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Ronan Farrow
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July 16 - July 23, 2021
The Night We Never Met,
The renderings of these stories that were ultimately published in The New Yorker were precise and legalistic.
They made no attempt at communicating the true, bleak ugliness of listening to a recollection of violent rape like Sciorra’s.
Which is why it should have been on NBC.
I was so ashamed of what happened,”
Because our culture has MADE us feel this way.
“There’s Harvey in his underwear, holding a bottle of baby oil in one hand and a tape, a movie, in the other,”
JFC. This IS horrific.
I pressed all the call buttons for valet service and room service. I kept pressing all of them until someone showed up.”
SMART
who had once been kidnapped by the Taliban,
Yeah, NBD...HFS!! - kidnapped by the Taliban! 😲
“He had a key,”
Just NO. Who TF gave him a key??
‘Fuck off, Harvey.’”
❤
“I think that it doesn’t matter if you’re a well-known actress, it doesn’t matter if you’re twenty or if you’re forty, it doesn’t matter if you report or if you don’t, because we are not believed. We are more than not believed—we are berated and criticized and blamed.”
Seth,
THIS guy again. 😡
it’d be really useful for our research…”
Yeah, I'll bet. "Our" research.
a drug habit.
Seth's drug habit??
coked-out London-based Jewish finance guy who runs away to join the IDF and gets swept up in a world of espionage and crime, all under the guise of being a writer for the Guardian.
So an autobiography then?
Everyone submitted to routine polygraphs to ensure they weren’t leaking to the press. Even the janitors got tested.
Whoa 😲
cryptoadmin.”
So, it's probs "crypto-admin" and not "cryp-toad-min." 🤷
Boies’s law firm represented the New York Times.
😲
chewing scenery
I love this expression.
It is to Boies’s credit that he unhesitatingly copped to everything,
“Sleeper1973
Shell Productions,
Haha.
Finding Novak’s request “bizarre,” Norris decided not to write back at all.
Common theme: bizarre requests from operatives. Like the Keystone Cops of the spy world.
Guernica.
❓ I don't understand the reference.
“It was like the movie Gaslight,” she told me. “Everyone lied to me all the time.”
Like just what McGowan needs-more fucking trauma & distrust.
“You know we can put this guy at the bottom of a lake.”
Oh WTF?!?!
“Kantor is NOT following Ronan Farrow.” You can’t have everything.)
❓🤷❓
A spokesperson for Vance’s office later said that such interactions with defense attorneys were standard procedure—
Uh no. Highly irregular to attack the 's credibility in that manner.
eventually she laid into Rose pretty hard”;
Should not matter! Irrelevant to claims of sexual abuse!
the National Enquirer and its work on behalf of prominent men with closely guarded secrets.
I always just thought of the National Enquirer as some rumor-mongering tabloid rag not to be taken seriously. I was not aware of its darker ulterior motives.
What did it say about the gulf between the powerful and the powerless that wealthy individuals could intimidate, surveil, and conceal on such a vast scale?
It was not a mitzvah, and it wasn’t for Israel.
He is not wrong. On either count.
asked me to do one thing to keep the secret.
What was "the one thing?"
woman for participating.”
Is it "Anna?"
The project I’m involved in.… out of this world, my dear.”
New project? Pigs in space??
become religious and, in turn, fiercely altruistic.
Not necessarily part and parcel
Howard issued his own threats to publicly attack The New Yorker.
Haha - The National Enquirer taking on The New Yorker
It just hadn’t met the Enquirer’s exacting journalistic standards.
😂😂
I knew my way around a paternity rumor.
which was one way to respond to a story documenting legally questionable collaboration with the company in question.
😂
It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do,
and many of them are on the younger side.
DIS.GUSTING. All but admits Epstein has a Prime pedophile.
Howard dispatched an AMI reporter to an address associated with one of the initial court filings. But the reporter found only a foreclosed home in the sleepy desert community of Twentynine Palms, California.
Someone want to explain wtf it's going on??
his ability to hold negative stories over people, gave him more power
I don't even know where to start with this sentence; there's so much wrong here.
phrase to describe this practice of purchasing a story in order to bury it. It was an old term in the tabloid industry:
“catch and kill.”
he “openly described his sexual partners in the newsroom, discussed female employees’ sex lives and forced women to watch or listen to pornographic material.”
What kind of hell must that have been working in that "newsroom."
one that he’d offered to create a Facebook page for a colleague’s vagina.
OMFG. Like why even?
He’d departed Celebuzz ahead of the finding against him and made it back to AMI, unscathed.
Because fucking of course he did. 😠
For a brief, shining moment, I was an all-caps, sans serif, recurring villain in the pages of the National Enquirer.
😂😂😂 This is so great.
Shortly after that, intermediaries began sending messages aggressively soliciting “dick pics.” When I failed to send any, the Enquirer published a complaint that I’d refused.
I'M sorry, WUT??
