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Movie Review: On the Basis of Sex

If you’re looking for a hard-hitting, data-driven, infancy-through-current-day chronicle covering the life of one of the United States’ most popular judges, you’ve come to the wrong place. Or have you come for an affable girl-power memoir? Then, you’ve also made a wrong turn. But are you down to watch a thoughtfully acted, beautifully depicted portrait of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and the people surrounding her during the early and middle years of her career in law and education? Then welcome.

On the Basis of Sex covers Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s life from law school through the first several years of her career. This period marks the onset of her decades-long (and arguably ongoing) fight for civil rights and the advancement of gender equality.

It is easy to imagine that it is no easy feat to portray a living legacy—an intellectual powerhouse in a delicate 5 foot 1 inch package,
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'Buffy' Covers "Maxim"

Take a look at "Buffy The Vampire Slayer" actress Sarah Michelle Gellar, who recently shared a 'throwback' photo on Instagram from her 2007 "Maxim" pictorial, in celebration of Thanksgiving 2018.

"I'm just going to pin these up all over my house," said Gellar, "as a reminder not to overeat on Thursday."

Gellar, originated the role of 'Kendall Hart' on the ABC daytime soap opera "All My Children", winning the 1995 'Daytime Emmy Award' for 'Outstanding Younger Actress in a Drama Series'.

She went on to portray 'Buffy Summers' on the WB series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997–2003), earning her five 'Teen Choice Awards' and a 'Golden Globe Award' nomination.

Her most successful films, in terms of box office receipts include "I Know What You Did Last Summer" (1997)...

..."Scream 2" (1997), "Cruel Intentions" (1999), "Scooby-Doo" (2002), "Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed" (2004) and "The Grudge" (2004)

Other notable film roles include "Harvard Man" (2001), "Southland Tales" (2007) and "The Air I Breathe
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Grey’s Anatomy Ellen Pompeo Made A Pretty Startling And Intense Confession

Hey, "Grey's Anatomy" fans. We just found a new report from the folks over at USA Today which reveals that our main star Ellen Pompeo aka Meredith Grey (above) told them about a not-so-pleasant experience she had earlier in her career. This experience sounds pretty shocking and intense because it has to do with director James Toback. Toback is the same guy that Ellen's castmate Caterina Scorsone aka Amelia Shepherd accused of serious sexual harassment advances. Additionally, Toback has been accused of sexual harassment by more than 30 women. Ellen revealed that she's been more fortunate than these other poor ladies, but she did admit to having her own unpleasant run-in with Toback. Apparently, her encounter with him got to the point where she felt the need to tell him to go f@#ck himself! She stated, "I actually did have a situation with James Toback where I kind of told
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Selma Blair and Rachel McAdams Share Their James Toback Sexual Harassment Stories

Selma Blair and Rachel McAdams Share Their James Toback Sexual Harassment Stories
Selma Blair and Rachel McAdams both met with James Toback early on in their careers and their stories are remarkably similar to the nearly 200 women that have come forward with their own experiences with the director to Vanity Fair. The New Yorker and the New York Times ran back-to-back stories about Harvey Weinstein and roughly a week later, sexual predatory allegations began to mount for 72-year old James Toback in an eerily similar way to the way that Weinstein is accused of abusing his power. Sexual misconduct has been around in Hollywood since the beginning, but it is only now that the full damage has come to light.

38-year old Rachel McAdams was 21 at the time when her representative set up a meeting for her and James Toback for a project called Harvard Man. McAdams remembers that the audition was a big one for her as she was as she says,
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Rachel McAdams Details James Toback's Alleged Sexual Harassment

  • 26 October 2017
  • by TMZ Staff
  • TMZ
Rachel McAdams had an incredibly creepy encounter with disgraced director James Toback ... who she claims turned an audition into a very personal chat about his masturbation habits. Rachel says it happened when she 21. After meeting Toback at theater school, he encouraged her to audition for a part in his film, "Harvard Man" -- and later he invited her to meet in his hotel room to workshop the part. She hesitantly agreed, and claims the meeting
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Rachel McAdams and Selma Blair Say Director James Toback Sexually Harassed Them: 'That Man Is Vile'

Rachel McAdams and Selma Blair Say Director James Toback Sexually Harassed Them: 'That Man Is Vile'
Selma Blair and Rachel McAdams are speaking out about their alleged encounters with director James Toback, who has reportedly been accused of sexual assault by over 200 women.

The accusations began mounting earlier this week, when the Los Angeles Times cited 38 women who alleged that the one-time Oscar-nominee had sexually harassed them over the years.

Toback denied the allegations to the L.A. Times, claiming it would be “biologically impossible” for him to do what he was accused of because he has had diabetes and a heart condition for 22 years.

On Thursday, Blair, 45, and McAdams, 38, detailed their eerily similar experiences with Toback to Vanity Fair.
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Rachel McAdams Accuses James Toback of Sexual Harassment in Vivid Detail

Rachel McAdams Accuses James Toback of Sexual Harassment in Vivid Detail
Over the weekend, Los Angeles Times reporter Glenn Whipp published an exposé about director James Toback, where 38 women accused him of sexual harassment over the years. Since then, Whipp tweeted that the number of accusers has risen to more than 200 women. One of those women is Rachel McAdams. Speaking to Vanity Fair, McAdams she was 21 years old and in theater school when she met Toback, who encouraged her to try out for a role in the film Harvard Man. After her audition, he suggested they workshop it together. McAdams claims Toback told her to leave her phone number with a casting agent's assistant, and he called her that night—to invite her to his hotel. Since she had to be up early the...
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Rachel McAdams and Selma Blair Reveal Their Own James Toback Sexual Harassment Stories

Rachel McAdams and Selma Blair Reveal Their Own James Toback Sexual Harassment Stories
Rachel McAdams and Selma Blair have shared nearly identical stories to Vanity Fair in which they detail being sexually harassed by James Toback. The actresses join over 200 women who have come forward accusing the director and screenwriter of harassment. Both women say Toback invited them to his hotel room to discuss a starring role in the 2001 movie “Harvard Man,” but Toback’s intentions turned sexual once they arrived.

McAdams says she met Toback in theater school when she was 21 years old. After she auditioned for the part in Toback’s film, the director allegedly invited her to workshop the role one on one. He reportedly asked her to leave her phone number with his casting agent’s assistant and told McAdams they would get back in touch. McAdams says Toback called her later that evening and invited her over to his hotel room, claiming she had to come that night
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Heaven's Gate – review

Michael Cimino's three-and-a-half-hour western, now fully restored, puts the grandeur in folie de grandeur

This restored rerelease of Michael Cimino's spectacular western epic puts the grandeur into folie de grandeur. Brought back to its full three-and-a-half-hour-plus running time, it is colossally ambitious and mysteriously moving, with an unhurried, unforced pace, beautifully photographed by Vilmos Zsigmond. The subject is the Johnson county war in 1890s Wyoming: small homesteaders found themselves harassed into abandoning their plots of land to the big ranchers. Cimino's movie sees this as nothing other than an American agribusiness pogrom: these small farmers are migrant incomers from eastern and central Europe attacked by cattle barons and their Wasp Washington associates who have drawn up a "death list" of victims. Kris Kristofferson plays Jim Averell, a well-born lawyer, idealist and Harvard man who takes the farmsteaders' side; Christopher Walken is Nathan Champion, the ranchers' cynical hired gun.
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Heaven's Gate – review

Michael Cimino's three-and-a-half-hour western, now fully restored, puts the grandeur in folie de grandeur

This restored rerelease of Michael Cimino's spectacular western epic puts the grandeur into folie de grandeur. Brought back to its full three-and-a-half-hour-plus running time, it is colossally ambitious and mysteriously moving, with an unhurried, unforced pace, beautifully photographed by Vilmos Zsigmond. The subject is the Johnson county war in 1890s Wyoming: small homesteaders found themselves harassed into abandoning their plots of land to the big ranchers. Cimino's movie sees this as nothing other than an American agribusiness pogrom: these small farmers are migrant incomers from eastern and central Europe attacked by cattle barons and their Wasp Washington associates who have drawn up a "death list" of victims. Kris Kristofferson plays Jim Averell, a well-born lawyer, idealist and Harvard man who takes the farmsteaders' side; Christopher Walken is Nathan Champion, the ranchers' cynical hired gun.
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Greatest TV Pilots: 30 Rock’s “Pilot” is a love letter to television that launched a billion memes

30 Rock, “Pilot”

Written by Tina Fey

Directed by Adam Bernstein

Aired on October 11, 2006 on NBC

What can be written about the pilot episode of 30 Rock “Pilot” that hasn’t already been espoused across the interwebs and blogosphere? Well, nothing too enlightening (look elsewhere for comparisons to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Seinfeld, The Larry Sanders Show, etc.). The show has an incredible following of professional and unprofessional nerds alike, garnering award after award and profitable syndication deals along with a countless number of show-related memes all over the internet. Trying to string together a few words on the show’s impact makes this writer go “Bleurgh.” Hopefully with that self-referential tongue-in-cheek reference, all non-30 Rock fans have scattered off to the other pilot reviews on this website. If not and you’re planning to hate, take a hint and scat over to Game of Thrones or Archer.

Originally airing in
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Cannes: HBO Acquires North American Rights To Alec Baldwin/James Toback’s ‘Seduced And Abandoned’ Feature Docu

HBO acquired all television rights for the U.S. and Canada to James Toback‘s feature documentary Seduced And Abandoned. Produced by Michael Mailer, Alec Baldwin and Toback and exec-produced by Morris Levy, Alan Helene, Larry Herbert and Neal Schneider, the pic will premiere as a Special Screening in the Official Selection this month at the 2013 Cannes International Film Festival. Guided by Baldwin and Toback, Seduced And Abandoned is a cinematic exploration of several interconnected subjects: The Cannes Film Festival and cinema art, money, glamour and death. Shot during the 65th Anniversary Festival in 2012, it features original portraits of Bernardo Bertolucci, Francis Ford Coppola, Roman Polanski, Martin Scorsese, Ryan Gosling, Jessica Chastain, Berenice Bejo, Diane Kruger and James Caan. Seduced And Abandoned is produced by Michael Mailer Films. The deal was negotiated with HBO by Jeff Berg at Resolution on behalf of the filmmakers. International sales are being handled by Hanway.
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Doris Day in Pillow Talk: Couture Allure

The perfection of a rose-tinted past, Doris Day’s costumes in Pillow Talk (1959) are some of the most exquisite ever worn on screen. They personify her immaculate character and symbolise the remnants of a dying era; opulence, optimism and the changing face of urbanised fashion.

Costume designer for Pillow Talk was Bill Thomas, although, as became standard with Doris Day pictures, he was not directly responsible for creating her outfits. That job fell to celebrated costume/fashion designer Jean Louis, earning him a ‘Gowns By’ credit on the film. Louis was known for his stylish and often deceptively simple garments, including most famously Rita Hayworth’s strapless black sheath in Gilda (1946). He even created Marilyn Monroe’s sheer ‘President’s dress’, immortalised at John F. Kennedy’s 45th birthday celebration in 1962.

Whether or not Jean Louis was working from specification for Pillow Talk we do not know. Bill Thomas would
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Whit Stillman in New York

Here's Whit Stillman's schedule for the next few days: This evening, following a screening of Barcelona (1994), he and Chris Eigeman will be chatting at the Museum of the Moving Image. Tomorrow, he'll be at the Museum again to introduce his new film, Damsels in Distress, before heading over to BAMcinématek for a Q&A with Eigeman and Lena Dunham following a screening of The Last Days of Disco (1998). And then on Friday, following its premiere in Venice (see the roundup) and screening in Toronto (see Dan Sallitt's take), Damsels, Stillman's first feature in 14 years, finally opens in theaters.

Let's take this more or less chronologically, beginning with Colin Beckett, writing for Moving Image Source:

The three films that Whit Stillman made in the 1990s are neither the paradigmatic indie comedies they would appear in summary nor the traditionalist allegories his conservative fans have claimed. Though Stillman released these formally unambitious,
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Sarah Michelle Gellar, Piper Perabo Photo: Golden Globes 2012

Sarah Michelle Gellar, Piper Perabo Presenters Sarah Michelle Gellar and Piper Perabo pose backstage in the press room at the 69th Annual Golden Globe Awards at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, CA, on Sunday, January 15, 2012. Among Perabo's film credits are Christopher Nolan's The Prestige, opposite Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale; David McNally's Coyote Ugly, with Adam Garcia; Raja Gosnell's Beverly Hills Chihuahua, with Jamie Lee Curtis; and Rian Johnson's upcoming Looper, with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Jeff Daniels, and Bruce Willis. The star of the television series Buffy, the Vampire Slayer, Gellar has also appeared in about two dozen feature films. Among those are Jim Gillespie's I Know What You Did Last Summer; Roger Kumble's Cruel Intentions, with Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe; James Toback's Harvard Man, with Adrian Grenier and Joey Lauren Adams; Richard Kelly's Southland Tales; and Raja Gosnell's Scooby-Doo,
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‘The Gambler’ Creator James Toback Isn’t Happy About Paramount and Scorsese’s Remake

‘The Gambler’ Creator James Toback Isn’t Happy About Paramount and Scorsese’s Remake
The last big news late last week was that The Departed team of screenwriter William Monahan and director Martin Scorsese would remake [1] the 1974 film The Gambler. James Caan starred in the original as a New York English professor who has a serious gambling addition. Thing is, the film wasn't just any old movie, at least for the screenwriter, James Toback. The script was a particularly autobiographical one, with Caan's character being a thinly veiled version of Toback himself. So when Toback learned of the remake the same way most people did -- by reading about it on the internet -- he was none too happy. (Especially as he is friends with multiple remake participants, including possible star Leonardo DiCaprio.) In his frustration, the writer/director penned a heartfelt letter that gives a rare insight into how the original creator of a film might feel about the remake process. Deadline [2] ran Toback's letter,
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'Suits': Five reasons to love it

'Suits': Five reasons to love it
There are some shows that everyone is talking about before it premieres, a la Game of Thrones. And then there are others that come up in conversation over Twitter, email, or (gasp, face-to-face?!) dinner a week or more after they air, and you joyfully realize you’re not the only one in your circle watching it and loving it. That’s an experience you may be having with USA’s Suits (Thursdays, 10 p.m. Et). If you’ve yet to get hooked, it’s the new show about Mike Ross (Patrick J. Adams), a brilliant former screw-up/stoner with a
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Gotti: Three Generations Rejoins Writers for Bugsy

You know Harvard Man James Toback, the man who directed buzz-heavy documentary Tyson about boxer Mike Tyson? Well, this guy has been tapped by Fiore Films to work on the original screenplay of indie crime-drama Gotti: Three Generations. As we previously told you the feature will be directed and rewritten by Barry Levinson, who replaced [...] Gotti: Three Generations Rejoins Writers for Bugsy is a post from: www.FilmoFilia.com
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This Guy Will Keep The Next Mark Zuckerberg From Dropping Out

Harvard Innovation Center's new director, Gordon Jones, wants to broaden the definition of entrepreneurialism to include not just tech startups, but all fields: lawyers, business people, Kennedy School bureaucrats-in-training, computer scientists, and so on.

Today, Harvard announced that it had chosen Gordon Jones to head up its forthcoming Harvard Innovation Center. The news comes on the heels of last month's announcement that the Boston Redevelopment Authority had approved plans to transform a vacant building into the center. (The intention to launch an innovation center was first announced back in October.)

We caught up with Jones, who made his name working with Gillette, Universal Pest Solutions, and others, to find out what we might expect from his leadership of the center. Fundamentally, he says, the center is about "helping student entrepreneurs go farther than they can go today on their own," through the resources and knowledge the Center would provide. Though
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Eliot Spitzer Rejected from Harvard Club

The New York Times brings word that Eliot Spitzer, Princeton ’81, Harvard Law School ’84, deposed New York governor, and star of CNN’s Parker/Spitzer, was denied membership to the New York Harvard Club. Sewell Chan (himself a Harvard man) and Nicholas Confessore (Princeton) report: “This year, the Midtown club turned down Mr. Spitzer’s application for membership—a rare snub by the club—because officials there did not want to be associated with Mr. Spitzer and the prostitution scandal that forced him from the governorship of New York in 2008, according to a person told of the decision by Harvard officials.” A spokeswoman for Spitzer said the decision to bar the former Slate columnist from joining the club—and accessing the four international-level squash courts therein— was “disappointing.” As we know from popular culture, whenever a socially troubled gentleman is prohibited from joining one of Harvard’s clubs, he will go
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