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News It Can't Be Wrong When It Feels So Right...
Posted by Dan Savage on Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Actually, it can:
An Oscar-winning songwriter who touted his Hollywood connections to lure aspiring actresses and models to his apartment, has been indicted by a Manhattan grand jury on sexual assault charges. Joseph Brooks, who won an Academy Award for the '70s Debbie Boone ballad "You Light Up My Life," is expected to turn himself in to authorities Tuesday morning, law enforcement sources said.The 70-year-old movie director—who made his money writing jingles for Pepsi and Geritol—is a suspect in two rapes, a sodomy case and two sexual assaults, sources told the Daily News. Brooks allegedly seduced the women through Craigslist web postings and lured them to his upper East Side apartment with with promises of parts in his next movie, sources said.
Um, "seduced," New York Daily News? Seduction—which is not a crime—is not what's being alleged here. Rape ≠ seduction, seduction ≠ rape. Please add it to your style book.
1
I'm willing to think that they meant that seduced they went up to his apartment but then rape occured.
2
"You Light Up My Life": It sounds like a love song written to a dreamy boyfriend but it's really a love song written to Jesus. Color me unsurprised that its author turns out to be as creepy as the songs he writes.
3
I agree with the article. It's not like he "lured" them to his apartment via Craiglist. The women came to his apartment willingly because he seduced them with the idea of being in one of his movies.
The events within the apartment are the crime not the vehicle for meeting them.
The events within the apartment are the crime not the vehicle for meeting them.
4
No, but seduction (mental) can lead to rape (physical), which is what they're saying. I don't read that as equation at all.
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No, but seduction (mental) can lead to rape (physical), which is what they're saying. I don't read them as equivalent at all here.
6
Dan, you're wrong (again). He seduced them and got them to come to the apartment, *then* raped them.
Practice your reading comprehension before dashing off yet another silly, ill-advised post.
Practice your reading comprehension before dashing off yet another silly, ill-advised post.
7
Really, @2? I had no idea that was the case. If it is, you're right - that song lands at the top of the entirely creepy Jesus-is-my-boyfriend genre of Christian music.
8
no, HE didn't write it as a love letter to jesus. it was Debbie Boone's interpretation, as admitted by the singer herself. joe brooks lives off his royalties for that insulin-shock inducing song, and he never had a hit after that. square biz.
9
Yes, I think the other comments are correct in saying the women were seduced into coming to his apartment with false promises, and then the assaults occurred.
It wouldn't be possible for the article to say he "assaulted the women through craigslist and then raped them over to his upper East Side apartment where he ... etc"
But, Dan, you've successful turned an honestly disturbing story about a disgusting, manipulative rapist into a debate about semantics... was that your intent?
It wouldn't be possible for the article to say he "assaulted the women through craigslist and then raped them over to his upper East Side apartment where he ... etc"
But, Dan, you've successful turned an honestly disturbing story about a disgusting, manipulative rapist into a debate about semantics... was that your intent?
10
It's too late
to fall in love with Sharon Tate
but it's too soon
to fall in love with Debbie Boone.
to fall in love with Sharon Tate
but it's too soon
to fall in love with Debbie Boone.
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#11 - yup. ''how is the NYDN gonna screw this up and help me look smart in catching their un-Savageness"
It's like saying Craigslist = rape
It's like saying Craigslist = rape
14
We used to sing "Youuuuuu light up my wife" when we were lads. Funny, funny. Also, Patti Smith did a pretty hot version, but then she always did have kind of a thing for Jesus, and the other martyrs, in a purely sexual way of course.
16
Channeling ECB today, are we?
Unless Brooks has an extremely long cock that he somehow managed to fish through the tubes in the internets and into these ladies, I think "seduced" is a better description of how he used Craigslist.
Unless Brooks has an extremely long cock that he somehow managed to fish through the tubes in the internets and into these ladies, I think "seduced" is a better description of how he used Craigslist.
18
One can't help but think of Cartman's "I'm gonna get down on my knees for Jesus" christian rock song.
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