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He ground a lit cigarette into the cheek of another. Pablo Picasso beat one of his mistresses until she was unconscious. I think “Les Demoiselles D’Avignon” is one of the most transfixing paintings of all time.

Why should we be deprived of watching them because some of the men that made them are bad? “Annie Hall” and “The Graduate” are incredible films. It’s also the virtue of the art in and of itself.

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It’s not only that we - the people that made these artists and creators famous and wealthy - ought to have the opportunity to come to new conclusions about TV and movies and art in light of more information about the personal lives of their creators. Now, knowing that he forced women to watch him masturbate in real life, my reaction was something else entirely. When I watched that episode years ago I was hysterical. I went and rewatched a 2011 “Louie” episode in which the comedian debates a representative from “Christians Against Masturbation” on Fox News. bits than ever before? I can’t count the number of YouTube clips I’ve revisited in the past few weeks. From a financial perspective, I get the defensive move.īut am I the only person who has been more curious to watch Louis C. Surely HBO wanted to get out in front of a Twitter blowup or an outrage-fueled boycott. I didn’t complain: I’m a cord-cutter with a borrowed HBO Go password. was accused by five women earlier this month of sexual misconduct, HBO quickly removed his stand-up specials and his show, “Lucky Louie,” from its On Demand service.

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Harvey Weinstein’s executive producer credit is being removed by the Weinstein Company from all of the TV series he’s worked on. One of the great many things the past two months has proved is that Americans, especially American women, are more than capable of rendering their own judgments.Īnd yet various companies apparently think they should make our choices for us. It is a policy that is typically carried out by those who lack all faith in people to make up their own minds. It’s because scrubbing the culture of work produced by the complicated or compromised or conniving or criminal or contemptible is a practice with a chilling legacy. Let’s wait to see if more troubling details come to light. Keillor was ousted over “inappropriate behavior.” The radio host wrote a baffling statement to The Star Tribune saying that the behavior amounted to one instance in which he put his hand on a woman’s bare back. Keillor fired yesterday after more than 40 years of running the show he founded seems minor according to the very limited information we have so far. It’s also not because the allegation that got Mr. So when I say it’s dead wrong that Minnesota Public Radio is going to stop rebroadcasting past episodes of the radio program, I don’t make the argument out of any devotion to it or Garrison Keillor. Those relationships, perhaps not coincidentally, have failed, too. Having loved people who have loved the show, I have tried desperately to understand its appeal. I’d venture a bet that no American hates “Prairie Home Companion” more than I do.

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