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Harry Knowles Allegedly Assaulted Woman and Drafthouse Owners Didnt take action.
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He is now posting articles pretending to be his sister. Even writing personal anecdotes on her behalf like he does, writing about how she used to steal his toys. And she magically is interested in all the same things and writes the exact same.
Anyway, me made a mistake, when posting as her.
Yep, posing as a woman will surely help your image, Harry.
Jesus.
Jesus.....
Yep, totally how we talk. Also gurls rule, boys drool.
really speaks to their perception of women and their personal maturity
George Oscar Bluth II
Banned
The Elite
BOSS
Business has just picked up.
Hmm, this is super weird. I'm worried it's going to end with something super drastic, and I don't know what that is. Harry clearly isn't handling this in the best way, and now he's pretending to be someone else? I dunno, something about this seems really off to me, that's bizarre. I hope he doesn't do something stupid...
captjohnboyd
Member
Jesus Christ how did this guy ever manage to make 6 figures running this site with the intellectual capacity of a 13 year old. Fucking disgusting pig
Vulture put up an article: More Women Come Forward Accusing Harry Knowles Of Sexual Assault (Nothing really new I think, but the pressure is not going away)
Also:
Also:
Claude Augario
Member
Did thy shut down the comments on this page?
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
He's handling it like a child would.
Apparently AICN has shutdown the talkbacks (their version of comments) on everything since this story broke.
Count of Monte Sawed-Off
un33dab@dpu$$y
Comments have been down since this started coming out, I think. Shame, I was hoping to hear what Danny Glover's Dickblood had to say.
He is now posting articles pretending to be his sister. Even writing personal anecdotes on her behalf like he does, writing about how she used to steal his toys. And she magically is interested in all the same things and writes the exact same.
Anyway, me made a mistake, when posting as her.
What in the fuck
You guys see this thing from former AICN writer Billy the Kidd?
Fuck Harry, and fuck Quint and Capone too. They're all idiots.
Fuck Harry, and fuck Quint and Capone too. They're all idiots.
MooseKnuckles
Banned
This guy makes Tim League look like the greatest PR manager in the world.
As a side note, I read one of the earlier articles posted by Harry's 'sister,' and it seems like a fundamental misunderstanding of sentence structure runs in the family.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
Or they're written by the same person [thinking emoji]
PepsimanVsJoe
Member
Wow. The site has gone unchanged for...20 years?!
Still looks like shit.
Still looks like shit.
VARIA
Member
Reminds me of the recent scandal that has overtaken (and shut down!) the indie Cinefamily theater here in Los Angeles which was known for its unique programming and celebrity appearances.
http://www.laweekly.com/news/cinefamily-has-imploded-after-assault-and-sexual-harassment-allegations-can-it-be-saved-8655605
http://www.laweekly.com/news/cinefamily-has-imploded-after-assault-and-sexual-harassment-allegations-can-it-be-saved-8655605
It looks like there should still be Phantom Menace stories all over the place.
BoogieWoogie
Banned
Coincidentally, Billy the Kidd (and the whole attendant South Florida weirdness) is the reason I stopped reading AICN.
elrechazado
Banned
This is hilariously bad now.
The Elite
BOSS
The whole thing is just sort of sad for me. I have been checking out AICN since the 90's. Sure the reviews were shit but it's been a familiar place for about two decades. I found better sources for my film and TV news about a decade ago, even doing work as a critic myself, but I would always find time for AICN. There's a nostalgia factor and familiarity that brought me back. It's bad for me but it's a lot like comfort food.
Hearing the news that Harry has been allegedly assaulting women all this time is just depressing. Such a sad and terrible way to see all this end; especially now that he's pretending to be his sister.
Hearing the news that Harry has been allegedly assaulting women all this time is just depressing. Such a sad and terrible way to see all this end; especially now that he's pretending to be his sister.
Fucking hell. Even though he's only mentioned briefly and Billy says they're on good terms, I wonder how bad Nordling was to him too, as I'm kind of a fan of his stuff post-AICN.
You realize that Billy is very possibly the worst high profile film writer of all time, was unilaterally hired by Harry, and spammed the site with multiple Miami-only giveaways per day, right? It's not a huge surprise that he wasn't treated like a friend by the other writers. And it's not surprising that his appearance and continued presence put everyone in an awkward situation, since no one other than Harry could have (very deservedly) fired him. His attempt to correlate what happened to him with sexual assault does not make me feel better about him.
That's pretty damn fucked up. As a writer who struggled for years to actually get paid doing it, it's infuriating that a site as successful as AICN wasn't paying some of its contributors.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
It's even more fucked up since apparently Harry spent years turning down large amounts of money from VCs who wanted a piece of that early internet action. The guy could've turned AICN into something major, but instead he had no ambition and wanted to have no bosses, so it just withered away.
Harry Knowles being a pervy weirdo and a creep was basically a whispered about thing when I circulated in the Chicago film writing and film culture circles and I'm kind of surprised it took this long for anything to come of it.
Edit for clarity: I never saw anything personally but it was mostly rumor, stories and so forth so I'm not confirming or denying anything.
Edit for clarity: I never saw anything personally but it was mostly rumor, stories and so forth so I'm not confirming or denying anything.
honestly, I didn't know that. I appreciate the clarification. Sounds like all of these dudes were/are assholes, and recollections like Billy's aren't helping the matter at all, which is probably the intent.
plagiarize
Banned
And him never getting paid?
That sucks. However, per Billy's own account, Mr. Beaks (Jeremy Smith, still one of my favorite film writers) wasn't being paid, either. It's not apparent whether Harry was paying anyone, and, per Billy himself, the no pay issue (which, again, is abhorrent), wasn't exclusive to Billy.
My point is just that Capone and Quint had every reason to be upset about Billy's work, and concerned about what he was doing to the site.
The whole debacle was Harry's fault, but Billy the Kidd was, in many ways, the public face and executor of the downfall of AICN.
plagiarize
Banned
Billy says some were getting paid, and two wrongs don't make a right.
Firing him in that shitty way isn't how you handle hiring someone who sucks. Circling the wagons for Harry Fucking Knowles will prove to have been a bad idea, I don't hesitate to say.
Random Human
They were trying to grab your prize. They work for the mercenary. The masked man.
I'm having a hard time seeing what this Billy guy could've done to the site's reputation that Knowles hadn't been doing for ten years.
Lots and lots of Miami-exclusive giveaways.
And then his reviews were just, like, a random guy off the street with no perspective or knowledge of film describing what they thought of something. Harry sucking had been a constant for the site, and had been offset by the writers around him. Billy was the first Harry-tier (though shitty in, like, a diametrically opposite way) writer that Harry had ever hired.
And, probably per Harry's instructions, he posted about 10x more than the other writers combined during his tenure, which I didn't stick around to see the end of, since free screenings in Miami are of little interest to me.
Again, I don't support any business failing to pay their employees. I'm just saying that I get why he and his (likely Harry-mandated) contribution might not have been a favorite of his coworkers.
Harry Knowles stepping down from AICN.
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/harry-knowles-to-step-down-from-aint-it-cool-news-sexual-assault-1201880605/
But also possibly acting as his sister, while also going through therapy for something he called untrue? I don't know.
http://www.indiewire.com/2017/09/harry-knowles-to-step-down-from-aint-it-cool-news-sexual-assault-1201880605/
But also possibly acting as his sister, while also going through therapy for something he called untrue? I don't know.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Does
Does he even have a sister? Is the sister interested in leading AICN like he is?
always crazy bacon
Banned
My initial feeling is he's going into hiding (disguising) to save his site hoping this will all blow over.
itwasTuesday
He wasn't alone.
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How do you guys feel about most other film sites not really covering the whole Alamo/Drafthouse/Harry Knowles news? Most sites that have picked it up have been relatively removed from the industry. I get why Birth Movies Death doesn't cover the Tim League stuff, since that site is basically a funcitoning ad for Alamo Drafthouse, but I feel it's a bit tacky for sites like Slashfilm to just ignore it. I know it's a grey area, and a lot of the writers have close relationships with each other, I just feel it's kind of their duty to at least report objectively what's going on.
I dunno, I can see both sides, but it feels slightly icky to me that a lot of film sites are acting as if none of this is going on.
I dunno, I can see both sides, but it feels slightly icky to me that a lot of film sites are acting as if none of this is going on.
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BKatastrophe
Member
It gets even grosser from there (like vomit inducing).
How has this existed for so long?
Count Dookkake
Member
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Oh christ...
Messofanego
Banned
Haha love Pixelated BoatVulture put up an article: More Women Come Forward Accusing Harry Knowles Of Sexual Assault (Nothing really new I think, but the pressure is not going away)
Also:
F0rneus
Tears in the rain
Ok, fuck both of them along with Harry. Jeez. That was a phenomenal read.
Sorry, what?
Dude was a blip note in AICN history, and acting like he's the beginning of the end of AUCN is some stretching shit.
captjohnboyd
Member
I've been thinking the same thing. Nothing from comingsoon or any other outlet that I've seen. Seems really odd given how powerful he was for a long time. Yes AICN hasn't been what is was for years but it's still news worthy and sites not covering it seem suspect to me.