Posted on 10/19/2017 8:25:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
In the wake of the ever-unfolding series of accusations and accounts of sexual abuse at the hands of Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, perhaps the biggest scandal has been that Weinstein’s abuse is constantly described as having been an “open secret” in Hollywood for years, maybe decades. While the extent of Weinstein’s monstrous action may not have been available to everyone, again and again we hear from people who had “heard the rumors” about Harvey for years. Yet through a combination of fear, silence, and active accomplices, he was able to continue operating in the film business for years.
And while “Never Again” might be the ideal mantra in the wake of the Weinstein accusations, there is already increased chatter about another major “open secret” that has been festering in Hollywood for at least as long as Weinstein’s reign of terror, if not longer. Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry put it most plainly today on The Week: “Is Hollywood sitting on a pedophilia scandal?” There’s certainly been enough anecdotal evidence over the years that we wouldn’t be able to say we hadn’t “heard the rumors” if a blockbuster exposé was published tomorrow.
Gobry isn’t the only one wondering when the other shoe will drop on a child sex-abuse scandal in Hollywood. Earlier this week, The Daily Beast’s Ira Madison III and the New York Post‘s Maureen Callahan each brought up Corey Feldman’s longstanding claims of sex abuse and rape among a well-connected set of men in the film industry. All three articles reference the 2016 interview Feldman gave to the Hollywood Reporter in which he accused unnamed Hollywood professionals of molestation and, in his most serious allegation, of raping an 11-year-old Corey Haim.
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There is pederasty below the surface in Hollywood, D.C., and every major institution.
It will be exposed eventually.
Nothing will be done about it.
It will become the stuff of comedian scorn.
It will be normalized.
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