toxic hippie
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I was speaking about your attempt to connect her waiting a year to come out and Hillary being good friends with Harvey.
I've seen you link to infowars on here.
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Harvey Weinstein and the CASTING COUCH!
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I was speaking about your attempt to connect her waiting a year to come out and Hillary being good friends with Harvey.
I've seen you link to infowars on here.
Well, I guess all has been laid bare. No more secrets in Hollywood. We now know the very worst of it, right? Some older white guys make inappropriate advances toward attractive younger ladies they encounter in the workplace. Horrifying.
Its so reassuring when people like Hilary Clinton and his brother denounce him - we know he has no friends and this isn't a network or anything like that, its just him the buck stops there and theres nothing more to see there in Hollywood. Thats the impression I get from everything I see and hear in the news and in the media. Its reassuring because we know how honest and impartial the reporting is and if there was anything else going on, even worse stuff, they would investigate and expose it all. So yeah, one fat old man getting saucy with pretty young stuff is
the big Hollywood secret, now unveiled.
Its so reassuring when people like Hilary Clinton and his brother denounce him - we know he has no friends and this isn't a network or anything like that, its just him the buck stops there and theres nothing more to see there in Hollywood. Thats the impression I get from everything I see and hear in the news and in the media. Its reassuring because we know how honest and impartial the reporting is and if there was anything else going on, even worse stuff, they would investigate and expose it all. So yeah, one fat old man getting saucy with pretty young stuff is
the big Hollywood secret, now unveiled.
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Next to be exposed will be the sexual abuse of children in Hollywood .
They are still hiding that one as best they can
They are still hiding that one as best they can
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Once a fixture of downtown New York, Weinstein is now a ghost amid scandal....
Harvey Weinstein had an array of haunts he frequented for years before he was accused by over a dozen women of making unwanted sexual advances
The atmosphere in the Tribeca Grill was convivial. The mix of diners came from finance, film, media consulting or marketing, with a smattering of well-behaved tourists.
Weinstein expelled from Academy over sexual assault allegations
Read more
There was the buzz of conversation and laughter, against a backdrop of low intensity music and lighting, amid expressionist art on the exposed brick walls. A dozen suited banker types filed in down the side of the upmarket bistro and disappeared through a doorway next to the kitchen, which leads to the private dining area.
That’s where movie giant Harvey Weinstein was a regular fixture, using the restaurant – in which he was an original investor when Robert De Niro opened it in 1990 – like an office cafeteria, because the headquarters of his now-ex company are in the same building. It is also where he would invite young models and actresses in what turned out, by some accounts, to be a prelude to the casting couch upstairs.
Weinstein has now been accused by more than a dozen women of making unwanted sexual advances. He has said many of the details are inaccurate, has denied accusations of criminal sexual harassment, rape, and sexual assault. Sallie Hofmeister, a spokesperson for Weinstein said last week: “Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein … with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual.”
Three women accuse Weinstein of rape as Paltrow and Jolie allege sexual harassment.
On Thursday evening, as waiters at the Tribeca Grill, dressed in black whirled among the tables ranged around a central bar, carrying pan-seared salmon, fettuccine with “butcher’s ragu” and roasted Amish chicken from the solid New American menu, there was something missing. That something was Weinstein, who had been fired and was 2,400 miles away beginning sex addiction rehab in Arizona after explosive reports accusing him of decades of sexual assault and harassment of female protégés, as first revealed 10 days ago by the New York Times.
The restaurant and office building, on the corner of a cobbled street in the expensive , post-industrial Tribeca neighborhood of loft apartments, designer boutiques, fitness studios and intimate coffee and wine bars in lower Manhattan, is – or was - the cornerstone of Weinstein’s downtown world.
Here, the impresario lumbered in and out of limousines that whisked him from film screening to after-party, from office to restaurant, to nightclub, to hotel suite, accumulating objects of his attraction along the way and encounters that ended in scandal behind closed doors.
Someone who has worked in close proximity to the movie mogul for a number of years confided, on a darkened sidewalk around the corner from the grill, simply: “Harvey Weinstein is boorish. He is not a nice person. That’s all I need to say.” He wouldn’t give his name before scuttling off into the night.
A handful of short blocks away gleams the single, tall, glass skyscraper called One World Trade, which eventually replaced the twin towers of the old World Trade Center that were destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, at what may always now be known as “Ground Zero”. That other downtown cultural figurehead, Robert De Niro, created the Tribeca Film Festival the spring after 9/11 to help revive the blighted lower Manhattan scene and lift the creative spirits of a city still in shock.
The annual festival endures and its offices sit a few floors above The Weinstein Company’s, also in the same building as the Tribeca Grill, at 375 Greenwich Street.
Someone who works on the artistic side of the festival paused on the street after leaving the office, between an Issey Miyake boutique and a designer lighting store, and said: “We work in the same building and I’ve always been very glad I’m not working for him. You see him around. Let’s just say he’s larger than life. Loud. Aggressive.”
The festival company is run by film producers Jane Rosenthal and Paula Weinstein (no relation).
“Our company is kind of matriarchal, it’s run by women, and the working atmosphere is great, really collaborative and encouraging, I love it there. They really support women in the industry, um, in a different way than Harvey supports women in the industry,” he said, asking that his name not be disclosed because he was not authorized to speak.
Just moments away, is the retro-style Roxy Hotel, which recently changed its name from the Tribeca Grand, and was another chosen haunt of the movie mogul.
In 2010, Weinstein held astarry screening at the hotel for The King’s Speech, his triumphant comeback film after a creative hiatus during several years of acrimony after Disney bought Harvey and his brother Bob’s original movie company, Miramax.
But in 2015, Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez wore a police wire there, which recorded her pleading with Weinstein as he bullied and threatened her when she wouldn’t go into his hotel room, while he also apologised for groping her previously, as revealed in the New Yorker.
The day before, she had gone to his office for what she thought was a business meeting, after encountering Weinstein at a reception in midtown Manhattan for a show he was producing at the legendary Radio City Music Hall, she said.
But at 375 Greenwich Street, Weinstein lunged at Gutierrez on an office couch, she later told the New York Police Department, groping her breasts and trying to get his hand up her skirt. Prosecutors reviewed the wire conversation and decided there was not enough evidence to charge Weinstein.
He had also allegedly perpetrated a sexual assault at the offices with aspiring actress Lucia Evans in 2004, just one of dozens of accusations now piling up against Weinstein.
Evans had first met him at yet another pillar of the downtown New York scene, Cipriani Downtown, the SoHo branch of the grand family restaurant chain, on West Broadway, she has said.
Where Tribeca Grill is warmly elegant, Cipriani Downtown screams glitz. Piercingly lit and spilling out on to the sidewalk beneath a taxi-yellow awning, patrons drink, eat, eyeball, cluster, swivel, jostle and bling, all cheek-by-jowl in a constant showcase as waiters in white dinner jackets and white bow ties swing through with bubbly cocktails mixed behind the bar by the jug. There’s a giant sculpture of a shark in attack mode on the sidewalk and a metal charging bull on top of the dessert case inside.
There’s a preponderance of tall, thin, blonde women and slick men in suits with shirts opened half way down their chests, and a vivid palate of accents. Porsches draw up outside, spill out the prosperous, and roar off.
Who comes here, mainly? A barman shrugs. “Models. You should have seen it during Fashion Week, it was craaaaaaazy.”
Two guys hustle up to the bar. What industry are you guys in? “Finance.” Bankers and models, why is that such a cliche? “Well, they need someone to pay for their boob jobs,” said one of the men, giggling. This was just the calm before the storm. Late at night, with a great flourish, the restaurant lowers folding steps down to the ground from above the front door, creating a coveted stairway to what some consider heaven – a private lounge-club with an elusive guest list, bouncers and plenty of buzz, called the Socialista. It heats up around midnight and goes until 4am. In 2004, the lounge was called Cipriani Upstairs, where Evans said she was approached by Weinstein, who ultimately invited her to an office meeting at what was then Miramax, where he is alleged to have forced her to give him oral sex.
A Cipriani staffer who was rearranging chairs outside next to the shark said: “Oh yes, Harvey is here all the time. Or he was. It’s very sad. He never did anything bad to me and he brought us a lot of business. He’s like family, a very good friend of the owner, we love him.”
In a different compartment of his life, but again just a few blocks away, is Weinstein’s splendid townhouse in New York’s still-charming West Village, where he moved after marrying Georgina Chapman, 41, with whom the 65-year-old Weinstein has a daughter, seven, and a son, four. He has three daughters from his first marriage.
Analysis The Weinstein Company faces fight for survival with or without a new name
Entertainment experts say the company is vulnerable to investor and victim lawsuits – and some board members are believed to be pushing for a sale.
Weinstein held a glamorous fundraiser here for Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign.
He’s known Hillary and Bill Clinton for decades and threw a party for them at the now-defunct, legendary artsy-establishment restaurant Elaine’s in 2000. Weinstein was a bit more of an uptown man back in the 90s. He lived with his first wife, Eve Chilton, overlooking Central Park, and was more often seen at screenings near Lincoln Center and famous watering holes such as the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Plaza, and the Four Seasons.
Born in Flushing in the city borough of Queens, Weinstein is a proud, native New Yorker. Apart from his college years upstate in Buffalo and despite blazing trails through Los Angeles, London and Cannes, he has loomed over New York for decades. But for many, growing evidence suggests, his presence was oppressive.Back downtown, the pleasant air of calm settling over the Tribeca Grill dining room last week could very well have been the sign of a neighborhood exhaling with relief.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...ew-york-weinstein-is-now-a-ghost-amid-scandal
Harvey Weinstein had an array of haunts he frequented for years before he was accused by over a dozen women of making unwanted sexual advances
The atmosphere in the Tribeca Grill was convivial. The mix of diners came from finance, film, media consulting or marketing, with a smattering of well-behaved tourists.
Weinstein expelled from Academy over sexual assault allegations
Read more
There was the buzz of conversation and laughter, against a backdrop of low intensity music and lighting, amid expressionist art on the exposed brick walls. A dozen suited banker types filed in down the side of the upmarket bistro and disappeared through a doorway next to the kitchen, which leads to the private dining area.
That’s where movie giant Harvey Weinstein was a regular fixture, using the restaurant – in which he was an original investor when Robert De Niro opened it in 1990 – like an office cafeteria, because the headquarters of his now-ex company are in the same building. It is also where he would invite young models and actresses in what turned out, by some accounts, to be a prelude to the casting couch upstairs.
Weinstein has now been accused by more than a dozen women of making unwanted sexual advances. He has said many of the details are inaccurate, has denied accusations of criminal sexual harassment, rape, and sexual assault. Sallie Hofmeister, a spokesperson for Weinstein said last week: “Any allegations of non-consensual sex are unequivocally denied by Mr Weinstein … with respect to any women who have made allegations on the record, Mr Weinstein believes that all of these relationships were consensual.”
Three women accuse Weinstein of rape as Paltrow and Jolie allege sexual harassment.
On Thursday evening, as waiters at the Tribeca Grill, dressed in black whirled among the tables ranged around a central bar, carrying pan-seared salmon, fettuccine with “butcher’s ragu” and roasted Amish chicken from the solid New American menu, there was something missing. That something was Weinstein, who had been fired and was 2,400 miles away beginning sex addiction rehab in Arizona after explosive reports accusing him of decades of sexual assault and harassment of female protégés, as first revealed 10 days ago by the New York Times.
The restaurant and office building, on the corner of a cobbled street in the expensive , post-industrial Tribeca neighborhood of loft apartments, designer boutiques, fitness studios and intimate coffee and wine bars in lower Manhattan, is – or was - the cornerstone of Weinstein’s downtown world.
Here, the impresario lumbered in and out of limousines that whisked him from film screening to after-party, from office to restaurant, to nightclub, to hotel suite, accumulating objects of his attraction along the way and encounters that ended in scandal behind closed doors.
Someone who has worked in close proximity to the movie mogul for a number of years confided, on a darkened sidewalk around the corner from the grill, simply: “Harvey Weinstein is boorish. He is not a nice person. That’s all I need to say.” He wouldn’t give his name before scuttling off into the night.
A handful of short blocks away gleams the single, tall, glass skyscraper called One World Trade, which eventually replaced the twin towers of the old World Trade Center that were destroyed in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, at what may always now be known as “Ground Zero”. That other downtown cultural figurehead, Robert De Niro, created the Tribeca Film Festival the spring after 9/11 to help revive the blighted lower Manhattan scene and lift the creative spirits of a city still in shock.
The annual festival endures and its offices sit a few floors above The Weinstein Company’s, also in the same building as the Tribeca Grill, at 375 Greenwich Street.
Someone who works on the artistic side of the festival paused on the street after leaving the office, between an Issey Miyake boutique and a designer lighting store, and said: “We work in the same building and I’ve always been very glad I’m not working for him. You see him around. Let’s just say he’s larger than life. Loud. Aggressive.”
The festival company is run by film producers Jane Rosenthal and Paula Weinstein (no relation).
“Our company is kind of matriarchal, it’s run by women, and the working atmosphere is great, really collaborative and encouraging, I love it there. They really support women in the industry, um, in a different way than Harvey supports women in the industry,” he said, asking that his name not be disclosed because he was not authorized to speak.
Just moments away, is the retro-style Roxy Hotel, which recently changed its name from the Tribeca Grand, and was another chosen haunt of the movie mogul.
In 2010, Weinstein held astarry screening at the hotel for The King’s Speech, his triumphant comeback film after a creative hiatus during several years of acrimony after Disney bought Harvey and his brother Bob’s original movie company, Miramax.
But in 2015, Italian model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez wore a police wire there, which recorded her pleading with Weinstein as he bullied and threatened her when she wouldn’t go into his hotel room, while he also apologised for groping her previously, as revealed in the New Yorker.
The day before, she had gone to his office for what she thought was a business meeting, after encountering Weinstein at a reception in midtown Manhattan for a show he was producing at the legendary Radio City Music Hall, she said.
But at 375 Greenwich Street, Weinstein lunged at Gutierrez on an office couch, she later told the New York Police Department, groping her breasts and trying to get his hand up her skirt. Prosecutors reviewed the wire conversation and decided there was not enough evidence to charge Weinstein.
He had also allegedly perpetrated a sexual assault at the offices with aspiring actress Lucia Evans in 2004, just one of dozens of accusations now piling up against Weinstein.
Evans had first met him at yet another pillar of the downtown New York scene, Cipriani Downtown, the SoHo branch of the grand family restaurant chain, on West Broadway, she has said.
Where Tribeca Grill is warmly elegant, Cipriani Downtown screams glitz. Piercingly lit and spilling out on to the sidewalk beneath a taxi-yellow awning, patrons drink, eat, eyeball, cluster, swivel, jostle and bling, all cheek-by-jowl in a constant showcase as waiters in white dinner jackets and white bow ties swing through with bubbly cocktails mixed behind the bar by the jug. There’s a giant sculpture of a shark in attack mode on the sidewalk and a metal charging bull on top of the dessert case inside.
There’s a preponderance of tall, thin, blonde women and slick men in suits with shirts opened half way down their chests, and a vivid palate of accents. Porsches draw up outside, spill out the prosperous, and roar off.
Who comes here, mainly? A barman shrugs. “Models. You should have seen it during Fashion Week, it was craaaaaaazy.”
Two guys hustle up to the bar. What industry are you guys in? “Finance.” Bankers and models, why is that such a cliche? “Well, they need someone to pay for their boob jobs,” said one of the men, giggling. This was just the calm before the storm. Late at night, with a great flourish, the restaurant lowers folding steps down to the ground from above the front door, creating a coveted stairway to what some consider heaven – a private lounge-club with an elusive guest list, bouncers and plenty of buzz, called the Socialista. It heats up around midnight and goes until 4am. In 2004, the lounge was called Cipriani Upstairs, where Evans said she was approached by Weinstein, who ultimately invited her to an office meeting at what was then Miramax, where he is alleged to have forced her to give him oral sex.
A Cipriani staffer who was rearranging chairs outside next to the shark said: “Oh yes, Harvey is here all the time. Or he was. It’s very sad. He never did anything bad to me and he brought us a lot of business. He’s like family, a very good friend of the owner, we love him.”
In a different compartment of his life, but again just a few blocks away, is Weinstein’s splendid townhouse in New York’s still-charming West Village, where he moved after marrying Georgina Chapman, 41, with whom the 65-year-old Weinstein has a daughter, seven, and a son, four. He has three daughters from his first marriage.
Analysis The Weinstein Company faces fight for survival with or without a new name
Entertainment experts say the company is vulnerable to investor and victim lawsuits – and some board members are believed to be pushing for a sale.
Weinstein held a glamorous fundraiser here for Hillary Clinton during her 2016 presidential campaign.
He’s known Hillary and Bill Clinton for decades and threw a party for them at the now-defunct, legendary artsy-establishment restaurant Elaine’s in 2000. Weinstein was a bit more of an uptown man back in the 90s. He lived with his first wife, Eve Chilton, overlooking Central Park, and was more often seen at screenings near Lincoln Center and famous watering holes such as the Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Plaza, and the Four Seasons.
Born in Flushing in the city borough of Queens, Weinstein is a proud, native New Yorker. Apart from his college years upstate in Buffalo and despite blazing trails through Los Angeles, London and Cannes, he has loomed over New York for decades. But for many, growing evidence suggests, his presence was oppressive.Back downtown, the pleasant air of calm settling over the Tribeca Grill dining room last week could very well have been the sign of a neighborhood exhaling with relief.
https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...ew-york-weinstein-is-now-a-ghost-amid-scandal
Actually, when I heard Hanoi Jane's spot on the news program that she regretted remaining silent for 1 year, I immediately connected it to the election season.
Guess greater minds think alike. LOL, I am surprised that you didn't make the connection until you read it on infowars.
Political hacks (and Hanoi Jane has a very large piece of real estate when it comes to our nations' politics) never do things "accidentally" during an election cycle; everything is "strategized"--meaning she purposely withheld her voice for the "better good" and now she is "sorry" (sorry that Hillary lost? or sorry that she kept her mouth shut?).
toxic hippie
Member
Everyone that kept quiet about this did so out of fear of the repercussion the comes from a very powerful and connected person such as Harvey. The man could make or break careers. Little did they know he had been doing this for decades.
I don't read infowars...there's enough of the tin foil logic here on ic that I get my fill.
I have no clue why she kept quiet....personally couldn't care. IMO everyone that kept quiet is almost as bad as Harvey himself.
truth is, that when they throw his ass in jail, he'll up n' die pronto.
Child molesters are #1 on the hate parade in the joint, rapists rank #2.
Harvey's NOT gonna like the food nor the room service.......
toxic hippie
Member
Last I heard losing his mind in the slammer
Exactly, absolutely no way Tarantino didn't know... at best..
The body count keeps rising, more women speaking out, and more of Harvey's friends dragged in. Tarantino and Corden (no, we don't want him back, thanks) Woody Allen is probably toast and we may finally get some of the paedophiles that Corey Haim spoke of.
All in all, it has been far more entertaining than most of the movies they have put out lately.
A Family Affair...
Bro had came out and blasted his brother...oops.
Bob Weinstein Accused of Sexual Harassment by TV Showrunner
A female showrunner who worked on the Weinstein Co. drama “The Mist” has accused Bob Weinstein of sexual harassment during the production of the Spike TV series.
Amanda Segel, an executive producer of “Mist,” said Weinstein repeatedly made romantic overtures to her and asked her to join him for private dinners. The harassment began in the summer of 2016 and continued on and off for about three months until Segel’s lawyer, David Fox of Myman Greenspan, informed TWC executives — including COO David Glasser — that she would leave the show if Bob Weinstein did not stop contacting her on personal matters.
“ ‘No’ should be enough,” Segel told Variety. “After ‘no,’ anybody who has asked you out should just move on. Bob kept referring to me that he wanted to have a friendship. He didn’t want a friendship. He wanted more than that. My hope is that ‘no’ is enough from now on.”
More... https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/bob-weinstein-sexual-harassment-1202592165/
Bro had came out and blasted his brother...oops.
Bob Weinstein Accused of Sexual Harassment by TV Showrunner
A female showrunner who worked on the Weinstein Co. drama “The Mist” has accused Bob Weinstein of sexual harassment during the production of the Spike TV series.
Amanda Segel, an executive producer of “Mist,” said Weinstein repeatedly made romantic overtures to her and asked her to join him for private dinners. The harassment began in the summer of 2016 and continued on and off for about three months until Segel’s lawyer, David Fox of Myman Greenspan, informed TWC executives — including COO David Glasser — that she would leave the show if Bob Weinstein did not stop contacting her on personal matters.
“ ‘No’ should be enough,” Segel told Variety. “After ‘no,’ anybody who has asked you out should just move on. Bob kept referring to me that he wanted to have a friendship. He didn’t want a friendship. He wanted more than that. My hope is that ‘no’ is enough from now on.”
More... https://variety.com/2017/tv/news/bob-weinstein-sexual-harassment-1202592165/
The word "NO" should be enough, but the problem is that sometimes the mouth sezs "NO" while the eyes are saying "YES".
Repeatedly contacting a person is annoying but no were in the same league as what Harvey did.
Someone's just looking for attention here.
Repeatedly contacting a person is annoying but no were in the same league as what Harvey did.
Someone's just looking for attention here.
The word "NO" should be enough, but the problem is that sometimes the mouth sezs "NO" while the eyes are saying "YES".
Repeatedly contacting a person is annoying but no were in the same league as what Harvey did.
Someone's just looking for attention here.
But muh Russian n trumpppp... yes sweetheart that somebody is YOU
St. Phatty
Active member
I hear people talking about Creative Artists Agency but I don't hear anybody naming names.
Michael Ovitz ran CAA. He and his employees were responsible for bringing young actresses to Weinstein.
So that makes Mr. Ovitz, Weinstein's pimp.
And that went on for about 4 decades for Weinstein, about 25 years when Ovitz was involved.
35 women raped and Weinstein's - now on vacation.
That lack of accountability in California government comes out in wierd ways.
I think they should give all the women Weinstein raped total legal immunity if one of them decides to use Weinstein's testicles as target practice using a high-powered rifle.
Michael Ovitz ran CAA. He and his employees were responsible for bringing young actresses to Weinstein.
So that makes Mr. Ovitz, Weinstein's pimp.
And that went on for about 4 decades for Weinstein, about 25 years when Ovitz was involved.
35 women raped and Weinstein's - now on vacation.
That lack of accountability in California government comes out in wierd ways.
I think they should give all the women Weinstein raped total legal immunity if one of them decides to use Weinstein's testicles as target practice using a high-powered rifle.
