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Anonymous
18 ROGs isn’t crazy but 370 requests for production of docs??? Three hundred and seventy wtf? I’ve been on cases where RFPs go over a hundred after multiple sets but over 300? That seems a little crazy. Maybe because it’s split between two entities (Sloane and the company) it’s duplicative and closer to about 200 requests each, but even that is a lot at this very early stage. Also smart to cite Liman’s case back to him where he found just 43 doc requests and 11 rogs burdensome enough to merit a stay. I think they will succeed on the stay, the same problems with the complaint and statement of alternative facts applies as to them and therefore at least facially the same chances of success on the merits as the NYT. |
Anonymous
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Also frumpy mom-hater, she chooses to be in the public eye, marketing her image, and the image of her character. Us moms aren’t trying to be that. We’re just being moms. When we are at work, we are marketing ourselves in that role.
Were the pics her as a mom, then comments would not be fair. But this was the wardrobe and hair she chose to market to an audience. Our comments are fair game. |
Anonymous
Discovery is a beast! |
Anonymous
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Not linking to that giant comment, but the movie made over $350 million dollars! Everyone should be paying Blake Lively to help with the wardrobe on their movies going forward! Most movies like this are lucky to make $50 million, and $100 million would have been a huge success! The wardrobe stuff obviously created buzz that translated into ticket sales.
I’m just noting that the mean moms calling Lively fat are hypocrites, which I’m allowed to do, just like you’re allowed to focus on the parts of this saga that are boring to me. To each her own. |
Anonymous
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I think she was saying the movie is not *just* about DV. I think she was probably trying to downplay the DV aspect to attract a wider audience. I think it worked, but it also created backlash, because people like to be outraged these days. Then the backlash generated headlines, which also boosted ticket sales. Whether it was clever or not, who’s to say.
It’s fun to talk about the fashion, provided people aren’t being nasty or talking about her weight. I think her clothes/styling were not great, though I thought she looked great in a Simple Favor. When I watched IEWU, I was like, WTF. For me, it was a miss. |
Anonymous
| Going back to the order Liman issued with the protective order, it seems clear that Lively convinced him that sanctions wouldn’t be enough of a deterrent to prevent the harm of leaks to the media. That was another issue where Freedman and the Baldoni fan lawyers said no, Freedman should prevail obviously and it’s actually insulting to the court to insinuate that the threat of sanctions isn’t by itself enough. But, no, Liman disagreed with that and said “The risk of disclosure is great. Both the Moving Parties and the Wayfarer Parties have accused opposing parties of providing private, sensitive, or confidential information to the media for their own business and personal advantage in ways that cannot easily be traced.” In other words, Liman is recognizing that stories leaking info from the case could be planted in ways where it would be impossible for him to tell who had leaked the info. Good call. |
Anonymous
The character has red hair in the book. That said, of all the times to choose to be true to the book, that was the wrong time. Didn’t love Blake with red hair, should’ve kept the blonde. I didn’t love the fashion overall but the only time the fashion distracted from the movie was during the party when Blake was wearing the black dress. It’s hard to mess up a black dress but somehow she did and I was finding it really hard to believe that Ryle was so taken in by her beauty in that dress that he had to have her. I’m sure it sounds a little mean, but that was the one scene where it just didn’t seem believable. He seemed out of her league in that scene, not the other way around. I do wonder if some of Blake’s insecurities on set stemmed from how handsome Baldoni is. A lot of her leading men have been just ok. RR is handsome in his own way I guess but he’s much older and not really a heart throb. |
Anonymous
You obviously found the wrong clip. She clearly stated, this film is not about domestic violence. It is super tone deaf and turned a lot of people off, especially fans of the book, who read a book very much about domestic violence. Before you ramble on about how we all want to copy Blake’s crappy frumpy style and walk around like we just gave birth to our fourth child and we are really insecure about it, which, by the way was the style she chose in the movie, at least get the right clip. |
Anonymous
| Why is it a delete worthy comment to note that she looked fat and a mess in the costuming she specifically wanted? |
Anonymous
It makes sense he was there at that point -- Lively was on record as feeling very uncomfortable about behavior on set and had refused to return to set unless precautions were taken to ensure cast safety. So it makes perfect sense that her husband would come hang out on the set both to make her feel more comfortable and as a witness to any problematic behavior. Baldoni's wife was also on set a lot, and appears in the movie. |
Anonymous
My point exactly. Wasn’t this part of BL’s logic that JB was smearing her since she received so much backlash on her character’s wardrobe that she selected? And that JB fat shamed her? These are critical arguments made in this case. But I agree, not the best fashion choices. Sort of bag lady/beatnik/crunchy style with all of those patterns and boots! Big girl!! |
Anonymous
The movie had a costume designer who is on record saying he had a good experience working with Lively. He also worked with her on Gossip Girl. The styling in the movie is very reflective of his taste and prior work. He also styled the SATC prequel show (The Carrie Diaries). And actually the layered, mix and match look in IEWU is also consistent with the styling on a prior Baldoni/Wayfarer movie, Five Feet Apart. So sure, you can dislike her wardrobe in the movie and make fun of how she looks. But the accusation that she "took over" the styling of her character or didn't let the professionals do their job on the movie is wrong. She worked with the stylist to help create the look for her character, and the end result is something that is very similar to other characters and productions that designer has worked on. You are buying into a narrative that Baldoni and Wayfarer put in their counter-complaint to distract from Baldoni's and Heath's bad behavior on set and retaliatory campaign against Lively. They knew the costuming on the movie was controversial because of the criticism of it that already existed starting from when Lively was papped on the set early on. So it was easy for them to seize that and say "oh no this isn't about Justin's and Jaime's behavior, it's really about Lively wearing ugly clothes in the movie and btw that was all her fault." But in so doing, they are erasing the work of the costume designer THEY HIRED to try and make it seem like Lively did all the costume by herself (she didn't) or that the look of her character was completely different than what Baldoni and Wayfarer wanted (it wasn't -- they hired this costume designer, not Lively, and also the look was not dissimilar from their own prior work on movies without Blake). You are being led around by your nose by people whose goal is to distract you from the actual legal issue at the center of this case, which is whether Baldoni and Heath engaged in sexual harassment on the set of this movie, and whether they illegally attempted to retaliate against Lively for reporting the SH in order to prevent her from coming forward, or discredit her if she did. |
Anonymous
She IMMEDIATELY went on after that to say that it was about first love AND finding a new bestie AND domestic violence. As PP says, she was explaining that the movie wasn’t ONLY about DV. But you hate her with a passion, so you remove the context and focus just on that sentence. It’s not a fair summary of what she said given the context she immediately provided afterwards but you need to spew out your hate here, apparently. 🤮 |
Anonymous
I’m a PP in this exchange (the person who said “frumpiest of frumpsters” but not immediate PP), and I agree with this also. |
Anonymous
It’s unclear to what extent she took over the wardrobe. Baldoni released emails where Sony specifically asked wayfarer to rein her in b/c of the bad press about the fashion. The Reynolds have a lot of power, so it’s not that surprising that the costume designer toed the line, just like the script writer did after Blake told the press Ryan wrote the rooftop scene. Blake sent that long apology and the script writer acted like it was all good, no biggie, you just took over my job and told the press about it!! Most people on that set seemed uncomfortable speaking up against them so they just pretended they were fine with the way they railroaded over the entire production. |