Wednesday, November 01, 2023

REBELS ON THE BACKLOT (Ty)

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.)