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    Dozens of woman accuse director James Toback of sexual harassment

    The sewer that is hollywood is starting to unravel, weinstein has opened the floodgates of female and male and child stars telling their stories of sexual abuse.

    An Oscar-nominated writer and director lured women into disgusting encounters while presenting himself as a gatekeeper to Hollywood stardom, according to a new report.
    More than three dozen women told The Los Angeles Times that James Toback duped them into meetings in which he’d pleasure himself in front of them or grind against them.
    Toback, 72, is accused of approaching women in Manhattan, touting his Oscar nomination for writing “Bugsy,” starring Warren Beatty. Toback, who directed the films “Black and White” and “Two Girls and a Guy,” told many of the women that Robert Downey Jr. was a close friend, the women told the newspaper.

    His most recent film “The Private Life of a Modern Woman” stars Sienna Miller.
    “In a weird sense, I thought, ‘This is a test of whether I’m a real artist and serious about acting,’” an aspiring actress Starr Rinaldi, told the newspaper.


    Toback approached her in Central Park about 15 years ago, she said.
    “He always wanted me to read for him in a hotel or come back to his apartment, like, ‘How serious are you about your craft?’” she said.
    A singer and guitarist for the band Veruca Salt, Louise Post, said Toback had told her in 1987 “he’d love nothing more than to masturbate while looking into my eyes.”
    Toback told The Los Angeles Times he had no recollection of any of the women who alleged repugnant encounters with him. He also said it was “biologically impossible” for him to have had such encounters in the last 22 years due to diabetes and a heart condition.


    Many women who crossed paths with Toback shared their stories on social media using #metoo, a hashtag that has become increasingly popular following reports of film producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of harassment and assaults of women.
    “Us too: by bosses, boyfriends, male babysitters, taxi drivers, strangers and movie director/pig #jamestoback #metoo,” Veruca Salt tweeted from its band account.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    The sewer that is hollywood is starting to unravel, weinstein has opened the floodgates of female and male and child stars telling their stories of sexual abuse.

    An Oscar-nominated writer and director lured women into disgusting encounters while presenting himself as a gatekeeper to Hollywood stardom, according to a new report.
    More than three dozen women told The Los Angeles Times that James Toback duped them into meetings in which he’d pleasure himself in front of them or grind against them.
    Toback, 72, is accused of approaching women in Manhattan, touting his Oscar nomination for writing “Bugsy,” starring Warren Beatty. Toback, who directed the films “Black and White” and “Two Girls and a Guy,” told many of the women that Robert Downey Jr. was a close friend, the women told the newspaper.

    His most recent film “The Private Life of a Modern Woman” stars Sienna Miller.
    “In a weird sense, I thought, ‘This is a test of whether I’m a real artist and serious about acting,’” an aspiring actress Starr Rinaldi, told the newspaper.


    Toback approached her in Central Park about 15 years ago, she said.
    “He always wanted me to read for him in a hotel or come back to his apartment, like, ‘How serious are you about your craft?’” she said.
    A singer and guitarist for the band Veruca Salt, Louise Post, said Toback had told her in 1987 “he’d love nothing more than to masturbate while looking into my eyes.”
    Toback told The Los Angeles Times he had no recollection of any of the women who alleged repugnant encounters with him. He also said it was “biologically impossible” for him to have had such encounters in the last 22 years due to diabetes and a heart condition.


    Many women who crossed paths with Toback shared their stories on social media using #metoo, a hashtag that has become increasingly popular following reports of film producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of harassment and assaults of women.
    “Us too: by bosses, boyfriends, male babysitters, taxi drivers, strangers and movie director/pig #jamestoback #metoo,” Veruca Salt tweeted from its band account.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...icle-1.3580926
    I think that nailing Weinstein was the best thing to happen to Hollywood in a long time since it's opened the floodgates and others are being called out for their sexual misconduct. Hopefully this will not only help to clean up Hollywood in film/television but also acting in general around the country as each one of these perverts are called to account.
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    The idea of the "casting couch" is nothing new. The Hollywood elites / liberals have been condoning it and even making jokes about it for decades.

    They tried to ignore and dismiss the Weinstein thing, but their outrage over the incidents involving Bill Cosby and the high profile media types was exposing their hypocrisy.


    They were dragged kicking and screaming into condemning the rot in the Hollywood culture.

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    This goes deeper, child stars being molested, pedophillia, theres even another star saying Roman Polanski molested her when 10 yrs old.

    Male stars coming out staying they were groped and harrassed as adults and child stars.

    The big seething pot of $#@! that is hollywood has finally over flowed and I personally hope they implode
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    Quote Originally Posted by Common View Post
    The sewer that is hollywood is starting to unravel, weinstein has opened the floodgates of female and male and child stars telling their stories of sexual abuse.

    An Oscar-nominated writer and director lured women into disgusting encounters while presenting himself as a gatekeeper to Hollywood stardom, according to a new report.
    More than three dozen women told The Los Angeles Times that James Toback duped them into meetings in which he’d pleasure himself in front of them or grind against them.
    Toback, 72, is accused of approaching women in Manhattan, touting his Oscar nomination for writing “Bugsy,” starring Warren Beatty. Toback, who directed the films “Black and White” and “Two Girls and a Guy,” told many of the women that Robert Downey Jr. was a close friend, the women told the newspaper.

    His most recent film “The Private Life of a Modern Woman” stars Sienna Miller.
    “In a weird sense, I thought, ‘This is a test of whether I’m a real artist and serious about acting,’” an aspiring actress Starr Rinaldi, told the newspaper.


    Toback approached her in Central Park about 15 years ago, she said.
    “He always wanted me to read for him in a hotel or come back to his apartment, like, ‘How serious are you about your craft?’” she said.
    A singer and guitarist for the band Veruca Salt, Louise Post, said Toback had told her in 1987 “he’d love nothing more than to masturbate while looking into my eyes.”
    Toback told The Los Angeles Times he had no recollection of any of the women who alleged repugnant encounters with him. He also said it was “biologically impossible” for him to have had such encounters in the last 22 years due to diabetes and a heart condition.


    Many women who crossed paths with Toback shared their stories on social media using #metoo, a hashtag that has become increasingly popular following reports of film producer Harvey Weinstein’s decades of harassment and assaults of women.
    “Us too: by bosses, boyfriends, male babysitters, taxi drivers, strangers and movie director/pig #jamestoback #metoo,” Veruca Salt tweeted from its band account.

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    Take him down. This is rape, plain and simple.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tahuyaman View Post
    The idea of the "casting couch" is nothing new. The Hollywood elites / liberals have been condoning it and even making jokes about it for decades.

    They tried to ignore and dismiss the Weinstein thing, but their outrage over the incidents involving Bill Cosby and the high profile media types was exposing their hypocrisy.


    They were dragged kicking and screaming into condemning the rot in the Hollywood culture.

    Are you claiming that there have never been any conservative elites that have been condoning it and/or making jokes about it for decades? Do you not believe that its not a two-way street in some cases?
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    Quote Originally Posted by gamewell45 View Post
    Are you claiming that there have never been any conservative elites that have been condoning it and/or making jokes about it for decades? Do you not believe that its not a two-way street in some cases?

    Nice try, but your attempt at deflection is ineffective. The hard left owns Hollywood and even you know that.

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