Posted on 01/09/2026 5:10:28 PM PST by RummyChick
Actor and director Timothy Busfield, famous for his work on "The West Wing" and "Thirtysomething," is being accused of pedophilia ... prosecutors in New Mexico allege he sexually abused underage boys who were child actors on a TV production set.
According to a criminal complaint filed Friday in New Mexico, obtained by TMZ, Busfield is charged with child abuse and two counts of criminal sexual contact of a minor under the age of 13.
The charges stem from allegations that he sexually abused two boys on the set of "The Cleaning Lady."
(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...
Ew, gross.
He was accused of sexual harassment by several young women decades ago. I thought his career was over then but it’s Hollyweird so I guess not. He needs to learn to keep his hands to himself, at the very least.
that guy always gave me the creeps. so we’ll see if this is true.
And Revenge of The Nerds.
“West Wing” had one episode that stood the test of time—the debate over abolishing the penny.
Lol.
“the movie is reality”
Great post.
Propagandists have understood this for many decades.
Input is input—over time fiction and fact blend together and affect behavior.
Lies in movies are actually more devastating than lies in real life—because no rebuttal is possible.
The magic of Hollywood cast a spell on her.
I must say, it is a little creepy. I think we are all susceptible to it, being human, the way our brain processes information.
I dream a lot, every night, intensely and vividly, and there have been moments where after I wake up and later in the day, I find myself thinking of some snippet of it as if it were reality, and I have to shake my head internally when I realize that thing was only part of a dream.
And being an avid amateur historian, I see people who think of movies as narrations of reality. It is why I sometimes get irritable when I watch a movie with a leftist bent.
It is an absolute issue that there are people who cannot distinguish entertainment from reality.
My wife gave me a stocking stuffer for Christmas a few years back called “The Sons of Liberty” because she knows I am intested in the Revolutionary War era.
When I watched it, I became so incensed because it wasn’t just wrong, which happens in even good and entertaining movies, it was a fantastical fabrication where Samuel Adams was a guy who was portrayed as a 30 year old hipster (think Captain Jack Sparrow from “Pirates of the Caribbean”) in black clothes jumping off roofs onto British soldiers in Boston with a tomahawk in each hand....in reality, he was a somewhat furtive guy in his early to mid forties who was most at home in the smoky back rooms of taverns talking politics.
I watched one or two episodes (It was a series by the History Channel) and I was so incensed I threw the thing in a drawer and it sat there for a few years. But over time I kept thinking of it...and after doing some research online, found in an interview with the Producer that it was never intended to be a historically accurate portrayal of anyone, but was wholly for entertainment purposes! (I know-I thought it was the “History Channel” which I never watch anyway, since I don’t have cable and don’t watch television!)
My biggest concern is the subconscious effect of movies.
“History” is what we learn is history—and unfortunately movies are one of the ways we learn.
That gives a lot of power to the people who make movies.
Yes...sobering isn’t it? (Given who makes movies)
Looks the part.
Anyone else wondering if the timing of these allegations going public has anything to do with the sale of WB Discovery...
The dad may be suit happy
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