January 8, 20187 yr On 2017-11-29 at 12:19 PM, Sanni said: Also will have to be on the lookout for what happens to director Brett Ratner. Also James Franco seems like he could be a shady character. New accusations coming out against James Franco tonight. Ali Sheedy also made comments this even on twitter, hinting that Franco was one of the reasons she left Hollywood. https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/01/ally-sheedy-james-franco-christian-slater-tweet-me-too/amp?__twitter_impression=true
January 8, 20187 yr @toodarnhot Thank you for the info! I wonder what Emma Watson witnessed on the set of This Is the End that made her feel that she could no longer be part of it. When one of the actors in the movie told Mila Kunis about it during an interview, she started the, “I would nevah, I can hang with the boys, I’m a cool girl!” posturing so hard that it was such a turn off for me.
January 9, 20187 yr Quote Lenny Kravitz Dating Brazilian Model Barbara Fialho Lenny Kravitz is dating Brazilian model Barbara Fialho and she has something in common with his own daughter ... they're practically the same age! Kravitz and the Victoria's Secret model, who's 30, packed on the PDA Sunday while taking a stroll in Miami. They met up with friends for lunch. Kravitz's own daughter is 29 and now stars on a Golden Globe winning TV show, "Big Little Lies," alongside Lenny's ex-fiancee, Nicole Kidman, so really nothing weird about this. Dude's still got it. tmz.com
January 13, 20187 yr Eliza Dushku accusing Joel Kramer of sexual assault when she was 12 years old. Kramer is a stunt coordinator with work on Blade Runner 2049, Star Trek Discovery, Furious 7. https://m.facebook.com/OfficialElizaDushku/posts/1769957739689557
January 16, 20187 yr Comedian Aziz Ansari has been accused of "bad behavior". He is a self proclaimed feminist, politically correct liberal, and is also Indian-American. Of interest is how some elements of the media defended him while others have not. Those that defend him say that he was only bad at picking up that woman. https://www.google.com/search?q=anzi+ansari&oq=anzi+ansari&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.3804j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 The irony is that he and an NYU academic sociologist wrote a book about the evolution of dating in America (1950- today). I read his book last summer. It was popular.
January 22, 20187 yr Today it's been 10 years that this lovely human being was going to a hopefully better place
February 1, 20187 yr Quote Kate Upton Accuses Guess' Paul Marciano of Sexual Harassment Kate Upton has accused the man behind fashion giant Guess of harassing women. Once the face of Guess, the model called out the label’s co-founder and chief creative officer, Paul Marciano, 65, on social media Wednesday. While Upton, 25, did not detail a specific incident, she shared her concerns about Marciano referring to the #MeToo movement. “It’s disappointing that such an iconic women’s brand @GUESS is still empowering Paul Marciano as their creative director #metoo,” Upton tweeted. Minutes later, Upton shared the same tweet on Instagram with the caption, “He shouldn’t be allowed to use his power in the industry to sexually and emotionally harass women #metoo.” A rep for Guess and Marciano did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment. people.com
February 1, 20187 yr Thank you for posting the news! Poor Kate There are so many stories out there that it’s hard to keep this thread updated.
February 1, 20187 yr Quote Investigator calls Robert Wagner a "person of interest" in Natalie Wood drowning death https://www.cbsnews.com/news/natalie-wood-death-robert-wagner-person-of-interest-says-investigator/ @jj3 Great! Always thought foul play was involved.
February 1, 20187 yr 11 minutes ago, Sanni said: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/natalie-wood-death-robert-wagner-person-of-interest-says-investigator/ @jj3 Great! Always thought foul play was involved. Yeah ? lol
February 1, 20187 yr 1 minute ago, jj3 said: Yeah ? lol I thought you’d be interested since there was talk about the case in Kate Upton’s thread one time. But you can move along now.
February 1, 20187 yr 6 minutes ago, Sanni said: I thought you’d be interested since there was talk about the case in Kate Upton’s thread one time. But you can move along now. Ah ok, i see the link now. Thanks anyway
February 1, 20187 yr Quote Guess Founder Paul Marciano Accused of Sexual Assault by Multiple Models Published January 31, 2018 at 7:18 pm PST By The Blast staff Last November, The Blast began an investigation into Guess co-founder Paul Marciano. A woman came forward to tell us her story, but she wished to remain anonymous because she did not want to be the first person to accuse Marciano of wrongdoing. During the course of our investigation, we uncovered a lawsuit against Marciano by a different woman who claimed he sexually assaulted her. The woman also filed a complaint against Marciano and Guess with the California Department Of Fair Employment and Housing. The lawsuit was settled. For a variety of reasons — including the fact that the woman ultimately did not want us to publish the story — we decided not to go forward with it at the time. On January 31, Kate Upton came forward to accuse Marciano of sexual misconduct. In light of this, we spoke to the accuser again and while she wishes to remain anonymous for now — we’ll refer to her as Jane Doe — she gave us her blessing to publish the story. Marciano denies all the allegations made against him. His statement is included in the story. A former model has come forward to accuse Guess co-founder Paul Marciano of sexually assaulting her during a private meeting with the fashion mogul. Jane, at the time an aspiring model, says in 2016 she messaged Marciano through social media after he began following her. The two began messaging back and forth and eventually set up a meeting in March of that year at the Guess headquarters in Los Angeles on a Saturday. Marciano brought Jane to his office where he talked about the other models’ careers he had nurtured, including Anna Nicole Smith. She says Marciano also criticized models today for being “too skinny,” and that he liked girls with “big boobs,” before taking her to “try on some dresses and outfits.” According to Jane, Marciano took her in a golf cart to a building on the Guess campus where the design team works. On that day, she says it was completely empty. Jane was given some dresses by Marciano to try on and went behind a curtain to begin undressing. Marciano opened the curtain, she says, watched her undress, and then began to comment on her body. Jane says she had recently lost weight, and when she told Marciano, he “reached over and pulled my breast out of the dress and said, ‘At least you still have your boobs.'” Jane says Marciano also tried to kiss her. “I kind of laughed and said, ‘I have a boyfriend’ and pushed him away,” she says, adding the incident was extremely awkward and uncomfortable and left her stunned. Jane quickly changed back into her clothes and made her exit. She says Marciano gave her some dresses and a purse as she left. As for why she didn’t report the incident or confront Marciano, Jane says, “Guess has been my dream ever since I was a little girl. I thought this is how girls get a campaign.” Jane tells us she shared the story with other friends of hers in the industry, including Guess employees, and said she was told Marciano’s behavior is well known in the fashion world and was told, “That’s just how it goes.” Jane says one female Guess photographer privately disclosed to her that Marciano is known for requesting private photos of models’ breasts from photo shoots. Paul Marciano denies all the allegations made by Jane Doe. We are told the company conducted an external investigation and found the claims did not have merit. A full statement is included, in its entirety, at the conclusion of the story. Immediately after the meeting with Marciano, Jane says she sent him a message over social media saying, “so lovely meeting you today, paul! I’ll probably be back early next month. Let me know if you will be in town.” Marciano did not respond. Jane tells us even though she was bothered by the groping incident, she still wanted to work with Guess for her career and knew Marciano was the gatekeeper. After the incident, Jane says she took a brief break from modeling because she “was disgusted with the industry and creepy people.” Jane says she did not hear from Marciano again until March of 2017 when he reached out to her after she posted a new modeling shot. According to the message, obtained by The Blast, Marciano said, “I am really happy that you went back to the look that you love!! You look great!” Jane told Marciano she felt more comfortable as a voluptuous model, and Marciano responded, “I Love that!!!! Are you [sic] boobs back? Picture?” Jane asked if she would finally land a Guess shoot if her “boobs were back,” to which Marciano replied, “I haven’t seen you for a year, i want to see them, talk to them.” Jane told Marciano she would be back in town in a couple of weeks. As for why Jane kept messaging with Marciano, she tells us getting a job was still very important to her, and she thought this was what needed to be done. A few weeks later, the two messaged again, with Jane telling Marciano she would be in Los Angeles and would like to talk about work. Marciano responded, “You have my WhatsApp. Can you send me boobs shots baby?” She responded, “Do you not want to work with me?” Marciano said, “Who told you that?” Jane then confronted the Guess founder, saying, “well the last time I saw you you grabbed my boobs when I was changing and I thought you only wanted to bring me there for sex rather than working with me.” Jane says Marciano was clearly caught off guard and defended himself by saying, “absolutely not,” claiming they only met for five minutes. She says Marciano wrote, “you showed me your boobs to tell me that you didn’t lose any weight.” Marciano then told Jane to “refresh your memory,” and “I don’t know how and why you will make up these stories.” He then wrote that her texts seemed “very strange. It reads like someone dictates you what to write.” That was the last conversation the two had. Jane tells us she felt “assaulted” and that Marciano is “taking advantage of his position of power, and promises a career if you play his game, but he’s just preying on the dreams of young girls.” Jane says she was empowered to come forward with her story after accusers surfaced against Harvey Weinstein. Not The First Time Marciano Has Been Accused of Sexual Assault While The Blast was investigating the recent claim of sexual assault, we were made aware of a lawsuit from 2009 filed by a woman named Lindsey Ring. Ring claims she was sexually assaulted while working for the company as a fit model, a person who is used by a fashion designer to check the fit of clothing. At the time, Marciano was the co-chairman and co-CEO of Guess. The lawsuit states that in May 2008, Paul Marciano “began to create a hostile work environment for Ms. Ring by making sexual comments to her, repeatedly touching her inappropriately and without her consent, and attempting on at least two occasions to fondle her sexually after taking her to a private area at the worksite, all of which was offensive to Ms. Ring and would have been offensive to any reasonable person.” Ring claims during fittings, Marciano “would run his hand up and down her breasts and her buttocks, telling her how nice it felt and commenting on the fit. He would also lean close to her and whisper that he wanted to ‘take her right there,’ that he was upset she was married, that she was beautiful and that he wanted to kiss her.” She also alleged senior employees at Guess joked that “Paul came to feel the fabric.” Ring says she complained about the behavior by Marciano but was told her career would be over if she publicly accused the fashion mogul of anything. She also filed a labor complaint against Marciano and Guess with the California Department Of Fair Employment and Housing, which was closed after she filed the lawsuit. Ring claims Marciano eventually called her on her personal cell phone and left a rambling message, admitting that his behavior had been wrong and saying he just wanted to see her again. The lawsuit was ultimately dismissed after the two parties reached a confidential settlement. Lindsey Ring left the modeling world soon after. Guess tells us they conducted an external investigation after Ring complained, but “did not find evidence to substantiate Ring’s claims of harassment or hostile work environment.” Paul Marciano Sends Employees to The Blast During Investigation During the early stages of our investigation — and after we had already begun speaking to a rep for Marciano — two female executives from Guess showed up unannounced at The Blast office in West Hollywood. By the way … our address was never provided to Marciano’s representative. Allison Joyce Shafii, Director of Advertising, and Renee Kelly, a VP of advertising, delivered a hand-written note from Marciano, along with several boxes containing the last 20 years of Guess catalogs. Kelly said she has known Marciano since 1985 and claimed he has been a caring mentor for years, and now even employs her daughter. The note from Marciano urged us to look at his scope of work in the catalogs provided and asked that we contact any of the models he worked with to ask about his behavior. We reached out to over 40 models who had worked with Guess at some point in time, including Kate Upton. Only a rep for Ireland Baldwin would comment on the record, saying, “We’ve worked with him many, many times and he’s always been extremely professional.” In response to our story, Guess gave us the following comment: Upon being contacted in November by The Blast, the Company immediately investigated with the assistance of outside counsel separate allegations that Mr. Marciano had acted inappropriately with two women. The investigation determined the following: One allegation was taken from a publicly available lawsuit that was filed in 2009. Mr. Marciano denied the allegation at that time, and a contemporaneous investigation conducted in 2009 by the Company and outside counsel did not corroborate the plaintiff’s claims. The second allegation concerns an aspiring model who is quoted anonymously in the story claiming inappropriate conduct in March 2016. Mr. Marciano also denies this allegation. To date, the current investigation has not corroborated either allegation, and the Board of Directors has been unable to determine that either accusation has merit. https://theblast.com/paul-marciano-guess-sexual-assault-accusations/
February 3, 20187 yr Quote This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry The actress is finally ready to talk about Harvey Weinstein. Maureen Dowd FEB. 3, 2018 Yes, Uma Thurman is mad. She has been raped. She has been sexually assaulted. She has been mangled in hot steel. She has been betrayed and gaslighted by those she trusted. And we’re not talking about her role as the blood-spattered bride in “Kill Bill.” We’re talking about a world that is just as cutthroat, amoral, vindictive and misogynistic as any Quentin Tarantino hellscape. We’re talking about Hollywood, where even an avenging angel has a hard time getting respect, much less bloody satisfaction. Playing foxy Mia Wallace in 1994’s “Pulp Fiction” and ferocious Beatrix Kiddo in “Kill Bill,” Volumes 1 (2003) and 2 (2004), Thurman was the lissome goddess in the creation myth of Harvey Weinstein and Quentin Tarantino. The Miramax troika was the ultimate in indie cool. A spellbound Tarantino often described his auteur-muse relationship with Thurman — who helped him conceive the idea of the bloody bride — as an Alfred Hitchcock-Ingrid Bergman legend. (With a foot fetish thrown in.) But beneath the glistening Oscar gold, there was a dark undercurrent that twisted the triangle. “Pulp Fiction” made Weinstein rich and respected, and Thurman says he introduced her to President Barack Obama at a fund-raiser as the reason he had his house. “The complicated feeling I have about Harvey is how bad I feel about all the women that were attacked after I was,” she told me one recent night, looking anguished in her elegant apartment in River House on Manhattan’s East Side, as she vaped tobacco, sipped white wine and fed empty pizza boxes into the fireplace. “I am one of the reasons that a young girl would walk into his room alone, the way I did. Quentin used Harvey as the executive producer of ‘Kill Bill,’ a movie that symbolizes female empowerment. And all these lambs walked into slaughter because they were convinced nobody rises to such a position who would do something illegal to you, but they do.” Thurman stresses that Creative Artists Agency, her former agency, was connected to Weinstein’s predatory behavior. It has since issued a public apology. “I stand as both a person who was subjected to it and a person who was then also part of the cloud cover, so that’s a super weird split to have,” she says. She talks mordantly about “the power from ‘Pulp,’” and reminds me that it’s in the Library of Congress, part of the American narrative. When asked about the scandal on the red carpet at the October premiere for her Broadway play, “The Parisian Woman,” an intrigue about a glamorous woman in President Trump’s Washington written by “House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon, she looked steely and said she was waiting to feel less angry before she talked about it. “I used the word ‘anger’ but I was more worried about crying, to tell you the truth,” she says now. “I was not a groundbreaker on a story I knew to be true. So what you really saw was a person buying time.” By Thanksgiving, Thurman had begun to unsheathe her Hattori Hanzo, Instagramming a screen shot of her “roaring rampage of revenge” monologue and wishing everyone a happy holiday, “(Except you Harvey, and all your wicked conspirators — I’m glad it’s going slowly — you don’t deserve a bullet) — stay tuned.” Stretching out her lanky frame on a brown velvet couch in front of the fire, Thurman tells her story, with occasional interruptions from her 5-year-old daughter with her ex, financier Arpad Busson. Luna is in her pj’s, munching on a raw cucumber. Her two older kids with Ethan Hawke, Maya, an actress, and Levon, a high school student, also drop by. In interviews over the years, Thurman has offered a Zen outlook — even when talking about her painful breakup from Hawke. (She had a brief first marriage to Gary Oldman.) Her hall features a large golden Buddha from her parents in Woodstock; her father, Robert Thurman, is a Buddhist professor of Indo-Tibetan studies at Columbia who thinks Uma is a reincarnated goddess. But beneath that reserve and golden aura, she has learned to be a street fighter. She says when she was 16, living in a studio apartment in Manhattan and starting her movie career, she went to a club one winter night and met an actor, nearly 20 years older, who coerced her afterward when they went to his Greenwich Village brownstone for a nightcap. “I was ultimately compliant,” she remembers. “I tried to say no, I cried, I did everything I could do. He told me the door was locked but I never ran over and tried the knob. When I got home, I remember I stood in front of the mirror and I looked at my hands and I was so mad at them for not being bloody or bruised. Something like that tunes the dial one way or another, right? You become more compliant or less compliant, and I think I became less compliant.” 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. Married to Hawke and with a baby daughter and a son on the way, Thurman went to the Cannes Film Festival in 2001. She says Tarantino noticed after a dinner that she was skittish around Weinstein, which was a problem, since they were all about to make “Kill Bill.” She says she reminded Tarantino that she had already told him about the Savoy incident, but “he probably dismissed it like ‘Oh, poor Harvey, trying to get girls he can’t have,’ whatever he told himself, who knows?” But she reminded him again and “the penny dropped for him. He confronted Harvey.” Later, by the pool under the Cypress trees at the luxurious Hotel du Cap, Thurman recalls, Weinstein said he was hurt and surprised by her accusations. She then firmly reiterated what happened in London. “At some point, his eyes changed and he went from aggressive to ashamed,” she says, and he offered her an apology with many of the sentiments he would trot out about 16 years later when the walls caved in. “I just walked away stunned, like ‘O.K., well there’s my half-assed apology,’” Thurman says. Weinstein confirmed Friday that he apologized, an unusual admission from him, which spurred Thurman to wryly note, “His therapy must be working.” Since the revelations about Weinstein became public last fall, Thurman has been reliving her encounters with him — and a gruesome episode on location for “Kill Bill” in Mexico made her feel as blindsided as the bride and as determined to get her due, no matter how long it took. With four days left, after nine months of shooting the sadistic saga, Thurman was asked to do something that made her draw the line. 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 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. Thurman says her mind meld with Tarantino was rattled. “We were in a terrible fight for years,” she explains. “We had to then go through promoting the movies. It was all very thin ice. We had a fateful fight at Soho House in New York in 2004 and we were shouting at each other because he wouldn’t let me see the footage and he told me that was what they had all decided.” Now, so many years after the accident, inspired by the reckoning on violence against women, reliving her own “dehumanization to the point of death” in Mexico, and furious that there have not been more legal repercussions against Weinstein, Thurman says she handed over the result of her own excavations to the police and ramped up the pressure to cajole the crash footage out of Tarantino. “Quentin finally atoned by giving it to me after 15 years, right?” she says. “Not that it matters now, with my permanently damaged neck and my screwed-up knees.” (Tarantino aficionados spy an echo of Thurman’s crash in his 2007 movie, “Death Proof,” produced by Weinstein and starring Thurman’s stunt double, Zoë Bell. Young women, including a blond Rose McGowan, die in myriad ways, including by slamming into a windshield.) As she sits by the fire on a second night when we talk until 3 a.m., tears begin to fall down her cheeks. She brushes them away. “When they turned on me after the accident,” she says, “I went from being a creative contributor and performer to being like a broken tool.” Thurman says that in “Kill Bill,” Tarantino had done the honors with some of the sadistic flourishes himself, spitting in her face in the scene where Michael Madsen is seen on screen doing it and choking her with a chain in the scene where a teenager named Gogo is on screen doing it. “Harvey assaulted me but that didn’t kill me,” she says. “What really got me about the crash was that it was a cheap shot. I had been through so many rings of fire by that point. I had really always felt a connection to the greater good in my work with Quentin and most of what I allowed to happen to me and what I participated in was kind of like a horrible mud wrestle with a very angry brother. But at least I had some say, you know?” She says she didn’t feel disempowered by any of it. Until the crash. “Personally, it has taken me 47 years to stop calling people who are mean to you ‘in love’ with you. It took a long time because I think that as little girls we are conditioned to believe that cruelty and love somehow have a connection and that is like the sort of era that we need to evolve out of.” A video of the crash: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/03/opinion/sunday/this-is-why-uma-thurman-is-angry.html Very alarming things she says about Quentin! I know Quentin was personally choking Diane Kruger in the scene where her character gets chocked to death in Inglourious Basterds. I remember him saying that he doesn’t like it when actors look like they are not really choking and that he and Diane have mutual trust so he was able to actually choke her for real for one take. And what Uma is saying reminds me of what Rose McGowan told: Quote 3. She says Robert Rodriguez played mind games on her In the chapter “Destruction,” McGowan recounts her affair with director Robert Rodriguez (Spy Kids, From Dusk till Dawn), with whom she worked on Planet Terror. She refers to him as RR in the book, but provides many identifiable details. McGowan says she trusted Rodriguez, 49, and opened up to him about her alleged assault by Weinstein. McGowan claims he used his knowledge against her by including a scene in which Quentin Tarantino, playing a character in his film, attacks McGowan’s character. “I was in a backward world,” she writes. “I was losing my grip on sanity.” And in an extra blow to McGowan, Rodriguez “sold our film to my monster.” (Planet Terror was distributed by Weinstein’s company Miramax.) In a statement to Vanity Fair, Rodriguez disputed McGowan’s account, while stating that he agreed “with what Rose is trying to do overall, which is continue to push for change both in our industry and beyond.” http://ew.com/books/2018/01/30/rose-mcgowan-plastic-surgery-book/
February 8, 20187 yr 'I'm Not Going to Let Him Intimidate Me Anymore.' Kate Upton Speaks Out on Alleged Harassment by Guess Co-Founder Paul Marciano http://time.com/5137456/kate-upton-paul-marciano-interview/ Quote As with so many other #MeToo moments, it began with a tweet. On Jan. 31, supermodel Kate Upton wrote, “It’s disappointing that such an iconic women’s brand @Guess is still empowering Paul Marciano as their creative director #metoo.” In an interview with TIME, Upton detailed her claims against Marciano, co-founder and former CEO of Guess, who she says assaulted and began harassing her during her first professional modeling campaign when she was 18. Harassment has plagued the fashion industry for decades, but allegations have often been ignored. Many models work as independent contractors and have few legal protections; In a statement to TIME, Marciano called Upton’s accusations “absolutely false” and “preposterous.” “I have never been alone with Kate Upton,” he said. “I have never touched her inappropriately. Nor would I ever refer to a Guess model in such a derogatory manner.” He added: “I fully support the #metoo movement. At the same time, I will not allow others to defame me and tarnish my reputation. I have pledged to Guess and its Board of Directors my full support and cooperation with a fair and impartial investigation.” A representative from Guess declined to comment. Photographer Yu Tsai says he witnessed the harassment Upton describes and corroborated details of her allegations TIME: What happened with Paul Marciano? Kate Upton: After the first day of shooting the Guess Lingerie campaign [on July 25, 2010], Paul Marciano said he wanted to meet with me. As soon as I walked in with photographer Yu Tsai, Paul came straight up to me, forcibly grabbed my breasts and started feeling them — playing with them actually. After I pushed him away, he said, “I’m making sure they’re real.” Despite doing everything I could physically do to avoid his touch throughout the meeting, he continued to touch me in a very dominating and aggressive way, grabbing my thighs, my arms to pull me closer, my shoulders to pull me closer, my neck, my breasts, and smelling me. He then told Yu Tsai to leave us alone. I was able to send a quick text to Yu Tsai asking him to stay. He did, but that did not stop Paul’s constant grabbing. I was extremely shaken, surprised and scared. At one point he forcibly grabbed the back of my head so that I could not move and started kissing my face and my neck. I remember not wanting to say “Get off of me” because I didn’t want to open my mouth to say anything because I didn’t want him to be able to put his tongue in my mouth. I had two options: do everything I could to wiggle away and avoid his pursuit, or punch the CEO of Guess. So I decided to just wiggle away. Then Paul insisted that he walk me up to my hotel room. I immediately declined. The only thing I was thinking is if he touches me like that in public, I can’t imagine what he’d try to do in private. Thankfully, Yu Tsai stepped in and insisted he’d do it. I was so relieved and felt like I had barely escaped. The next Guess shoot I worked on was about a month later. As soon as I went up to my hotel room, Paul started calling me asking to come up and see how my room is. I politely declined several times. He continued to insist. He said he was already in the hotel lobby. He even called my room from the hotel lobby desk. After several denials, I just turned off my phone and locked the door and tried to get some sleep. I was terrified. All I could think was if he was able to get into my room it would not be good. The next day, I learned that I had been fired from the shoot. Someone had called my agency to say I had gotten fat and would not be needed on set [that day]. I was devastated, especially because at this point no one from Guess had even seen me. But Guess continued asking you to work with them after that. I talked to Yu Tsai about how scared I was and said I couldn’t do it anymore. I couldn’t shoot anymore if this was how it was going to work. We came up with a plan that anytime Paul invites himself to my room, I would text Yu Tsai to be there so that I was never alone in a room with him. I was still very nervous and scared because clearly Paul was comfortable with touching me in front of him. But Yu Tsai assured me that he would look out for me, so that’s what we did. After that, Paul was reaching out to me constantly, always in communication about my next shoot. But I wouldn’t officially be booked until a few days before the actual shoot. It made me feel that if I cut off communication with him, I wouldn’t be booked again. Paul’s texting increased, telling me how excited he was to see me, that he wanted me to change in front of him so he could see my naked body getting into his clothes. He asked if I thought of him when I was posing sexy on set. All the language he used was extremely dominant and possessive. At one point, to avoid Paul coming to set, I told him my boyfriend was going to be there. He was absolutely furious at that. It was an emotional and non-stop battle of games, power struggles and creative avoidance tactics. Then in what seemed to be retaliation, Yu Tsai was fired from the next shoot, which was Guess Jeans [between Sept. 30 and Oct. 2, 2010]. That’s when I worked with the photographer Ellen von Unwerth. Paul’s behaviors became much more aggressive without Yu Tsai there as a buffer. My denials to Paul had to be much more direct. Then I was told the morning of the shoot I was not needed on set and was fired again. I believe that Ellen insisted that I come anyway. Ellen and I rode together on the way back to the hotel. I remember her asking me if I was friends with Paul because he seemed to really like me. I wasn’t sure how much was safe to reveal, so I told her that I appreciated the opportunities Paul had given me to be a part of his campaign, but I think that maybe he liked me a little too much. When we arrived at the hotel, Paul came right up to me, grabbed me hard by my arm and insisted he was taking me to dinner, just him and I, to celebrate the campaign. Ellen picked up on this, literally grabbed my other arm, and invited herself by saying she was so excited to celebrate the campaign with us. Paul told her she was not invited to dinner, and I felt like she saved me by pulling me away from him and jokingly walking me to the elevator, saying, “Well if I’m not going, Kate’s not going.” I have always been so grateful to Ellen for doing that. [A representative for von Unwerth said she supported Upton but did not recall the particular incident.] After that he was extremely upset. I had a final shoot [in May of 2011], and he was outwardly rude and degrading the entire time. He said I was “disgusting” and started telling people how unprofessional I was by spreading rumors that I was drunk on set and partying every night, which of course I wasn’t. I was then told to leave because Paul had said, “Get that fat pig off my set.” What happened after you stopped working with Guess in 2011? I went on to be extremely successful because of my Sports Illustrated cover. Guess Jeans reached out to my agency and offered me their campaign again in 2012. Typically, Guess pays well below industry standards since they like to say they like to launch young models’ careers. But for this campaign, they offered me $400,000, which at the time was their highest paying offer ever. I remember I had an internal struggle over this offer. I was hoping after my consistent denials and successful career, that Paul would treat me with professionalism. But as we got closer to the shoot date, Paul began texting that he would make sure to be on set. He told me that I wasn’t allowed to bring my boyfriend. I just couldn’t do it. I refused the campaign. I couldn’t accept the money. I walked away about a week before the shoot was scheduled. How did the experience impact you? It took a huge toll on my confidence and self-worth. I wanted to quit modeling. I constantly blamed myself after it happened: What am I doing to invite someone to treat me like that or grab me like that? I wondered if it was how I was presenting myself or what I was wearing. I started slumping my shoulders to hide my breast size, wearing baggy clothes, started despising my own body. Over time, you minimize and internalize your experiences. You chalk it up to, “This is how it is.” And you go through this gut-wrenching struggle of, “How much of myself am I required to sacrifice?” I got through it because of the strong support of my family and close friends. I’m sick of being silenced and expected to sweep everything under the rug. I’m sick of being expected to laugh off these aggressive advances and accept the power imbalances that exist. I’m sick of being expected to endure all of this while being polite and professional through it all. Paul used his power to make me feel insecure and powerless, but I’m not going to let him intimidate me anymore. These men think they are untouchable, but times are changing. On a fashion shoot, is it clear how you can report abuse? No, not at all. You have no idea who to tell. And you’re constantly told about the models who are O.K. with this behavior and how successful they are. So you’re pressured to be O.K. with it. What needs to change about the industry to prevent these abuses of power? The culture of complacency and tolerance in our industry needs to stop. People know what is going on and have previously accepted it. And we can’t always require the victims to be the ones to speak up and tell their story because the victims only know their one story. The people around in the corporate offices or around the harassers every day know of every time they do this. They’re the ones who need to speak out. Also, right now, everyone around models is incentivized to tell them not to ruffle any feathers. If the models don’t get paid, the agencies and managers and everyone around them doesn’t get their cut. Agencies need to be stronger when they hear these stories. They’re saying, “Oh, Kate’s not O.K. with this” and bringing in the next model. The next model needs to know why I’m not O.K. with this. The response from some [to this movement] has been, “It’s not that bad” or “other men are much worse than him” or “at least it wasn’t rape.” Those are unacceptable statements. That’s our only line? At least he didn’t rape her? That’s a scary office to be in. We shouldn’t have to take a step back to a time when women weren’t invited to networking events or one-on-one meetings. I don’t want an environment where women can only work with women or vice versa. Good men do exist. I’m very lucky to know that because of my wonderful husband and father and brother. But we need to make sure we’re hiring men with respect for women — not their bodies, but their minds and professionalism. Some harassers in fashion have defended themselves by saying that the lines are blurred when you’re shooting a sexy photo. Honestly, fashion is not any different from any industry. When I come on set, I’m very professional, everyone around me is very professional. Not even stylists touch my body without my consent. They ask me before they do. Nobody has a right over my body just because they view me as sexy or a sex icon. I think people need to be educated on the definition of consent. I don’t think there are any blurred lines in this. I don’t think you should be touching people at the workplace, and I don’t think you should be sexually speaking to a model as they’re doing their profession. I’m not thinking of any man while I’m on a shoot. The reason I’m there and the reason I’m feeling sexy is because I’m empowering myself. This is my body and my workplace. I am just doing my job.
February 8, 20187 yr I believe her. I wonder if this is part of the reason why she left IMG. Also, I can’t help but think that Marciano probably did something similar or worse to Anna Nicole Smith since he discovered her on the front cover of Playboy and her stripper past and geriatric boyfriend were no secrets.
February 14, 20187 yr 1 hour ago, ptn247 said: Oh dear... what is she doing.. She must be at rock bottom. No accounting for taste though so if that's what she wants then ... Maybe he's a great guy... I don’t think so, his instagram is weird af and he throws the n word around like confetti
February 17, 20187 yr https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2018/02/16/beauty-and-ugly-truth/c7r0WVsF5cib1pLWXJe9dP/story.html Patrick Demarchelier David Bellemere Greg Kadel Karl Templer Andre Passos Seth Sabal Paul Marciano Some people on tfs suggest that the next ones will be Mert Alas and Steven Meisel... I'm waiting #timesup
February 17, 20187 yr ^ Mario Testino and Bruce Weber were mentioned for sexually harassing male models. ETA And of course the name that is ever present in this kind of context, Terry Richardson.
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