Hollywood Sexual Harrasment/Assault Thread

[Faulkner]

 

Quite a few people are making that connection.

 

 

 

[Khan]

 

IKR?  Reading the article just made me love (and miss) "Designing Women" and Julia Sugarbaker all the more.  At first, I wasn't up for rebooting that particular show.  However, now that I've read her piece, I've almost changed my mind.  LBT deserved better treatment, as did everyone affected by Moonves; and we deserve to have her unique voice back on the air.

 

Agree.  Jeffrey Lane was SO not the person to develop or produce a show for the likes of Bette.  Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (or even Diane English) would have been a far better match.

[DramatistDreamer]

Technically Angela Landsbury's character was not a detective.  She was a writer who also happened to solve mysteries.

I still think it was Stepfanie Kramer.  She was a police detective who wore plainclothes for most of the series.

[Khan]

"Did Les Moonves assault Angela Lansbury?"

 

Angela Lansbury is a treasure on BOTH sides of the Atlantic.  If he did, indeed, assault her, then he just might be the sickest bastard alive.  He deserves nothing less than to be left broke and on the side of the road.

 

[DRW50]

I thought it might have been Sharon Gless. If that's the same article it says she didn't work on the network again (or something like that) - Lansbury did a few more MSW TV-movies. 

[Khan]

 

Maybe, but C&L went off the air in '88.

 

Remember when the media would tout all the women Les Moonves promoted within the network?  Now I wonder what those poor ladies had to do to GET promoted.

Edited September 12, 2018 by Khan

[DRW50]

 

True. I think she had a show on CBS until about 1992 or 1993 so I wasn't sure if she still had ties to the network by the time he came in. 

 

I keep thinking about all the women at the company who tweeted support for him. And of course Lynda Carter. I haven't had the heart to check and see if she's said anything else. 

[Faulkner]

 

 

 

Edited September 12, 2018 by Faulkner

[DRW50]

Good. He sounded like a real horror and it sounds like it had been going on for years and years with no end in sight. I just hope his replacement won't be a stooge, as seems to have happened with Moonves's replacement.

 

(is it s' or s's?)

Hmm...

 

 

[Vee]

I said this the other day, but all this just makes me that much more curious how Diane English and Murphy Brown - which tapes only a few weeks ahead specifically so that it may take on current events, and which has intended to tackle #MeToo - will handle all this. They can't fail to.

[BetterForgotten]

Poor LBT.

 

But I'm not so sure about this claim in bold....

 

"Designing Women was my flagship CBS show, and Evening Shade had just been lauded as the best new comedy of the season."

 

 

[John]

By 1992 DW was Horrid and ES was in S3 and only laste one more year

 

LM came in 1995 and MSW ended 1996 so I believe it was Angela Langsbury

[DRW50]

Fager's comment gives me such Trump vibes. The entitlement is off the charts. The idea of him berating his employees to cover a story that he was a key part of. I have a feeling someone at CBS must have wanted him out as otherwise they would have turned a blind eye. 

[DramatistDreamer]

 

But Murder She Wrote also had at least three subsequent T.V. movies that ran into the early '00s.  

[Faulkner]

 

 

Saw this.

 

 

 

Edited September 12, 2018 by Faulkner