Sharon Waxman is a holy terror to work for and supposedly another expose on that (a second one) is due shortly. I note her because I read her awful book REBELS ON THE BACKLOT: SIX MAVERICK DIRECTORS AND HOW THEY CONQUERED THE HOLLYWOOD STUDIO SYSTEM. It's a really bad book. It tries to be Peter Biskind's EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS: HOW THE SEX-DRUGS-AND-ROCK-'N'-ROLL GENERATION SAVED HOLLYWOOD. That 1998 film really undersold and ignored the contributions of women. Sharon's 2005 book not only undersells and ignores the contributions of women, it also disrespects and degrades women.
You
may remember Sharon's claim -- lie -- that she was already to expose
Harvey Weinstein in 2004 but her mean, old employers -- THE NEW YORK
TIMES -- wouldn't let her. The paper even issued a statement noting
that her claims were not true.
They shouldn't have issued the statement, they should have just referred everyone to her bad book.
She
is an idiot and a fool and a suck up. That's especially true when it
comes to her writing about her beloved David O. Russell.
I'm
not a George Clooney fan, sorry. Don't care for him as an actor at
all. That said, he has a good reputation in the industry. He's only
had a problem with one director and that was Russell. Despite that
image and despite Russell's tantrums, Sharon sides with him over and
over.
That includes when
he throws an extra on the ground. Sharon wants you to know that George
made too much of it and that director Russell just wanted to show the
extra how to slam Ice Cube.
She's a suck up liar. You don't throw an extra on the ground to show how you want the scene done unless you're a bully.
She
then writes a tribute to I HEART HUCKABEES and how it was about peace
and about Russell focusing on humanity because he was done with
violence.
Stupid ____ says what?
We've
all seen the leaked video, right? He's attacking Lily Tomlin on the
set. He's screaming at her. In one scene where she and Dustin are
seated in a car, Russell's just cursing her out. In another, on a set
near a desk, he's screaming at her, yelling at her, throwing things,
storming back and forth in front of the camera.
Russell was a terror on the set of THREE KINGS and George (and others) were right to call him out.
Sharon manages to blame George for that. George kept talking about it to the press. Years later, he'd still talk about it.
So what?
Russell was a terror, why wouldn't he continue to talk about it and call it out?
Besides, with Sharon Waxman refusing to call it out, who was going to?
She's
a hack and you should be prepared because their is a journalist going
around speaking to her employees and former employees currently. (She
long ago left NYT and now terrorizes employees at THE WRAP.)
