Oh. Somebody interviewed Jeff Goldblum, and Jeff said he'd probably work with Woody Allen again. IF there was a part? IF a movie studio dared bankroll Woody Allen at this point?
And as long as the situation remains the same: ONE charge from ONE person with a pretty big ax to grind on behalf of hersef and her Mama Mia (Farrow)?
Somehow, the self-important Twitter Bird Brains all have to rush to post their worthless opinions on this...all of them smug and sure that they know ALL the facts.
History repeats itself. And repeats and repeats in everybody's ear.
There was a time when everyone was convinced Fatty Arbuckle was the most perverted rapist of all time.
There was a time when Chaplin was considered a pedophile and so evil he had to leave America.
And now the ant-hill chorus rises again, buzzing about how Woody somehow is a serial pervert, has always been a pedophile, and should be in jail.
Gosh, the Twitter Bird Brains screech, why ISN'T he in jail?
Maybe because there's no case?
Nattering ninnies loudly state their opinion-as-fact charges that Woody's been a career pedophile, as if he's Larry Nasser (the serial pedophile who abused Olympic athletes) or "Jared" the Subway sandwich spokesman (who boasted about how much he enjoyed paying for underage prostitutes).
No, there's been one allegation, and only one.
Here's a typical smattering of pompous and ignorant mob mewlings from people who somehow think they mstter. Wow, a few hundred equally ignorant twits agree with them, only because they expect agreement in return on some moronic thing THEY want to TWEET about.
Nobody learned from the Arbuckle case or the Chaplin case?
Nobody's learned from all the movies and TV shows about mob violence and kangaroo courts and lynch mobs?
As they say, "haters gotta hate," and Social Media is really little more than a collection of stupid people who find themselves in the "power" position of being able to caw and croak on the Internet. Lazy news websites actually quote Tweets from utterly unknown people who have no education, no legal degrees, nothing but the networking "skill" to obtain the same thousands of asshole-followers as everyone else. The sick fact is that this rubbling rhubarb actually influences things.
"Hmmm, did you see Woody Allen trending on Twitter," jerky Jeff Bezos might be told. "Better find a way to break the contract with him, even if Miley Cyrus appeared in that TV show he did to begin the Amazon association...and just because Scarlett Johannson stood up for him, gosh...he's TRENDING and six or eight thousand people are in a huff."
Besides, he's old. He's Jewish. He's VERY expendable. Never mind that he's an Academy Award winner with an astonishing amount of credits as a writer and director. The "woke" people are GRUMPY.
Once upon a time, the people who stabbed Arbuckle in the back, and kicked Chaplin to the ground were at least "journalists" of some type. Yes, yellow journalists, tabloid journalists and gossip columnists, but at least they worked for newspapers. At least they could write a sentence and might just get sued if they stretched their facts too far, or if their "opinion" turned to libel.
Twitter? It's an army of ants. The celebrity Leinengens who get taken down can't point to one individual ant. It's thousands of them all with the same moronic "lock him up" remarks, the same misinformation, the same ignorance, and the same desire to simply get more LIKES for their loudmouth bullying.
On Twitter, putting together even ONE sentence that actually makes sense is not needed.
People rush to Twitter every day just to post..."RESPONSE MEMES."
These are "clever" animated gifs that usually involve eye-rolling, palm-slapping, finger-waving, or stolen scenes from copyrighted movies that might have some face-making or a slapstick fall.
The other day, Whoopi Goldberg said something or other and, as usual, the kneejerk reaction to anything on "The View" is thousands of sphincter-brains rushing to their computer GIF folder to find JUST THE RIGHT "Giphy" to get LIKES:
What happened to real book reviewers and real film critics? There was a time, when I was reviewing for the Chicago Tribune and Video Magazine among others, that the goal was to hire experienced writers, college educated reviewers, people who were experts, to guide readers into making decisions on what might be worth their time to read or watch.
Editors and publishers with equal or even greater education and experience chose who they hired.
Now a few faceless morons who run huge companies (like Twitter and Facebook) simply let anyone with any alias come along and stink up social media.
What happened to the tough reporters, the beat journalists, the news hounds who built up years and years of contacts and learned how to write hard-hitting and true articles?
They've been supplanted by blowhards and provocateurs — twits who can preside over a tittering morning TV show of lurid gossip and smirking, or get handed New Yorker assignments and book deals because they are the right trendy ethnicity or sexuality, or have a famous mother named Mia Farrow.
Now it's the unwashed and unwiped who should be UNPLUGGED...soiling Social Media with their pomposity, their REACTION MEMES, and their mob mentality and bullying bilious bullshit.
And everyone from Al Franken to Jeffrey Tambor to Woody Allen (hmmm, all Jews) has to run for cover. The big thrill is to watch somebody who actually IS famous get taken down by a bunch of uncreative dumb-fuck nobodies.
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