Posted on 10/17/2017 9:25:53 AM PDT by walford
Scott Rosenberg, a friend from Miramax’s glory days, says he’s “sorry and ashamed”
Scott Rosenberg, a screenwriter who has worked on Miramax films such as “Beautiful Girls” and “Things to do in Denver When You’re Dead,” has taken to Facebook to voice his opinions on the Harvey Weinstein scandal that has been rocking Hollywood for the past few weeks.
Rosenberg says that he was at Miramax for what he calls the “golden age,” when films like “Pulp Fiction,” “Shakespeare in Love” and “Good Will Hunting” were made and released. He also said that he was young and “sure he had struck gold” by working with the Weinstein brothers, Harvey and Bob.
Now, however, he sees it differently.
“Everybody-f—ing-knew,” he wrote, saying that Harvey Weinstein had “a certain pattern of overly-aggressive behavior that was rather dreadful.”
“We knew about the man’s hunger; his fervor; his appetite. There was nothing secret about this voracious rapacity; like a gluttonous ogre out of the Brothers Grimm,” Rosenberg continued. “All couched in vague promises of potential movie roles.”
“And to me, if Harvey’s behavior is the most reprehensible thing one can imagine, a not-so-distant second is the current flood of sanctimonious denial and condemnation that now crashes upon these shores of rectitude in gloppy tides of bullshit righteousness,” he continued. “Because everybody-f—ing-knew.”
Rosenberg clarified that while the full extent of Weinstein’s misconduct was not known, something “was rotten.”
“Not the rapes. Not the shoving against the wall. Not the potted-plant f—ing”–he and several others did know that “something was bubbling under. Something odious. Something rotten.”
Rosenberg added that at the time, if he had wanted to do something, he would have been at a loss, because most of the accusers did not want to come forward, Weinstein “owned the press” and the internet wasn’t what it is today.
He said that although some actress friends told him horrible stories about Weinstein, he chose to believe it to be “a grotesque display of power; a dude misreading the room and making a lame-if-vile pass.”
He said that he is “sorry and ashamed,” because “in the end, I was complicit.”
“As the old joke goes: We needed the eggs,” he said. “Okay, maybe we didn’t NEED them. But we really, really, really, really LIKED them eggs. So we were willing to overlook what the Golden Goose was up to, in the murky shadows behind the barn … And for that, I am eternally sorry.”
“To all of the women that had to suffer this… I am eternally sorry,” he repeated. “I’ve worked with Mira and Rosanna and Lysette. I’ve known Rose and Ashley and Claire for years… Their courage only hangs a lantern on my shame. And I am eternally sorry to all those who suffered in silence all this time. And have chosen to remain silent today.”
“The Sexual Revolution, abortion, contraception were supposed to empower women.”
Add to your list the Feminism movement. Although I believe they’re all intertwined.
“Add to your list the Feminism movement. Although I believe they’re all intertwined.”
Instead, it was a facet of the Hard Left that advocated women being treated differently to make up for real or imagined past grievances. It also is about denying Nature in favor of an arbitrary Utopia in which people can be their own Gods and force others to pretend that are not what they actually are.
Feminism is about women acting like men sexually; pills can prevent babies. Failing that, the baby can be removed so the mother can quickly resume draining men’s gonads.
So empowering!
I’ve heard more than one Muslim fundamentalist respond to criticism of how Islam treats their women: “Look at how you treat YOUR women!”
It’s hard to answer that.
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Here is an answer... Both treatments are F’d UP!
Even more disgusting and appalling is the way these slobs refused to come to the defense of Juanita Broaddrick, Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, et al.--and even supported--AND CONTINUE TO SUPPORT--their abusers!
And every bit as disgusting and reprehensible is the way some of these slobs are attempting to argue that there is some kind of moral equivalency to President Trump.
HOLLYWOOD IS A MORAL CESSPOOL!
THE SLOBS WHO DWELL THERE ARE PART OF THE CESSPOOL FILTH!
THEIR MORALS COULD NOT BE LOWER.
That's a risk. Maybe it's time to man-up and clean the Augean Stables. Frankly, I don't care if it's Hollywood or Wall Street or Main Street...this isn't the way real men act.
From Moses to St Joseph to men of fidelity throughout history, now is the time for Deplorables to reclaim the mantle of "compassion" from the statists, and expose their War on Women.
Isn’t being quiet about a crime also a crime. So, all these women who did not report it are also responsible for latter rapes and abuse he inflicted on other women (or men or children - who knows for sure).
I am amazed that they are now bragging about it, like a badge of honor. Shame! Shame! Shame! to quote Game of Thrones.
They need to ask forgiveness to other women who suffered because of the “silence”. These are real crimes, not just “Me, too, Look at Me!”
Saw another video of Corey Feldman on the view talking about how bad pedophilia is in Hollywood.
Barbara Walters reply was “but you’re indicting the entire Hollywood industry...”
So, the answer, is to turn that right back around on them: “Barbara, you are telling this audience that pediphiles run the whole industry. Wow! I had no idea it was that big. Please share your story.”
Weinstein has done America a huge favor: He has PROVEN beyond any shadow of a doubt that PIZZA-GATE is not only plausible, it is PROBABLE.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/corey-feldman-elijah-wood-hollywood-897403
“...Feldman has detailed how he was preyed upon by men in the industry. His own experiences were not as nightmarish as what befell his Two Coreys co-star, the late Canadian actor Corey Haim. Haim was just 11 when, Feldman says, a man raped him on a movie set. (Haim died in 2010 at age 38 after years of drug addiction.)
Speaking exclusively to The Hollywood Reporter, Feldman, 44, opens up about missing Haim, addresses the ‘dark side’ of pal Michael Jackson that led to their estrangement, and warns of the ‘growing, not shrinking’ dangers of internet-era child predators in Hollywood, a place ‘where adults have more direct and inappropriate connection with children than probably anywhere else in the world.’”
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