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"In the aftermath of 1 October, MGM Resorts and Mandalay Bay promised to increase security, especially around the guest and service elevators. The service elevator is how the 1 October shooter got his weapons into his hotel room.
Two investigative journalists tested security, four months after the shooting. Independent investigative journalists Laura Loomer and Mike Turber walked into the hotel's service elevator unchallenged. The two recorded themselves riding the service elevator to the 32nd floor of the hotel and back to the ground floor about four times last Thursday. They said they made their trips around 10:00 p.m., the same time shooter Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowds below on Oct.1."
Polanski will turn 85 this year, and he has lived almost half his life under the shadow of what Weinstein described as “his so-called crime”.
The piece includes verification of a horrifying detail noted by one of Amy's alert commenters many years ago:
[O]ne line that really tugged at my heartstrings was when she referred to him performing "cuddliness"
Crid
at January 30, 2018 4:47 AM
This kind of hypocrisy about Polanski makes you wonder how serious the industry really is about dealing with this problem, as it claims to be.
By the beginning of this century, while the general American public remained firmly set against Polanski, the mood in Hollywood was openly in his favour.
Hollywood cannot forgive Weinstein because his crime was against them; he victimized actors. Polanski's crime was against les autres, outsiders.
Weinstein was a producer, a grubby money-man. Polanski (likewise Allen) is a director, an artist.
That she was 13 is immaterial. What is a little pain against the greatness that is his (and their) art? Hollywood stands ready to sacrifice you in the name of its art.
"I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother." ~ Artemus Ward
Conan the Grammarian
at January 30, 2018 5:16 AM
If the pro gossip world is to convulsed yet again in resentment of Polanski, which would be totally cool with me, bear in mind this little detail from the LAT, as harvested from the 2009 blog post linked above:
Roman Polanski said he'd pay to end victim's lawsuit
The Oscar-winning film director agreed to give the victim in the child-sex case $500,000, court documents show, but it's unclear if he did.
By Harriet Ryan and Joe Mozingo October 3, 2009
Roman Polanski agreed to pay the victim in his child-sex case at least $500,000 as part of a civil settlement, but then failed to live up to the terms of the agreement, according to court filings reviewed Friday.
The documents leave open the question of whether the fugitive filmmaker has ever paid the money he promised in the confidential 1993 settlement with Samantha Geimer, but a change in her approach to Polanski in subsequent years suggests they may have resolved the issue.
Go ahead and reread the names in that Guardian piece: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet, Kim Cattrall, Pierce Brosnan, Jodie Foster, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Whoopi Goldberg and Adrien Brody. Mocking shitty showbizness people is shooting fish in a barrel... But those are some especially briny fish.
And it's ironic to have the pulse of disgust for Polanski reappear just when Woody Allen's son has convinced me that the American director is essentially innocent.
But that's the best lesson from all the shit we've been through in the last three months, isn't it?... That cases need to considered with respect to individual circumstances, whether in jurisprudence or less-consequential personal estimation. The comedian Isiz and Weinstein are not on a continuum.
Perhaps the fresh attention to Polanski means that these three months will mean nothing to feminism and the well-being of women generally: Maybe it's just a show-business topic, and the safety of hotel housekeepers across America will continue to be disregarded.
Crid
at January 30, 2018 5:33 AM
One bad thing about letting other countries onto our American Computer Internet is that they use for gossip about there own silly 'celebrities' and we can't imagine who they're talking about.
I've noticed that the sarcastic replies to tweets the Jordon interlocutor are fading today...
Perhaps the most profound truth of the internet revolutions: People think this stuff is free.
(To be savagely honest, this is one reason I spend so much time on this blog. It's promptly indexed by Google for convenient review, but Amy's profit incentives and visitor exploitation are almost undetectable.)
> Crid, I was wondering - wasn't
> it just 60 years ago or so that
> gymnastics weren't even considered
> properly feminine by the majority
> of the population? Sort of like
> soccer or softball?
I have zero clue about the 1958 population's considerations of properly feminine gymnastics, soccer or softball. I don't clearly see what you're getting at, and am baffled by the offhand confidence of your inquiry: You seem to think that I would take your meaning as a matter of course.
It's a tragic mistake to look at history as merely an index of grievances by which to nourish pissy, ill-founded self-righteousness... It's an approach apparently which crumbles when your teenage daughter is sullen and argumentative at the dinner table after her week at summer gymnastics camp. 'But she was looking forward to it all year!'
I didn't ask those girls (or guys) to dress that way, pose that way, or flop around on the hardware so ferociously. I certainly never affirmed that medals in Olympic competition were an especially admirable achievement.
It's just a cereal box, y'know? It's got nothin' to do with me. I feel no more responsibility —by my participation in pop culture discourse— for the submission of these girls to misconduct by sports 'authorities' than I feel for the continuing predation of starlets by paws-y producers.
…Which is part of the the only response I had (quietly) imagined to Conan's comment of 5:16 am. In the non-sexual history of Weinstein in Hollywood, his impact on the composition and editing of successful film was perhaps deeper than that of any director. Still, it ain't my beeswax. It's a famously exclusive trade, and I wasn't consulted.
Why does the gymnastics business now turn to the public for justice toward its infrastructural players, with snarky insinuations that the rest of us somehow pushed it into its grim fate?
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers
at January 30, 2018 5:50 PM
About the school shootings this January...
Normally, I think John Rosemond's columns get resented mainly by parents who are jealous of the success he had with his own children - that is, eventually he got the peace, quiet, household labor, and true respect from his two kids (once they became adults) that most parents crave but don't get from their kids, since they THINK they want to be friends and equals with their kids while they're still too young to drive, even. Also, his enemies likely include all the therapists out there who lose business because he pushes his readers to solve the simpler problems themselves - like getting kids to do their chores and homework and do them WELL without parental help. When people criticize him, it's usually in suspiciously vague terms. I can count on one hand the number of times when large numbers of people complained about any individual column of his.
But this column is likely going to be one of them. At the very least, anyone can tell he's oversimplifying the problem. Grossly.
German Carmakers Test Emissions On Humans And Monkeys -
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/29/581586906/german-carmakers-test-emissions-on-humans-and-monkeys
Snoopy at January 30, 2018 4:27 AM
"In the aftermath of 1 October, MGM Resorts and Mandalay Bay promised to increase security, especially around the guest and service elevators. The service elevator is how the 1 October shooter got his weapons into his hotel room.
Two investigative journalists tested security, four months after the shooting. Independent investigative journalists Laura Loomer and Mike Turber walked into the hotel's service elevator unchallenged. The two recorded themselves riding the service elevator to the 32nd floor of the hotel and back to the ground floor about four times last Thursday. They said they made their trips around 10:00 p.m., the same time shooter Stephen Paddock opened fire on the crowds below on Oct.1."
http://www.fox5vegas.com/story/37379026/mandalay-bay-security-tested-as-two-reach-32nd-floor-without-permission
Snoopy at January 30, 2018 4:35 AM
"Data show San Francisco police have made arrests in 13 of the more than 81,000 cases of auto break-ins reported online in the past seven years."
http://kron4.com/2018/01/26/13-arrests-in-81000-auto-break-ins-in-san-francisco/
Snoopy at January 30, 2018 4:37 AM
Crid at January 30, 2018 4:47 AM
Hollywood cannot forgive Weinstein because his crime was against them; he victimized actors. Polanski's crime was against les autres, outsiders.
Weinstein was a producer, a grubby money-man. Polanski (likewise Allen) is a director, an artist.
That she was 13 is immaterial. What is a little pain against the greatness that is his (and their) art? Hollywood stands ready to sacrifice you in the name of its art.
"I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother." ~ Artemus Ward
Conan the Grammarian at January 30, 2018 5:16 AM
If the pro gossip world is to convulsed yet again in resentment of Polanski, which would be totally cool with me, bear in mind this little detail from the LAT, as harvested from the 2009 blog post linked above:
Go ahead and reread the names in that Guardian piece: Sigourney Weaver, Ben Kingsley, Christoph Waltz, Kate Winslet, Kim Cattrall, Pierce Brosnan, Jodie Foster, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Martin Scorsese, Whoopi Goldberg and Adrien Brody. Mocking shitty showbizness people is shooting fish in a barrel... But those are some especially briny fish.And it's ironic to have the pulse of disgust for Polanski reappear just when Woody Allen's son has convinced me that the American director is essentially innocent.
But that's the best lesson from all the shit we've been through in the last three months, isn't it?... That cases need to considered with respect to individual circumstances, whether in jurisprudence or less-consequential personal estimation. The comedian Isiz and Weinstein are not on a continuum.
Perhaps the fresh attention to Polanski means that these three months will mean nothing to feminism and the well-being of women generally: Maybe it's just a show-business topic, and the safety of hotel housekeepers across America will continue to be disregarded.
Crid at January 30, 2018 5:33 AM
One bad thing about letting other countries onto our American Computer Internet is that they use for gossip about there own silly 'celebrities' and we can't imagine who they're talking about.
I've noticed that the sarcastic replies to tweets the Jordon interlocutor are fading today...
That's a shame.
Crid at January 30, 2018 5:44 AM
No particular reason... Just curious.
-
Perhaps the most profound truth of the internet revolutions: People think this stuff is free.
(To be savagely honest, this is one reason I spend so much time on this blog. It's promptly indexed by Google for convenient review, but Amy's profit incentives and visitor exploitation are almost undetectable.)
Crid at January 30, 2018 5:56 AM
Missed this the other day:
> Crid, I was wondering - wasn't
> it just 60 years ago or so that
> gymnastics weren't even considered
> properly feminine by the majority
> of the population? Sort of like
> soccer or softball?
I have zero clue about the 1958 population's considerations of properly feminine gymnastics, soccer or softball. I don't clearly see what you're getting at, and am baffled by the offhand confidence of your inquiry: You seem to think that I would take your meaning as a matter of course.
It's a tragic mistake to look at history as merely an index of grievances by which to nourish pissy, ill-founded self-righteousness... It's an approach apparently which crumbles when your teenage daughter is sullen and argumentative at the dinner table after her week at summer gymnastics camp. 'But she was looking forward to it all year!'
I didn't ask those girls (or guys) to dress that way, pose that way, or flop around on the hardware so ferociously. I certainly never affirmed that medals in Olympic competition were an especially admirable achievement.
It's just a cereal box, y'know? It's got nothin' to do with me. I feel no more responsibility —by my participation in pop culture discourse— for the submission of these girls to misconduct by sports 'authorities' than I feel for the continuing predation of starlets by paws-y producers.
…Which is part of the the only response I had (quietly) imagined to Conan's comment of 5:16 am. In the non-sexual history of Weinstein in Hollywood, his impact on the composition and editing of successful film was perhaps deeper than that of any director. Still, it ain't my beeswax. It's a famously exclusive trade, and I wasn't consulted.
Why does the gymnastics business now turn to the public for justice toward its infrastructural players, with snarky insinuations that the rest of us somehow pushed it into its grim fate?
Wuzzen me, babe.
Crid at January 30, 2018 7:36 AM
They call that 'the CK'.
Crid at January 30, 2018 7:45 AM
Gerrymandering.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/michael-barone-all-that-you-and-justice-anthony-kennedy-need-to-know-about-redistricting-and-gerrymandering/article/2647345
I R A Darth Aggie at January 30, 2018 8:49 AM
Can we stipulate that Caitlyn Jenner is the greatest women's Olympian evah?
I R A Darth Aggie at January 30, 2018 8:59 AM
The idea that everything from spoons to stones are conscious is gaining academic credibility -
https://qz.com/1184574/the-idea-that-everything-from-spoons-to-stones-are-conscious-is-gaining-academic-credibility/
Snoopy at January 30, 2018 9:36 AM
That's the problem with paying the danegeld: the Dane always comes back for more.
https://www.city-journal.org/html/minnesota-plundered-vikings-15693.html
I R A Darth Aggie at January 30, 2018 10:27 AM
I hope he doesn't settle.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10424
I R A Darth Aggie at January 30, 2018 10:52 AM
Never saw this
Crid at January 30, 2018 11:45 AM
I think Jenner's greatest achievement was to freeze hell.
Why am I saying this? Because I never thought in my lifetime to see Bette Midler apologize for insulting a Republican.
Sixclaws at January 30, 2018 1:49 PM
Sillies learning the hard way.
Stay woke, peoples!
Gog_Magog_Carpet_Reclaimers at January 30, 2018 5:50 PM
About the school shootings this January...
Normally, I think John Rosemond's columns get resented mainly by parents who are jealous of the success he had with his own children - that is, eventually he got the peace, quiet, household labor, and true respect from his two kids (once they became adults) that most parents crave but don't get from their kids, since they THINK they want to be friends and equals with their kids while they're still too young to drive, even. Also, his enemies likely include all the therapists out there who lose business because he pushes his readers to solve the simpler problems themselves - like getting kids to do their chores and homework and do them WELL without parental help. When people criticize him, it's usually in suspiciously vague terms. I can count on one hand the number of times when large numbers of people complained about any individual column of his.
But this column is likely going to be one of them. At the very least, anyone can tell he's oversimplifying the problem. Grossly.
http://www.rgj.com/story/life/2018/01/30/rosemond-therapy-no-substitute-firm-discipline/1079319001/
lenona at January 30, 2018 5:51 PM
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HILARIOUS! Saturday Night Live Roasts Liberals!
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