Harvey Weinstein scandal (Mod warning in op.)

I'd say there's plenty of current A list actors and actresses that have found themselves in dodgy situations at some point but have gone along with it to further their careers and have reaped the rewards.

Everybody currently involved in the industry has come through the system so really none of the revelations that arise about various actors, actresses, directors and producers should be surprising. The whole thing is a write off in my opinion but ill bet give it six months and it'll be all swept under the rug and itll be as you were. There's just too much money involved for it to end any other way

One wonders what Thompson would respond with if questioned about female teachers having sex with (/ statutorily raping) young boys. Would she call that evidence of there being a crisis of "extreme femininity"? Course not. She spouts on about equality all the time and yet something like happens and she immediately comes out with sexist claptrap that would suggest Harvey Weinstein's real problem is that he is too damn masculine. Sheesh.

Not sure if posted already but Seth McFarlane a couple of years ago:

Billy86 wrote: »

Brad Renfro, who was the title character in Bryan Singer's Apt Pupil that someone pointed out earlier has a very disturbing lingering shot on him showering naked as about a 15 year old. The accusations against Singer seem to have some merit and they're on a whole different level to Weinstein's (which says something given how rotten as Weinstein's are themselves). In the year or so after the filming of Apt Pupil (1998) he came heavily involved in substance abuse, crime and eventually died of an overdose in 2008 aged 25.

Jonathan Brandis was another highly prolific child actor in the late 80s/early 90s who is alleged to have been the subject of a lot of sexual abuse. Sadly we won't know as the acting roles began drying up when he 'came of age' and he hung himself aged 27 back in 2003.

There's even more than those two. Some are kind of forgotten, so brief were their careers.
Brandis suffered from depression, and may have been abused, I didn't know about the latter. But considering how he was pushed to work as a kid, seeing it as his only 'outlet' I wouldn't be surprised if someone hadn't abused him.

There is also Christopher Pettiet. He's not too well remembered, sadly, but he was a child actor and friend of Leo Di Caprio, and Toby McGuire. Starred in a lot of tv shows, and the movie 'Don't tell mom the baby sitters dead'. At 15 yrs of age, he already had an out of control drug problem, even during 'don't tell mom...' (The producers and director worked around it, editing the script and his scenes). Died at the age of 24 from an overdose in 2000.

There's also Leif Garrett-who was marketed as a teen idol. He sang, and acted in shows like Gunsmoke and Wonder Woman. He started using drugs at the age of 14, with his mother admitting she was very hands off with him and his career-he had his own place before he could legally drive. Even lived with his girlfriend (Nicolette Sheridan, she of Knots Landing and Desperate Housewives). And when he could drive, he drove drunk, high on cocaine and qualludes, leaving a friend a paraplegic due to a car accident. Even was arrested for drugs as recent as 2010. He seems like one of these people who was preyed upon.

River Phoenix-his parents were part of a religious cult that endorsed 'adults having sex with children' tho claiming they left it before then. Despite River claiming to have had sex when he was four. I believe there may have been something, whatever it was. Died of an overdose aged 23.

One of the ones I was surprised about was Ashleigh Aston Moore. I remember watching her in a tv show called the Odyssey, and she seemed like she was having fun, and she was really talented. She also starred in the movie Once and Again, and I thought she would continue in acting. But two years after that film, she quit. She died aged 26, on imdb her death is recorded as 'from bronchitis and pneumonia', but others state 'heroine overdose'.

Corey Haim seems to have been the most tragic of all-his agent was allowed continue grooming and raping boys. And there was probably more than one person who was raping him.

Renfro didn't even get dignity in death-not long after his passing, Heath Ledger died. Brad was all but forgotten, and the camera focused on Ledger. I feel it was important, and a missed opportunity, to ask why Renfro's addiction had spiralled.

There's a whole list of child actors who died young. Some from tragedies such as car accidents, or were murdered (Judith Barsi from All Dogs Go to Heaven, killed by her dad during the making of the film, is one example). Others from addiction.
https://www.ranker.com/list/30-child-actors-who-died-young/celebrity-lists

I am delighted that Ben Affleck is getting caught up in this scandal.

Maureen O'Hara eluded to similar behaviour she endured with John Ford and others. But said she couldn't say and would take it to her grave.

Deleted User wrote: »

Could you specify the allegations about abuse in the above 3 cases?

Otherwise it kinda looks like a "these people died young...ergo I'm guessing they were abused".

Which seems to me to be a reductive way of looking at very complex issues, celebrity and the end of celebrity, wealth and dwindling wealth, power, depression, drugs, alcohol and yes, possibly, abuse...and all on the mind of a young and immature person.

Drew Barrymore had a cocaine addiction at 12yrs of age. Giving coke to a 12yr old is abuse enough but you have to question who wold do that and why? The addiction problems of many of these child stars start on movie sets, people are literally plying kids with drugs and who knows what else lead from that?

Biggest lickspittle on boardz wrote: »

As for that wife of his, Amal Clooney. She comes across as one of the phoniest poseurs I have ever seen.
It seems that in every video of her being interviewed she has to swipe her hair in a theatrical fashion at least once. ("Oh, am I on camera, darling?" she's almost saying...)

She touched her hair! She's a phoney!!

Why would you think that is weird? Sure, according to you the girls were all getting something out of this.

Wibbs wrote: »

This is getting weird. According to TMZ Weinstein's contract with his company essentially allowed him to get away with sexual misconduct so long as he paid out any losses to the company from his own pocket.

Is it possible that sexual abuse is so rife and common place in Hollywood that this is a standardised clause in most celebrity employment contracts?

I'm sure that the stuff that goes into an employment contract over there differs hugely from the bog standard one you or I might have.

Saruhashi wrote: »

Strange how you ignored the rest of the content of the post though, isn't it?

I guess people really are willing to give celebrities a free pass on some horrible stuff by focusing on the most frivolous accusations and ignoring the more serious points.

I ignored the rest of the point because she's being held responsible for actions of others i.e. not herself and I don't see how she is responsible for these actions.

So your 'serious point' her in a thread about women being abused by Harvey Weinstein is that Amal Clooney should be held accountable for actions of her relatives (not related to Harvey FYI).

Right thanks, so glad we gave this point attention.

AustinLostin wrote: »

I ignored the rest of the point because she's being held responsible for actions of others i.e. not herself and I don't see how she is responsible for these actions.

So your 'serious point' her in a thread about women being abused by Harvey Weinstein is that Amal Clooney should be held accountable for actions of her relatives (not related to Harvey FYI).

Right thanks, so glad we gave this point attention.

Bizarrely this topic appears to have attracted an impressive amount of misogyny..