Just Noticing: Observations of a Blogger
Posted by Michelle Moquin on July 17th, 2016
Good Sunday morning!
From Vanity Fair:
Is It Wrong to Work with Woody Allen?
Kate Winslet and Justin Timberlake just signed onto the filmmaker’s latest project.
If you’ve been waiting for Hollywood’s casting gods to unite a scandal-plagued filmmaker, an Oscar-winning English actress, and a former boy-band member, you’re in luck. On Thursday, in a Mad Libs-style casting announcement, Woody Allen confirmed that he has cast Kate Winslet and Justin Timberlake in his upcoming film, along with Juno Temple and James Belushi.
Allen has a habit of keeping details about his upcoming projects close to the vest, and this untitled feature is no different. The only additional details a press release allowed were the city where the film will shoot—New York—and the producers of the project.
It may be surprising to see Winslet and Timberlake’s names together in a casting report, but the actors’ partnership with Allen should not come as a surprise for the following reasons:
- In 2008, Allen revealed that he and Winslet had originally planned to make Match Point together—until Winslet’s exhausting schedule required her to bow out of the role that would ultimately go to Scarlett Johansson. As for Timberlake, Allen recently revealed himself to have a soft spot for Disney-bred actors/mainstream musicians when he cast Miley Cyrus in his upcoming Amazon series. And with regard to the sexual-abuse allegations that seem to follow Allen wherever he goes, remember that Winslet chose to partner with another professionally esteemed filmmaker mired in decades-old controversy when she made Carnage with Roman Polanski, the filmmaker who pleaded guilty to unlawful sex with a 13-year-old decades ago.
While promoting that film, Winslet said she had no doubts about working with the Chinatown visionary.
“When Roman Polanski invites you to join him in any project you really don’t say no,” she said, per The Telegraph. “I felt extremely fortunate to be included.”
At the time, though, several asked why Winslet and her co-star Jodie Foster might work with the filmmaker in spite of his personal history. While the answer might seem obvious—great filmmaking is not mutually exclusive from personal flaw—The Atlantic’s Alyssa Rosenberg offered her own hypothesis:
Ultimately, I’ve come to believe that actors and actresses don’t keep working with Polanski because they believe art is a higher imperative or because there’s some kind of kinship between artistic spirits. Rather, I think famous actors and actresses can justify working with Polanski because they’re privileged enough not to see him, and people like him, as a threat.
The latest Allen casting news arrives only months after Allen’s estranged son Ronan Farrow called out Allen’s collaborators for continuing to work with the 80-year-old filmmaker in spite of the sexual-abuse allegations that have plagued him for decades. In an essay published this past May, Farrow wrote:
Actors, including some I admire greatly, continue to line up to star in his movies. “It’s not personal,” one once told me. But it hurts my sister every time one of her heroes like Louis C.K., or a star her age, like Miley Cyrus, works with Woody Allen. Personal is exactly what it is—for my sister, and for women everywhere with allegations of sexual assault that have never been vindicated by a conviction.
In 2014, Ronan’s sister Dylan Farrow penned an open letterdetailing the alleged sexual abuse she says she suffered as a child at the hands of the filmmaker. Like Ronan, she also called out some of Allen’s young creative partners.
What if it had been your child, Cate Blanchett? Louis C.K.? Alec Baldwin? What if it had been you, Emma Stone? Or you, Scarlett Johansson? You knew me when I was a little girl, Diane Keaton. Have you forgotten me?
Woody Allen is a living testament to the way our society fails the survivors of sexual assault and abuse.
Afterward, as Blanchett sailed towards her Blue Jasmine Oscar win, the actress was asked about the essay.
“It’s obviously been a long and painful situation for the family,” Blanchett said, “and I hope they find some sort of resolution and peace.”
Her co-star Alec Baldwin took to Twitter to offer his own unfiltered explanation for why he would not be commenting on the essay.
“So you know who’s guilty? Who’s lying? You, personally, know that?” Baldwin responded to a Twitter user badgering him for comment. “You are mistaken if you think there is a place for me, or any outsider, in this family’s issue.”
Earlier this year, Kristen Stewart, who co-stars in Cafe Society,adopted the same strategy in an interview—separating the actor’s work from the personal rumors. “We don’t know any of these people involved,” she told Variety. “If we were persecuted for the amount of shit that’s been said about us that’s not true, our lives would be over.”
Even Lena Dunham, who has said she is “decidedly pro-Dylan Farrow and decidedly disgusted with Woody Allen’s behavior”—suggested to Marc Maron that she can still appreciate his films for their artistic merit. “I’m not going to indict the work,” she said.
Sarah Silverman similarly shared her own internal conflict when Tweeting out Ronan’s essay earlier this year. “My comedy hero Woody Allen, and his untouchable P.R. machine and our not wanting it to be true,” Silverman wrote. “But it is.”
Allen, meanwhile, has a foolproof strategy for separating the allegations and controversy from his life. When we sat down with the filmmaker at the Cannes Film Festival this year, he did not seem to be bothered by the negative press. The reason?
“I never read anything about me, these interviews I do, anything,” Allen told us. “I have moved so far past it. I never think about it. I work.”
If the allegations don’t seem to bother Allen himself, then why might they concern the actors on the other side of his camera?
In 2014, author and screenwriter Rafael Yglesias offered a rare perspective on this moral gray area, writing an essay for Slate about his decision to write a screenplay for Allen’s fellow-in-controversial-filmmaker-arms Polanski, in spite of the fact that Yglesias was molested himself when he was 8 years old.
“Roman Polanski was, and is, one of a handful of directors who have made movies that deserve to be called great works of art,” Yglesias explained, adding that he was so eager to work with Polanski that he even accepted a lower rate for the collaboration than he usually does.
He described the partnership as “an opportunity that was too rewarding to my artistic aspirations as a writer” to turn down. But perhaps the sharpest line, that might explain the rationale of Winslet, Timberlake, and the hundreds of others who have appeared in Allen’s nearly 50 movies, arrives towards the end of the essay.
“Working with a rapist is not the same as condoning rape,” Yglesias wrote. “Actors, writers, and producers are not cops, judges, or jurors. In the work they choose to do, writers, actors, producers, and directors can be held accountable solely for its quality and its ideas.”
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Readers: I’m not surprised that men wouldn’t skip a beat to work with Woody. But the women…I would think (HOPE) they would react differently. But then, he is a white men and these are white women. So much more to say here about the article, so I’ll open up the forum and invite you to do the talking.
What do you think? Is it wrong to work with Woody Allen, (the LSOS)?
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PS: I’ve had family in town since Tuesday and birthdays all around, so my time has been limited here. But anxious to catch up with you all and respond to some comments.
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July 17th, 2016 at 12:13 pm
Wait to see how the white boy will retreat from the open carry and concealed weapons 2nd amendment bullshit.
As long as they could use the law to intimidate OTWs and appease their tiny dick problems.
The governor of Ohio is saying he can’t stop the people carrying AR’s openly around the republican convention.
Oh, white boy, you opened that can of worms. Now deal with it.
July 17th, 2016 at 12:15 pm
As long as they could use the law to intimidate OTWs and appease their tiny dick problems white boys were enamored with their right to sport guns as an extension of their tiny dicks.
But like in California when the OTWs take to that right, it will have to be curtailed for the benefit of all. Translated to protect the gutless wonders.
July 17th, 2016 at 12:16 pm
What can one say about women who support men who use their power to exploit women?
Shame on you sisters.
July 17th, 2016 at 12:21 pm
Not unlike what Zen Lill said when she pointed out that women in her family support trump.
White women tend to support their men regardless of their predator nature upon women.
July 17th, 2016 at 12:22 pm
I’m hearing the killing of the cops in Baton Rouge had nothing to do with putting down niggers by cops.
It may be “Sovereign Citizens” that are taking on the cops.
July 17th, 2016 at 12:29 pm
The cops are going overboard with their “show of force” here in Baton Rouge. If they think turning Baton Rouge into a police state is going to help their cause, they are sadly mistaken.
The main thoroughfare that is being shut down goes through a very tight knit community. It is also the site of many strong-arm tactics by the police to shake down drivers using Civil Forfeiture statues to take any money the drivers may have without a warrant.
Basically using the color of authority to rob and steal from the citizen with due process.
July 17th, 2016 at 12:35 pm
I’ve noticing that the media are using black police officers to express sympathy for the officers killed. Unfortunately they don’t ask black officers to come forth when white cops are murdering unarmed blacks.
White cops want camaraderie with black cops when they are taking incoming, but when they are killing blacks they tell OTW cops to shut up.
The “we are all brothers” only applies when they feel threatened. I wonder what those black officers are secretly thinking.
I would ventured to think it would be somewhere along the lines of “fuck you hypocritical bastards.”
Same can be said of the law to make killing a police officer a hate crime while allowing racist thugs with badges to murder unarmed black at will.
July 17th, 2016 at 12:37 pm
Face it most american white women have very little self esteem. They need to be told what is good, bad, or ugly and usually by a white man.
July 17th, 2016 at 12:38 pm
Howie, where are you? Looking for some UFO news.
July 17th, 2016 at 12:44 pm
I’m betting it was just one person. The cops tend towards hyperbole whenever they are involved in any gun play.
I hear one of the dead officers was a black officer. I think the key issue is white males are in love with their guns. Get those automatic weapons off the streets and out of the hands of the ordinary citizens.
It is really bad when white cops are afraid to come out against ordinary citizens having the right to own an AR-15 much less to carry it openly in public fully loaded.
White folks are just fucking crazy.
July 17th, 2016 at 12:52 pm
White folks just can’t let go of their guns. The bigger and more powerful the better. The little dick wonders need all that fire power to feel sexually equal to a black man.
Notice how the obvious issue that killing machines should not be owned by ordinary citizens isn’t being approached by any of the host on these media.
Rather they are talking about better arming the police against those automatic killing machines. Will we now be issuing the police bazookas now?
The logic of just outlawing the owning of these automatic long guns and the carrying of them in public just escapes the logic of all these white boys.
What the fuck is wrong with these tiny dick wonders?
July 17th, 2016 at 12:55 pm
Looks like a bad guy with a gun is winning over a good guy with a gun. At least as long as the bad guy can legally out gun the good guy.
I guess the logic here for the average white boy and the NRA is to arm the cops with more powerful guns.
Making it illegal to privately own one of those AR-15s is just not part of the logic of white america.
July 17th, 2016 at 12:56 pm
I am not the politician Harry Reid.
July 17th, 2016 at 1:03 pm
The white boy has turned the entire into the Wild West with their proliferation of guns.
They control the media so the subject of gun control isn’t a topic put before the public.
The topic is get more cops or arm them better. Totally senseless white boy shit.
Never discuss the root cause — all those man killing automatic weapons legally in the hands of anyone who has the money to buy them because that might offend the gun nut white boy.
July 17th, 2016 at 1:33 pm
Fred#10, I just witnessed your point that white cops are afraid to ask for gun control less they lose the support of the white community.
Sheriff Sid Gautreaux of East Baton Rouge, LA just finished a briefing which he ended with this bit of idiocy, “To me this is not so much about gun control as it is what’s in men’s hearts.”
I don’t suppose it would occur to the white boy that it wouldn’t matter what is in a fucking man’s heart if he didn’t have the means to kill at such an alarming rate.
The only sensible word in that stupid utterance was the use of “man” as the culprit. It is men that are using those automatic killing machines to murder indiscriminately with such awesome firepower.
I suppose there will be another rush to purchase more of those AR-15s because white boys are so in love with all that power they can have in their hands to supplement the lack of any between their legs.
July 17th, 2016 at 1:36 pm
I am a white woman. I am just taking a page from Michelle’s book and speaking the truth about our men. And as Michelle spoke from experience with her husband, I am speaking from experience from mine.
July 17th, 2016 at 1:45 pm
I notice everyone is getting up to ask for our prayers. I would think that God is saying “how about removing the means of those killings?
What bothers me is why haven’t they told us who the shooter is. Why not let the people who may know him add to the investigation. What are the cops hiding?
July 17th, 2016 at 2:04 pm
The shooter has been identified as Gavin Long of Kansas City.
July 17th, 2016 at 2:12 pm
The shooter is Gavin Long from Kansas City, MS. He is 29. Today is Long’s birthday, he was born in 1987.
This may be some crazy white folks from “the sovereign nation.” The Southern Poverty Law Center considers the Sovereign Citizens movement is “rooted in racism and anti-Semitism, though most sovereigns, many of whom are African American, are unaware of their beliefs’ origins.”
In the early 1980s, the sovereign citizens movement mostly attracted white supremacists and anti-Semites, mainly because sovereign theories originated in groups that saw Jews as working behind the scenes to manipulate financial institutions and control the government. Most early sovereigns, and some of those who are still on the scene, believed that being white was a prerequisite to becoming a sovereign citizen. They argued that the 14th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed citizenship to African Americans and everyone else born on U.S. soil, also made black Americans permanently subject to federal and state governments, unlike themselves.
One of the murdered officers was a black officer named Montrell Jackson.
July 17th, 2016 at 2:20 pm
The shooter is a black guy, an ex marine. There were at least two others with him when he arrived from MO. MS is Mississippi.
Still the elephant in the room on all these news shows and the rest of the media is automatic weapons legally in the hands of citizens.
What is the true justification, except for profit for the NRA and gun manufacturers, for allowing those kinds of powerful killing weapons in the hands of ordinary citizens?
July 17th, 2016 at 2:35 pm
The Baton Rouge police took Abdullah Muflahi’s store’s security system without a warrant. They instigated this situation with their gestapo tactical response to their murder of Alton Sterling.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-latest-on-the-alton-sterling-shooting-investigation-baton-rouge/
The lies that the police are telling to protect the murder of Mr. Sterling is angering the community.
Muflahi said that after Sterling’s death, police confiscated the store’s security system without a warrant. Muflahi said he was then taken into custody. He said his cellphone was also confiscated, and he was locked in the back of the police car for approximately four hours.
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In court documents, Muflahi said he was forced to relieve himself outside in front of officers, after being denied to use the restroom inside his convenience store. He was then brought to the police station, where he was kept behind locked doors for an additional two hours.
Muflahi previously released a video of the shooting that he said he shot from a slightly different angle. He said Sterling was not holding a gun during the shooting, but that he saw officers remove one from his pocket afterward. His video shows an officer reaching into Sterling’s pocket to grab an object. Muflahi said an officer fired four to six shots into Sterling’s chest.
Court documents also reveal Muflahi knew Sterling, and allowed him to sell CDs in the parking lot of the store. According to documents, Sterling was also sometimes a customer at the store.
Baton Rouge Police have identified the officers as as Salamoni, a four-year veteran, and three-year veteran Howie Lake II. They have been placed on administrative leave, which is standard department policy.
July 17th, 2016 at 2:40 pm
I can’t wait to see what the Feds discover as well as what all of the video shows. Extreme force in my opinion was used. I would love to be wrong on this but based on what I saw this 37 year old was murdered.
The guy is pinned down by two cops and yet he can still go for a so-called gun in his pocket. I don’t buy it. It’s a shame some cops make it worse for every cop.
If truth shows these cops murdered this young man, they better hope they are relocated where no one finds them.
Too many police are using deadly force. Why can’t a suspect be shot in the leg to immobilize them rather than putting multiple bullets in their chest and back and ultimately killing them. That is excessive force any way you slice it.
July 17th, 2016 at 2:47 pm
I’m surprised that something like what occurred in Dallas and today in Baton Rouge hasn’t happen before.
Police are virtually encouraged to kill black people by the repeated refusal of district attorneys to indicte, and white juries that refuse to hold the thugs with badges accountable when they do.
Looks like Gavin Long will be added to the Saint list along with Micah Xavier Johnson. That list of Saints who are willing to die to move the point that blacks are tired of being murdered by racist thugs with badges to the forefront of this nation.
When you are being terrorized by a group, sometimes you have to do what you need to do to get their attention and let them know that continued conduct of that nature will be met with lethal violence.
July 17th, 2016 at 2:49 pm
Its going to be interesting to see what the stores video shows…but we may never know since they were illegally taken by the same dept as the officers who shot him.
I find it disturbing that they illegally detained a witness and treated him like a suspect, however im not surprised many pro cop posters dont seem to care about that fact one bit.
July 17th, 2016 at 2:51 pm
I’m tired of hearing that cops have family members at home who are worried about them. Someone needs to tell the media and cops that unarmed blacks who have been murdered ALSO have family at home who were worried about them.
July 17th, 2016 at 2:52 pm
Of course the cops defend killing Alton Sterling … my jaw would drop if they plead guilty…. after all, selling CDs in front of a convenience store is a death sentence… I thought everyone knew that…
July 17th, 2016 at 2:55 pm
The cops shouldn’t have shot him. I totally agree. They didn’t have any right to do that.
However, this man was convicted of getting a 14 year old girl pregnant. He served 4 years in prison for this. he was 20 almost 21. You can’t call him a poor black guy because he was a convicted pedophile.
July 17th, 2016 at 2:57 pm
When you focus only on the dead mans past, you clearly ignore the officers current actions and are just trying to justify any nefarious behavior on their part.
In short, you aren’t providing a solution, you are just part of the problem. You are just providing an excuse for those kind of cops to continuing doing what they are doing.
July 17th, 2016 at 2:59 pm
Marie, I know of thousands of pedophile priests. Yet, I don’t know of any being killed by police.
July 17th, 2016 at 3:00 pm
The media is just sucking up to the cops. They wouldn’t be so nervous if they policed the thugs with badges among them who use their authority to practice their racist attitudes.
July 17th, 2016 at 3:02 pm
Niggers obey the police and live.
July 17th, 2016 at 5:13 pm
Watching CNN,I hear A. Cooper ducking up to cops. Gavin Eugene Long said he did what he did to stop the bullying by cops.
July 17th, 2016 at 5:22 pm
There is more to this shooting than the police is letting on.
July 17th, 2016 at 5:36 pm
On this topic, it’s a very tough call…and here’s a case of nuance playing a major role as it is in many situations.
…they (the actors in question) separated the art from the artist’s personal life and perhaps are privately hoping that his (WA) actions were exaggerated or made up by his daughter, we won’t ever know the finer details of any of it, so it’s easier to say ‘it’s a family situation’ and carry on … WA and RP are brilliant in their art forms, sought after to work with…
Baldwin had public run ins with ex Kim Bassinger, she claimed he was abusive if I recall correctly and yet it didn’t stop anyone from hiring him and if I watched tv would I stop watching 30 Rock over that? I dont know but pretty much everyone will bypass this to go see the woody Allen movie bc he’s brilliant…and would there be a lot of directors and actors we couldn’t wouldn’t watch anymore bc of this phenomenon?? We certainly can’t watch Fox News bc of Ayles (sp?) sexism claims by many but I never did anyway … Hopefully my sister will stop watching it but I doubt it. *cringe*
In short, people tend to filter out facts they don’t want to know to justify their decisions.
Luv, Zen Lill
July 18th, 2016 at 6:04 am
Zen Lill you said better than I ever could, but it was my sentiments exactly, except for the sister part.
My sister(s) are techies. They claim they don’t have time for tv. I guess that’s cause they are always on the net..
July 18th, 2016 at 6:28 am
I hardly think it is fair to lump Roman Polanski with Woody Allen. If you had to survive what happen to Roman from the time he was 7 until he was 12 at the hands of the nazis and sexual deviate catholics, God only knows how you would have turned out.
He was very tiny for his age and was abused very much by the young and the old perverts and degenerate creeps.
July 18th, 2016 at 6:31 am
Zen Lill you very much covered the range of feelings that I have about the situation.
July 18th, 2016 at 6:40 am
Akilina#36, I agree with you. I live in Poland and I can testify that many of the men here are as deviate as any on this earth when it comes to sexually abuse.
July 18th, 2016 at 6:47 am
As for Woody Allen, I can’t say that I have been convinced that he is guilty. He wasn’t charged with molesting his adopted daughter, Dylan because “A panel of psychologists, appointed by US prosecutors and the police, concluded that Dylan had not been molested.” http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-26005565
July 18th, 2016 at 6:55 am
Carla#39, I don’t think you should have used that link to justify your belief in Woody Allen. The bulk of that article actually should convince anyone who was in doubt that Woody Allen is child molester.
Dylan is now an adult and she still accuses W. Allen of molesting her. Considering the nude pictures of Soon-Yi, I doubt she is lying. In the article his biological son, Ronan Farrow, believes his sister and he was a part of that family.
I guess as Zen Lill#34 said,”In short, people tend to filter out facts they don’t want to know to justify their decisions.” You on the other hand have stepped over the line and attempted to exonerate a child molester.
July 18th, 2016 at 7:11 am
By adjourning the Senate, McConnell refused to address critical issues facing our country:
✖ Deadly Zika virus. As peak mosquito season approaches, Republicans failed to act on this growing epidemic — poisoning bipartisan bills with attacks on women’s health. This simply can’t wait until SEPTEMBER!
✖ The Supreme Court. McConnell and his fellow obstructionists STILL refuse to vote on President Obama’s nominee. They’ve held an entire branch of our government hostage for MORE THAN 120 DAYS!
✖ Common sense gun safety. Democrats stood up and sat-in to demand action, offer solutions, and make it clear that enough is enough. But Republicans aren’t moved — deciding to head home for summer vacation instead.
July 18th, 2016 at 7:13 am
Franklin Roosevelt promised a New Deal for the American people. George Bush described a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky. And now, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump get a chance to make their marks in history as they accept their parties’ nominations for the presidency.
Tens of millions of Americans will be watching the Democratic and Republican conventions – they’re the best opportunity yet for the candidates to rise to the challenge of tackling the big issues facing America. And William, we know that one of the most important is keeping Social Security strong.
Tell Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump: Use your convention speech to tell us how you plan to keep Social Security strong!
Social Security’s future is an urgent challenge, and it will take real presidential leadership to meet it.
We know that doing nothing is not an option – not unless we want our kids and grandkids to face benefit cuts of up to $10,000 per year. But so far, we don’t know how Clinton and Trump will ensure that the promise of a secure retirement isn’t broken for the next generation.
That could change when the candidates take the podium at their conventions – it’s a historic opportunity for them to lay out bold solutions to tackle this urgent challenge. And William, it’s an opportunity we can’t miss. Tell Clinton and Trump that you need to hear details about their Social Security plans at the conventions!
Thanks for everything you do to fight for Social Security. I’ll be in touch with more opportunities to Take A Stand soon.
Sincerely,
Fred Griesbach
AARP Campaigns
July 18th, 2016 at 7:19 am
Since there is no Howie, my brother said that he will give up this blog. I decided to add something to appeal to his mentality so that he will stay and continue to learn something.
Here is my first post towards that goal. If any of you are offended please let me know.
I don’t know if this is brave or just stupid. After all it isn’t the clerk’s money, so why should he put his life in danger.
7-Eleven Clerk Beats Robber At Terrifying Game Of Tug-Of-War http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/7-eleven-tug-of-war-armed-robber_us_578b28ece4b0867123e1945f?section=
July 18th, 2016 at 7:24 am
The next time some white person writes in and complains about the “war on police,” perhaps he should know what the war on black people has done to our psyches. I read this and thought, damn I have the same feelings.
“Last winter I was walking in the cold wearimg a hoodie but I was afraid to put the hood on my head. Then I passed by a white guy wearing a hoodie, with the hoodie on his head.
It made me sad to think of my own life. But it gets worse. I told my son about it and he replied, yeah me too. I don’t even wear hoodied garments at all.
I didn’t know how deeply he was effected by this. It made me realize that I can’t protect him. I can’t protect myself. I can’t shield him from crippling negative thinking and I can’t protect myself.
I believe we need to be planning our escape as a people. We will never find peace here and we are certainly not moving in a positive direction.”
July 18th, 2016 at 7:35 am
Hillary has lost some of her “white privilege by teaming with the President endorsed by the “Black Community
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