Early Bird Special 5/25/18

A place to spill the morning gossip tea.

Interrupting our normal lighthearted morning gossip with an episode of Survivor Stories:

Harvey Weinstein will turn himself in to face sexual assault charges in NY City.

Morgan Freeman, welcome to your tape.

The cast of Arrested Development recently sat down for an interview with the New York Times. During the interview, star Jessica Walter revealed that she had been verbally abused by Jeffrey Tambor on the set of Arrested Development. Then Jason Bateman and her other male co-stars (but mostly Jason Bateman) talked over her to mansplain to her that she wasn't really harassed.

NPR wrote an op-ed about why exactly everyone is so disgusted by Jason Bateman mansplaining harassment (he later offered up a half-assed apology on twitter).

Thomas Sadoski has it exactly right.

This is Jessica Walter. She is a national goddamned treasure. It was an honor and a privilege to work with her. I don’t give a fuck who you think you are or how good you think you are or how awesome you think your buddy/daddy is: screaming at someone isn’t “part of the business”. It’s bullshit. It’s unhinged bullshit behavior and it has NEVER been acceptable. It wasn’t cool in the 70’s or 80’s or whenthefuckever you “came up”. It was bullshit then, it is bullshit now. And excusing that kind of behavior is pathetic. Just pathetic. I worked in shitty greasy-spoon kitchens growing up: it wasn’t acceptable behavior THERE and most of us were on HEAVY DRUGS. It certainly isn’t acceptable for some man-baby millionaire to do on a cozy ass tv show set. And it is even less acceptable for his male cast-mates to excuse it away IN FRONT OF THE PERSON THAT IT HAPPENED TO....(wait for it)....WHILE SHE IS TRYING TO EXPLAIN HOW TRAUMATIZING THE EXPERIENCE WAS. What in the halfpenny fuck is happening?!

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