I worked as a techie in a star circuit summer stock theater, and the show that he was starring in ran for two weeks there. He was rude, arrogant, demanding, condescending, and treated everyone like crap, including his costar (who was a much better actor). His contract said that he had to spend an hour at the opening night party meeting patrons, we timed it and he spent 47 of those minutes in the lobby, in the elevator, and in the hallway outside, and refused to sign autographs (also in his contract). He didn't like the accommodations that we provided, which had been adequate for real stars like Van Johnson and Dottie Lamor, and we had to rent the penthouse of the best hotel in town for him, as well as an 18 foot sailboat (which he never used). His TJ Hooker character was a "tough on drugs cop", but about halfway through the run his dresser came to me in a panic (I was the only long hair in the group), saying, "Shatner's out of coke, you have to find him some right away!" Told him that I wasn't stupid enough to deal drugs and to take a hike. An all-around unpleasant man. Oh, and his character was supposed to be a caring and insightful man, but he was still playing Captain Kirk.
Bakker was being helped from his lawyer’s office after trying to hide under the couch. I drive past the building where that happened fairly often, and it never fails to make me laugh. Because a grown-ass man cannot fit under a couch.
Yeah, our attitude toward rape was, and still is, totes fucked up.
Alice Vachss was head of the Special Victims unit in the Manhattan D.A.'s office -- yes, the same job you sometimes see depicted on that dumb TV show -- in the early '90s. She thought rape culture was so pervasive that she compared it to the Nazi occupation. People who doubted rape victims, thought they deserved it, etc., were "collaborators." Those who helped victims, officially or unofficially, were "the Resistance."
Around that time there were a couple of revenge-fantasy movies in which a woman gets gang-raped at the beginning and spends the rest of the movie tracking down and killing her assailants one by one. That would have been more convenient for those kids -- they could have come in right at the beginning and left when it was over.
I paid very little attention to the whole thing when it happened, but i certainly was under the impression that it was an affair. I'm pretty sure if I'd heard it was rape I would have remembered. So, what trickled down to people who were not paying attention was that she was having an affair with her boss. Sigh.
Yeah, sexualizing the daughter was in hindsight gross (though I think midway through they changed her more into an all-purpose idiot) though being younger than her I hadn't thought of it at the time. Marcie was certainly a foil, but I don't think any character was supposed to be one to aspire to--it was part of the "reverse Cosby Show" trend of the late '80s that rejected the idea of an aspirational cast of characters.
I worked as a techie in a star circuit summer stock theater, and the show that he was starring in ran for two weeks there. He was rude, arrogant, demanding, condescending, and treated everyone like crap, including his costar (who was a much better actor). His contract said that he had to spend an hour at the opening night party meeting patrons, we timed it and he spent 47 of those minutes in the lobby, in the elevator, and in the hallway outside, and refused to sign autographs (also in his contract). He didn't like the accommodations that we provided, which had been adequate for real stars like Van Johnson and Dottie Lamor, and we had to rent the penthouse of the best hotel in town for him, as well as an 18 foot sailboat (which he never used). His TJ Hooker character was a "tough on drugs cop", but about halfway through the run his dresser came to me in a panic (I was the only long hair in the group), saying, "Shatner's out of coke, you have to find him some right away!" Told him that I wasn't stupid enough to deal drugs and to take a hike. An all-around unpleasant man. Oh, and his character was supposed to be a caring and insightful man, but he was still playing Captain Kirk.
Migod, he looks just like Crying Karl Rittenhouse.
Bakker was being helped from his lawyer’s office after trying to hide under the couch. I drive past the building where that happened fairly often, and it never fails to make me laugh. Because a grown-ass man cannot fit under a couch.
21 and working in the White House. She knew what she was doing. And she was dumb enough to talk to Linda Tripp.
Oh, celebrity boxing was the last stop before the glue factory. But there were a lot more issues of Playboy than there were celebrity boxing shows.
Yeah, our attitude toward rape was, and still is, totes fucked up.
Alice Vachss was head of the Special Victims unit in the Manhattan D.A.'s office -- yes, the same job you sometimes see depicted on that dumb TV show -- in the early '90s. She thought rape culture was so pervasive that she compared it to the Nazi occupation. People who doubted rape victims, thought they deserved it, etc., were "collaborators." Those who helped victims, officially or unofficially, were "the Resistance."
Around that time there were a couple of revenge-fantasy movies in which a woman gets gang-raped at the beginning and spends the rest of the movie tracking down and killing her assailants one by one. That would have been more convenient for those kids -- they could have come in right at the beginning and left when it was over.
not any more - thatz illeeegal
I paid very little attention to the whole thing when it happened, but i certainly was under the impression that it was an affair. I'm pretty sure if I'd heard it was rape I would have remembered. So, what trickled down to people who were not paying attention was that she was having an affair with her boss. Sigh.
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Yeah, sexualizing the daughter was in hindsight gross (though I think midway through they changed her more into an all-purpose idiot) though being younger than her I hadn't thought of it at the time. Marcie was certainly a foil, but I don't think any character was supposed to be one to aspire to--it was part of the "reverse Cosby Show" trend of the late '80s that rejected the idea of an aspirational cast of characters.
Were they turned over to the police for the CRIMES?
A banker, suffering consequences? Don't be daft.
YEAH IT FIGURES. I forgot the /s.
National. Treasure.
Because this country was founded by Puritans.