Batali puts garlic in his Amatriciana recipe. And Ragu Bolognese from memory. No surprises he’s a Wrong ‘Un.
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Originally posted by ursus arctos View PostAll aspects of the “hospitality” industry are infested with pigs and have been for yonks.
It's not like you were told? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66zVGG2uPG0
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Originally posted by Amor de Cosmos View PostA friend's daughter is a junior chef. It sounds medieval, overworked, underpaid, harassment and substance abuse are routine. She's had about a dozen jobs in three years. Some bad, most worse.
Can’t imagine surviving the lower rungs doing all the work stuff for more than 5 years.Last edited by Lang Spoon; 13-12-2017, 19:47.
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I can’t tell if Bruno is being serious, but I haven’t seen any call for Levine’s recordings to be withdrawn, anymore than there are calls to erase the Mirimax catalogue. If anyone feels tainted by having his wrk in their collection, I would happily pay postage.
He was scheduled to conduct some performances of Boheme in the spring, but those have also suffered from unrelated singer withdrawals (Tyrfel a few days ago) and may not happen.
It is the Met board that is coming under fire, and rightly so.
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Someone can personally decide they do not feel comfortable listening to Levine's recordings but there is no way that corporate bodies should deny them the choice.
I still enjoy Phil Spector's work. Ditto Polanski, Richard Wagner, Oscar Wilde. I would only avoid work if it advocated the behaviour of the abuser, such as if Oscar Wilde had written major work about men having sex with boys below 16, which AFAIK he did not. As a parallel, I enjoy Wagner but not Leni Riefenstahl.
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It's complicated. What's the point of boycotting someone who's dead, like Wagner? If you want to boycott Woody Allen's work as a form of protest, that's something else entirely.
And someone working for Woody Allen would obviously know of the ongoing controversy, so boycotting them as well shouldn't cause you grief. I feel badly for the people in CK's latest film, as they're being penalized for something they didn't do. But on balance, that's the far smaller of the crimes being committed.
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- The House with the Golden Windows
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Originally posted by WOM View PostYeah. My reading of it is that he was more an unwitting accomplice than an actual perpetrator. He seems to have taken HW at his word that they were pains in the ass to work with, rather than knowingly engaging in something nefarious.
An accomplice after the fact, surely?
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Originally posted by Guy Profumo View PostAnd now it appears Peter Jackson wilfully blocked Mira Sorvino and Ashley Judd on the "advice" of the Weinstein brothers.
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Originally posted by Guy Profumo View PostAnd you'd be happy to affect someone's future employment based on hearsay evidence?
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Originally posted by WOM View PostYeah. My reading of it is that he was more an unwitting accomplice than an actual perpetrator. He seems to have taken HW at his word that they were pains in the ass to work with, rather than knowingly engaging in something nefarious.
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Originally posted by Guy Profumo View PostAnd you'd be happy to affect someone's future employment based on hearsay evidence?
That's not different from any other business. Prospective employers of a job candidate talk to their former employers and, maybe, colleagues, etc. Though the threat of litigation has led many references to refuse to give any more information than simply confirming dates of employment, etc.
EDIT: WOM said the same thing much more succinctly
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