It seems like trying to make a statement often exposes more hypocrisy than just wearing the protest ribbon and smiling for the camera.
IMHO Hollywood is still missing the point-they continue to make it about powerful men vs. exploited women; I know for a fact the issues are much larger than that!
I think if they mix in too much of the back stage seediness they lose any chance of having an issue that will attract a broad range of supporters(?) and yet...
Many of the women (of all generations) showed up trailing "plus ones" that represented activist organizations having more to do with immigrant rights than women's rights.
Sorta like dropping a beef bullion cube in the chicken noodle soup-the whole thing becomes an off note (as if only women from other countries come here for low paying jobs and no men get exploited).
It seems to me we once again are trying to clean too many houses when we really need to start with our own-get that in order and then expand to other associated issues-maybe they fear what a serious house cleaning will expose?
James Franco got caught in the Twitter storm but NOT for reasons I thought-apparently HE has a seedy background in the sexual harassment game (!?!)-I would have thought he would have caught major CACA for doing a bad LATINO accent during his acceptance speech and why did the LATINO activists NOT raise holy hell over him playing a Latino part when he isn't a Latino?
Franco is part of the Hollywood bad boy sub culture-he hangs with a coterie of "INDY CRAZIES"-remember he almost caused an international conflict over HIS venture with Seth Rogan into North Korea Baiting with THE INTERVIEW-I would love to know how much that movie made just being released on the internet?
Supposedly Franco and Rogan still have a price on their heads courtesy of Kim Jong Krazy but now the women of the world are after another part of his anatomy over past indiscretions re: sex, tweets, etc.
I would also like to point out that Franco, Rogan and company are all a part of the strange trend to stuff anything they produce full of as much Home-erotic innuendo and downright "outtuendo" as possible.
THIS IS THE END his 2013 apocalypse, end of the world fantasy opus is brimming with his band of guys being sodomized by demons, ending up as leather masters with boy toys and a continuous chain of somewhat offensive gay.bi "jokes".
I have to say that I found the film marginally amusing but the CONCEPT and some of the visuals absolutely world class and very daring considering that the view of any penis in Hollywood films is rarer than purple diamonds (unless you are Richard Gere).
This movie has a Godzilla sized demon with a swinging phallus to match.
Franco's new Golden Globe film is still in theatres-THE DISASTER ARTIST is a "true" story of the making of a film called THE ROOM by Greg Sestero, the author's relationship with an over the top director Tommy Wisseau (James Franco plays Wisseau and his younger brother DAVE plays Sestero).
I perhaps shouldn't lump Franco, Rogen and their antics in with some of the other Hollywood BROMANCE BOYS like Ben Stiller, Jonah Hill and Vince Vaughn.
Among other films these guys made THE WATCH another fantasy sci-fi Armageddon averted alien apocalypse film.
Once again a running string a gags about oral sex, anal intercourse and other homo-erotic fantasies played out by a cast of "married" men who seem to think it's fine to ask if their daughters date intends to perform oral sex on him.
BTW just so I don't sound like a raving lunatic-Jonah Hill is the person who is sodomized by the demon in the previously mentioned, THIS IS THE END.
My point to this tirade is that if all of this were not "good natured" grab ass boy play and were instead targeted at women-how much would they get away with?
It's OK to ask a heterosexual man who is dating your daughter about oral sex but what if it was his son's teenage girl DATE?
Then the whole business takes a dark and seedy turn.
Jonah Hill sexed by a demon is "funny"- replaced by a similar Hollywood Starlet-NOT FUNNY-CREEPY-SICK.
Keep in mind this is a COMEDY/Fantasy film AND it was fairly successful at the box office.
In any other world the Right Wing Christian picket lines would be the story not how the film's peccadillos were largely ignored, or even embraced, by the Hollywood community.
I don't have a problem with free speech, quirky-irreverent comedy or even sex with demons-it's the double standard that drives me crazy.
POWERFUL people take advantage of their power in all areas-men may be the biggest offenders because they had the most power jobs but I would like some sort of unbiased percentage of the number of men in power vs the number of persons they sexually acted against AND the numbers of women vs the number of males-then I would like a similar study of WOMEN in power positions and a similar study of how well they behaved concerning persons in positions below them.
To me Bill Cosby and his alleged advances and drugging's of various Hollywood females is no more important that the unknown women he might have acted against-he certainly would have been less likely to be caught but also the woman (or man) would be less likely to be believed.
I may have mentioned this before but my paternal Grandmother was involved with a "child molestation" case in which a teenage boy was supposedly abused by an ADULT male-way back in the 60s.
I clearly remember her saying the boy must have liked it on some level since he kept going back on his own.
We will never know if there was some sort of mental blackmail or ?? but at least Grandma was willing to share the blame around a bit.
Bottom line: It all needs to stop and we need to start with our own houses and clean up our own messes before we go pointing fingers, boiling tar and plucking chickens.
We live in more educated, enlightened times-but it seems obvious how precious little separates us today from lynch mobs.
It almost doesn't matter who did what to whom-what matters is that on some level we are lighting torches and chasing the MONSTER into the mill-we are trying the accused in the court of public opinion (twitter, facebook, snap chat etc not to mention the "press").
The Golden Globes: always a fascinating window into Hollywood-almost everyone wore black as requested to show solidarity-less Trump jokes-a brilliant speech from OPRAH:
YES, they are pushing her toward a political career-I think she's smarter than that-but we'll see.
Now we just have to live through the Winter Olympics in KOREA-that was poor planning eh?
I worry for the athletes.
Did you know the government (CDC) is giving a preparatory class on surviving a Nuclear Explosion?
HERE
Chew on that one....
My question? Why is Donald Trump still President?
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