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Osi Osgood
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Posts: 10204
From: Mountian Home, ID.
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted October 14, 2017 11:35 AM
What really grabs me is all the people conveniently acting "shocked' by his behavior ...
people who took vast "donations" from him ... are shocked
people who entered the entertainment business are "shocked"
"I was a niave little girl, just off the turnip truck"
give me a break!
BTW, this kind of behavior is and never was appropriate, I'm not saying that, but the outright hippocrisy of everyone, (yeah, like his wife really didn't know what was going on), is what has gotten me. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Joe Vannicola
Expert Film Handler
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From: Lincoln, DE, USA
Registered: Feb 2014
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posted October 18, 2017 10:56 PM
Years ago, when I interviewed B movie actress Michelle Bauer for the now defunct website Red Hot Planet, she told me she knew of actresses who when going in for an audition would throw their panties on the lampshade in the producers office. So I think it swings both ways, but my, my, my, how convienient it is that Hollywood is now pointing a self righeous finger at Weinstein. The casting couch is as old as Hollywood, but only now in these supposedly "enlightened times" someone(and that someone is Harvey Weinstein) has been served up as a token strawman. Hypocracy reigns supreme!
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Paul Adsett
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From: USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted October 18, 2017 11:25 PM
Darryl F Zanuk was probably the greatest film producer and studio head that Hollywood has known. He was largely responsible for the change to Cinemascope in the early 1950's.But by all accounts Zanuk had almost daily sexual encounters with studio stars and starlets in his office. His personal secretary was well aware of this and made sure no one got into his office between 4 and 5pm. This in no way diminishes his artistic and business genius, just raises questions about his character, and no doubt Hollywood being what it was (and is), many of his partners were ready, willing, and able.
OOH! Mr Zanuck's is bigger!
Fox used Marilyn Monroe to promote Cinemascope. Here is Marilyn fondling a Bausch and Lomb CinemaScope lens. (picture and quote from The Widescreen Museum)
[ October 19, 2017, 12:10 PM: Message edited by: Paul Adsett ]
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Osi Osgood
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From: Mountian Home, ID.
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posted October 19, 2017 11:56 AM
It's funny that you should have a photo of Marilyn Monroe for two reasons ...
1. we watched a rarities reel with MM. One half is a mint color copy of "Gentleman Prefer Blondes" and an L.P.P. 400ft print of a "digest" from the marilyn Documentary "Marilyn", which had the rare footage from Mrilyn's unfinished final film.
2. Marilyn, in one of the biographies, (I think it was the one written by her housekeeper), said that when she had her "meeting" with Zanuck, Zanuck demanded that she kiss him on his, well ... let me be delicate as to what he demanded.
So yep, the casting couch, a long terrible tradition in Hollywood. ![[Frown]](frown.gif)
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Rob Young.
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From: Cheshire, U.K.
Registered: Dec 2003
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posted October 19, 2017 02:06 PM
Not the same at all, but today I was verbally assaulted by a bloke on a motorcycle.
He was driving appallingly, really close in wet weather through a 30mph limit and waving his hands, so I let him pass as soon as I could.
At the next junction, following numerous vulgar hand gestures from him, I pulled up and asked him what the problem was. Apparently, I stopped in the road, which I did not. He was too close and I let him pass, but he was aggressive before that.
I was subjected to several verbal abuses despite my trying to be calm with him.
Pure aggression, and honestly, I felt really assaulted verbally by this total stranger and potentially in physical danger if I didn't drive away.
It's actually a crime here to be verbally assaulted but I will let it go.
I've worked 20 odd years in frequently volatile places. I drive nearly 20,000 miles a year and whilst of course, incidents do happen, I've rarely felt so aggressively intimated and for reasons I really can't explain.
I'm fitting a dashcam asap.
Human Race...lovely.
You think the world you live in is a safe place if you are fairly sensible.
I can't even begin to imagine how people who have been abused by those in charge or power feel if this is how sick I feel over a nothing incident.
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Graham Ritchie
Film God
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From: New Zealand
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted October 19, 2017 08:02 PM
One day Rob that guy will do it to the wrong person and his big mouth will be his undoing.
I remember a Maori fellow years ago, that as a mechanic I used to look after his car, telling me a story, when four youths in a car were tail gating him and in general being idiots. Anyway Tom the Maori fellow forced them off to the side of the road, and as they got out to confront Tom, he knocked them out cold one at a time.
Anyway a person in a nearby house was watching all this, and came over to speak to Tom...he said that he had never seen anything like that before, except on telly ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) Tom did tell me he did came across a couple of those youths later on on the street, they kept there distance from him and never said a word
Although that story would be from the 50s-60s era it just goes to show you never know the person you are abusing might be the one to take you down.
Oh! Tom and his brother were professional guitarist and used to teach kids how to play at schools and at his studio at home...a great person to know and had brilliant sense of humour, sadly he passed away long ago.
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