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Ronan Farrow
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July 16 - July 23, 2021
“It’s so good.”
😂
By the time I limped into the store, I was drenched in sweat.
The image of a sweaty half-crazed Ronan Farrow is a good one.
“Well, sir, we’ve got you covered,”
Can't possibly be Best Buy. They're never around, & if they are, they have no rightful idea ehst tgey're talking about. 😂
“I hope the other girls get justice.”
She is so damn brave.
“If you back down, you’ll fuck your credibility.”
Yes, Tom, YES. 👏
The warmth drained out of the room. “I see,” he said. “Well, I
have to disclose, Ronan, that Harvey Weinstein is a friend.”
Uggggghhhhh. NOT anymore. He's a rapist & therefore not worthy of your friendship. Whyyyyy is that SO hard for some people??
Shit, I thought. Is anyone not friends with this guy?
“How many women are you talking to? Can you tell me who they are?” she asked.
Totally sus. Working for Harv already?
She talked about wanting to work in education, maybe something with underprivileged kids.
I'm sorry, no shade for a noble ambition, but this is just so...pat.
The casual, practiced nature of the harassment had made her worry it was a pattern.
Clever observation; she's not wrong.
We had set the date for Nestor’s interview around the margins of a trip to California’s Central Valley for the pollutants story.
I adore this clever secrecy & rule-bending
made her write down her telephone number.
SUCH an invasion of privacy. He makes my skin crawl. He just takes & takes & takes whatever it is he wants.
Weinstein
told
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her to meet him for drinks that night. Nestor inv...
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The fact she even needed an excuse. What POSSIBLE reason could he have for needing to meet a brand new receptionist for drinks at night??
she suggested an early-morning coffee...
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Brilliant
“Oh, the girls always say no. You know, ‘No, no.’
Fucking snake
Big Eyes,
intimidate a news organization unsettling.
That's completely unsettling. News is *supposed* to be unbiased.
Weinstein would be informed of anything she told them.
That goes staunchly against HR protocols!
“There are things I’ve done that nobody knows.”
OK, THAT'S ominous AF.
nondisclosure agreement
An NDA shouldn't give anyone carte blanche to commit sexual assault.
Type “Yes” to receive weather alerts,
Tracing "app?"
“Hope he’s worth it! Hope he’s worth saying goodbye to all of this!”
Is he dumping him??
“Definitely,”
😬
he’d shout at his company’s lawyer.
Why would anyone, let alone SO MANY people allow another person to speak to them in this manner?? Money I guess.
She said she’d told Price, the Amazon Studios head, that Weinstein had raped her.
Not long after, her deal with the studio was terminated.
😡😠😡😠
It was an uncharacteristic level of interest.
I'd be paranoid AF. Like everyone is a "double agent."
I told him I was still on book deadline
But were you tho?
And I think it’s really good that you’re busy with other things.”
Oh do you now? 🤔
“LB”
Wracking my brain... WHO is LB?
“the Cleaner-Upper”
There was one of these at an old Hollywood Studio - MGM Eddie Mannix in the LB Mayer-era.
President Grover Cleveland.)
OK, I did not know Grover Cleveland's first name was Stephen first of all. Second, I don't get this reference...
“were definitely scared,”
This is heart-rending. 💔
“And those women seemed pretty freaked out.”
Weinstein, he said, was “predatory,”
and “above the law that applies to most of us and should a...
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That month, Black Cube circulated
Would love to know how Ronan got this info down to the art on the walls. 🤔
the art on the walls featured silhouetted operatives looming over bustling cityscapes.
For real? I'm tryna picture this...
Then the project manager forwarded the list to a network of contacts around the world.
To what end exactly??
“JB
THEE JB??
malapropisms.
At least it was amusing to read? 🤷
Among the contacts
was Seth Freedman, the former writer for the Guardian.
I KNEW it!! But it's easier after the fact for Ronan to foreshadow.
honeypot.”
This word is just so gross to me.
Perkins confronted Weinstein, interrupting a lunch meeting with a prominent director on the hotel terrace. “He stood there and he lied and lied and lied,” Perkins recalled. “I said, ‘Harvey, you are lying,’
OMG, I love her for so many reasons.
‘I’m not lying; I swear on the lives of my children.’”
He is DISGUSTING, ABSOLUTELY DEPLORABLE
The night she resigned, she received seventeen calls of “increasing desperation” from them.
Completely obnoxious, but GOOD. -Make them sweat, the lot of them. Fuckers
