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Post by kateln on Mar 15, 2019 21:22:27 GMT -4
My question is, is Mossimo healthy? Not trying to speculate randomly, (as I speculate randomly) but the guy looks very thin/not well/exhausted in the photos of him. Of course it could just be stress from this whole deal.
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Post by Auroranorth on Mar 15, 2019 21:58:30 GMT -4
I think he's freaking out. This dude has spent a very long time getting his own way in life, and now he's come up against a force he can't buy.
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Post by Martini Girl on Mar 15, 2019 23:37:45 GMT -4
I think this whole nonsense is like keeping up with the Joneses. I think about over the top weddings and over the top sweet sixteen parties. Everybody wants to be more fabulous than their neighbor. It's all smoke and mirrors, how things look, how much your house is worth, how much money you spend on clothes. This is right up there with nonsense like that, if your kids can't get into USC, or Yale on their own, well cheat to get them there, because the only thing that matters is saying, "My child goes to....." This is seriously every Hollywood executive I worked for. One CMO (this was probably in 2009), threw her nine-year-old a $10k birthday party complete with a Ferris wheel because she had to keep up with all of her friends (a few of whom owned private jets). It was utterly disgusting. Where do you go from there when she hits sweet sixteen, eighteen or twenty-one? The CMO's assistant said "this is her normal, and the kid is never going to fly economy, so don't judge". The CMO cared more about the job perks than actually showing up for her job and I was so glad she was fired (as was everyone else... the kicker is that her assistant--who worshiped her, and helped create the monster-- got jack when the CMO was fired, and the CMO didn't do anything at all to make sure she was taken care of. All the CMO cared about was herself. A few years later when another rash of layoffs took place, the new CMO took one for the team to make sure as many people got to keep their jobs as possible.) I read in DHD last year that some other studio hired her this year after a 5-year break from the industry. Her husband is a huge marketing executive at a major studio (but I can't remember if he's the CMO of that studio, but he's making millions), so they have money to burn, but their priorities were so effing whacked. It wouldn't surprise me at all if they pulled this shit for their daughter. Another exec I worked for threw her one-year-old a $5k birthday party, and had to make sure everything was the 'best'. She also didn't think any of the company rules applied to her. They all just live in this bubble world, and don't think they can be touched. |
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Post by HotLips on Mar 16, 2019 0:48:40 GMT -4
This is such an O.C. storyline. Julie Cooper would have done the same things Felicty & Lori did to get her daughters into college. And she would have looked fucking fierce while doing it.
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Post by luminosa on Mar 16, 2019 0:51:17 GMT -4
Julie and Lily Van der Woodsen.
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Post by seat6 on Mar 16, 2019 12:31:38 GMT -4
I mentioned on one of these threads that I knew someone who had been heavily recruited to be assistant rowing coach at USC. It was a dream job for him and a sweet deal, with a waiver on grad school tuition.
He quit very abruptly after less than a year and a half in the middle of the season. I always wondered what had happened, since his resume had been pretty solid, with stints of about five years or so at his previous positions.
I found out that ALL THREE of the assistant rowing coaches quit on the same day. There are only three assistant coaches. This should have been a pretty big red flag that something was very wrong for all three to march into the head coach’s office and to quit en masse.
The guy I know did tell someone this week, “I had to choose between my dream job and my integrity.”
I’m pretty sure the assistant coaches were not involved in the scheme at all. I don’t know how much they knew or suspected, but enough to know something was very wrong.
This is not a victimless crime. All three of those coaches had to find new jobs and uproot their lives and move.
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Post by mojogirl on Mar 16, 2019 16:26:58 GMT -4
Yes, I call BS on the Athletic Director and the university higher-ups not knowing something fishy was going on. Just didn't care. There's a story on Yahoo sports about how crappy the current AD is, and in the story & comments they pretty much mention he just plays a lot of golf and doesn't do his job.
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Post by Mugsy on Mar 16, 2019 16:58:34 GMT -4
So the rowing team thing... does the college have a shitty team if half the kids aren't real rowers? What's the point of that for the college? Or does the college recruit more kids than needed for the team, with some being good enough to actually have a workable team and some being these dumb filler kids who just paid to be there?
I never understood the obsession with American colleges recruiting kids for random sports by giving them a free education? Sure, football and basketball make money for the college, but how does it benefit the college to have a bunch of top shelf pole vaulters?
A Canadian girl I know got a free college education in the US because she was a champion javelin thrower. But if she got to the Olympics, she would have been on the Canadian team anyway, so why would the college bother?
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Post by Martini Girl on Mar 16, 2019 17:09:01 GMT -4
I mentioned on one of these threads that I knew someone who had been heavily recruited to be assistant rowing coach at USC. It was a dream job for him and a sweet deal, with a waiver on grad school tuition. He quit very abruptly after less than a year and a half in the middle of the season. I always wondered what had happened, since his resume had been pretty solid, with stints of about five years or so at his previous positions. I found out that ALL THREE of the assistant rowing coaches quit on the same day. There are only three assistant coaches. This should have been a pretty big red flag that something was very wrong for all three to march into the head coach’s office and to quit en masse. The guy I know did tell someone this week, “I had to choose between my dream job and my integrity.” I’m pretty sure the assistant coaches were not involved in the scheme at all. I don’t know how much they knew or suspected, but enough to know something was very wrong. This is not a victimless crime. All three of those coaches had to find new jobs and uproot their lives and move. I hope your friend and the other assistant coaches reap the benefits of choosing their integrity over cheating. Maybe it will be easier for them to get a job in the future because they showed moral integrity when it counted. |
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Post by Ginger on Mar 16, 2019 17:20:57 GMT -4
I don't understand what the colleges would have had to gain from closing their eyes to it though. They weren't getting money out of it - the bribes were going directly to the coaches. All they were getting were athletic recruits with zero skills and the possibility of public scandal. Lose-lose for the colleges.
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