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Posted on 09/06/2018 3:28:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
After an independent investigation of sexual harassment allegations against Morgan Freeman, SAG-AFTRA said it will not rescind the Oscar-winning actor's SAG Life Achievement Award – the union's highest honor. The award was presented during this year's SAG Awards...
SAG-AFTRA launched the investigation in May following a CNN report that said that eight women had come forward with allegations "they were victims of what some called harassment and others called inappropriate behavior" by Freeman. In the wake of the report, the union said it was considering "corrective action" with regard to the award, which was presented just a month before the union released a Sexual Harassment Code of Conduct that "sets forth clear expectations that SAG-AFTRA members will refrain from engaging in harassing conduct."
...The allegations against Freeman included unwanted touching and inappropriate comments he made at his production company, Revelations Entertainment, and while promoting his movies. CNN entertainment reporter Chloe Melas, who authored the article for the cable outlet, said she was subjected to inappropriate behavior by Freeman when she interviewed him at a press junket for Going in Style. According to Melas, who was six months pregnant at the time, Freeman shook her hand in a roomful of people and wouldn't let go "while repeatedly looking her up and down and saying more than once a variation of, 'I wish I was there'" and telling her "You are ripe."
...He then followed up with a more emphatic statement: "I did not create unsafe work environments..."
National Geographic, meanwhile, which had suspended production of Freeman's The Story of God in order to investigate the allegations, announced this month that production of the show would resume after clearing him any inappropriate behavior on the show.
(Excerpt) Read more at deadline.com ...
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Another star who was asked to appear on “Madame Secretary”.
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If all of the #MeToo-
Purity Tests are allowed to continue, regardless of personal politics. Screen Actors Guild might find itself running low on members, really really low.
Same thing with those stars on Hollywood Boulevard.
Almost each person honored with a star has a sordid tale yet to be told. It is the nature of this business that unusually self centered, myopic, hedonistic people are most often the ones who make a living in an imaginary world.
This goes way back to Silent Movies.
OH NO! Mr. Shankshaw Mandella, too?
He had sex with his teenage step daughter.
Don’t worry. The los Angeles police department and courts are letting most of the perps go. They can’t have their economy ruined by a little handsie grabbsies here there, now.
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