Wheat Loaf posted:

People probably felt the same way about Hogan in the 80s.

KingSlime posted:

Yes!! One day when I was 15 and frustrated at not being popular I decided to stop being a little bitch and now my life is really great, and has been since I turned 17 or so when I finally accepted that adversity is to be welcomed with open arms

I wonder if a lack of a proper mentor is also an issue here? They're mentoring each other and reinforcing their hugbox bullshit but I bet the advice of an older, more experienced male in the real world could do wonders for many of these folks

chitoryu12 posted:

Mark Wahlberg also turned his life around after the conviction, including meeting his victim to apologize (Trinh would later support his efforts to apply for a pardon for the crimes), and established a youth service foundation and participates in a homeless charity. He recognized that what he did in his youth was wrong and began trying to make amends for it. Danny Trejo is similar: he was a drug addict who spent over a decade in and out of prison, including 5 years in San Quentin, but got his act together and became a youth drug counselor before getting into acting.

Kevin Spacey continued to sexually assault people while working on House of Cards and relied on his position as the star and producer to become immune from accusations by the production crew he went after. He didn't just do one thing when he was young. He's a chronic sexual predator to this day.

chitoryu12 posted:

Mark Wahlberg also turned his life around after the conviction, including meeting his victim to apologize (Trinh would later support his efforts to apply for a pardon for the crimes), and established a youth service foundation and participates in a homeless charity. He recognized that what he did in his youth was wrong and began trying to make amends for it. Danny Trejo is similar: he was a drug addict who spent over a decade in and out of prison, including 5 years in San Quentin, but got his act together and became a youth drug counselor before getting into acting.

Kevin Spacey continued to sexually assault people while working on House of Cards and relied on his position as the star and producer to become immune from accusations by the production crew he went after. He didn't just do one thing when he was young. He's a chronic sexual predator to this day.

Solice Kirsk posted:

Hogan made millions by getting laid. He's an American hero.

Aerdan posted:

It looks like the worst that could be said about Sir Patrick is that he's divorced several times? That's about all Wikipedia has for dings against him.

Cythereal posted:

Dig into the history of the Star Trek movies and you get a less rosy picture. Stewart's the British version of a redneck, more or less - likes fast cars (he's how we got the infamous opening scene of Nemesis), wants to be an action star, loves guns, etc.

Cythereal posted:

Dig into the history of the Star Trek movies and you get a less rosy picture. Stewart's the British version of a redneck, more or less - likes fast cars (he's how we got the infamous opening scene of Nemesis), wants to be an action star, loves guns, etc.

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

Cythereal posted:

Dig into the history of the Star Trek movies and you get a less rosy picture. Stewart's the British version of a redneck, more or less - likes fast cars (he's how we got the infamous opening scene of Nemesis), wants to be an action star, loves guns, etc.

Agents are GO! posted:

Yeah not seeing a problem here.

Beef Jerky Robot posted:

hosed up of him to try and make star trek cool

Cythereal posted:

Problem is he kept trying to drag that crap into Star Trek, which in general was not a setting or show with any place for car chases and even during war arcs the battles were never the point or center of the drama.

Memento posted:

Multiple times. Against African-Americans and Vietnamese people, and then again against a random dude. He beat a Vietnamese war veteran so hard that the guy lost the use of the eye he didn't lose in the war.

He's a loving scumbag.

im pooping! posted:

Patrick Stewart played literal poo in Emoji Movie.

quote:

Perhaps the most unjust thing about the NFL is that owners are not required to offer players guaranteed contracts. Commissioner Roger Goodell, who has become fabulously wealthy thanks to the guaranteed contracts he’s enjoyed for the last 11 years, has never seemed too concerned by the fact that so many of his league’s players can have their salaries voided at any moment. With that in mind, please enjoy this paragraph from an ESPN report about Jerry Jones’s mounting efforts to undermine Goodell:

A person who spoke recently with Goodell said the commissioner is “furious” about Jones’ and other owners’ insistence that his next contract’s compensation should be more performance-based, including incentives that would allow him to be paid at roughly the same level of his current deal. “He feels as if the owners have made a lot of money and he should be compensated accordingly,” the source said. “The incentives thing really angers him.”

Man, does that feel good.

Besesoth posted:

Tell me with a straight face that you wouldn't tell poop jokes into a microphone if someone paid you $1 million+ to do it.

FogHelmut posted:

NFL commissioner being offered the same type of contract that the league uses to exploit the players


https://deadspin.com/roger-goodell-reportedly-furious-at-being-offered-non-1820289814

BraveUlysses posted:

don't forget he's been trying to get this felony expunged from his record

iospace posted:

The NFL is collapsing under its own hubris.

Cythereal posted:

Dig into the history of the Star Trek movies and you get a less rosy picture. Stewart's the British version of a redneck, more or less - likes fast cars (he's how we got the infamous opening scene of Nemesis), wants to be an action star, loves guns, etc.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang posted:

If we are tossing out imagined skeletons...what about just being gay? The young wife would make a lovely beard. And it would explain the captain's chest revealing bed-wear.

Der Kyhe posted:

How can people get this, and Roddenberry being pervert, but complete miss the part where the BBC had a massive pedophile/sexual predator coverup ring going on in the 70's and early 80's?

The investigation is still ongoing and some of the even current stars (from Stewarts age group) keep disappearing in disgrace because of the criminal investigation and charges being finally brought up. This, actually, is what concerns me most.

Negrostrike posted:

Wasn't he kinda of an rear end in a top hat during TNG's production?

Negrostrike posted:

Wasn't he kinda of an rear end in a top hat during TNG's production?

Zipperelli. posted:

And the pičce de résistance



I know that we're not supposed to enjoy the murder of another person, but I can't really find any sympathy to drum up. Also, not linking it because it's hosed up to do to the family, but an online obituary has popped up that's public, and people have been going hard on the comments. Like, holy poo poo you know that it's his family that's reading those comments, you morons?

ultrabindu posted:

Yeah, he was. The other cast members used to goof of a lot and he was trying to be the serious actor.
He mellowed out in the second year though. There were rumours that he was very harsh on Denise Crosby.

Basebf555 posted:

Good luck enjoying any sort of media if "kind of an rear end in a top hat" is a deal breaker for you. Remember that these are people, by their nature, that enjoy the spotlight and have made a living out of getting attention from other people. Would it really be shocking to find out that the majority of them have engaged in rear end in a top hat behavior from time to time?

As another poster said, someone like Spacey or Weinstein has never even tried to stop committing crimes and probably would have continued doing so if not for what's happening now. By comparison Mark Walhberg has put a tremendous amount of the money he's made into atoning for what he did when he was 16(!). People should be able to ask for forgiveness, and get it, that should be allowed in our society. If the victim has forgiven him, and the perpetrator has taken serious steps to better themselves and use their resources to prevent similar crimes, I say that's to be celebrated.

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Incident, which saw the actor allegedly ‘unzip his trousers’ during an audition in his office, follows similar claims of misconduct made by three other women

Portia De Rossi has accused actor and producer Steven Seagal of sexually harassing her during an audition for one of his films.

The allegations, which were shared by the Arrested Development actor on Twitter, follows similar claims of misconduct made against Seagal by three other women.

“My final audition for a Steven Segal [sic] movie took place in his office,” De Rossi wrote. “He told me how important it was to have chemistry off-screen as he sat me down and unzipped his leather pants.”

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

He didn't even unpack his suitcase for like 6? months because he was positive the show would flop and he'd be back doing theatre.