years.

[team filler]

TOO SHORT
SUED FOR MULTIPLE SEXUAL BATTERIES
2.0K
277 1/19/2018 4:43 PM PST
Too Short Sued for Sexual Battery
EXCLUSIVE
Too Short is being accused of sexual battery ... TMZ has learned.
The rap legend is facing a lawsuit ... filed Friday in Los Angeles by a woman named Teana Louis. According to docs, obtained by TMZ, Teana says Too Short sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions ... between June and October of 2016.
In the suit, she says the attacks included forced oral sex, vaginal sex and sodomy.
Teana says she and Short met in December 2015, and eventually produced a song together in April 2016. She claims that's when he made the first unwanted advances. She claims the first assault went down in June when they went to a hotel room in Downtown L.A.
According to the docs, Too Short threw her onto the bed, held her down, undressed her and began performing oral sex on her. She claims subsequent incidents happened in hotel rooms or the studio. She claims on one occasion he told her, "I'm just going to put the tip in" ... and, although she said, "No, please no" ... he continued. In the suit, she says he held her down during vaginal sex -- she was left bleeding -- and then "brutally sodomized" her.
She's suing for sexual battery, sexual harassment, gender violence, gender discrimination and false imprisonment.

[Joe Molotov]

TOO SHORT
SUED FOR MULTIPLE SEXUAL BATTERIES
2.0K
277 1/19/2018 4:43 PM PST
Too Short Sued for Sexual Battery
EXCLUSIVE
Too Short is being accused of sexual battery ... TMZ has learned.
The rap legend is facing a lawsuit ... filed Friday in Los Angeles by a woman named Teana Louis. According to docs, obtained by TMZ, Teana says Too Short sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions ... between June and October of 2016.
In the suit, she says the attacks included forced oral sex, vaginal sex and sodomy.
Teana says she and Short met in December 2015, and eventually produced a song together in April 2016. She claims that's when he made the first unwanted advances. She claims the first assault went down in June when they went to a hotel room in Downtown L.A.
According to the docs, Too Short threw her onto the bed, held her down, undressed her and began performing oral sex on her. She claims subsequent incidents happened in hotel rooms or the studio. She claims on one occasion he told her, "I'm just going to put the tip in" ... and, although she said, "No, please no" ... he continued. In the suit, she says he held her down during vaginal sex -- she was left bleeding -- and then "brutally sodomized" her.
She's suing for sexual battery, sexual harassment, gender violence, gender discrimination and false imprisonment.

When I saw that, my brain clicked. He busted a nut and killed that bitch. It might sound sick, it might be petty, but you've never got sucked by Blowjob Betty.

[etiolate]

Which tells me that there's a great TV revival possibility here

Sexual Criminals Do The Darnedest Things

[etiolate]

Just a lot of brainstorming.

[benjipwns]

Yeah, I'm surprised it hasn't been a bigger deal nationally. He was basically raping America's sweethearts for years.

yah the Nassar story is horrible

Not much attention paid to it in comparison to the other stories and how heinous this story is.

in the shithole capitol of Michigan it's been endless here in all the media, you'd think literally nothing else was happening anywhere on the planet

and they'd been endlessly repeating the victims statements and stuff

after seeing someone else comment on it i watched the local news one night and it was literally like 70% Nassar, 5% road closed, 15% weather, 10% non-crime related MSU sports news

the funniest part has been all the politicians trying to jump on it for the election, even though there's nothing for them to do and he's already being convicted, D and R state senators were having a debate about whether or not to issue yet another resolution in the wake of his latest conviction and how it's not enough and how much they deplore his behavior and how somebody needs to pay for this

the MSU President and her predecessor (who is now on the Board) were already moving into Hitler in the Bunker mode prior to this due to a whole bunch of financial stuff that's come out during their terms, and then this rolled into town

one of the gubernatorial candidates was starting to try and pin it on Rick Snyder and the current state Attorney General (who is running for GOP nomination) before her advisers shuffled her off and re-evaluated their messaging based on the actual construction and role of the Governor and Attorney General and who a prior Governor and Attorney General was during 1999-2011...

[Let's Cyber]

Is the problem really the programs in themselves though ? It's a genuine question. Maybe the only way to curb the terrible culture they groom at a particular place is to cut them out entirely.

The Michigan State side of the Nassar fallout is still unfolding (the President actually just resigned) so it's hard to say where things settle. Given some of the statements from victims during his trial, MSU was grossly negligent when it came to the safety of their students. It also sounds like many higher up in the administration went above and beyond to protect Nassar and/or just wanted the situation to go away. We know over a dozen employees knew something was going on and some victims reported abuse over 20 years ago and were ignored and even mocked. Pretty clear there was a lack of institutional control. It all sounds very Penn St.-esque.

In the case of Penn State, it was an unprecedented situation (or so we thought) and should have required an unprecedented punishment.  Most of penalties handed down to Penn St. were rescinded and they were ultimately slapped on the wrist. Essentially, the NCAA bungled the entire thing and now it puts this new investigation into MSU in awkward position. If the hammer does come down hard on MSU now, they have every right to cry foul for the NCAA's inconsistency. I think handling the Sandusky scandal properly would have at least laid out a template for future situations but that's out the window now.

So to answer your question, is the problem with just these individual programs? No, it isn't.  I don't think the behavior by Penn State administration (and apparently that of MSU) was all the different from that of the Catholic Church. Hide, deny, coverup. The fact these cases are so similar in terms of the school administrations' reactions to systematic abuse is super telling. This is a broader college athletics problem and there are no easy answers. The NCAA doesn't have the power to really address these kind of institutional failures and it has become apparent that the universities aren't capable of self-policing. Maybe this Nassar scandal will change something but I doubt it. 

TL:DR-It's fucked.

[benjipwns]

holy shit, never expected Lou Anna to resign

Bill on point:

Bill Ballenger, a longtime Lansing political commentator and publisher of The Ballenger Report political newsletter, said the next question is how many of the MSU trustees might now be removed.

“I think the trustees, at least up to this point, have really disgraced themselves in their handling of this whole thing,” Ballenger said.

He particularly pointed to Trustee Joel Ferguson, who gave a radio interview this week in which some interpreted his comments at trying he appeared to try as trying minimizing the sexual abuse scandal.

“The real question is whether people stop and say, 'OK, the president is enough,' ” Ballenger said.

I wonder if that means this famous for shady deals guy is finally out, he's up this year, and the other (Republican) Trustee up already announced he's not running for re-election:

Despite calls for the ouster of Michigan State University Lou Anna K. Simon, "that's not going to happen. Period," MSU Trustee Joel Ferguson said in a radio interview Monday.

[benjipwns]

former federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who led an internal MSU inquiry into the Nassar case, wrote: “While many in the community today wish that they had identified Nassar as a predator, we believe the evidence in this case will show that no one else at MSU knew that Nassar engaged in criminal behavior.”

wow, great work yet again, Fitz

[Let's Cyber]

To follow up on the Nassar story, Michigan St. was the wild west, apparently.

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/22214566/pattern-denial-inaction-information-suppression-michigan-state-goes-larry-nassar-case-espn

Outside the Lines also has obtained never-before-publicized reports of sexual or violent incidents involving members of Izzo's storied basketball program, including one report made against a former undergraduate student-assistant coach who was allowed to continue coaching after he had been criminally charged for punching a female MSU student in the face at a bar in 2010. A few months later, after the Spartans qualified for the 2010 Final Four, the same assistant coach was accused of sexually assaulting a different female student.

That assistant coach had his assault and battery case dismissed, and he instead pleaded guilty to a civil infraction for littering. 

Over the past three years, MSU has three times fought in court -- unsuccessfully -- to withhold names of athletes in campus police records. The school has also deleted so much information from some incident reports that they were nearly unreadable.

Totally not hiding anything, nothing to see here.

A lot of that stuff in that article isn't unusual at big universities, unfortunately. We recently saw how rotten Baylor was. With this Nassar scandal putting a microscope on Michigan St., many of their skeletons are about to be pulled out of the closet.

[Great Rumbler]

Meanwhile, the NCAA does absolutely nothing. But if it was some kid getting a free hamburger or something, they'd be all over it.

[Let's Cyber]

Meanwhile, the NCAA does absolutely nothing. But if it was some kid getting a free hamburger or something, they'd be all over it.

Speaking of which...

https://theathletic.com/223555/2018/01/26/ncaa-president-mark-emmert-was-alerted-to-michigan-state-sexual-assault-reports-in-2010/

NCAA president Mark Emmert was specifically alerted in November 2010 — six months after he was hired as the organization's president — to 37 reports involving Michigan State athletes sexually assaulting women.

So they knew Michigan St. was a mess 7 years ago but did nothing. This line is revealing

"You do kind of get the fox guarding the hen house mentality. You do feel like the NCAA doesn’t like to do investigations because they like their relationships (with university officials and conferences)"

[Mandark]

The NCAA is clearly the wrong organization to be monitoring and punishing colleges for this kind of shit, though they've created that expectation by making sure players never get paid for their labor enforcing rules relating to amateurism.

[thisismyusername]

Bumpity Bumpity Bump.

Tangentially related to this topic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html

Thurman got to know Weinstein and his first wife, Eve, in the afterglow of “Pulp Fiction.” “I knew him pretty well before he attacked me,” she said. “He used to spend hours talking to me about material and complimenting my mind and validating me. It possibly made me overlook warning signs. This was my champion. I was never any kind of studio darling. He had a chokehold on the type of films and directors that were right for me.”

Things soon went off-kilter in a meeting in his Paris hotel room. “It went right over my head,” she says. They were arguing about a script when the bathrobe came out.

“I didn’t feel threatened,” she recalls. “I thought he was being super idiosyncratic, like this was your kooky, eccentric uncle.”

He told her to follow him down a hall — there were always, she says, “vestibules within corridors within chambers” — so they could keep talking. “Then I followed him through a door and it was a steam room. And I was standing there in my full black leather outfit — boots, pants, jacket. And it was so hot and I said, ‘This is ridiculous, what are you doing?’ And he was getting very flustered and mad and he jumped up and ran out.”

The first “attack,” she says, came not long after in Weinstein’s suite at the Savoy Hotel in London. “It was such a bat to the head. He pushed me down. He tried to shove himself on me. He tried to expose himself. He did all kinds of unpleasant things. But he didn’t actually put his back into it and force me. You’re like an animal wriggling away, like a lizard. I was doing anything I could to get the train back on the track. My track. Not his track.”

She was staying in Fulham with her friend, Ilona Herman, Robert De Niro’s longtime makeup artist, who later worked with Thurman on “Kill Bill.”

“The next day to her house arrived a 26-inch-wide vulgar bunch of roses,” Thurman says. “They were yellow. And I opened the note like it was a soiled diaper and it just said, ‘You have great instincts.’” Then, she says, Weinstein’s assistants started calling again to talk about projects.

She thought she could confront him and clear it up, but she took Herman with her and asked Weinstein to meet her in the Savoy bar. The assistants had their own special choreography to lure actresses into the spider’s web and they pressured Thurman, putting Weinstein on the phone to again say it was a misunderstanding and “we have so many projects together.” Finally she agreed to go upstairs, while Herman waited on a settee outside the elevators.

Once the assistants vanished, Thurman says, she warned Weinstein, “If you do what you did to me to other people you will lose your career, your reputation and your family, I promise you.” Her memory of the incident abruptly stops there.

Through a representative, Weinstein, who is in therapy in Arizona, agreed that “she very well could have said this.”

Downstairs, Herman was getting nervous. “It seemed to take forever,” the friend told me. Finally, the elevator doors opened and Thurman walked out. “She was very disheveled and so upset and had this blank look,” Herman recalled. “Her eyes were crazy and she was totally out of control. I shoveled her into the taxi and we went home to my house. She was really shaking.” Herman said that when the actress was able to talk again, she revealed that Weinstein had threatened to derail her career.

Through a spokesperson, Weinstein denied ever threatening her prospects and said that he thought she was “a brilliant actress.” He acknowledged her account of the episodes but said that up until the Paris steam room, they had had “a flirtatious and fun working relationship.”

“Mr. Weinstein acknowledges making a pass at Ms. Thurman in England after misreading her signals in Paris,” the statement said. “He immediately apologized.”

Thurman says that, even though she was in the middle of a run of Miramax projects, she privately regarded Weinstein as an enemy after that. One top Hollywood executive who knew them both said the work relationship continued but that basically, “She didn’t give him the time of day.”

Thurman says that she could tolerate the mogul in supervised environments and that she assumed she had “aged out of the window of his assault range.”

She attended the party he had in SoHo in September for Tarantino’s engagement to Daniella Pick, an Israeli singer. In response to queries about Thurman’s revelations, Weinstein sent along six pictures of chummy photos of the two of them at premieres and parties over the years.

And that brings us to “the Quentin of it all,” as Thurman calls it. The animosity between Weinstein and Thurman infected her creative partnership with Tarantino.

In the famous scene where she’s driving the blue convertible to kill Bill — the same one she put on Instagram on Thanksgiving — she was asked to do the driving herself.

But she had been led to believe by a teamster, she says, that the car, which had been reconfigured from a stick shift to an automatic, might not be working that well.

She says she insisted that she didn’t feel comfortable operating the car and would prefer a stunt person to do it. Producers say they do not recall her objecting.

“Quentin came in my trailer and didn’t like to hear no, like any director,” she says. “He was furious because I’d cost them a lot of time. But I was scared. He said: ‘I promise you the car is fine. It’s a straight piece of road.’” He persuaded her to do it, and instructed: “ ‘Hit 40 miles per hour or your hair won’t blow the right way and I’ll make you do it again.’ But that was a deathbox that I was in. The seat wasn’t screwed down properly. It was a sand road and it was not a straight road.” (Tarantino did not respond to requests for comment.)

Thurman then shows me the footage that she says has taken her 15 years to get. “Solving my own Nancy Drew mystery,” she says.

It’s from the point of view of a camera mounted to the back of the Karmann Ghia. It’s frightening to watch Thurman wrestle with the car, as it drifts off the road and smashes into a palm tree, her contorted torso heaving helplessly until crew members appear in the frame to pull her out of the wreckage. Tarantino leans in and Thurman flashes a relieved smile when she realizes that she can briefly stand.

“The steering wheel was at my belly and my legs were jammed under me,” she says. “I felt this searing pain and thought, ‘Oh my God, I’m never going to walk again,’” she says. “When I came back from the hospital in a neck brace with my knees damaged and a large massive egg on my head and a concussion, I wanted to see the car and I was very upset. Quentin and I had an enormous fight, and I accused him of trying to kill me. And he was very angry at that, I guess understandably, because he didn’t feel he had tried to kill me.”

Even though their marriage was spiraling apart, Hawke immediately left the Abbey of Gethsemani in Kentucky to fly to his wife’s side.

“I approached Quentin in very serious terms and told him that he had let Uma down as a director and as a friend,” he told me. He said he told Tarantino, “Hey, man, she is a great actress, not a stunt driver, and you know that.” Hawke added that the director “was very upset with himself and asked for my forgiveness.”

Two weeks after the crash, after trying to see the car and footage of the incident, she had her lawyer send a letter to Miramax, summarizing the event and reserving the right to sue.

Miramax offered to show her the footage if she signed a document “releasing them of any consequences of my future pain and suffering,” she says. She didn’t.

Well, certainly explains a lot of things...

[Skullfuckers Anonymous]

NYPD preparing to arrest Harvey Weinstein if his donation to Cy Vance doesn't clear by the end of the week.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-nypd-is-ready-to-arrest-harvey-weinstein-will-district-attorney-cy-vance-finally-agree-to-let-them

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

In one of the biggest "no shit" moments, Nickelodeon finally parts ways with Dan Schneider:

BREAKING: Nickelodeon officially parts ways with Dan Schneider. DHD reports "multiple complaints of abusive behavior against Schneider filed by members of his staff" "Under a cloud of suspicion over the treatment of some younger stars." "Well documented temper issues for years."

— Jeff Sneider (@TheInSneider) March 26, 2018

https://twitter.com/TheInSneider/status/978400201105801216

BREAKING: Nickelodeon officially parts ways with Dan Schneider. DHD reports "multiple complaints of abusive behavior against Schneider filed by members of his staff" "Under a cloud of suspicion over the treatment of some younger stars." "Well documented temper issues for years.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

triplepost lol

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

triplepost: how suspicious that the board decided to shit the bed when I posted this

[I'm a Puppy!]

Wow Dan Schneider posts on REE?

[I'm a Puppy!]

So, The Mormon (LDS) church is currently having some horrendous stuff come to light. There's this campus called the MTC (Missionary Training Center) where kids 18 - early 20s go to get trained to serve a mormon mission. These men and women are volunteering and PAYING to be there. Further, the building and maintenance and everything is subsidized by church tithing. In the past few days the following has come to light:

- Former MTC President admitted ON TAPE to sexually assaulting a woman in the 80s in the basement of the MTC
- Same guy admits on tape to grooming young women he might be able to sexually assault and to grooming at least one other young woman which he assualted
- One of the victims reported him to the church, they did nothing
- The dude was reported to the police, they did nothing
- The victim reported the guy again to the church they did nothing because they felt he had repented
- The victim records a 2 hour interview (without the guy's consent) with the guy where he admits to all these things
- The victim sends the tape to the church in January.  They actually do something. That thing they did? They took a bunch of LDS friendly law makers out to a fancy lunch in February and pushed for them to pass a law making it illegal to record someone without their consent
- The tape gets leaked
- The church issues a public statement where it casts aspersions on the victim saying "Oh she's a 'former mormon' who only served her mission shortly'" which is a HUGE dog whistle for active members to say this person can't be trusted and says the guy hasn't been disciplined because it's unclear what happened and if the allegations are true (this despite the fact the guy is on tape saying, "Yeah, I did that")
- Some in the church say "That's such a lie, nothing like that ever happened in the MTC"
- Several former staff from the MTC come out and say that they do remember a weird room in the basement with a bed in it

So in essence, we have an admission that a church leader was grooming young women volunteers, raping them in a church facility paid for with member tithes and the church will not discipline him and all my active mormon friends who threw a hissy fit and signed petitions because they felt that the NYT's obituary for their prophet last year wasn't adoring enough, all those people COMPLETELY quiet. 

It's entirely disgusting.

[TVC15]

So, The Mormon (LDS) church is currently having some horrendous stuff come to light. There's this campus called the MTC (Missionary Training Center) where kids 18 - early 20s go to get trained to serve a mormon mission. These men and women are volunteering and PAYING to be there. Further, the building and maintenance and everything is subsidized by church tithing. In the past few days the following has come to light:

- Former MTC President admitted ON TAPE to sexually assaulting a woman in the 80s in the basement of the MTC
- Same guy admits on tape to grooming young women he might be able to sexually assault and to grooming at least one other young woman which he assualted
- One of the victims reported him to the church, they did nothing
- The dude was reported to the police, they did nothing
- The victim reported the guy again to the church they did nothing because they felt he had repented
- The victim records a 2 hour interview (without the guy's consent) with the guy where he admits to all these things
- The victim sends the tape to the church in January.  They actually do something. That thing they did? They took a bunch of LDS friendly law makers out to a fancy lunch in February and pushed for them to pass a law making it illegal to record someone without their consent
- The tape gets leaked
- The church issues a public statement where it casts aspersions on the victim saying "Oh she's a 'former mormon' who only served her mission shortly'" which is a HUGE dog whistle for active members to say this person can't be trusted and says the guy hasn't been disciplined because it's unclear what happened and if the allegations are true (this despite the fact the guy is on tape saying, "Yeah, I did that")
- Some in the church say "That's such a lie, nothing like that ever happened in the MTC"
- Several former staff from the MTC come out and say that they do remember a weird room in the basement with a bed in it

So in essence, we have an admission that a church leader was grooming young women volunteers, raping them in a church facility paid for with member tithes and the church will not discipline him and all my active mormon friends who threw a hissy fit and signed petitions because they felt that the NYT's obituary for their prophet last year wasn't adoring enough, all those people COMPLETELY quiet. 

It's entirely disgusting.

But have they clarified their stance on MormonBoyz.com? They’re real Mormons, right?

[team filler]

the mormon chick from real world was hot

[thisismyusername]

In one of the biggest "no shit" moments, Nickelodeon finally parts ways with Dan Schneider:

BREAKING: Nickelodeon officially parts ways with Dan Schneider. DHD reports "multiple complaints of abusive behavior against Schneider filed by members of his staff" "Under a cloud of suspicion over the treatment of some younger stars." "Well documented temper issues for years."

— Jeff Sneider (@TheInSneider) March 26, 2018

https://twitter.com/TheInSneider/status/978400201105801216

BREAKING: Nickelodeon officially parts ways with Dan Schneider. DHD reports "multiple complaints of abusive behavior against Schneider filed by members of his staff" "Under a butt of suspicion over the treatment of some younger stars." "Well documented temper issues for years.

How long until he's got like Amir0x?

pic.twitter.com/0RzfIQJxSL

— An Open Secret (@AnOpenSecret) March 26, 2018

https://twitter.com/AnOpenSecret/status/978406107516424192

Creepy fuck.

[thisismyusername]

I think it should be noted that Nick didn't suggest anything like that as a reason for the partnership ending. Considering companies can't wait to broadcast they're getting rid of problematic people, I think it's just as likely that it's over the lack of hits coming form Schneider's company over the past 4-5 years.

Supposedly he blew up at Nick execs since his last show was getting cancelled days after they finished filming season 3. But still: I hope the other shoe drops and the meme of /tv/ is true because he gives off creeper vibes.

[TVC15]

I was just watching Scream on TV and

[Momo]

Dan Schneider not having actual weird shit in his closet would surprise the fuck out of me.

[dkdk]

I think it should be noted that Nick didn't suggest anything like that as a reason for the partnership ending. Considering companies can't wait to broadcast they're getting rid of problematic people, I think it's just as likely that it's over the lack of hits coming form Schneider's company over the past 4-5 years.

[kingv]

So, The Mormon (LDS) church is currently having some horrendous stuff come to light. There's this campus called the MTC (Missionary Training Center) where kids 18 - early 20s go to get trained to serve a mormon mission. These men and women are volunteering and PAYING to be there. Further, the building and maintenance and everything is subsidized by church tithing. In the past few days the following has come to light:

- Former MTC President admitted ON TAPE to sexually assaulting a woman in the 80s in the basement of the MTC
- Same guy admits on tape to grooming young women he might be able to sexually assault and to grooming at least one other young woman which he assualted
- One of the victims reported him to the church, they did nothing
- The dude was reported to the police, they did nothing
- The victim reported the guy again to the church they did nothing because they felt he had repented
- The victim records a 2 hour interview (without the guy's consent) with the guy where he admits to all these things
- The victim sends the tape to the church in January.  They actually do something. That thing they did? They took a bunch of LDS friendly law makers out to a fancy lunch in February and pushed for them to pass a law making it illegal to record someone without their consent
- The tape gets leaked
- The church issues a public statement where it casts aspersions on the victim saying "Oh she's a 'former mormon' who only served her mission shortly'" which is a HUGE dog whistle for active members to say this person can't be trusted and says the guy hasn't been disciplined because it's unclear what happened and if the allegations are true (this despite the fact the guy is on tape saying, "Yeah, I did that")
- Some in the church say "That's such a lie, nothing like that ever happened in the MTC"
- Several former staff from the MTC come out and say that they do remember a weird room in the basement with a bed in it

So in essence, we have an admission that a church leader was grooming young women volunteers, raping them in a church facility paid for with member tithes and the church will not discipline him and all my active mormon friends who threw a hissy fit and signed petitions because they felt that the NYT's obituary for their prophet last year wasn't adoring enough, all those people COMPLETELY quiet. 

It's entirely disgusting.

look he repented. If god can forgive him, why can't you?

[bluemax]

So, The Mormon (LDS) church is currently having some horrendous stuff come to light. There's this campus called the MTC (Missionary Training Center) where kids 18 - early 20s go to get trained to serve a mormon mission. These men and women are volunteering and PAYING to be there. Further, the building and maintenance and everything is subsidized by church tithing. In the past few days the following has come to light:

- Former MTC President admitted ON TAPE to sexually assaulting a woman in the 80s in the basement of the MTC
- Same guy admits on tape to grooming young women he might be able to sexually assault and to grooming at least one other young woman which he assualted
- One of the victims reported him to the church, they did nothing
- The dude was reported to the police, they did nothing
- The victim reported the guy again to the church they did nothing because they felt he had repented
- The victim records a 2 hour interview (without the guy's consent) with the guy where he admits to all these things
- The victim sends the tape to the church in January.  They actually do something. That thing they did? They took a bunch of LDS friendly law makers out to a fancy lunch in February and pushed for them to pass a law making it illegal to record someone without their consent
- The tape gets leaked
- The church issues a public statement where it casts aspersions on the victim saying "Oh she's a 'former mormon' who only served her mission shortly'" which is a HUGE dog whistle for active members to say this person can't be trusted and says the guy hasn't been disciplined because it's unclear what happened and if the allegations are true (this despite the fact the guy is on tape saying, "Yeah, I did that")
- Some in the church say "That's such a lie, nothing like that ever happened in the MTC"
- Several former staff from the MTC come out and say that they do remember a weird room in the basement with a bed in it

So in essence, we have an admission that a church leader was grooming young women volunteers, raping them in a church facility paid for with member tithes and the church will not discipline him and all my active mormon friends who threw a hissy fit and signed petitions because they felt that the NYT's obituary for their prophet last year wasn't adoring enough, all those people COMPLETELY quiet. 

It's entirely disgusting.

Literally nothing about this surprises me. The only part I'm not surprised about is the lack of him assaulting male missionaries, but then again they would've done something if that were the case.

SALT LAKE CITY —The LDS Church's First Presidency announced significant policy changes Monday, providing direction on how bishops and stake presidencies may conduct interviews with women and children and how they counsel victims of abuse and sexual abuse.

The changes specified that children, youth and women now may invite an adult to join them in what traditionally have been personal interviews. Some had said they were uncomfortable being interviewed one-on-one by a male priesthood leader.

The First Presidency also clarified to members of bishoprics and stake presidencies how they should respond to reports of sexual abuse and how to minister in those situations. The changes explicitly state that local leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints should never disregard a report of abuse and should never encourage members to remain in an abusive situation.

"To ensure the safety and protection of children, youth and adults, we ask that all priesthood and auxiliary leaders become familiar with existing church policies and guidelines on preventing and responding to abuse," stated the letter, which was signed by church President Russell M. Nelson and his counselors, President Dallin H. Oaks and President Henry B. Eyring.

Oh well! Everything is kosher now!

https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900013999/lds-first-presidency-letter-directs-leaders-to-review-teach-policies-on-preventing-responding-to-sex-abuse.html

[Brehvolution]

Watch your church cover for pedophiles, brehs.

[Joe Molotov]

I think it should be noted that Nick didn't suggest anything like that as a reason for the partnership ending. Considering companies can't wait to broadcast they're getting rid of problematic people, I think it's just as likely that it's over the lack of hits coming form Schneider's company over the past 4-5 years.

Supposedly he blew up at Nick execs since his last show was getting cancelled days after they finished filming season 3. But still: I hope the other shoe drops and the meme of /tv/ is true because he gives off creeper vibes.