The women of Hollywood aren’t about to let their industry forget its horrible history of sexual assault and harassment. Many actresses will protest sexual misconduct in Hollywood by wearing black to the Golden Globe Awards, People reports.
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Salma Hayek speaks out on Harvey Weinstein: ‘He was my monster’
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Salma Hayek, the star of the Miramax-produced Frida, broke her silence about the alleged abuses she suffered at the hands of Harvey Weinstein, a man she’s calling “her monster” in a devastatingly vivid New York Times article.
Her story makes clear how male abuses of power in Hollywood aren’t actually just about sex, but also about gatekeeping prestige filmmaking from women — especially those of color.
It wasn’t just that Weinstein allegedly warned her that “I will kill you, don’t think I can’t,” when Hayek denied his relentless sexual advances. She also claims he demanded she add a lesbian sex scene — a clear attempt to humiliate and degrade her, undermine her film and artistry — effectively sabotaging his own financial investment out of pure spite. Read more…
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Dylan Farrow questions Hollywood’s enduring blind spot for Woody Allen
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Hollywood is in the middle of the movement, and while it continues to topple powerful men, at least one has thus far proved immune: Woody Allen. In an opinion column for the Los Angeles Times, Dylan Farrow, whom Allen and Mia Farrow adopted, questioned how the industry that finally toppled Harvey Weinstein and quickly turned on Louis C.K. continues to support Allen – and to silence his accuser.
Farrow was seven when, according to her accounts, Allen got her alone in the attic and sexually assaulted her. Ultimately, a custody judge ruled that Allen’s behavior was “grossly inappropriate” but the case did not go to criminal trial. Read more…
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Jennifer Lawrence to Oprah: Harvey Weinstein could be ‘a brute’
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When news of Harvey Weinstein’s sexual misconduct broke, Jennifer Lawrence was having lunch with Oprah Winfrey — and they talked about everything but the producer. A few weeks later, The Hollywood Reporter brought the two together again so Winfrey could interview Lawrence, and they finally had the Weinstein conversation.
“We do have a responsibility to say something; we’ve all worked with him, but everybody needed a moment,” Lawrence said. “Just speaking for myself, I had known him since I was 20, and he had only ever been nice to me — except for the moments that he wasn’t, and then I called him an asshole, and we moved on. He was paternal to me. So I needed a moment to process everything because I thought I knew this guy, and then he’s being accused of rape.” Read more…
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Tracee Ellis Ross was the guest host on Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday night and she decided to address the Hollywood sexual harassment scandal.
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Women in Film launches help line for victims of sexual harassment
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This watershed moment in acknowledging and acting on allegations of sexual harassment has rightfully extended beyond Hollywood, but there’s a reason we’re still calling it The Weinstein Effect. Now, advocacy group Women in Film (WIF) is taking steps to ensure victims in the entertainment industry continue to be heard.
Today they launched a help line — available at (323) 545-0333 Monday through Friday, 10am-5pm PST — for harassment victims in the entertainment world of any gender. The line is aimed at helping survivors decide the path forward for them, and, if they choose it, provides a pro bono legal aid panel, as well as resources for connecting callers with mental health counselors, law enforcement, and both civil and criminal litigators. Read more…
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View More Women in Film launches help line for victims of sexual harassmentJennifer Lawrence on nude photo hack: ‘I feel like I got gang-banged by the f—king planet’
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In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter‘s Awards Chatter podcast, Jennifer Lawrence revisits her impressive career at the age of 27, and the iCloud hack in 2014 that put her nude photos onto the web.
“I feel like I got gang-banged by the fucking planet,” she said frankly in the episode. “Like, there’s not one person in the world that is not capable of seeing these intimate photos of me.”
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“When the hacking thing happened, it was so unbelievably violating that you can’t even put it into words,” Lawrence said. “I think that I’m still actually processing it. When I first found out it was happening, my security reached out to me. It was happening minute-to-minute — it was almost like a ransom situation where they were releasing new ones every hour or so.” Read more…
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Explosive ‘New Yorker’ piece sheds more light on Harvey Weinstein’s payouts — and his brother’s involvement
A new New Yorker article provides a more detailed look at the legal gymnastics employed by Harvey Weinstein and Miramax to silence victims of Weinstein’s alleged sexual assault and harassment. A former employee described her exhausting experience try…
View More Explosive ‘New Yorker’ piece sheds more light on Harvey Weinstein’s payouts — and his brother’s involvementFake news about Keanu Reeves and ‘blood of babies’ tops YouTube search
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Fake news is like a horrible weed: just when you think you’ve eradicated it, another pops up somewhere else.
The website YourNewsWire published a totally made-up story about actor Keanu Reeves, who allegedly said in Milan that Hollywood elites use “the blood of babies to get high”.
The story went viral on Facebook with 26,000+ engagements. It was posted on the verified Your News Wire and related The People’s Voice pages, as noticed by Media Matters researcher Alex Kaplan:
YourNewsWire (YNW), which published the fake viral Texas shooter antifa story, makes up blatantly fake story about Keanu Reeves that already has 12,500+ Facebook engagements and is being promoted on a verified Facebook page run by the same people as YNWpic.twitter.com/H2pHIh26q3
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View More Fake news about Keanu Reeves and ‘blood of babies’ tops YouTube search#MeToo movement marches on Hollywood against sexual assault and harassment
Predatory behaviour, sexual assault, and harassment is being reported almost daily in Hollywood now, from the allegations against Harvey Weinstein to Louis C.K.’s admitted sexual misconduct.
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When it comes to virtual reality, we’re in a classic tech-industry moment: lots of chatter but seemingly little movement. We hear future-focused cheerleading from all corners about VR’s incredible potential, yet the 6.3 million headsets shipped last year is hardly cause for a ticker-tape parade. So what’s holding back VR? Read More
A producer reportedly wanted ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ to star a white woman
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Today in bad but unsurprising revelations: Crazy Rich Asians author Kevin Kwan was reportedly pressured by a film producer to make the book’s Chinese-American protagonist, Rachel Chu, a white woman instead.
Kwan detailed the experience, which happened before the book was even published, in an interview with Entertainment Weekly.
“They wanted to change the heroine into a white girl,” he explained. “I was like, ‘Well, you’ve missed the point completely.’ I said, ‘No, thank you.’”
Hollywood whitewashing, of course, is egregious and nothing new. (Remember Scarlett Johansson in Ghost in the Shell? Emma Stone in Aloha?) In this particular case, making Rachel a white woman would effectively ruin the plot of the book, which in large part focuses on a Chinese-American woman’s experience of spending time in Asia. Read more…
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