Posted on 10/22/2017 8:14:49 AM PDT by ForYourChildren
He prowled the streets of Manhattan looking for attractive young women, usually in their early 20s, sometimes college students, on occasion a high schooler. He approached them in Central Park, standing in line at a bank or drug store or at a copy center while they worked on their resumes.
His opening line had a few variations. One went: “My name’s James Toback. I’m a movie director. Have you ever seen ‘Black and White’ or ‘Two Girls and a Guy’?”
Probably not. So he’d start to drop names. He had an Oscar nomination for writing the Warren Beatty movie “Bugsy.” He directed Robert Downey Jr., in three movies. The actor, Toback claimed, was a close friend; he had “invented him.” If you didn’t believe him, he would pull out a business card or an article that had been written about him to prove he had some juice in Hollywood. That he could make you a star.
But first, he’d need to get to know you. Intimately. Trust him, he’d say. It’s all part of his process.
Then, in a hotel room, a movie trailer, a public park, meetings framed as interviews or auditions quickly turned sexual, according to 38 women who, in separate interviews told the Los Angeles Times of similar encounters they had with Toback.
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Is this really sexual harassment? Just sounds like a creepy come-on. There was no employer relationship. The females ostensibly entered into the assignation willingly. How does that old dialog go, “we know what you are, madam; we’re simply negotiating price.”
***interviews or auditions quickly turned sexual, according to 38 women ***
Asking them in private to do what he expects them to do on screen, to become an actress?
The girls had the option of walking out or away.
The little child actors trussed and served up to the pedophiles in the entertainment industry were at the mercy of these evil people along with parents who were either dimwitted to the point of imbecility or tacitly complicit.
100%
What about the homo crap
Before it’s done every producer who complimented an actress will be accused of sexual assault
This issue which has started legitimate is being appropriated by the left and botism
Meanwhile homosexual malfeasance conveniently ignored as usual
Make no mistake
This road will end at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave
Plans are in motion now
Mark my words
There is nothing they will not try and they control the media
I would say the age matters..the closer they were to 18, and especially under 18, I’d say nail this creepo pervo...who was way to old to be hitting on dumb girls.
So you’re hot then..I knew it
I kind of figured
Should I qualify that as not intended as sexual harassment?
It’s southern innocent flirting which of course s probably risky in today’s world
And which btw is dying out much like my peculiar vernacular
Me and McConahey et al are examples of fading southern males...the accent and the i guess antiquated attitude towards letting comely women respectfully know they are
Meterosexual and wigger southern males are either too subordinate or stupid to engage
I already had one freeperette of very long standing tell me we men should never say anything to a woman at work we wouldn’t to a man
I’m like dayum....how sterile and how counterintuitive too
It’s like the advice treat a woman sexually like Jesus is in the room.....I’m like whew....that’s crazy
Jesus is in the room I’m on my knees and she’s last thing on my mind
Fame brings out the worst in a lot of people.
Some day those type of guys will meet up with a woman who owns and knows how to use her double edged stinger remover.
This is the most famous this director will ever be. He could be happy about his newly-found fame.
Sounds like a D Lister to me.
What directors AREN’T predators.
I assume everyone in Hollywood is guilty until proven innocent.
The whole "sexual harassment" business is getting ridiculous.
I agree that in these stories the women were old enough and distant enough from him not to believe his amorphous threats of harm and to leave AND TELL THE COPS.
There were a couple who were employed by him so his sexual demands from those victims met the bar for true harrassment.
He is pretty disgusting demanding to come in his pants with each encounter with someone pretty. He’s a grooming predator, learning which lines keep the girls on the hook longest. Yechhh.
I would never coerce or force sex not even in marriage
My feelings are hurt if I don’t feel her hot breath
I want to be wanted and missed....desired ached for
I don’t think that’s atypical for men do you
I’ve never ever been like the Meatloaf song parody
Even in my wold youth
It’s just so much better if you know her heart and or desire is in it
If you’re doing like Weinstein or Toback it’s about power and anger
Truly ugly fat men forcing gorgeous women to their will for intimacy they would normally never get
I mean Chapman is fine as hell....how she bedded is yuck factor 11 but I’d have been tickled with her every night at least looks wise
I just don’t get it
Isn’t it strange that women in Hollywood only complain about sexual harassment when the harasser is either a has-been or wannabe who can’t advance their careers?
I can't believe in this day and age any woman would be stupid enough to buy that line of oombalah.
I imagine Toback hit on a lot of girls; I was certainly the most attractive girl on that bus. He was harmless and I think some people are overreacting - unless he changed his modus operandi. James Wolcott wrote an hilarious take on Toback’s antics a while ago.
Almost 40 years ago, The Eagles recorded “The King of Hollywood”.
Ironically, Don Henley got in some trouble himself with some underage girls.
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