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Ronan Farrow
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July 16 - July 23, 2021
natural soundscape of a household with two sets of young twins.
“They just called, they’re—no, Izzy, you have to share—Jackie, please don’t bite her—Daddy’s on the phone—”
I do not like this twee style of writing.
chipper acquaintances would bound up at parties and tell me that they loved the show and still watched it every day.
Deciding how I feel about this
Matt Lauer
Didn’t he have some sexual assault scandal?
Miramax, named after their parents, Miriam and Max,
Sex, Lies, and Videotape.
Converse Chucks
I *think* you just say "Chucks." 😂
conspicuously extending her wrist toward him.
Okaaay?
a FaceTime video call to the staffer’s significant other for advice to get the safe properly closed.
😂
Another former editor, Jerry George, estimated that Pecker killed perhaps ten fully reported stories about Trump, and nixed many more potential leads during George’s twenty-eight years at the Enquirer.
Howard had colleagues pull a stack of the covers for Pecker to present to Trump.
Good press on Trump or bad press on Hils I wonder...
“The operation became like Pravda.”
Hoe so?.Don't understand association
When I tried to emulate Lauer’s relaxed-yet-composed seating position on air, I just looked like someone new to yoga.
😂
Trying to sound bullish, I told her that I figured Today would be a better platform for investigative reporting than cable anyway.
Why? What is happening here?
“Yes,” Lonner said, with a tight smile. “I loved it there.”
Today where we aired slideshows of Facebook posts,
for some reason.
😂😂
I sent a copy of The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults to Lauer’s house in the Hamptons.
Why??
“I love this. This was my dream job.” I was startled to see tears in her eyes.
“They stopped off at Harvard Square and started talking to some undergraduate girls at a bar,”
I'M sorry. Whaat??
Impress your friends by explaining Plato’s Cave allegory, pepper your cocktail party conversation with opera terms,”
Surely, he jests.
Ann Curry, beloved by audiences and not beloved by Matt Lauer, had been fired.
I remember this. Did HE get her fired??
Bryan Singer,
Corey Feldman.
“Look, I’m ‘woke’ or whatever, I just don’t think our viewers want to see Will Smith complain about how hard he has it.”
Really? 🙄 Pretty tone deaf.
KANDAHAR
❓❓
Nickerson’s smile slackened.
“I can’t help you.”
“Just… be careful.”
Planet Terror, a B-movie homage directed by her then-boyfriend Robert Rodriguez, in which she played a stripper named Cherry Darling with a machine gun for a leg.
Sounds a lot like that Tarantino movie. IT IS. So not a bad gig.
“Nobody’s covered what Hillary losing means to women,” she said. “The
war against women is real.
And yet so much of her talent and reputation was consumed by the men in her life,
he called sexual abusers “perverts” and “monsters.”
YES 👏👏👏
Charlie Rose.
Another one. Hard to keep track
Then I’d asked him about his time as Harvey Weinstein’s president of marketing at Miramax in the late ’90s and early 2000s, and he’d grown nervous.
“They were encouraged to not make this a big deal, otherwise their career may end.”
Rosanna Arquette.”
❤
Desperately Seeking Susan.
❤❤❤
“did anyone speak up against it?”
The importance of "upstanders" Power in numbers
ludicrously embedded in the corporate culture;
I felt that way in the restaurant biz. It was normalized as part and parcel...
reprisals.”
I know that fear, but thankfully not due to sexual harrassment or assault.
than what a
million other men in this business do.”
And herein lies the problem. This has been normalized when it never should have been.
“At some pt, all the women who’ve been afraid to speak out abt Harvey Weinstein are gonna have to hold hands and jump.”
Wow. This is a perfect analogy.
my office spouse
❤
Weinstein flashing
BARF
Don Quixote about a windmill.
Weinstein appears to be a larger-than-life monster, but in the end is just a windmill, a human.
Deborah Turness, who preceded Oppenheim, was described in lightly sexist profiles as having “rock-chick swagger,” which as far as I could tell just meant she sometimes chose to wear pants.
