• "The Snowman," starring Michael Fassbender, comes out this weekend.
• Critics hate it, but they're having a blast reviewing it.
• The director blames the film's quality on time constraints during filming.
• A lot of the film's reviews have snowman puns.

"The Snowman" comes out this weekend, and critics already hate it.

The film is based on Jo Nesbø's best-selling novel of the same name, originally published in 2007. 

It stars newly married Michael Fassbender as Harry Hole, a detective investigating serial killings in Norway that involve, you guessed it: a snowman! Tomas Alfredson ("Let the Right One In," "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy") directed the film, which also stars Rebecca Ferguson and Charlotte Gainsbourg. 

The reviews are in, and they're bad. The movie has a 26% rating on reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes.

But given the fun material they had to play with, including the strange marketing campaign, critics didn't hesitate to take advantage of snowman puns to express their hatred of the movie. Alfredson is now blaming the film's quality on the fact that due to time constraints, they didn't get to shoot 10-15% of the script.

Here are some of the funniest quotes from reviews of "The Snowman:"

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"Beyond these stellar opening credits, there stretch two hours of icy, mostly lifeless waste."

Mike McCahill, IndieWire

"It looks great, but only as a triumph of style over substance. I'm sorry to say it left me cold."

Brian Viner, Daily Mail UK

"Jo Nesbø's best-selling serial-killer mystery becomes all coal and no carrot, despite a sterling cast and crew."

Jason Solomons, The Wrap

• Arnold Schwarzenegger talked about coming up with one of his most outlandish characters yet in the movie, "Killing Gunther."
• Schwarzenegger explained why he still makes "Terminator" movies.
• He also shared the movie he's made in the past that he'll still watch, though it's "just so stupid."

Arnold Schwarzenegger has built a legendary career through iconic action movie roles that will be watched by generations of audiences. So who better to be at the center of a comedy that spoofs the genre?

For “Killing Gunther” (currently streaming, in theaters on Friday), the directorial debut of “Saturday Night Live” alum Taran Killam, Schwarzenegger plays Gunther, the world’s most famous hitman, who is being chased by a group of bumbling assassins (Killam and Bobby Moynihan among them) trying to take him out. Sporting a stylish haircut, red sunglasses, outlandish outfits, and at one point even singing an country music song, Schwarzenegger delivers his most outlandish performance of his career.

Business Insider spoke with Schwarzenegger over the phone about coming up with the character, why he wants to keep making “Terminator” movies, his theory why “Last Action Hero” was his biggest bomb of the '90s, and the movie he’s sat back and watched with his kids because it’s “just so stupid.”

Jason Guerrasio: What was it that made you say yes to a movie like “Killing Gunther?"

Arnold Schwarzenegger: I was a fan of Taran Killam. I saw him on “Saturday Night Live.” He came to me with the script, I read it, I had a conversation with him, it was his first time directing but he seemed very organized. He had a clear vision of how the movie should be done. I felt the script was hilarious, I thought the whole concept of taking the kind of movies that I've have done many times, of playing a killer of some sort, and that this guy was the ultimate number one assassin, I thought that was funny. I had a blast doing the movie. And my character was written exactly for me. It was heaven. It was just so over the top. 

Guerrasio: The thing that stands out at first, and you see it in the trailer and the marketing, is your outlandish haircut and clothes for the movie, is that something you and Taran fleshed out together?

Schwarzenegger: No. We didn't even talk about that. He had it all planned out. I remember coming to the set and the hairdresser started cutting my hair and I was like, "Wow, it's kind of short on the sides," and they said, "Yeah, we want to make you really cutting edge," and I was like ok, for a 70-year-old guy to look cutting edge, not bad. [Laughs.] The flamboyant wardrobe and behavior, it all fit together perfectly. 

Guerrasio: So you didn't pick out the sunglasses or any of the outfits?

Schwarzenegger: We had some decisions, but I made it clear to him that I would rather go with his vision, which made him feel really happy that I wasn't one of those actors that was second-guessing everything. But you second-guess everything when you have a s----y director or someone who doesn't have a clear vision. With him I didn't feel that way. When he explained to me my character I thought that he had thought through the whole thing so much, all I cared about was that everything fit. I just wanted to make sure there were enough fittings. I think I picked out the sunglasses.

Guerrasio: How about your performance. 

Schwarzenegger: I was rehearsing it for months before I got to the set. Doing it my way, the way I interpreted it. And when we did rehearsals a week before we started shooting, Taran liked what I came up with. During shooting he did little tweaks, as he should. But he was wonderful. I said to him, any script that you have where I fit in I would love to work with you again. 

Guerrasio: So if he did a sequel to this you would be into playing this character again?

Schwarzenegger: That would be funny. 

Guerrasio: I would love to see you do this character again, but I will say it's a bummer that we have to wait 45 minutes or so into the movie before you show up.

Schwarzenegger: That will be the tagline of the sequel — "Gunther will be in sooner."

Guerrasio: [Laughs.]

Schwarzenegger: But the way Taran did it, reading the script, it was perfect. But seeing the movie, yeah, it's too bad we don't have a scene or two where I could come in sooner. 

Guerrasio: You’ve done comedies in the past, but this was more outlandish than anything we've ever seen you do before. Were you nervous if you could pull it off?

Schwarzenegger: No, because you have to see some of the commercials I have done for the Japanese.

Guerrasio: Very true. Good point.

Schwarzenegger: They are more outrageous than “Finding Gunther.” There is nothing, for me, that is too outrageous. I mean I can go all the way out there or I can be as subtle as in "Maggie" or "Aftermath."

Guerrasio: Well, what about doing the country music song? Some nervousness doing that?

Schwarzenegger: Yes. I have to admit that I did really freak out over that. I don't mind looking foolish but it's just that I'm so bad in singing. The only time people ask me to sing is if they want the party to stop. If they want everyone to go home. Immediately. So I was worried that if I sang everyone was going to run out the theater. I just don't have an ear for music. That's why for "Twins" Ivan Reitman made me sing so people would laugh. So, I get it. It's embarrassing. 

Guerrasio: But you owned it. And Taran putting you singing the song in the end credits, either you're hypnotized by it that you can't leave or you run out of the theater. 

Schwarzenegger: Right. Exactly. As soon as I heard it I ran out. 

Guerrasio: Is there a character you've played in your career that it still bugs you audiences didn't get what you tried to do?

Schwarzenegger: There could be 10 of those characters around. [Laughs.] That's not my style to really dwell on it, and drive around during the day on my bicycle, or working out in the gym, and to worry about what character people didn't understand. I think that's just me. And I'm not a person that thinks back in the first place. I think forward. And it's always been less that people didn't get the character, but more people being mad that the movie fell short. Or people would say they are glad the movie went in the toilet. And I totally agree with them. I think there are some movies I made that it was a good thing they went into the toilet, because they weren't good enough. The director f---ed up, or the production was too small, or I screwed up, whatever the reasons are. I’m lucky I've made more movies that went through the roof and people liked internationally than movies that didn't do well. 

Guerrasio: For me I still love the Jack Slater character in “Last Action Hero.” I don't have to tell you, that movie didn't do well when it opened in 1993, but if I show someone younger than me that movie now they get sucked in. 

Schwarzenegger: And don't forget that the year that movie came out it was the year to beat up on Arnold. There was nothing I could do. It was one of those things where President Clinton was elected and the press somehow made the whole thing kind of political where they thought, “Okay, the '80s action guys are gone here's a perfect example,” and they wrote this narrative before anyone saw the movie. And I could see before the movie even came out there were stories coming out about how the movie was still shooting and it's supposed to come out in two months so why are they still shooting. The action hero era is over, Bill Clinton is in, the highbrow movies are the in thing now, I couldn't recuperate. It was treated like the biggest failure and when other movies came out that year that did less money they didn't say that. So yes, I think more people would have seen it if the press treated it differently, but now the good thing is that with streaming, people can go and watch it and many people say exactly what you're saying. They enjoy it.  

Guerrasio: Why continue playing The Terminator? What is it about this character that makes you want to keep playing it?

Schwarzenegger: I love the character. I think the T-800 model is a really interesting character that was developed with a tremendous ability. He's a machine, can be destructive, can do things human being can't do, but at the same time when newer technology comes along the character suddenly is vulnerable and that makes him even more interesting. That's why it plays well in the past movies. I think [James] Cameron and [upcoming Terminator movie director] Tim [Miller] came up with a concept where they can continue on with the T-800, but make the movie a whole new movie. I think the character was stuck in the future and was more like an ordinary guy who suddenly gets activated again. 

Guerrasio: What went wrong with “Terminator Genisys?" Too much of the story getting in the weeds about the future and the past?

Schwarzenegger: Remember, all movies, except the one when I was governor so I wasn't in it, “Terminator” 3 and 5 made over $400 million worldwide, so those are huge grosses. We wish we had made $700 million or $800 million, but I think the key thing now is not to get stuck with the same timeline. I think what they are doing now with this one is basically to just take a few very basic characters, like Linda Hamilton's character and my character, and dismiss everything else. Just move away from all these rules of the timeline and the other characters. It's hard to come up with new ideas when you stay within that framework. And I think this time they are going to take the freedom of opening up and not tying themselves down to the timelines and the other characters. 

Guerrasio: You've been teasing “Triplets,” the sequel to “Twins,” for so long, what’s the latest on that project? 

Schwarzenegger: I had a conversation yesterday with my agent and he said that the script will be finished in 14 days. Ivan Reitman is extremely happy with what he's seen so far, he just wants to make a few tweaks. So that's music to my ears. I think sometime beginning of next year we can shoot the film. 

Guerrasio: Is Eddie Murphy still involved?

Schwarzenegger: Absolutely. 

Guerrasio: Have you and Danny DeVito and Eddie talked, exchanged messages?

Schwarzenegger: We are in touch with each other all the time. We support each other. Everyone is happy to do this movie. 

Guerrasio: What movie of yours will you stop and watch if it's on TV or someone tells you it's on?

Schwarzenegger: I’ll tell you, I remember when my kids started understanding that I was in movies and they would be watching television and one of my movies would come on, they’d say "Daddy, this is you!" I would see the scene, I would stop and just watch it with them. One scene or two. Even a movie like “Hercules in New York,” which I always make fun of because it's so outrageous, and it was my first movie, and they had to dub my voice. My name was "Arnold Strong" in the movie. I was really stupid. But I had to stop and watch it when my kids watched it because it was just so stupid. In one scene it's me wrestling a bear and you could tell the bear in Central Park was not a bear, it was a guy with this coat thrown over him. But it was done so cheap. The budget on that movie was $300,000. We shot the movie in 1969, everything was so cheap. I hadn't seen it in so long and my kids got it and put it on, and they saw me wrestling a bear, and I had to stop and watch this entire fight scene with that bear. Just to watch how ludicrous it was. 

And now, enjoy Arnold wrestling a bear in “Hercules in New York”:

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• Jared Leto is an actor, singer, and investor who owns parts of Snapchat, Spotify, and Reddit.
• He says that his best strategy to manage everything is to "just f---ing work."
• That's why you'll never find him at networking breakfasts or "doing lunch."
• Anyone can apply his strategy. Some psychologists and productivity experts recommend eschewing networking in favor of "real work" that gets things done.

Jared Leto is busy. He's an actor, recently featured in films such as Blade Runner 2049. He's the lead singer in the band 30 Seconds to Mars. And he's an investor who owns parts of Snapchat, Spotify, and Reddit.

In an interview at the Wall Street Journal's D.Luxe conference, which was covered in Fortune, Leto shared his best trick for managing it all: "I just f---ing work."

That is to say, Leto tries to focus on the stuff that produces results — not the stuff that makes him look good or that someone rich and famous is supposed to do.

Leto said:

"I love to work. I don't do dinners, I don't do lunches, I don't do breakfasts. I don't do breakfast with people. I just f---ing work. That's what I love to do, and it serves me well because I like to make things and share them with the world … and I do not take it for granted for a single second."

Leto might be onto something, especially in his disinclination to schmooze over meals.

Wharton psychologist Adam Grant published an op-ed in The New York Times arguing that networking doesn't necessarily lead to success— more often than not, it's the other way around. If Leto wants to make his mark as a great investor, he'd do well to focus more on the investing piece and less on the "meeting other cool people" piece.

"I hate wasting time," Leto said during the interview. "I'm obsessed with efficiency. I've been practicing I'm sure what a lot of you people here [in the audience] have been practicing, which is saying no — even things that are good opportunities."

(Leto noted that perhaps he should have declined the invitation to speak at the D.Luxe conference.)

You don't have to be as high-profile as Leto to apply his productivity strategy in your own life.

Essentially, what Leto's talking about is doing "real work," which is time-management expert Laura Vanderkam's term for work that moves you and your organization forward. That probably doesn't include checking your inbox, or taking non-mandatory meetings, or color-coding your agenda.

The point here is that being more productive depends heavily on knowing what's worth your efforts and what's not. And ultimately, you're the only person who can make those decisions.

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• The first trailer for the biopic "I, Tonya" shows Margot Robbie as disgraced figure skater Tonya Harding.
• Harding infamously masterminded an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan in 1994.
• Robbie's portrayal of Harding is ruthless, remorseless, and surprisingly funny.
• "I, Tonya" hits New York City and Los Angeles theaters on December 8.

The first trailer for the biopic "I, Tonya" gives audiences their first look at Margot Robbie as the infamous figure skater Tonya Harding.

The trailer opens with Robbie saying, “America: They want someone to love, but they want someone to hate." 

This sentiment carries throughout the entirety of the trailer, as Robbie embodies both the best and the worst of Harding — walking past crowds of adoring fans, landing a triple axel, and whacking someone with a baseball bat. 

"I, Tonya" is based on the figure skater's life, and the events that led up to one of the most scandalous moments in sports history: When Harding masterminded an attack on her rival Nancy Kerrigan.

Harding colluded with her ex-husband, Jeff Gillooly, to have Kerrigan's knee smashed so that she would be unable to compete in the 1994 US Figure Skating Championship, insuring that Harding would win, and securing her spot on the 1994 Winter Olympic US figure skating team.

Harding did win the championship and landed a spot on the Olympic figure skating team that year, as did Kerrigan. 

Eventually it was revealed that Harding and Gillooly had planned the attack on Kerrigan. Harding initially denied her role in the attack, but eventually admitted that she was aware of it, and as a result was banned for life from the United States Figure Skating Association.

"The haters always say, Tonya tell the truth," Robbie says in the trailer. "There's no such thing as truth, I mean it's bulls--t."

Robbie's Harding offers up a fresh take on the the disgraced figure skater, delivering a portrayal that is both ruthless, remorseless, dark, and surprisingly funny.

"I, Tonya" hits New York City and Los Angeles theaters on December 8.

You can watch the trailer for "I, Tonya" here:

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Netflix has a new sleeper hit that you've been missing. It's called "American Vandal," and it's outrageously good. 

"American Vandal" is essentially "Making a Murderer," but about a fictional high school where a crime was committed. The crime, however, was spray-painting 27 cars in the faculty parking lot with the same repeated image: a cartoon penis. 

You'd think a fake documentary about genitalia graffiti would be too ridiculous a premise. That's what I thought! I was wrong.

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"American Vandal" takes its stupidity very, very seriously.

On paper, an eight-episode fake documentary series about a dumb high school vandalism sounds ridiculous. It is ridiculous, but "American Vandal" manages to make the investigation as intriguing as the very thing it mocks: Shows like "The Jinx" and "Making a Murderer," and podcasts like "S-Town" and "Serial."

The reason for that is because it treats the situation at hand — a hilarious juvenile image spray-painted identically on 27 cars — as seriously as a real murder case.

"In a way this is a four-hour d--- joke," series co-creator Dan Perrault told Vanity Fair in an interview last month. "But in a more general sense, it’s basically taking very silly things and treating them extremely seriously."

That ethos is evident right from the jump, which features a splashy intro and an interview with the main suspect: Dylan Maxwell.

Not only is "American Vandal" a fake documentary about a high school vandalism, but many of its characters — including the fake documentarians themselves — are high schoolers.  

Dylan Maxwell, above, is considered the senior class clown by his fellow students. He's notorious for drawing cartoon penises all over his high school. A montage, supposedly pulled from social media videos and YouTube, shows Maxwell humping a piñata. 

His first interview for the documentary opens the show, intercut with footage from the local news about the vandalism and brief interviews with other students. The news report says it could be upwards of $100,000 in damages. His fellow students think it's obvious who's responsible. He's facing expulsion, and potential criminal charges.

Maxwell, of course, claims innocence. And he doesn't know who did it. "It's super f---ing funny, so that's all chill," Maxwell says. "But letting me get expelled for something I didn't even do? It's just suuuuch a b---- move."

This is the tone of "American Vandal": deadly serious about something very dumb.

"American Vandal" is full of amazing little details that make it feel incredibly real.

The show is produced "In Association With The Hanover High School TV Department," and it's executive produced by "Mr. Baxter" (a teacher at Hanover High). 

That said, the production values are just as high as any of the big name docs out there.

There are 3D re-creations of events, for instance, but the tactic is used in "American Vandal" as a means of exploring whether or not an average-looking guy hooked up with an especially pretty lady, for example.

"American Vandal" does a remarkable job of working within the boundaries it sets for itself. The documentary's production team are friends, and they're interviewing teachers who they may or may not have classes with. That might mean one of the crew members mysteriously drops out of an episode or two, for instance.

It sounds sitcom-y, but it plays out in a shockingly mundane way that's far more comparable with real high school life. Some of the "evidence" revealed throughout the course of the show results in real issues — like parents finding out how many times their teens had hooked up, for instance. The relationships aren't overdramatized or played up for dramatic effect. It's the same awkward nonsense you remember from high school, but more charming.

• Netflix continues to add more subscribers internationally than in the US
• Morgan Stanley's head of media research explains why the company is thriving overseas and why he's so bullish on the stock. 

Shares of Netflix hit record highs this week after the company reported another quarter of subscriber growth and earnings-per-share that exceeded Wall Street's expectations. 

In the US, the company added 850,000 new customers, but overseas it added a whopping 4.45 million. 

That’s because Netflix has figured out a formula for what works overseas, according to Morgan Stanley’s head of media research, Ben Swinburne.

"The US market is obviously the one where they've got furthest along in terms of penetration, but they've done really well in international markets as well, so I think the international opportunity is certainly significant." Swinburne told Business Insider in an interview about the media, cable, and internet sector last week.

Netflix has proven it can launch and scale the service in developed, English speaking markets like the UK and elsewhere in Europe, says Swinburne, who has a $235 price target on the stock. The company has also proved it can launch and scale the service in emerging markets with spottier internet and fewer English speakers. Here’s more:

"History would tell you that [Netflix], if given time, can ramp in almost any kind of market. It's probably intuitive that a market with a relatively developed economy like the US and the UK, and certainly English language with a strong technology adoption curve, strong broadband networks, would be a successful one for Netflix.

"Then you look at a market like Brazil — obviously an emerging market, with a much different income per capita, a much weaker broadband-network structure than what you typically see elsewhere, and the product has scaled to profitability and significant penetration rates that should give people confidence that they can scale in other kinds of markets."

Analysts seem to think even more good news is to come from the streaming giant. Wall Street now has a consensus price target for the stock of $215 — 11% above where the stock was trading Thursday afternoon, according to Bloomberg. 

Shares of Netflix are up 52% so far this year.

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• The Weinstein Company staff are "angry" and "baffled" by the behavior of cofounder Harvey Weinstein.
• TWC staff are in breach of their non-disclosure agreements by speaking out.
• TWC staff want the company to be "radically transparent" going forward.

On Thursday staff members of The Weinstein Company released a statement saying the alleged decades-long sexual harassment and abuse of women by its cofounder, Harvey Weinstein, has made them "angry" and "baffled."

"We all knew that we were working for a man with an infamous temper. We did not know we were working for a serial sexual predator," the statement read. "We knew that our boss could be manipulative. We did not know that he used his power to systematically assault and silence women. We had an idea that he was a womanizer who had extra-marital affairs. We did not know he was a violent aggressor and alleged rapist."

The Weinstein Company board fired Weinstein on October 8 following an explosive story in The New York Times that alleged the movie executive had sexually harassed women in Hollywood for at least three decades. The following week, a New Yorker story revealed more alleged sexual misconduct, including alleged assault, by Weinstein.

The TWC staff statement also points out that the staffers are aware that by releasing this statement they are in breach of the non-disclosure agreement in their contracts, but that their former boss is in violation of his contract with his employees by not creating a safe work environment. 

"We have nothing to hide, and are as angry and baffled as you are at how Harvey’s behavior could continue for so long. We ask that the company let us out of our NDAs immediately – and do the same for all former Weinstein Company employees – so we may speak openly, and get to the origins of what happened here, and how," the statement read.

"We unequivocally support all the women who have come forward, many of whom we count among our own friends and colleagues," the statement went on to read. "Thank you for speaking out. When the New York Times and The New Yorker articles broke, we wept. We see you, we admire you, and we are in this fight alongside you."

The staff now believe that the only way to go forward with the company is to be "radically transparent."

"And for that to happen, anyone who had specific knowledge of non-consensual, predatory behavior must go. That is the only way anyone will feel comfortable working with us. It is the only way any of us will feel comfortable working here."

Read the entire TWC statement below:

"We came to work at this company because we love movies. We grew up watching Miramax films, and came to associate that name, and later the name Weinstein, with great storytelling.

Some of us have been here for years, others for just for a few months. Some have been here since their first college internship, others joined the team after a rigorous application process. All of us were excited to get the job, proud to be working for a company with such an illustrious history.

We all knew that we were working for a man with an infamous temper. We did not know we were working for a serial sexual predator. We knew that our boss could be manipulative. We did not know that he used his power to systematically assault and silence women. We had an idea that he was a womanizer who had extra-marital affairs. We did not know he was a violent aggressor and alleged rapist.

But to say that we are shocked and surprised only makes us part of the problem.

Our company was built on Harvey’s unbridled ambition – his aggressive deal making, his insatiable desire to win and get what he wanted, his unabashed love for celebrity – these traits were legendary, and the art they produced made an indelible mark on the entertainment industry.

But we now know that behind closed doors, these were the same traits that made him a monster. He created a toxic ecosystem where his abuse could flourish unchecked for decades.

We know that in writing this we are in open breach of the non-disclosure agreements in our contracts. But our former boss is in open violation of his contract with us – the employees – to create a safe place for us to work.

We have nothing to hide, and are as angry and baffled as you are at how Harvey’s behavior could continue for so long. We ask that the company let us out of our NDAs immediately – and do the same for all former Weinstein Company employees – so we may speak openly, and get to the origins of what happened here, and how.

We unequivocally support all the women who have come forward, many of whom we count among our own friends and colleagues. Thank you for speaking out. When the New York Times and The New Yorker articles broke, we wept. We see you, we admire you, and we are in this fight alongside you.

And while we can only speak for the people represented in this statement, none of us ever knowingly acted as a so-called “honeypot”. That is disgusting and renders us all victims of Harvey’s disgraceful behavior.

Practically none of us have ever met the board. Aside from Bob Weinstein, few of us even knew their names before last week. If the board’s job was to keep Harvey in check, financially and otherwise, they failed.

As we begin the painful process of reflecting on our industry and the ugly systems we’ve wrought and let thrive, we are asking ourselves the question: how do we define abuse? Do we include verbal degradation, ruthless aggression and physical intimidation? This particular horror show centers on a sexual predator who abused his power in a very specific way. But if we’re being honest (and if not now, when?) we all know that threatening, hostile, inhumane work environments are rampant in our industry.

Non-disclosure agreements only perpetuate this culture of silence. The “if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” mentality undermines those who might’ve spoken out. We treat these abusive people and places as rites of passage, instead of with the disgust they deserve.

Harvey Weinstein is far from the only sociopathic bully we’ve exalted over the years. Employees who work under our industry’s most notorious bosses are regularly asked to surrender their dignity in exchange for professional success.

So now that Harvey is gone, what next? If there is a future for this company, it must be one of radical transparency and accountability. And for that to happen, anyone who had specific knowledge of non-consensual, predatory behavior must go. That is the only way anyone will feel comfortable working with us. It is the only way any of us will feel comfortable working here.

To those speaking out, and to those fearlessly reporting: we are so grateful for your courage. Right now, we want to listen hard and keep listening, no matter how unsettling or overwhelming these stories are. But after that we must start to ask hard questions of our industry, so we may do right not only by Harvey’s many victims, but also by young film lovers who, like all of us, just want to work in movies."

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• Lupita Nyong’o has detailed her numerous encounters with Harvey Weinstein over several years.
• Harvey Weinstein is accused of sexually harassing dozens of actresses and has been fired from his company.
• Nyong’o felt forced to give Weinstein a massage at his home while his children were in another room. 

Lupita Nyong’o has added her name to the growing list of Hollywood actresses that Harvey Weinstein is accused of sexually harassing.

In an op-ed for the New York Times, Nyong’o thanked other women for coming forward with their stories and detailed her encounters with Weinstein over the years, including a massage incident at his home while his young children were in another room.

“As actors we are paid to do very intimate things in public. That’s why someone can have the audacity to invite you to their home or hotel and you show up,” wrote Nyong’o who starred in “12 Years a Slave”, for which she won an Oscar, and “Star Wars: The Force Awakens”.

Nyong’o first met Weinstein at a dinner in 2011 while she was still studying at the Yale School of Drama. One of her table-mates warned her “He is a good man to know in the business, but just be careful around him.”

Not long after, Weinstein invited Nyong’o out to lunch and a film screening at his home. The lunch was uncomfortable with Weinstein appearing highly irritated that Nyong’o didn’t want to order alcohol and demanded the waiter “Get her what I tell you to get her.”

But it was the situation at Weinstein’s home, where he offered to Nyong’o a massage, that echoes other stories of his sexual harassment.

“We got to his home after lunch and I met his domestic staff and his young children. He took me on a brief tour of the house before he rounded us all up in the screening room to watch the film.”

“I settled in for the film, but about 15 minutes in, Harvey came for me, saying he wanted to show me something. I protested that I wanted to finish the film first, but he insisted I go with him, laying down the law as though I too was one of his children. I did not want another back-and-forth in front of his kids, so I complied and left the room with him. I explained that I really wanted to see the film. He said we’d go back shortly.

Harvey led me into a bedroom — his bedroom — and announced that he wanted to give me a massage. I thought he was joking at first. He was not. For the first time since I met him, I felt unsafe. I panicked a little and thought quickly to offer to give him one instead: It would allow me to be in control physically, to know exactly where his hands were at all times.

Part of our drama school curriculum at Yale included body work, using massage techniques on one another to understand the connection between body, mind and emotion, and so I felt I could rationalize giving him one and keep a semblance of professionalism in spite of the bizarre circumstance. He agreed to this and lay on the bed. I began to massage his back to buy myself time to figure out how to extricate myself from this undesirable situation. Before long he said he wanted to take off his pants. I told him not to do that and informed him that it would make me extremely uncomfortable. He got up anyway to do so and I headed for the door, saying that I was not at all comfortable with that. “If we’re not going to watch the film, I really should head back to school,” I said.

I opened the door and stood by the frame. He put his shirt on and again mentioned how stubborn I was. I agreed with an easy laugh, trying to get myself out of the situation safely. I was after all on his premises, and the members of his household, the potential witnesses, were all (strategically, it seems to me now) in a soundproof room.”

Nyong’o saw Weinstein a few more times over the following years but one dinner stands out:

“Before the starters arrived, he announced: “Let’s cut to the chase. I have a private room upstairs where we can have the rest of our meal.” I was stunned. I told him I preferred to eat in the restaurant. He told me not to be so naïve. If I wanted to be an actress, then I had to be willing to do this sort of thing. He said he had dated Famous Actress X and Y and look where that had gotten them.”

Nyong’o says she is now interested in “combating the shame we go through that keeps us isolated and allows for harm to continue to be done”.

The New York Times has more here.

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• House Speaker Paul Ryan spoke at the annual Al Smith charity dinner Thursday night.
• He jabbed President Donald Trump in a series of jokes about Russia, Twitter, and the White House.
• Trump caused controversy and received boos at the event last year.

"Enough with the applause," Paul Ryan told the crowd at the annual Al Smith charity dinner on Thursday night.

"You sound like the Cabinet when Donald Trump walks into the room."

The House speaker took multiple lighthearted jabs at the president during his keynote speech, hitting him for his Twitter use, Cabinet turnover, and the turmoil in Washington.

"Every morning, I wake up in my office and I scroll through Twitter to see which tweets I will have to pretend I didn't see later on," Ryan said. "Every afternoon, former Speaker John Boehner calls me up, not to give advice, just to laugh."

The crowd was full of New York's elite politicians, including Mayor Bill de Blasio, former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

"I don't think I've ever seen this many New York liberals, this many Wall Street CEOs, in one room since my last visit to the White House," Ryan said.

One of the speaker's best-received jokes came at the expense of a story Trump has repeatedly denied and labeled "fake news" — that his secretary of state called him a "moron" after a charged meeting.

Speaking about this year's host, the actress Patricia Heaton, Ryan described her as a "Hollywood Republican."

"That is an oxymoron," Ryan said. "Which clearly was the word that Rex Tillerson was searching for."

Watch some of Ryan's routine below:

The charity dinner is named after the first Catholic nominated for president and raises money for children in need.

Trump, then the Republican presidential nominee, spoke at the dinner last year and got some boos for his pointed attacks against his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, who also attended.

"Hillary is so corrupt, she got kicked off the Watergate commission," Trump said at one point. "How corrupt do you have to be to get kicked off the Watergate commission? Pretty corrupt."

Ryan addressed last year's controversy in his remarks Thursday night.

"I know that last year Donald Trump offended some people," Ryan said. "I know his comments, according to critics, went too far. Well thank God he's learned his lesson."

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Netflix's library of original movies has expanded exponentially since it released its first film, "Beasts of No Nation," in 2015 — and its pace of production is only picking up.

The company recently announced that it will be releasing 80 original films in 2018, including high-profile movies from the likes of Will Smith and Martin Scorsese.

Among Netflix's recent original drama releases, films like the new Noah Baumbach dramedy, "The Meyerowitz Stories," and the Stephen King adaptation "1922" (out this Friday) have garnered universal critical acclaim.

To find out which Netflix drama films are worth watching, we turned to the reviews aggregator Rotten Tomatoes to rank each release by its composite critical reception. We excluded films that didn't have enough reviews to receive a designation of "Rotten" or "Fresh." We also included and footnoted upcoming films that have already screened for critics, like the Oscar-contender "Mudbound."

Here are 28 of Netflix's original drama films, ranked by their Rotten Tomatoes critic score from lowest to highest (if there was a tie, we used the audience score to break it):

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28. “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny” — 19%

Critic score: 19%

Audience score: 38%

Netflix description: "Renowned warrior Yu Shu-Lien comes out of retirement to keep the legendary Green Destiny sword away from villainous warlord Hades Dai."

27. “Brain on Fire” — 22%

Critic score: 22%

Audience score: 59%

Netflix description: "Struck by a mysterious, mentally devastating illness, a young reporter searches for answers while battling psychosis, catatonia and memory loss."

26. “Death Note” — 40%

Critic score: 40%

Audience score: 24%

Netflix description: "Light Turner finds a supernatural notebook and uses it to mete out death, attracting the attention of a detective, a demon and a girl in his class."

• Arnold Schwarzenegger's 1993 movie "Last Action Hero" was a major disappointment at the box office.
• The movie had negative press and horrible test scores.
• But Schwarzenegger believes the election of Bill Clinton that same year also led to the movie's demise.

It was 1993 when Arnold Schwarzenegger came out with one of his most unique tough guy movies, “Last Action Hero.”

A mix of action and comedy that follows a boy with a magic ticket, who suddenly is transported through the big screen and into the latest movie of his favorite actor, Jack Slater (Arnold Schwarzenegger), it’s filled with huge fight scenes, gun fights, explosions, and fun jabs at Schwarzenegger and the action movie genre.

But nobody went to see the movie.

With a 37% Rotten Tomatoes rating and a $137 million worldwide gross (which doesn’t even crack the top ten for that year), the movie was considered a colossal disappointment.

However, looking back on it now, Schwarzenegger believes there were a lot of forces against him around the time the movie came out.

“Don’t forget that the year that movie came out it was the year to beat on Arnold,” Schwarzenegger told Business Insider. 

Before the movie opened the Hollywood trades had constant coverage of its shaky production, which finished just months before it opened in theaters, along with reports on the movie getting negative test scores.

But Schwarzenegger feels even the newly-elected president, Bill Clinton, had something to do with the movie’s poor performance.

“It was one of those things where President Clinton was elected and the press somehow made the whole thing kind of political where they thought, ‘Okay, the ‘80s action guys are gone here’s a perfect example,’ and they wrote this narrative before anyone saw the movie,” Schwarzenegger said, while promoting his new movie “Killing Gunther” (currently available on streaming and in theaters Friday).

Schwarzenegger, who is a Republican and former governor of California, felt that the combination of bad press surrounding the movie and the entrance of a Democrat into the White House led to a situation where he couldn’t win.

“The action hero era is over, Bill Clinton is in, the highbrow movies are the 'in' thing now, I couldn’t recuperate,” he said.

He did though — a year later. Teaming with his “Terminator” movies director James Cameron, they made the spy action movie “True Lies,” which earned over $378 million worldwide and was the third-highest-grossing domestic release of the year.

And as the years have passed, “Last Action Hero” has been rediscovered by new audiences.

“I think more people would have seen it if the press treated it differently, but now the good thing is that with streaming people can go and watch it,” Schwarzenegger said.

You can rent “Last Action Hero” for $4 on iTunes now! 

Watch the trailer below:

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Ronan Farrow made some personal sacrifices to report out his bombshell New Yorker investigation on Harvey Weinstein's pattern of predatory sexual harassment.

Two people familiar with the situation confirmed to Business Insider that Farrow missed his sister Quincy Farrow's wedding on October 7, as he was racing to finish his story.

Just two days earlier, The New York Times had revealed in an investigation Weinstein's pattern of sexual harassment, and The New Yorker was close to finishing its own expose on Weinstein, which the magazine published several days later on October 10.

Sources said there are no hard feelings between the two siblings.

Farrow's path to publishing the story was arduous.

Though he remained an NBC contributor, Farrow faced a number of barriers when he tried to report the story at NBC News.

Network executives believed that despite interviews with multiple women and his acquisition of an audio tape in which Weinstein admitted to groping a model, he did not have enough evidence to publish his story.

According to HuffPost, when NBC tried to stop him from shooting an interview with a victim who agreed to speak on camera, Farrow paid out of his own pocket for a TV crew.

The New Yorker story has reinvigorated interest among television executives in Farrow's journalism career, several years after his weekly daytime show on MSNBC was canceled amid a broad lineup change.

Page Six reported that multiple television networks including CNN, ABC, and CBS are all pursuing contracts with Farrow, who has spent the last several years working with NBC's investigative team.

Farrow declined to comment.

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Nintendo's latest video game console is off to a killer start.

The Nintendo Switch is still hard to find, and it's regularly beating the competition in sales. Its main launch game, "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild," is heralded as one of the best games ever made. And Nintendo has a huge new Mario game, "Super Mario Odyssey," launching in less than a week.

Between this year's Switch games and 2018's lineup, it looks as if Nintendo is finally delivering on its long-held promise to release a steady cadence of games from its biggest franchises. Heck, Nintendo is even making a full-on new "Pokémon" game for the Switch. That's a first for "Pokémon," a series forever tied to Nintendo's handheld consoles.

But the year isn't done yet! We've put together a comprehensive list of what's still planned for 2017 and what to expect for 2018 — follow that below:

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2017: Nintendo released a sequel to "Splatoon," a Pokémon spin-off, and a new series for Mario.

Considering that the console only launched in March, the Switch already has a mess of fantastic games. Nintendo started with the showstopper in "The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild," which launched alongside the Switch in March. 

"Zelda" was quickly followed by an updated re-release of "Mario Kart 8" — arguably the best "Mario Kart" game ever made — and an entirely new Nintendo-made entry in "Arms." "Minecraft" launched soon after, and Nintendo even allowed the Switch version of "Minecraft" to play nice with the Xbox One, PC, mobile, and VR versions of the game. If you're playing the game on one of those platforms, you're also playing with people on the Switch!

"Splatoon 2" is a sequel to the delightful shooter that debuted on Nintendo's failed Wii U console. It launched on July 21, and it's excellent.

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Following the launch of "Splatoon 2" this summer, a spin-off of the Pokémon series arrived on Switch in September: "Pokken Tournament DX." It's a 3D fighting game featuring — what else? — Pokémon, and it's a rerelease of a game previously available on the Wii U. Think of it as a precursor to next year's "core" Pokémon game on the Switch.

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• Director Quentin Tarantino worked with film producer Harvey Weinstein for years, and credits him for helping his career
• Amid the allegations of sexual harassment and assault against Weinstein, Tarantino has finally spoken in detail about it, and how much he knew
• In an interview with The New York Times, Tarantino says he was aware of much of Weinstein's behavior, and regrets that he didn't do more

Director Quentin Tarantino, who worked with Harvey Weinstein for decades and credits his success to him, told The New York Times on Wednesday that he knew about much of his alleged sexual misconduct and could have done more.

“I knew enough to do more than I did,” Tarantino said. “There was more to it than just the normal rumors, the normal gossip. It wasn’t secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things. I knew enough to do more than I did.”

Tarantino told the Times that he wished he had "taken responsibility" for what he had heard. "If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him," he said. 

Tarantino also told the Times that his former girlfriend, actress Mia Sorvino, told him about Weinstein's unwanted advances toward her when they were dating. Sorvino is one of the many women who has told her story about Weinstein's alleged sexual harassment and assault. Tarantino also said he was aware of Weinstein’s settlement with actress Rose McGowan in 1997.

“What I did was marginalize the incidents,” Tarantino said. “Anything I say now will sound like a crappy excuse.”

Weinstein worked with Tarantino from the very beginning of his illustrious film career, starting with 1992's "Reservoir Dogs." Weinstein also produced other Tarantino films including "Pulp Fiction," "Kill Bill," "Inglorious Basterds," and "The Hateful Eight."

Before speaking to the Times on Wednesday, Tarantino issued a brief statement expressing his disgust upon learning of the additional sexual assault allegations against Weinstein, which his friend, actress Amber Tamblyn, posted for him on social media.

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Pink is at the top of her game.

The 38-year-old pop star will release her seventh studio album, "Beautiful Trauma," on Friday, October 13. She is preparing for a 40-date North American arena tour kicking off in March 2018.

In August, she was presented with the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard award at the MTV Music awards, a title shared among entertainment greats like the Rolling Stones, Tom Petty, Justin Timberlake, Britney Spears, and Beyoncé.

This week, Pink will make her third appearance on Saturday Night Live as the show's musical guest.

With nearly two decades of stardom under her belt, earning countless accolades and millions of dollars from hit albums and sold-out tours, Pink seems to have one thing many artists and bands can't quite master: Staying power.

Here's what we know about how Pink built a nine-figure net worth and spends her fortune:

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It's been 17 years since Pink — whose birth name is Alecia Beth Moore — released her first studio album, "Can't Take Me Home." That year, she took home the award for female new artist of the year at the Billboard Music Awards. Since then, she's amassed an estimated fortune of $110 million.

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Pink has sold more than 16 million albums and minted four No. 1 Billboard hits. She's had 11 songs in the top 10 and released a single every year (except one) since 2000. "She doesn't disappear for five years," Tom Poleman, the chief programming officer for iHeartMedia, told the New York Times. "She always stays in the forefront, so people have been able to move and grow with her."

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Her constant presence — and universal appeal — has paid off. In 2013, Pink was the highest earning touring female artist, netting more than $20 million from 114 concert dates, 111 of which were sold out.

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This week, MGMT dropped its first single in four years, rapper Big K.R.I.T. put out a new track, and country singer Margo Price released her second studio album. 

Here are the 5 best songs from the past week that you can stream right now:

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MGMT — "Little Dark Age"

MGMT returns from a four-year hiatus with "Little Dark Age," a gothic, '80s-inspired single that melds alternately eerie and charged synths with one of the band's best choruses to date. It's the title track from the group's upcoming fourth LP, which is set for an early 2018 release. 

Mitski — "I'm a Fool to Want You"

Indie rock phenom Mitski lends a transfixing, otherworldly rendition of "I'm a Fool to Want You" — a 1951 Frank Sinatra song that became a jazz-pop standard — to a star-studded compilation album benefiting Planned Parenthood. 

Destroyer — "In The Morning"

The eccentric Canadian rocker Dan Bejar released his 11th Destroyer album, "ken," this week. "In The Morning," a standout track, combines layers of shoegaze-y guitars with accessible melodies. 

Shortly after Hugh Hefner's death in September, The Hollywood Reporter announced that Jared Leto would be playing the media mogul in a biopic about his life.

"Jared is an old friend," the biopic's director Brett Ratner told THR. "When he heard I got the rights to Hef's story, he told me, 'I want to play him. I want to understand him.' And I really believe Jared can do it. He's one of the great actors of today."

Immediately after news of Leto's casting was announced it began to receive some criticism online.

Here are a couple reactions to Leto's casting:

It's easy to be skeptical of Leto's casting when there have been so many lousy biopic castings in the past. Even renowned actors like Kevin Spacey and Naomi Watts have starred in colossal biopic flops. 

It's too soon to evaluate whether or not Leto's portrayal of Hefner will do the late playboy justice, but hopefully he won't make the same mistakes as his biopic predecessors.

Here are the 11 worst biopic castings of all time, in no particular order:

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Lindsay Lohan as Elizabeth Taylor

"Liz and Dick" was meant to tell the story of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's romance, but instead it amounted to no more than a cheaply crafted, made-for-TV-movie with subpar casting.

Lohan was unable to carry the role of Taylor, and instead played a less charming version of herself while wearing a series of unflattering acrylic wigs. 

Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin

Spacey directed and starred in the Bobby Darin biopic "Beyond the Sea," chronicling the short life of the famed crooner. 

But the film had one glaring issue: Spacey's age. 

Darin was 37 when he died, and Spacey was 45 when he portrayed the singer...when he was 20.

It was confusing.

Ashton Kutcher as Steve Jobs

Kutcher's portrayal of Steve Jobs in "Jobs" fell short of truly representing the tech mogul, and it's incredibly hard to take the "Punk'd" creator seriously in the role — despite his spot-on resemblance to Jobs.

Nearly 17 years ago, an episode of "The Simpsons" predicted that Donald Trump would one day become US president.

And this wasn't the only time the writers have managed to predict the future.

"The Simpsons" has been running for over 27 years, so it's inevitable that some themes that crop up in the show might occur in real life. But some of the plotlines are eerily close to events that have happened throughout the world.

We've listed some of the strangest predictions the cartoon's writers have made since the show's launch in 1989.

From Homer discovering the Higgs boson to animators drawing The Shard in London almost 20 years before it was built.

Here are 15 times "The Simpsons" predicted the future:

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15. Nobel Prize Winner - Season 22, Episode 1

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MIT professor Bengt Holmström won the Nobel Prize in economics in 2016, 6 years after he was bet on to win the Nobel Prize on "The Simpsons."

Holmström's name appears on a betting scorecard when Martin, Lisa, Database, and Milhouse bet on Nobel Prize winners.

14. Smart watches - Season 6, Episode 19

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 "The Simpsons" introduced the idea of a watch you could use as a phone in an episode aired in 1995, nearly 20 years before the Apple Watch was released.

13. Lady Gaga's Super Bowl halftime show - Season 23, Episode 22

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In 2012, Lady Gaga performed for the town of Springfield hanging in midair. Five years later, she flew off the Houston NRG Stadium roof in real life to perform her Super Bowl halftime show. 

• Erika Rosenbaum, a Canadian actress, said she met Hollywood power player Harvey Weinstein several times in her 20s to discuss her career.
• She said Weinstein made unwarranted sexual advances to her during these meetings.
• In one of their meetings, Rosenbaum said, Weinstein pulled her into the bathroom of his hotel room and masturbated in front of her.
• Rosenbaum left the room and said she felt "trapped" by Weinstein.

A Canadian actress said Harvey Weinstein coaxed her into the bathroom of his hotel room, grabbed her neck, and masturbated in front of her during a meeting to discuss her career.

Speaking to The New York Times' Jodi Kantor— who initially broke the story of the sexual-harassment allegations against Weinstein— Erika Rosenbaum discussed the years of harassment and emotional manipulation she says she suffered at Weinstein's hands.

Rosenbaum relayed a story of a meeting set up by Weinstein's assistant in Toronto, during the film festival. Rosenbaum, then in her mid-20s, had first met Weinstein at a party a few years earlier, in which Weinstein had allegedly made a passing sexual advance.

Weinstein's assistant texted Rosenbaum before the meeting and told her that he was on a tight schedule and that she should meet him in his hotel room.

"I was thinking, this wasn't fine, but I go," Rosenbaum said, in a recording posted on The New York Times' site. "Because, when you're in my position, you go. Like there was no benefit to me saying no."

Rosenbaum said she arrived at the hotel room and Weinstein's assistant opened the door and then left. Rosenbaum, with her voice cracking in the recording, said she finds speaking about what happened next "difficult."

"He answered the door with no pants on," Rosenbaum told the NYT. "As far as I could tell, he was just wearing a dress shirt." Weinstein apologized to her, "outright," Rosenbaum said. He said he was "rushing to get ready," and that he needed to take a shower. At this point, Rosenbaum said Weinstein's shirt covered his hips, but there was "nothing on" underneath.

Weinstein then allegedly asked if she would talk to him while he took a shower, but Rosenbaum replied that he was busy and they could talk later. At this point, Rosenbaum says Weinstein got annoyed that she was going to leave his hotel room. "Just come here a minute," Rosenbaum said he told her.

Rosenbaum said — fighting back tears on the recording — that Weinstein brought her into the bathroom. "I don't remember what I said if I said anything at all," Rosenbaum said. "I think I was too afraid to say anything."

At this point, the story becomes graphic.

"He held me by the back of the neck, and had me face the mirror, and said I just want to look at you," Rosenbaum said. "And then he started masturbating, um, behind me. He was holding me by the back of the neck and looking right at my face."

Rosenbaum describes how she reacted to the situation:

"And, uh, I remember seeing my own face in the mirror, and I just could not believe that I was standing there," she continued. "And I just could not believe that I had let this happen. And I felt incredibly guilty, And eventually, I don't know if a minute went by, or five minutes went by, but I — I tell him that I cannot be here, and I walked to the door. I don't think he finished what he was doing and I don't remember him saying anything at all after that."

"And I remember how I felt afterwards, that now I was deeper into this secret, and that, and I didn't know what would happen if I ever said anything, and I didn't know what would happen if I didn't call him back — if he would come after me in some way. I didn't know what else I could do. It sounds so foolish now."

"You get woven into this web, bit-by-bit," Rosenbaum said, of how Weinstein — a Hollywood power broker— had charmed her into successive meetings. "Because of the power imbalance that was there from the get-go, I really felt trapped."

"I realize now how manipulated I was back then," she added.

Rosenbaum's story bears similarities to the multitude of other women, including Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie, who have alleged harassment over the past few weeks. Ashley Judd told The New York Times that Weinstein's assistant had sent her up to his hotel room for a meeting, where he answered the door in a bathrobe, and asked if she would "watch him shower."

And, in a 2015 recording, Weinstein is heard asking model Ambra Battilana Gutierrez to come into his bathroom for a "minute."

Lupita Nyong'o, an Oscar-award winning actress, wrote an essay for The New York Times where she detailed a series of meetings with Weinstein where he alternated between career advice and advances. Quentin Tarantino, the famous film director who worked with Weinstein's company, Miramax, said he "knew enough to do more than I did," with regard to Weinstein's treatment of women.

Weinstein's wife separated from him as the allegations piled up, and he has been fired from his company.

You can listen to the full recording of Rosenbaum's story over at The New York Times.

SEE ALSO: Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o speaks out about her shocking encounters with Harvey Weinstein

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Anyone who saw the documentary or Broadway play would likely balk at living in the actual home that "Grey Gardens" inspired. After all, the home was in poor shape during the filming of the documentary, and it's even rumored to be haunted.

But eight months after being put onto the market, the home has finally found a buyer, the Washington Post reported. It was originally listed for just shy of $20 million in February, though that price was reduced to $17.995 million in April. 

The East Hampton, New York, mansion now looks nothing like it did in the 1975 documentary showcasing the lives of Jackie Kennedy Onassis' ex-socialite relatives. 

Journalist and author Sally Quinn purchased the mansion with her husband, the late Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, for $220,000 in 1979. They completely rehabilitated it to the current splendor that it now shows, according to The New York Times.

Quinn would not diclose the name of the buyer or what he or she paid, though she told the Post that this individual "really understands the house." She added that she will be holding an estate sale of many of the home's furniture pieces, including things she found when she first bought the house.

The Corcoran Group had the listing.

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The home has the slate exterior of a typical Hamptons home.

Walk past the sizable porch ...

... and enter a home of stately beauty.