julie salamon is a sexist b**ch who owes melanie griffith an apology
today, marcia and i do our annual summer book read.
we've never gotten this close to labor day. but the book we read? we hated it. it was dull and plodding.
so we chose a new book friday of last week after we compared notes. we wanted to do a biography about cesar romero but it's actually not out yet.
we're sure that would have been a fun book and we both plan to read it. but what we then selected last week was a much applauded book we'd heard of but never read.
it was even a tcm podcast by that ugly looking toad ben mankiewicz whose friends with the anti-trans idiots of 'the young turks.'
tcm really needs to kick his ass to the curb if only for doing a season's podcast with sexist b**ch julie salmon.
that piece of work wrote 'the devil's candy' about the shooting of the box office bomb 'the bonfire of the vanities.' and that's also what tcm and ben made the podcast about.
in her book, julie sucks up to every man - even the sexist pig richard sylbert.
she presents it as charming when he says barbra streisand is so old and ugly you'd have to put a sack over her head to f**k her. excuse me, 'box,' you'd have to put a box over her head. 'she's an old jew,' he snarls. barbra was 48 y.o. at the time this well know pig made those comments.
that the sylbert brothers were legendary sexist pigs - richard & paul. i knew them both (through c.i.) and as a blond with big tits, i knew just how disgusting they were. i'll leave it at that since they're both dead.
but know this is the type of person julie chooses to embrace and celebrate.
however, she goes to town on melanie griffith.
there are horrifying sections of this book and that a woman wrote it? appalling.
there's the whole attacking melanie griffiths looks. 3 men - none director brian depalma - attack melanie's looks for the lines under her eyes. and this is presented as funny by the b**ch named julie salamon. she can be judgemental - when it comes to melaine. she can editorialize when it comes to melanie.
like when she mocks melanie for being with the hair dresser on the last day of filming to discuss hair.
please note that assistant director and director are going over things in this last scene with tom hanks who has a great deal to do in the scene.
what does it matter if melanie - before she's called to the set - is talking to a hair dresser?
julie salamon mocks her - and mocks the fact that the hair styles being discussed aren't even for the film.
let's be really clear here that melanie shows up when she's called to the set and let's be really clear that melanie's not made up and her hair's not done when she shows up and that there's a reason for that: in the scene - her final moment on camera - that's about to be shot, the camera will be on tom hanks for everything but 1 shot of melanie - 1 shot of her foot pressing down on an accelerator. only her foot is in the scene.
but the b**ch authoress makes fun of melanie and mocks her.
so let's not pretend that the author has a problem editorializing.
but she giggles over the attacks on melanie's face by 3 men in a lengthy discussion.
bruce willis has to leave the shoot on a designated date as does morgan freeman but the author has a real tone and attitude about melanie not being there when the shoot starts - even though every 1 knew melanie was shooting 'pacific heights' and wouldn't be done until a specific date before melanie was signed to the film. and melanie is there on that specific date.
i know melanie casually, by the way. she and c.i. are friends. i've never known her to be anything to be sweet. the only thing that ever really irritated me about her was that she had a relationship with steven bauer. they were married. now i think antonio bandreas is hot - who melanie was also married to - but steven bauer was gorgeous onscreen and, in person, he was even hotter. i will not pretend that when she was steven i wasn't jealous. he was something (he'll still attractive to me but in his prime i don't think there was a man on the planet who was as hot he was. and as hot as he looked onscreen, he was even hotter in person. the camera did not do him justice.)
julie salamon takes even the most innocuous moment with melanie - 1s i can picture playing out because i know melanie - and always presents them as evil and heavy handed.
that's christian bale, on the set of 1 of those terminator films, blowing up because some 1 was walking in his sight line - his line of vision - as he was preparing for the scene they were about to shoot.
now actors are having to dredge all sorts of feelings to play a scene and it may seem a simple or straight forward scene but you don't know what they're building from - it might be a very painful memory, for instance.
i understood people being shocked by the outburst but, having been on many film sets, i didn't take it as a problem for more than a moment. every 1 got back to work, no 1 got fired, christian apologized for his outburst.
i bring it up because melanie doesn't like people in her sight line. many actors don't. they're preparing to deliver a performance, they have to be focused. jane fonda - on the sets of 'klute' (where she gave the best performance by an actress in the 2nd half of the 20th century) and 'fun with dick and jane' (a hilarious and underrated comedy) was darting off to pay phones every second she wasn't filming to work on various political causes. when they needed for filming, she would take a moment, take a breath, and she was ready. that's great. that's how she works. but not every 1 has her training (she studied the method with strasberg) or her concentration skills. some people need to key in on moods or emotions. goldie hawn on a comedy set is playful and having fun and if you watch her you realize that various funny bits she's doing are going to be brought into the performance. every 1 has their own way of working.
but julie salamon slams melanie for not wanting people in her sight line and wanting the set cleared of any 1 who doesn't need to be there at that moment to film the scene.
julie salamon slams her for this. slams her for not wanting addition people on the set when she's disrobed and about to film a love scene.
what kind of f**king b**ch is julie salamon. she is the reason 'me too' had to happen. she is an enabler. she wrote a book that ridiculed and mocked an actress, that treated as normal men wanting to hang around and see her naked, that treated as normal men grabbing melanie's ass (i'm not talking about a scene being filmed, i'm talking about on the set).
melanie's looks are mocked. her age is mocked (she was 'old,' sorry, i did not realize that 33, her age at the time, was 'old'). she feels the need to share that melanie griffith had a boob job. every thing is mocked.
now please note that bruce willis has paint or powder being used - depending upon the day - to cover his bald spot. and he was 35 at the time. and this bald spot was a lighting problem. and the powder was worse because when he took off his glasses that he wore in scenes, the powder would get all over everything. but he's not mocked. his age is never made an issue in the book.
her acting and her acting process is mocked. at no point is this academy award nominated actress treated or portrayed as talented.
julie salamon is a sexist b**ch who made life worse for all actresses with her lousy book that has been overly praised for decades. a reappraisal is desperately needed.
and there was no excuse for 'turner classic movies' to do a podcast in 2021 on this sexist garbage. by 2021, it should have offended 90% of the people who read this trash.
and don't get me started on how julie salamon also goes to town ridiculing melanie's mother.
marcia and i are both posting right now. so a second or 2 after this goes up, i'll have a link right here to marcia's review so you can read her take. 'A really bad book' is marcia's review. be sure to check it out.
