Harvey Weinstein’s Fall Opens the Floodgates in Hollywood
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Harvey Weinstein’s Fall Opens the Floodgates in Hollywood
“The Weinstein scandal would probably have been taken less seriously if Cosby, Ailes and others hadn’t come first and been within easy memory.”
Melinda McGillivray, who stepped forward last year to accuse Mr. Trump of groping her at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida in 2003, told BuzzFeed last week
that Ms. Paltrow and Ms. Jolie had an impact her accusation did not because of their star power.
“See you at the next Oscars, where — and this is true — Casey Affleck will be presenting Best Actress.”
The reference was cutting: Mr. Affleck, who won the best actor award at this year’s Oscars for “Manchester by
the Sea,” had settled sexual harassment allegations made against him by two female producers in civil suits.
The BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir weighed in on the list, writing of men who were said to be guilty of behaviors like leering: “Things do get complicated
when you start lumping all this behavior together in a big anonymous spreadsheet of unsubstantiated allegations against dozens of named men.”
Ms. Jacobson, the film producer, said, “There’s an importance to a careful vetting and a careful reposting and not just a free-for-all.” She added
that she was in favor of more information, not less, which is why, she said, the industry has to tackle the use of nondisclosure agreements.
Since 2015, the Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, the Fox News prime-time host Bill O’Reilly
and the comedian and actor Bill Cosby have suffered professional, financial or reputational setbacks after numerous women told stories of their sexual misconduct.
And one list circulating among ranking female executives in the industry has tracked a string of promotions of men to senior jobs — at Apple
and AMC, Sony and Hulu, Fox and CBS — amid fear that progress for women has stalled since November
“The Weinstein scandal would probably have been taken less seriously if Cosby, Ailes and others hadn’t come first and been within easy memory.”
Melinda McGillivray, who stepped forward last year to accuse Mr. Trump of groping her at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida in 2003, told BuzzFeed last week
that Ms. Paltrow and Ms. Jolie had an impact her accusation did not because of their star power.
“See you at the next Oscars, where — and this is true — Casey Affleck will be presenting Best Actress.”
The reference was cutting: Mr. Affleck, who won the best actor award at this year’s Oscars for “Manchester by
the Sea,” had settled sexual harassment allegations made against him by two female producers in civil suits.
The BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir weighed in on the list, writing of men who were said to be guilty of behaviors like leering: “Things do get complicated
when you start lumping all this behavior together in a big anonymous spreadsheet of unsubstantiated allegations against dozens of named men.”
Ms. Jacobson, the film producer, said, “There’s an importance to a careful vetting and a careful reposting and not just a free-for-all.” She added
that she was in favor of more information, not less, which is why, she said, the industry has to tackle the use of nondisclosure agreements.
Since 2015, the Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, the Fox News prime-time host Bill O’Reilly
and the comedian and actor Bill Cosby have suffered professional, financial or reputational setbacks after numerous women told stories of their sexual misconduct.
And one list circulating among ranking female executives in the industry has tracked a string of promotions of men to senior jobs — at Apple
and AMC, Sony and Hulu, Fox and CBS — amid fear that progress for women has stalled since November