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Home Front: Culture Wars
Hollywood wracked by chaos in aftermath of sex scandals
2017-11-08
[Daily Mail] Projects are shelved, film releases cancelled, sets shuttered, studios threatened, the Oscars rattled -- this is the chaos confronting Hollywood following sex scandals that have brought down power players like Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Brett Ratner.

In the month since The New Yorker and The New York Times published allegations of serial predatory behavior by producer Weinstein -- some 100 women have now accused him of misconduct ranging from harassment to rape -- people who said they had been victimized have felt emboldened to voice allegations against men who had been seen as untouchable.

Spacey, a two-time Oscar winner, and Ratner, a blockbuster director, have also been accused of sexual transgressions, while other actors, managers and agents are in the hot seat as well.

"Who's next?" the Los Angeles Times asked on Sunday.

"There's been scandals in Hollywood since the silent movie age but it was one person or one incident," said Tim Gray, an editor at the entertainment trade magazine Variety.

"I've been at Variety for 30 years, I've never seen something like this," he said.
Posted by:Besoeker

#7  A nearly impossible task, Black Cube had to be right 100% of the time. Not everyone can be intimidated or bought, not even in Hollywood.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-11-08 11:31  

#6  Who will be next? NYT's rips David Boies over betrayal for secretly helping Weinstein:
As Farrow reports about Black Cube, an investigative outfit run largely by former Israeli intelligence agents: "Boies personally signed the contract directing Black Cube to attempt to uncover information that would stop the publication of a Times story about Weinstein's abuses, while his firm was also representing the Times, including in a libel case."
Posted by: Jeremiah Gleretle3997   2017-11-08 11:28  

#5  What's the problem? I can't see a down side to this story.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-11-08 08:41  

#4  When arrests are made in the DEN, you'll know Hollywood is truly over.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2017-11-08 07:58  

#3  An aging Hitler will be put in cuffs and led away from his mishiguene at a Buenos Aires restaurant before that happens P2k.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-11-08 06:32  

#2  Call me when they breach the Bill Clinton line.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2017-11-08 06:23  

#1  Where's my femto-violin?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2017-11-08 05:13  

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