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Image via Getty The revelation in Thursday’s New York Times that comedian Louis CK acted sexually inappropriate with women comedians was not a revelation to us here at Jezebel. In 2012, Jezebel’s sibling site, Gawker, ran a blind item about a “critically cherished sitcom auteur” who masturbated in front of “a female comedy duo” at…
react-text: 154 Here’s /react-text react-text: 156 one thing that I’m not concerned about right now: the question of what /react-text react-text: 158 today’s revelations /react-text react-text: 159 do to the artistic legacy of Louis C.K. /react-text react-text: 161 For certain fans of C.K.’s work, and I include myself among them, the stories that just appeared…
close story-meta Photo Louis C.K. in 2015. Five women have come forward to describe upsetting experiences with him. Credit Andrew Toth/FilmMagic, via Getty Images In 2002, a Chicago comedy duo, Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov, landed their big break: a chance to perform at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colo. When Louis…
Imagine that you live in a city of villains. Your city has a billionaire playboy. He lives on top of the hill. You don’t know much about him, other than what you read in the papers about his romantic exploits and elaborate black-tie parties. You had a gig once offloading decorative antique suits of armor…
react-text: 195 In /react-text react-text: 197 the fall of 2016, Harvey Weinstein set out to suppress allegations that he had sexually harassed or assaulted numerous women. He began to hire private security agencies to collect information on the women and the journalists trying to expose the allegations. According to dozens of pages of documents, and…
I tweeted what was intended as satire of a festering right-wing panic over Antifa allegedly planning violence on November 4. It got weird from there. What is it like to attend your own funeral? In my mind, it has to be something like waking up on a Monday morning, logging onto Twitter, and finding out…
Key art for Visceral’s Ragtag, which told the story of a band of characters fighting against a mob boss. In the center is the protagonist, Dodger, a Han Solo-type rogue with a charming mustache. It seemed like a surefire hit: a Star Wars take on Uncharted, published by Electronic Arts and developed by the longrunning…
Filmmaker James Toback has long had a bad reputation with women. Stories about the writer-director often referred to him as a womanizer, but what that actually meant did not become clear until the Los Angeles Times published an investigation Sunday in which 38 women accused the writer-director of sexual harassment. Within two days those numbers…
Image via screenshot/Geostorm. The appeal of watching the planet get decimated by evil weather patterns at the movies has waned for some reason that I can’t quite put my finger on. Geostorm is a total catastrophe at the box office. According to Paste Magazine, Geostorm’s budget was $120 million (far larger than originally intended), which…
After episode 4, I’m no longer sure that Discovery‘s heart is in the right place. War and moral ambiguity are nothing new to Star Trek, but Discovery is unnecessarily cold and brutal. No one in the U.S.S. Discovery’s crew seems to like each other, and the show gives no screentime to the casual side of their…