Things get worse for Matt Lauer
https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/mat...ll-1203364485/
It's in French, so someone else on another forum I saw this from has summarized the main points:
-Valentine Monnier claims Polanski violently beat and raped her in his Gstaad chalet in 1975, shortly after she turned 18
-She decided to come forward after learning about his new film, specifically that it is titled J’accuse
-She has been contacting various political figures of the past 2 years, some of whom wrote back letters of support but told her it was too late to press charges
-Says she waited so long to come forward due to the psychological trauma that she suffered after the assault. For a long time she wanted to deny and forget what had happened.
-She met him while on a skiing trip with friends just after graduating high school
-Polanski initially asked her to have sex with him, she declined. This didn’t initially seem to bother him
-After having dinner together, he invited her back to his chalet before meeting up with her friends. Once there he attacked her almost immediately, with such violence that Monnier thought Polanski was going to kill her. After the attack he apologized in tears.
-She fled to the chalet of a friend of Polanski’s and told him what happened. He corroborates her account of the events and notes that she had various injuries when she arrived at his chalet
-Her best friend, boyfriend from that time, current husband, and brother all corroborate her account of the events, which has remained consistent across four decades
-Another friend of Polanski’s says that he ran into Valentine that night, and that she told him that he needed to get far away from Polanski due to problems that had arisen that night. He also says that Polanski had had psychological issues relating to women.
-Polanski denies the allegations
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
Ah, there it is. I always wondered why everyone (including me) originally assumed Polanski's assault against the American teen was a one-off event. (I've also wondered why nobody ever raised an eyebrow at Jack Nicholson.)
Also, aside from this news: Man oh man have been there a lot of whispers about Jeff Goldnblum in the last month.
Nicholson wasn't home when it happened. The help let Polanski in.Quoting Irish (view post)
There have been several other credible accusations against Polanski, and I don't see any reason not to believe Monnier's. I still like his movies.
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Uh huh. Do you think these things happen in a vacuum? Do you think that, when told about the rape, Nicholson expressed surprise?Quoting baby doll (view post)
I wasn't around & have never read the original reporting about Polanski's arrest or trial. But I've always wondered if anyone asked Jack is he knew what was going on in his own house.
After a Google search, it turns out Angelica Huston was in the house and Geimer remembers her getting suspicious and banging on the door at one point, although today Houston thinks what Polanski did was totally cool.Quoting Irish (view post)
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Fairly sure Jack has been in much worse situations then this one.
even worse for Hollywood in the Roaring 20's/30's.
Speaking of, apparently Nicholson is in a very bad state
Hasn’t shown his face publicly in years. People close to him say he is absolutely enormous, and suicidally depressed.
I don't know what to make of this, but Geimer is criticizing Monnier for not coming forward sooner:
Quoting Samantha Geimer
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
I haven't heard about being gigantic and depressed, but have heard that he's essentially got dementia or Alzheimer's. This is why he hasn't been able to act, because he can't remember lines anymore.Quoting megladon8 (view post)
Don't know if either are legit or not.
Nicholson was courtside at a Laker game earlier this year.
I don't know where you guys are getting "fat, depressed, shut-in."
I mean, he's also 82 years old so I wouldn't really expect the dude to be zipping around town turning up at parties and such.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/...182710866.html
Here's my source at leastQuoting Irish (view post)
He was supposed to do a remake of Toni Erdmann w/ Kristin Wiig, but I guess it fell apart, probably at least in part because of the reasons you stated. Honestly, it's for the best. Not a fan of Hollywood remakes of foreign films (aside from a few like The Departed).Quoting Ezee E (view post)
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Not defending his actions and I think he should still be held responsible, but I seriously think both surviving the holocaust (w/ his parents being killed in it) + his wife and unborn child being viciously slaughtered fucked him up mentally. The account above that he raped that actress and then was in tears afterwards screams mental illness.Quoting Irish (view post)
You might wanna source those "whispers" about Jeff Goldblum.
Ratings on a 1-10 scale for your pleasure:
Top Gun: Maverick - 8
Top Gun - 7
McCabe & Mrs. Miller - 8
Crimes of the Future - 8
Videodrome - 9
Valley Girl - 8
Summer of '42 - 7
In the Line of Fire - 8
Passenger 57 - 7
Everything Everywhere All at Once - 6
Polanski speaks: "It's crazy! I don't hit women! Sure, I've raped a few, who hasn't? But hitting them? Absolutely not! Absurd! They're making me out to be some kind of monster, a monster that hits women instead of just drugging and raping them."
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Talk on the radio this morning said Weinstein is getting off pretty much scott free.
A $25 million settlement that comes from the insurance company rather than his own pocket, and he doesn’t have to admit any wrong doing whatsoever.
Well, that monthly insurance will surely skyrocket :|Quoting megladon8 (view post)
The criminal case is still not over btw:
Mr. Weinstein is scheduled to be tried in Manhattan in early January on charges of sexual assault involving two women. On Wednesday, a state judge raised his bail after prosecutors accused him of mishandling his ankle monitor. While his criminal prosecution has drawn public attention, the largely hidden negotiations over civil claims have been far more consequential for many of his accusers, who include women from the United States, Canada, Britain and Ireland
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Yeah, I don't know what the publisher, who already had Ronan Farrow, was thinking with this one.
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
It's a separate imprint from the one that published Farrow's book.Quoting Peng (view post)
Personally, I'm of two minds about the whole thing. On the one hand, obviously the publisher is free to pull the book for any reason; it's not infringing on Allen's free speech to deny him a book deal. On the other hand, although I wasn't planning to read Allen's memoir, I'd like to make that decision for myself rather than having my reading choices dictated by a vengeful mob of self-appointed censors. This would still be the case even if Allen had been convicted of molesting his daughter.
Also, the argument that publishing and promoting Allen's book somehow harms Dylan Farrow in particular and victims of sexual assault in general strikes me as unpersuasive. The implication seems to be that society has a responsibility to Dylan Farrow to scrub any evidence of Allen's existence, past or present, from the public sphere, lest Farrow have to endure the trauma of being reminded that Allen is a person who exists. But if we accept that Farrow has a right to tell her story to whoever will listen, don't we also have to extend the same right to Allen? And shouldn't the rest of us be free to listen to Allen or ignore him as we choose? There's an unspoken authoritarian impulse underlying the Farrows' campaign to end and erase Allen's career in the name of social justice.
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
I think the outrage was more "Why do we keep applauding rapists and creepers?"Quoting baby doll (view post)
Hachette, a French company, made the braindead PR decision to make the announcement on the heels of Polanski winning a Cesar.
This culture claims to respect women and care about their lives and safety. But if we really do, then we can't hand major awards and book deals to people like Roman Polanski and Woody Allen.
Obviously, no. If you believe her story then she's a victim and he's a pedo. Why must we listen to pedos?
I think this is overstated. Allen's career is over and has been for awhile. Everybody realizes this but him. (I am so tired of septuagenarians who didn't have the good sense to die young or retire early.)
A book deal still carries prestige, which is why everybody in New York media wants one. The walk-outs and socially outraged aren't looking at this as if the book will simply be an object that exists in the world, for us to take interest in or not. They're looking at the whole of it: the hundreds of articles and hours of talk shows that will inevitably follow. There's enormous cultural baggage attached to a Woody Allen memoir and to pretend otherwise --- that it's just about publishing or censorship or any level of free speech --- is disingenous.
Last edited by Irish; 03-08-2020 at 06:58 AM.
My point is we're not required to listen to either of them; only that Allen has the same right as Farrow to tell his story to anyone willing to listen.Quoting Irish (view post)
Regarding the issue of cultural prestige, the Bayreuth Festival still goes on each year and is attended by the German political and social elite, yet I don't take this to be a sign that Angela Merkel endorses Wagner's antisemitism. I suppose one could ask, "Why do we keep applauding Jew-haters?" And the answer would be that we applaud Wagner for his operas, and Dostoevsky for his novels, rather than their antisemitism, even if it periodically crops up in their work. Obviously, even at his best, Allen was never as great an artist as Wagner or Dostoevsky, or even Polanski; my point is simply that praise for his films does not preclude a concern for the lives and safety of women.
Just because...
The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg, 2022) mild
Petite maman (Céline Sciamma, 2021) mild
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh, 2022) mild
The last book I read was...
The Complete Short Stories by Mark Twain
The (New) World
Exactly. I personally don't believe the Farrow's story so it's even worse from that perspective, but still, it's just plain censorship. I really hope it gets published somewhere else.Quoting baby doll (view post)
Last edited by Grouchy; 03-08-2020 at 05:22 PM.