Hollywood Sexual Harrasment/Assault Thread

[DramatistDreamer]

@Faulkner For some reason, your links don't quite come up that well for me- and when I try to click the links, sometimes your entire post disappears!  I'm confounded.

 

I don't know where to put this but this was so bizarre I had to share.

 

[Faulkner]

Oh wow @DramatistDreamer. I thought I'd offended people and I was on ignore lol. Thanks for letting me know there's an issue.

 

I just use the auto embed functionality for Twitter URLs because it pops up an image and text, but maybe I'll just post links to the stories moving forward.

[DramatistDreamer]

 

I assumed it was just my browser or something. Ordinarily I use Firefox but with SON, I use Chrome. Perhaps my settings are doing this but it's just your tweets that I am seeing like this, so I wondered whether you were copying and pasting the entire tweets.

But you're using the Embed function? Do you use the Source feature?

You should probably ask if anyone else has this issue. Perhaps it's just my settings in Chrome.

Edited December 14, 2017 by DramatistDreamer

[Faulkner]

I also use the mobile site, so that could be the issue. This site can be... temperamental on phones.

 

By the way, Morgan Spurlock has posted a statement in which he admits his own problematic behavior.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/morgan-spurlock-posts-lengthy-sexual-harassment-mea-culpa-i-am-part-problem-1067561?facebook_20171213

Edited December 14, 2017 by Faulkner

[Vee]

Completely unsurprised by that news.

[amybrickwallace]

 

This has not been a good past few weeks for PBS. First Charlie Rose, now Tavis Smiley? Yikes. 😨

 

If these allegations are true, this guy was a coward right to the end:

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/wp/2017/12/13/kentucky-lawmaker-who-was-accused-of-molesting-a-teenage-girl-likely-killed-himself-coroner-says/

[DramatistDreamer]

 

FWIW, PBS didn't produce Smiley's show, they distributed it. Because he produces his own show, technically he could try to bring it somewhere else, though I don't know who would want to distribute his show at this point since he's practically radioactive now.

 

Johnson's suicide note was posted on social media. I read it and came away with the impression that it was written by someone with a very messed up mind.

Edited December 14, 2017 by DramatistDreamer

[amybrickwallace]

 

Yeah, but because so many people have seen him there - PBS will still be associated with him. This isn't coming out right. Am I making any sense?

[John]

http://tvline.com/2017/12/13/robert-knepper-izombie-season-4-the-cw-sexual-assault-angus/

 

Courtesy of The CW

Robert Knepper to Stay on iZombie; 'No Evidence of Wrongdoing' on Show's Set

Edited December 14, 2017 by John

[amybrickwallace]

What a mess. No wonder NBC is where they are. They must have more skeletons if they are keeping the investigation internal and not hiring independent counsel. 😠😠😠😠😠

 

https://www.google.com/amp/variety.com/2017/tv/news/nbc-news-matt-lauer-investigation-1202638303/amp/

 

Now, I could have told them this. I don't watch the morning talk shows, but my folks stopped watching TODAY after Ann Curry was forced out, switched to GMA, and that's where they've stayed.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2017/12/13/was-pervy-matt-lauer-actually-keeping-viewers-away-from-nbc-s-today-show.amp.html

 

[DRW50]

 

Some of this stuff is shocking:

 

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-showman

[amybrickwallace]

 

It sure is. What kind of "church" is that??? 😨

[Khan]

Judging from the TPM article, "Danny Ray" would have made for a perfect villain/murder victim on "In the Heat of the Night."

[DramatistDreamer]

 

I'm not questioning the decision by PBS to cut Rose and Smiley loose, at all. It was the correct decision.

What I'm questioning are the people who blame PBS for being an incubator of sexual deviance.  

Both men produced their own shows. PBS acted as the distributor.

 

Rose moved out of the PBS flagship headquarters well over a decade ago. In fact, he moved his personal office out of the Bloomberg building where the show had moved, to his house, which is why he had so much time and space to harass his assistants. By that time, he'd pretty much fired almost all the staff he'd had during the early years of his show.

 

Walmart, which is the main sponsor of Smiley's show has yet to make any type of statement on the entire affair. I guess Walmart would rather hide behind PBS and let the broadcaster take the heat.

 

Edited December 14, 2017 by DramatistDreamer

[ChitHappens]

 

 

Edited December 14, 2017 by ChitHappens