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Old 10-07-19, 10:14 AM
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Originally Posted by candyrocket786
I wonder if Hasbro is looking at this stuff?
I'm not sure what they would do if they were? Levy has never worked for them.

While this is the worst I've heard, the cast of Saban's shows have not historically been treated well at all.

I'm still trying to wrap my head around that guy being (secretly) married, having a fiance, and living with and even being engaged to Sarah, eventually having a kid with her.
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Originally Posted by Josh-da-man
That's kind of surreal...
I don't want to defend this POS, but that story with Clinton doesn't have a timeline (or at least it wasn't clear to me). They were dating and even engaged (and had a kid), and while that doesn't make it right that kind of stuff between adults in a relationship is way different then if they weren't in one and he was just her creepy boss.

But there's enough other crap in there that's alleged that makes it much worse. There's a point where she tells this story of how she had a massive fight with him and was living in an apartment he owned. She tells him she's moving out, and the next day there's a key conspicuously on her counter and he tells her he had her bodyguard come into her apartment to fix the air conditioner (which wasn't broken). She packed up but slept there one more night and a fire burned down the apartment. The fire investigator asked her if she had any reason to believe someone would try to kill her and she mentioned Levy's name. The fire investigator never talked to her again but the report said it was because of a lamp not plugged into a surge protector.

He (allegedly) secretly recorded her phone conversations with her dad and used those to pretend he was psychic and to drive a wedge between her and her father.

He had a secret, behind a rolling bookcase room in his house that had surveillance cameras in every room, including the guest bedroom where her friends stayed over.

She eventually bought a place all her own and one day when their kid was sick the night before, he was over to check on them and she was explaining what happened the night before when the kid was sick. He said "I know, I saw" and pointed at the ceiling fan.

Lots of he-said-she-said in there but it's clear that she was fearful not only for her career but her life, and she suggests Saban might have played a role because they didn't want their relationship to come out (or more likely what she would say when their relationship ended).

The grey area here is that he obviously used his power to take advantage of her yet at some point she did willingly enter into a relationship with him and she was an adult, so IF all this other crap wasn't there it's the common "sleep with the director or whatever to get ahead" and when the person isn't a minor that doesn't seem exactly one sided.
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Old 10-07-19, 02:08 PM
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Wait... Former president of the United States Bill Clinton?

EDIT: wow, had no idea the Clintons were heavily involved with Saban. So she is saying, allegedly, she was molested at a party while in the middle of a conversation with Bill Clinton??
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Why isn't this all over the news?

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Originally Posted by Ringmaster
Wait... Former president of the United States Bill Clinton?

EDIT: wow, had no idea the Clintons were heavily involved with Saban. So she is saying, allegedly, she was molested at a party while in the middle of a conversation with Bill Clinton??
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Why isn't this all over the news?
Possibly because it sounds like B.S.?
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Matt Lauer is now facing a rape allegation.
https://pagesix.com/2019/10/09/matt-...d-him-of-rape/
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Originally Posted by Bluelitespecial
Matt Lauer is now facing a rape allegation.
https://pagesix.com/2019/10/09/matt-...d-him-of-rape/
More:

Ronan Farrow Strikes Again: A New Book Targets NBC News and How Harvey Weinstein May Have Leveraged Matt Lauer

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fe...-lauer-1246149

It's a long article so won't quote it here, but in there, says Harvey Weinstein might have tried blackmailing NBC to keep his allegations quiet by using info he had on Lauer.
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Cuba Gooding Jr. hit with new charge in groping case

Show me the money!



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Originally Posted by TheMovieman
More:

Ronan Farrow Strikes Again: A New Book Targets NBC News and How Harvey Weinstein May Have Leveraged Matt Lauer

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/fe...-lauer-1246149
It's a long article so won't quote it here, but in there, says Harvey Weinstein might have tried blackmailing NBC to keep his allegations quiet by using info he had on Lauer.

A July call between NBC and fact-checker Sean Lavery, also employed at The New Yorker, stretched on for 10 hours.
I'd love to scan the transcripts of that call. What could have taken ten hours?!

I can't figure out who's the most evil of all the scumbags referenced in that article, but it's quite a contest. I mean, Harvey Weinstein calling Woody Allen for advice on how to deal with Woody's son?! And Woody simply replying, "Jeez, I'm so sorry. Good luck."

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Originally Posted by Ash Ketchum
... Woody's son?!
Let's be honest here...

Spoiler:

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I'd love to scan the transcripts of that call. What could have taken ten hours?!

I can't figure out who's the most evil of all the scumbags referenced in that article, but it's quite a contest. I mean, Harvey Weinstein calling Woody Allen for advice on how to deal with Woody's son?! And Woody simply replying, "Jeez, I'm so sorry. Good luck."
Woody's "son."
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Family Guy has a scene for everything.

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Old 10-14-19, 06:16 PM
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Ok sure but what is that image (not a scene). What’s the context.
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Originally Posted by slop101
Let's be honest here...

Spoiler:
Every picture I've seen of Ronan Farrow shows me someone whose head is way too big for his body.





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It is like those Team America puppets.
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Originally Posted by Deftones
It is like those Team America puppets.
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I'd sort of like to see Parker and Stone do a #MeToo movie using puppets like Team America with Bill Cosby, Michael Jackson, Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Asia Argento, Rose McGowan, Jeffrey Epstein, and various and sundry others.
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Originally Posted by Deftones
It is like those Team America puppets.
Thank you! I couldn't quite place it.
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Now it cannot be unseen.
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Sounds like some stuff is heating up on Jeff Goldblum too. Twitter thread
about it.

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I mean is she just fishing? " If you have a story to tell about JG, my email is nicole dot cliffe at gmail, and I will introduce you to an actual reporter. "
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Originally Posted by stingermck
I mean is she just fishing? " If you have a story to tell about JG, my email is nicole dot cliffe at gmail, and I will introduce you to an actual reporter. "
It sounds like she is getting a lot of responses from people who aren't in front of the camera (makeup and hair people, etc.) We'll see if it goes anywhere, but at this point I would not be surprised if it did.
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Maybe he used to start explaining his chaos theory by taking his pants off.
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Maybe he used to start explaining his chaos theory by taking his pants off.
"Which way is the drop going to roll off?"
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Not Goldblum! He seems like someone who would be above this sleaze. Hypnotize them with your quirky self-deprecation and stammering non-sequiturs, then get all handsy.


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