Posted on 10/30/2017 2:02:26 PM PDT by drewh
As with Harvey Weinstein, it seems plenty in Hollywood knew all about Kevin Spacey.
And even though they kept their mouths shut — ensuring nothing but more entitlement, more boldness, and likely more victims — some of those speaking up are oddly self-righteous.
“We all knew about you,” Rosie O’Donnell tweeted Monday. “I hope more men come forward.”
As far back as 2005, Seth MacFarlane — who made a knowing joke about Weinstein’s predation while announcing Best Supporting Actress Oscar nominees in 2013 — inserted a joke speculating about Spacey’s now-alleged pedophilia in his animated hit series “Family Guy.”
MacFarlane had Stewie, the baby of the family, run through a public space shouting, “Help! I’ve escaped from Kevin Spacey’s basement! Help me!”
Whom else does the industry know about and protect? It’s hard to recall a time when the cultural landscape has shifted so dramatically. More than ever, the general public is inclined to believe self-reporting victims. More than ever, we are inclined to demand that the accused speak, that guilt be met with real consequence.
The next tipping point is one Hollywood may not see coming: Public disgust with those in power who know and do nothing, who knew and still deny knowing. Just ask Matt Damon and George Clooney, who spent all last week denying they knew about Harvey Weinstein (except when they did), only for the public to call out their blatant hypocrisy and reject their new movie “Suburbicon,” which flatlined at the box office. By week’s end, both actors pulled out of their scheduled public appearances. Wonder why.
The old ways no longer work. The entertainment media, as a single organism, should refuse publicist demands to keep questions about these scandals off the table. And those who know should speak up now, before it’s too late.
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Ping.
I guess he was the perfect actor for American Beauty.
The lawsuits generated by Weinstein and Spacey will be a gold mine for TMZ and the gossip columnists. All they will have to do is read the public filings and obtain the depositions.On a more serious note, historians will have documentation of the neo pagan hedonistic debauchery that is accepted by “people in the know” and that is now emblematic of a decadent American culture. Face it. Spacey, Weinstein and the rest did not suddenly appear out of a social or cultural vacuum.
“We all knew about you,” Rosie O’Donnell tweeted Monday. “I hope more men come forward.”
These people all knew this actor was a pederast/pedophile?
And said NOTHING?
This was okay with them?
Rose McGowan said she told Ben Affleck about her Harvey W assault in 1997...
I wonder when George Takie’s will have some one come forward. when he came out years ago there were rumors.
I don’t understand what the legal cases are. Isn’t one of the reasons people don’t report is he said/she said? Other than keeping the blue dress, what is considered strong enough evidence to convict someone? Especially when years have passed. Is telling someone, even if years after the fact, considered enough? How can the alleged assailant defend themselves if the complaint isn’t true?
Stalking is something people write books about. I can’t imagine how they handle these past cases, but I hope that someone is going to come out with a good explanation to someone who has been victimized describing how to collect evidence when it happens, how to store it so it lasts, and then when they come to decide to complain, how to turn it over legally.
Spacey’s closet exit was about as subtle as Mississippi’s Marching Band...
Otherwise known as....THE TRUMP EFFECT.
I wonder if Seth knows something about Kevin’s basement!?!? Note to self: Do not visit Kevin Spacedout’s basement.
But I thought they were “born that way” and he’s saying he’s “choosing” to live as a gay man. I’m so confused.
You nailed the reason all the libs are disowning Spacey. He told the truth about sodomy. Of course it’s a choice. No one is born queer. It’s learned. Normally all homosexuals had a father who was absent and in the case of lesbians a mother who was absent. And when I say absent I mean having nothing to do with their raising and no one stepping in to fill the void, except another homosexual or lesbian.
Although I agree, there is no way to get Spacey at all. Statutes of Limitation went out the window long ago. The only way to get him in front of a judge would be for someone to come forward within last 5 years.
Hollywood is going to rewrite Gorillas in the mist, to fags in the midst
Hollywood is going to rewrite Gorillas in the mist, to fags in the midst
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