![]() Becker’s website includes several photos of the lawyer “at work” in a white-and-pink office, leaning against a fuzzy accent pillow and confidently filing paperwork in five-inch pumps. There are many ways to telegraph one’s womanhood, as with Rotunno’s blowout and smoky eye or Bill Cosby defense attorney Jennifer Bonjean’s elegant gold necklaces and shift dresses. It’s all very lean-in, Catherine Deneuve, second-wave bullshit, but it has a certain currency. She once famously declared that she’d never been sexually assaulted because she’d never put herself in that kind of situation. Rotunno framed her victim-blaming itself as a sort of perverse, personal-accountability feminism, claiming to be insulted at the implication that women had no agency of their own. Drawing on one’s own womanhood is a convenient way to credibly blur the lines between victim and perpetrator in a sexual-assault case, rallying real inequities in the justice system to defend those who already benefit most from the imbalance. During the Weinstein trial, she opined that her cross-examination would just look like two women talking. And it’s been very effective,” Rotunno said. “He may be an excellent lawyer, but if he goes at that woman with the same venom that I do, he looks like a bully. As women, attorneys like Rotunno and Becker are assumed to have more instinctive empathy for the accusers, giving their bad-faith, “Well, why didn’t you just leave?” attacks a veneer of objectivity. “I have the ability to get away with a lot more in a courtroom cross-examining a female than a male lawyer does,” she said in a pre-Weinstein Chicago Magazine interview. No high-profile sexual-assault defense attorney has been as straightforward about this devil’s bargain as Donna Rotunno, who defended Harvey Weinstein. ![]() As if presenting a bold insight, she predicted, “You will add her to the saying, ‘Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.’” The subtext of this ocean of misogyny: “I’m a woman, so I can say it.” Becker and her ilk are bringing the outrage-mongering techniques perfected in the media by the likes of Ann Coulter and Candace Owens to the actual courtroom.īecker played all the hits in her opening statement at Kelly’s trial, starting with repeatedly referring to the accusers as “girls” and making vague references to forthcoming “drama.” “Groupie, we don’t usually like to use, but it is a word, is an understatement,” Becker said. Kelly? The kind of woman who has no compunction with weaponizing her gender for her own advantage, that’s who. Of course women have been throwing one another under the bus in the service of terrible men for time immemorial, but still, I am darkly fascinated by women who have made a career out of it. Kelly has Nicole Blank Becker, a Michigan-based attorney who has used her credentials as a former sex-crimes state prosecutor to build a personal brand specializing in sexual-assault defense. Harvey Weinstein had Donna Rotunno, Andrew Cuomo has Rita Glavin, and Bill Cosby had Jennifer Bonjean. If you are a hugely famous alleged rapist and sex pest with accusers in the double digits, there is an obvious optical advantage to having a woman as the public face of your legal team. ![]() Kelly’s long-awaited criminal trial got underway last week, I was unsurprised to see that the most public-facing of the four defense lawyers representing Kelly was also the lone woman among them.
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![]() ![]() Also, just to warn you, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is not on this list. If the movie is mostly about some element surrounding a failed heist, like The Usual Suspects, or uses the setting of the failed heist to tell another kind of story, like Dog Day Afternoon or Goodfellas, it’s not on this list. A movie about a failed heist is a certified heist movie if the “heist” part is the main part. Indeed, many heist movies are also about failed heists, which begs some further clarification. Heists are action-packed, serious, and while they can be fun and there will certainly be moments of comic relief, these films are frequently on the darker side. In case you’re wondering, although we will get to this later, the dictionary defines “ Caper” as an “amusing movie or story about… an illegal or questionable act or escapade” which is not necessarily limited to a robbery but probably is a robbery. Indeed, Merriam-Webster defines “heist” as a straight-up robbery. But “heists” have to play the weightiest roles in their films a movie in which there are, say, a whole slew of bank robberies, but the whole thing is ultimately about the relationships between fathers and sons, is not a heist movie (in case anyone remembers The Place Beyond the Pines and thinks it belongs on this list, which it doesn’t).Īnd actually, I should just explain now why you won’t see The Sting or Hustlers on this list: a heist isn’t a con, either, even if it’s a Big Con. Okay, so what IS a heist movie? Good question! It’s a movie whose plot and theme centers around a large heist, or a series of heists. We will be releasing an accompanying list of the Best Capers shortly after this one, so if you don’t see a film with a great heist in it, keep your shirts on, because it’s probably on the other list. I’d like to make this distinction at the outset because, also, some movies which seem to centrally feature heists are not actually “heist films,” but capers, which are ultimately their own genre, despite many similarities. I’d like to get one thing out of the way right at the beginning… this is a list ranking “heist movies,” not the heists that are in movies or movies that have heists in them (if it were, we’d include the opening of the original The In-Laws, where the big magnet on the crane picks the armored car up off the road and hauls it away to be raided). MEGA Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the images of him. ![]() Just Jared: The latest in entertainment news, photos, and gossip in entertainment, celebrities, tv, movies. In the photos, Zuckerberg's face is covered in zinc oxide a white substance. Ap12:18pm Updated Mark Zuckerberg revealed that he thought caking on sunscreen would confuse paparazzi on his tail. Full sized photo of photofull: Photo 2858129. Social media thrives on unsolicited opinions about stupid shit. Photos of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg surfing in Hawaii became the subject of a viral meme over the weekend. New York Published: 18:48, Updated: 18:52, Katrina Schollenberger, SEO Reporter New York Published: Invalid Date, NEW photos have emerged of Facebook giant Mark. Now god only knows how many millions of people minding their business have gone viral, been vilified or bullied through social media, so Zuckerberg being mocked for looking like a mime, the Joker, or one of the Wayans brothers in White Chicks without a wig on doesn't engender a whole lot of sympathy. Instead, the topics of discussion revolve around the amount of sunscreen the Facebook head honcho has applied to his face, and also his literal ass.which ain't looking too bad these days.ĭo hip thrusts and take skin cancer seriously, those would be the lessons to take away from here. Over the weekend, photos emerged of Zuckerberg surfing in Hawaii, probably not too far from his 100m estate, with far too much sunscreen on his face. Photos taken of Mark Zuckerberg on an electric surfboard in Hawaii have acquired a notable amount of attention for reasons related to neither the surfboard nor Hawaii. |