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| | Rose McGowan's response to Charmed reboot star Sarah Jeffery is rude | | Added 4 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Sarah Jeffery, a star from the Charmed reboot, expressed dismay earlier this week at a video that original series stars, Rose McGowan and Holly Marie Combs, posted dismissing the news series. As we discussed, this was not the first time the former cast spoke against the reboot. After two years Sarah had enough. She called them ?sad? and ?pathetic? and said she would be ?embarrassed to behave this way.? As we could have predicted, Rose saw Sarah?s tweets as a big ol? red cape and lost no time stomping across the arena to respond. Her response was as graceful as her ?lame lame lame lamertons? and ?it suuuuuucks? critique of the reboot, which she has never seen:
Dear Sarah Jeffery,
I honestly had no idea who you were til you tweeted. I have been too busy fighting monsters & fighting for a massive Cultural Reset to notice who?s in the reboot. Absolutely nothing to do with race, that?s quite a stretch you took. I?m beyond glad any WOC has a well paying job. Hell yes to that. I?m sure you are a great actress. My quibble (google it) is about execs & producers & @wb network trading on years of my work & name in such a cynical and obvious way ? a money grab to cash in on the Charmed name. I do not care that they remade it, I have far bigger things I?m dealing with. I do not nor will I watch a show I disagree with on principle. This is not my ego trashing the reboot, this is the criticism of creators (those are the ones who should be embarrassed) with little to no imagination making bank off years of us busting our ass to create a legacy that you are actually profiting off of as well. I care that Hollywood won?t stop making remakes that don?t need to be remade. It?s a formula that?s gone too far for too long. Mediocrity rules there, not just sociopaths. There?s no soul or heart in something made purely for profit whilst refusing to elevate and innovate. Reboots will always be the shadow, the originals will always be the sun. I wish you well.
Best,
Rose McGowan
NYT bestselling author of Brave, creator of Planet9, Cultural Resetter, Time magazine?s Person(s) of the Year, & too many other things to list.
[Instagram via Just Jared]
Again, the original Charmed cast and creators have all lodged some valid complaints and I see where excluding everyone from the former series is insulting. And many of us believe Hollywood relies too heavily on remakes or reboots. But it?s disingenuous for Rose to pass her response off as if she has a larger point. She?s trying so hard to pretend she is above all of the pettiness and that her crusade is so great, she can?t even be bothered to know to whom she?s responding. It is obvious the Charmed reboot is living rent free in her head and has been for some time. If Rose knows nothing about Sarah, as she claims, why would she assume that Sarah would need to look up the term ?quibble?? If Rose?s ego isn?t ?trashing the reboot? then what is her ego doing when she refers to the reboot as a ?shadow? following behind the original that is, and ?will always be the sun?? Read Rose?s diatribe again with the understanding that, supposedly, the only thing Rose knows about Sarah is that she is a WOC. Yes, I?m going there, because that?s where Rose goes whenever she is backed into a corner. When Rose was called out for being a TERF, she used her trauma as a deflection rather than start a discussion with the trans community. Rose has a long history of ignoring, erasing or supplanting her struggles with those of POC. And considering Rose likely voted for Trump in 2016 and looks poised to do so again in this election, maybe she could hop on Google herself and look up why that might be a bad idea.
Since Sarah will probably rise above Rose?s bs, let me be the petty one: before Rose gets too far up on her high-horse about people profiting off of legacies that other people created, she would be well-advised to remember that she stepped into her Charmed role after it had already been carved out for her by Shannen.
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| | Rose McGowan was indicted on those shady 'possession' charges this week | | Added 6 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Rose McGowan was indicted by a grand jury in Virginia on Monday. The indictment is for ?possession of a controlled substance,? in a case that is extremely bizarre even by celebrity standards. The possession in this case was ?traces? of cocaine, apparently found in Rose?s wallet? a wallet which she lost hours beforehand. When her wallet was found, it was tested for drugs and magically they found traces of cocaine, and that?s when they charged her with possession. Isn?t that a bizarre story? That went down in last year, and I had been thinking that eventually the charges would be dropped. That didn?t happen.
Rose McGowan is facing more legal troubles after her arrest in November. The actress was indicted by a grand jury on Monday for possession of a controlled substance, according to online court records in Loudoun County, Virginia. McGowan?s attorney, Jose Baez tells PEOPLE, ?Rose steadfastly maintains her innocence. These charges would have never been brought if it weren?t for her activism as a voice for women everywhere. I assure you. This selective prosecution will be met with a strong defense.?
The former Charmed actress was arrested in November in relation to a warrant for felony possession of a controlled substance involving cocaine. McGowan turned herself into the Loudoun County Sheriff?s Office at the time, where she was arrested and booked before being released on a $5,000 bail. The maximum sentence for the charge is 10 years in prison, according to WTOP.
[From People]
I think Rose tends towards paranoia in general, but this is one of those situations where I?m right there with her, suspicious as hell about why this case is going forward. She had been flying to DC for the Women?s March, and as Rose told Ronan Farrow, ?Imagining I?m going into sisterly solidarity, I can think of nothing more opposed to that, energetically, that I would want in my body at that moment.? She believes the ?traces? of cocaine were planted in her wallet.
Meanwhile, Rose flew out to help Asia Argento in the wake of Anthony Bourdain?s death by suicide. Asia hasn?t issued any statements directly, but Rose has been issuing statements on her behalf. It was Rose who described Asia and Bourdain?s love story as a ?free relationship,? and they ?loved without borders of traditional relationships, and they established the parameters of their relationship early on. Asia is a free bird, and so was Anthony.? Rose has asked people not to blame Asia for Bourdain?s suicide. Which I think is fair enough of course it?s not Asia?s ?fault.? It?s depression?s fault. It?s the fault of bad brain chemistry and sadness.
Peace be with you .@AsiaArgento pic.twitter.com/0Thz7xTi8W
Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) June 11, 2018
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| | Rose McGowan wants 'men to stop other men when they are being disgusting' | | Added 7 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Rose McGowan is justifiably angry. For years, she?s been trying to get people to pay attention to her story, to take her seriously as a victim. This is an example of the power Harvey Weinstein wielded – her career has been stalled for years, more than a decade, because she dared to say no to him, dared to complain, dared to never forget. Rose?s Twitter feed is very interesting these days – she?s calling out the men who have enabled and continue to enable Harvey Weinstein and the other Harveys out there. She?s saying outright that The Weinstein Company?s board needs to resign. She?s saying outright that all of the men whose careers were nurtured by Weinstein – men like Colin Firth, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Daniel Day Lewis, Ryan Coogler & more – need to step up and speak out against Weinstein. Here?s more, from an interview she did with The Hollywood Reporter:
Rose McGowan on Sunday night spoke about the entire “bro nature” of Hollywood hours after it was announced that Harvey Weinstein had been fired from his own company. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, McGowan said the old way Hollywood functioned in regard to the treatment of women is done.
“Men in Hollywood need to change ASAP,” McGowan told THR. “Hollywood?s power is dying because society has changed and grown, and yet Hollywood male behavior has not. It is so not a good look. In the way cooler than Hollywood world I live and work in, I am actually embarrassed to be associated with it. The men of Hollywood need to know they own no woman. The days of Entourage-like behavior and thinking is as dated as your largely bro nature.”
With Weinstein out, McGowan said the next step was crystal clear, in her mind.
“I?m calling on the board to resign effective immediately,” she said. “And for other men to stop other men when they are being disgusting.”
McGowan, who early Sunday night shared the painting St. Michael Trampling the Dragon by Raphael (St. Michael is the patron saint of the warrior and of chivalry) on Twitter, also told THR that she had a message for females in Hollywood.
“And for the women in Hollywood, free your minds,” she said. “There are no ‘rules’ you have to play by. We affect the world?s mind because we are creating and disseminating thought propaganda. There is a great responsibility to be better than you have to be. Stand for women. Stand for truth. Stop hurting us. Rise.”
[From The Hollywood Reporter]
You know what?s slightly painful? The realization that Rose would like to speak even more freely about Harvey Weinstein specifically, but she still can?t do it, probably because of a non-disclosure agreement as part of her settlement with him in the 1990s. She?s still afraid of being sued, and let?s face it: she has good reason to be scared. He would totally sue her. He?s keeping a list, I?m absolutely positive.
As for the idea of TWC?s board needing to resign – three board members (all men) did resign last Friday. The Wrap reported yesterday that now that TWC has officially pushed out Harvey Weinstein, they want to rename the company, something without ?Weinstein? in the name. Because sure, this is PURELY A BRANDING ISSUE. JFC, dudes. I get wanting to change the name of the company, but deal with the most immediate concerns, like the fact that you?re about to be sued by, like, half of your former female employees and probably dozens of actresses.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Rose McGowan asks people to stop working with her rapist, doesn't name him | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Last week, actress Rose McGowan posted a series of tweets using the hashtag #WhyWomenDontReport revealing that she’d been raped by a studio head. She called it an “open secret” in Hollywood and wrote that her ex had “sold our movie to my rapist for distribution.” Rose also tweeted that she consulted a criminal attorney, a woman, who told her that she wouldn’t win her case against the studio head because she’d done a sex scene in a movie. It was sad, it was sobering and it brought home how prevalent rape culture must be in Hollywood, and in our society. We’re talking about it now because of Trump, because so many people think that bragging about assaulting women is somehow men’s right or is normal. It’s not, it’s never ok, as we need to talk about it.
Rose issued a follow up last night in which she didn’t name her rapist but said that people in her industry know who she’s talking about and should be ashamed, essentially, if they continue to work with him. Here’s what she wrote.
Dear Hollywood, pic.twitter.com/MYFSAi8P2t
— Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) October 17, 2016
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| | Rose McGowan reveals that she was raped by a studio head | | Added 8 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In light of the Trump assault allegations, many women have bravely stepped up to tell their own stories of sexual assault. Light has been shed on the reasons women have stayed silent for so long ? fear of retribution, the prevalence of victim blaming and discrediting, lack of protection, etc. Their forced silence has brought about the hashtag #WhyWomenDontReport on Twitter. The latest celebrity to join the rising chorus is filmmaker Rose McGowan who revealed that she had been raped years ago by a studio head.
a (female) criminal attorney said because I'd done a sex scene in a film I would never win against the studio head. #WhyWomenDontReport
— Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) October 14, 2016
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| | Rose McGowan 'literally feels pity for all the stupid idiots' & Hollywood 'bullsh*t' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Rose McGowan’s been on quite a tear lately. She was widely commended for exposing a gross wardrobe note for an Adam Sandler film. Rose felt safe in doing so because she didn’t want the role anyway, but her agency dropped her as a client within a week. Rose seemed okay with that news, for she’s fed up with Hollywood, saying she “didn’t take a vow of silence when I joined the industry” and likening the experience to the Mafia.
For many years, Rose played along with the sexpot image she got stuck with, but enough was enough. I still side-eye her for sleeping with her married director and (maybe) using him for roles, but that was several years ago. Rose has matured, and she’s working on her own terms. Speaking of which, have you seen her extremely NSFW “RM486? video? I’m not quite sure what to make of that one, but Hollywood Reporter thinks Rose is “forging new territory with her mind while utilizing the same body that seemingly belonged to her employers a short time ago.” Sure, but people are watching to see her toplessness. Rose also spoke with the paper about how they are a huge part of the problem:
What she brings to directing: “Well, it’s not a man?s voice coming out of my mouth. So I would say yes. And frankly, my taste level is higher than what I was put into as an actress. And I realize that I was a part of that. I tried to make their idea of the small thing I was allowed to be better than what it was. I tried. I always thought, ‘God, if someone actually gave me a three dimensional part I could knock the hell out of this. But as it is, I’m trying to bring you, you shmuck, to home base. You haven’t done a lot for me.’ And so what I get on the side is abuse on sets. What am I doing this for? It literally came down to what am I doing this for? Who am I doing this for? Cause I am no longer willing to take a man?s limit of imagination and be of service to it. Not unless it’s better. Not unless it’s smarter. Not unless it?s stronger. And they can. That’s the thing – they can. They’re comfortable because you can be lazy and get by here. You can sell a script that is lazy. But that’s not good enough. And it shouldn’t be for the male viewer either.”
Does she care about burning bridges? “No. I don’t care. I could care less [sic]. It’s them that should be worried. It?s the people that have perpetrated acts against me that should be shaking in their boots right now. And I hope they are. Also, THR and Variety are the only things that some people in this town read, as far as newspapers go, and there are a lot of things that go on in your papers that are really a part of this problem. A lot of it. You report on women on what they wear before you report on what their accomplishments are. You guys are a part of this problem. I feel sorry for so many people in this industry who are living such a bullsh*t existence, because they should be better as humans.”
Artists will soon take over: “I literally feel pity for a lot of the stupid idiots that I have to deal with. This is art, but people aren’t treating it as such. It is art – it’s supposed to be, that was the whole point. We move people. So don’t you, reading this, want to be a part of that movement? Don’t you want to be the artist in your own life? And I do believe there are artists storming the gates and technology is storming the gates of Hollywood. They’re rattling it and people here seem to doubling down on this Mad Men era bullsh*t and it needs to stop. Because you’re not doing anybody a favor, least of all you. So that’s what I think.”
[From Hollywood Reporter]
“I could care less” doesn’t mean what Rose thinks it means. Other than that, she makes some solid points. Those points are lost underneath all the times she says “bullsh*t” and “stupid,” but hey, she’s feeling passionate and fiery. Rose doesn’t care what people think of her anymore, so I don’t even want to argue about how she thinks fashion coverage is a huge part of the problem. Kaiser has talked about the #AskHerMore movement before. I think actresses who want to stop being asked about “who they’re wearing” should stop accepting free dresses. Anyway, Rose just wants to talk about her “art.”
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| | Rose McGowan claims her agent 'fired' her over those Adam Sandler tweets | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A week ago, Rose McGowan tweeted a gross wardrobe note for an Adam Sandler movie. The note provided instructions to wear a tight tank top and show cleave (“push up bras encouraged“). Rose gave a follow-up statement that said, “It?s embarrassing to be part of [Hollywood] sometimes.” Rose said she “didn?t take a vow of silence when I joined the industry” and compared Hollywood to the Mafia. She also spoke with Entertainment Weekly about how “offended” she was by the wardrobe note.
There are some new developments. Yesterday, Rose tweeted a claim that she’d been “fired by my wussy acting agent” for talking smack.
My initial reaction was to believe Rose had been dropped because she had the guts to talk about Sandler’s low-hanging fruit. Then the agency spoke with Variety to clarify how Rose’s agent, Sheila Wenzel, left the agency earlier this week. The implicaton was that Rose was let go because her agent left, not because of the Sandler stuff. But a different source says “the wheels were already in motion to drop McGowan in light of her comments about the audition.” Variety also spoke with Sandler’s camp, who says he didn’t know anything about the “inappropriate” wardrobe note.
Rose took the high road and tweeted a nice note about her former agent. It sure sounds like she got fired for the Sandler stuff, right?
Sheila Wenzel is a wonderful agent that ceased working with Innovative before my firing. She's a good, strong woman I'm proud to know.
— Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) June 25, 2015
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| | Rose McGowan: 'It's embarrassing to be part of Hollywood sometimes' | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Yesterday, I talked about how Rose McGowan posted a gross wardrobe note for an Adam Sandler movie. She was told to show off cleavage with “push-up bras encouraged.” Some of you called out Rose for capitalizing on her sultry image for years. I think it’s fair for an actress to change her mind, although it would be hard for Rose to explain away her NSFW 1998 VMA dress. She probably likes to forget that moment in history. Last year, Rose decided to (mostly) move behind the camera because she was tired of being sexualized. Now Rose tells Page Six about why she decided to tweet about the wardrobe note:
Rose McGowan, who revealed she was told to wear a “form-fitting tank that shows off cleavage” to meet for a part in an Adam Sandler movie, told us, “It’s embarrassing to be part of [Hollywood] sometimes.”
“These people have to get out of the wrong decade … or century. I didn?t take a vow of silence when I joined the industry. I wasn’t aware I joined the Mafia. I’m going to make fun of something stupid, and maybe somebody will learn something.”
[From Page Six]
Well, I’m glad someone is speaking out about the blunt stupidity of Adam Sandler movies. This guy has coasted for far too long, and Netflix gave him a four picture deal for him to do whatever he pleases. When he signed the deal, Sandler told Variety, “When these fine people came to me with an offer, I immediately said ‘yes’ for one reason and one reason only … Netflix rhymes with ‘wet chicks.’” The journo made sure to mention Sandler’s statement was “prepared,” not off the cuff. Rose is correct. Hollywood can be embarrassing.
Just after midnight, Rose added another remark to her wardrobe disgust.
I was insulted by the instructions to 'read the script for context.' Hahaha
— Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) June 23, 2015
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| | Rose McGowan tweeted a gross wardrobe note for Adam Sandler film | | Added 9 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Rose McGowan has steadly worked in Hollywood for two decades. She’s not an A-lister, but she never suffers to find gigs. Rose decided she didn’t need to appear in an Adam Sandler movie after reading a wardrobe note, which was tucked into a script. Sandler’s movies are usually sexist (and racist too, although Vanilla Ice will defend them as comedies). The guys run around looking like slobs. The dudebros are fawned over by super pretty women, who are dressed all sex-ay for the men. Here’s the gross casting note as tweeted by Rose:
casting note that came w/script I got today. For real. name of male star rhymes with Madam Panhandler hahahaha I die pic.twitter.com/lCWGTV537t
— Rose McGowan (@rosemcgowan) June 18, 2015
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| | Rose McGowan takes it off & says she's tired of being 'sexualized' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Not many people will care about this story or Rose McGowan’s chartreuse pumps and newly short hair as she shopped on Melrose this weekend. I simply felt like reliving some Rose McGowan gossip from days past. Mostly because Rose is revising her past in a new interview with Flatt magazine. I’m not including the photos because her girls are on display, but you can see them here.
Rose is preparing to debut her first directorial effort, Dawn, which draws from Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find. The story is about a serial killer, and the New York Times praised the film and said Rose had “the makings of a talented director.” Huh.
Serious Rose is pumped about being a director, and she wants to reframe her sexpot past. I don’t know why this is a problem for her. Rose played up her vampy ways for decades. But she’s complaining about her semi-NSFW Rolling Stone cover from 2007. The shot featured Rose and Rosario Dawson promoting Grindhouse. Both women are wearing a few strings of bullets and nothing else. Rose says that was the moment she refused to be sexualized ever again. Even though she takes it off for this magazine too. Oh well, let’s do these excerpts:
She’s done with being sexualized: “I just grew up with not just an appreciation, but the desire to break down the study of film. Okay Rose, let?s study the Lumiere Brothers, who invented the moving camera. Let?s now study and focus on this. So when I was discovered for acting I thought, oh, this must be what I?m meant to do. But I was never comfortable in the role of basically being voiceless. I worked with some seriously misogynistic directors. And people get a pass because they?re directors — but you don?t get a pass for being a bad person, you just don?t. I don?t think any job. I got really tired of being sexualized. There was a moment, I was on the cover of Rolling Stone, with a fake tan and gun belt around me and breasts, they gave me some big bouffant hair and glossy lips, and I just was like, I?ve had it, I have just had it. I?m like sick of being sexualized, I?m sick of this. So I just checked out and I ran around and I had the most fabulous time. I figured out finally what was wrong. It was not that I wasn?t meant to be an actress, it was just that I was meant to be in film, and I just was literally cast in the wrong role in life. And I?m good at acting, I like exploring different worlds and I like disappearing, but I spent 15 years disappearing into other people?s bodies, into other people?s minds, other people?s clothes, eating what other people would eat. It wasn?t that I didn?t have amazing moments or got to do amazing things, absolutely. I?m an artist, but I never felt like I was an artist as an actor. Not because of how I was treated, because that?s not how artists are treated, or should be treated, or people should be treated.”
On female directors: “I think it?s a great time for women filmmakers. Women are being afforded greater roles in their destiny, or roles in art, or roles as directors, but why should women be ‘afforded’ anything? I shouldn?t just be allowed to have something — it is my right. It is my right to create as much as it?s another human being?s right, and I think that comes first. Somebody asked if I thought a man would have made Dawn, and I don?t know if they could have. I don?t know if it would have occurred to them.
“The Seattle International Film Festival put me and dawn was in the festival, which was an honor, but then under genre, they put ‘woman director.’ I feel bad because then of course I go on Twitter and I was like, ?Dear Friends on Twitter, please explain to the Seattle International Film Festival why a woman director is not a genre.? I got a letter back from them saying we can assure you: we are neither sexist nor racist. I was very confused by that one, and I said no. It?s a passive sexism and that?s dangerous. All the people that looked at that to go into the program, nobody waved a flag at that one, because it?s normal. And that?s what has to change, I think.”
Her philanthropic efforts: “I support Children of The Night, they are who I earmark for things and anybody who?s going to donate on my behalf, they work to support children and teen runaways. I?m involved in are working at Walter Reed Hospital. I?ve been working with the military in the USO for years. I?ve been to Afghanistan and Kuwait, and I?ve done a lot of stuff in the last seven years military. I?m very, very close to that world. I have the utmost respect for them, and it?s beyond that. I think I would have been a really good soldier or officer, frankly. Except for I probably would have gotten kicked out for some reason or another, I?m sure. But I?m a fighter, I?m a born fighter, and I respect fighters, in any capacity.”
[From Flatt]
Most of what Rose says about female directors is spot on. But Rose acts like she was promoting a wholesome project when she got her kit off for Rolling stone. Please. She was working on Grindhouse, which was full of innuendo and featured Rose rolling around in the tiniest skirt imaginable. She had sexy times in that movie, you know. And she hooked up with the married director, Robert Rodriguez. (They later got engaged and broke up). Rose was proud of the project. I remember hearing stories about how she considered that premiere to be her star moment, and she forbade the other actresses from wearing red that evening. Only one red dress allowed, I guess. Then Rose pushed Robbie Rod to remake Barbarella. Thank goodness that never happened. Poor Rose would have had to sexualize herself again.
These photos of Rose and Jamie King doing fashion week duck face are so weird.
Photos courtesy of WENN
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