Now also Dustin Hoffman ...

[Galseigin]

:Eek: Its not going to stop...

Dustin Hoffman accused of sexual harassment against 17-year-old

Writer Anna Graham Hunter alleges the actor groped her and engaged in sexually inappropriate conversations on the set of 1985 TV movie Death of a Salesman

Dustin Hoffman has been accused of sexual harassment against a 17-year-old intern in 1985.
Writer Anna Graham Hunter alleges that the actor, now 80, groped her on the set of TV movie Death of a Salesman and spoke inappropriately about sex with her.

“He asked me to give him a foot massage my first day on set; I did,” Hunter wrote in the Hollywood Reporter. “He was openly flirtatious, he grabbed my ass, he talked about sex to me and in front of me. One morning I went to his dressing room to take his breakfast order; he looked at me and grinned, taking his time. Then he said, ‘I’ll have a hard-boiled egg … and a soft-boiled clitoris.’ His entourage burst out laughing. I left, speechless. Then I went to the bathroom and cried.”

Hunter detailed Hoffman’s alleged treatment of her over her five weeks on set in a diary that she mailed to her sister at the time. “Today, when I was walking Dustin to his limo, he felt my ass four times,” she wrote. “I hit him each time, hard, and told him he was a dirty old man.”
She claims that on set, she was told to put up with his behavior by a supervisor who told her to “sacrifice” some of her values for the sake of the production.

“At 49, I understand what Dustin Hoffman did as it fits into the larger pattern of what women experience in Hollywood and everywhere,” she wrote, looking back. “He was a predator, I was a child, and this was sexual harassment. As to how it fits into my own pattern, I imagine I’ll be figuring that out for years to come.”

More here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...used-of-sexual-harassment-against-17-year-old

 

[malata]

get the fuck out! Not Dustin Hoffman

Dustin Hoffman, with Anna Graham Hunter

 

[GameBoy27]

With new accusations every day, we should create a thread and make it a sticky!

 

[Smooth60]

"I loved the attention from Dustin Hoffman. Until I didn't," she wrote. "No one is 100 percent good or bad. Dustin's a pig, but I like him a lot."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/ce...l-harassment-accusation/ar-AAukbIg?li=BBnb7Kz

 

[hamermill]

Sooner or later people will starting kneeling when an award is given out at the Oscars.

 

[Keebler Elf]

Ironically, the more accusations that come out the more fatigue sets in and this becomes Meh, just another headline...

 

[Galseigin]

He got seduced by Mrs Robinson when he was young...now he's acting that out on others...

 

[Occasionally]

With all these accusations, I wonder where in the spectrum these sexual groping and conversations span.

For example, let's say at the office a bunch of us are joking around, and one of us gives another person a playful hug. Not a big creepy hug, but one of those kidding around things people do when you know someone.

Is that considered sexual off-limits?

 

[Aardvark154]

"I loved the attention from Dustin Hoffman. Until I didn't," she wrote. "No one is 100 percent good or bad. Dustin's a pig, but I like him a lot."

That quotation says a very great deal!

 

[Aardvark154]

With all these accusations, I wonder where in the spectrum these sexual groping and conversations span.

For example, let's say at the office a bunch of us are joking around, and one of us gives another person a playful hug. Not a big creepy hug, but one of those kidding around things people do when you know someone.

Is that considered sexual off-limits?

To my mind you hit the nail on the head. This is "she's a witch or he's a wizard" whereupon all rational conversation stops.

 

[Aardvark154]

Further we have the to a large degree faux outrage. Gee no one has heretofore heard of "the casting couch" or just plain sexually aggressive behaviour in the Movie and Theatre industries.

Not to mention that by April this will be ancient history.

 

[Occasionally]

To some people, certainly. Look how Ashley Judd reacted when simply touched and called sweetheart.

Most can still accept both a hug, and kiss on the cheek as a polite show of affection.

Who knows. It's getting retarded.

So if it's my birthday at work, people come by wishing me well, and someone comes by giving a gentle hug and one of those European double cheek kisses for fun, I can tell HR that's harassment and get a coworker in shit?

 

[Aardvark154]

Who knows. It's getting retarded.

So if it's my birthday at work, people come by wishing them well, and someone comes by giving a gentle hug and one of those European double cheek kisses for fun, I can tell HR that's harassment and get a coworker in shit?

Tragically if the wrong person is one of your co-workers YES.

 

[Insidious Von]

It wont mean a thing if Scientology is left standing.

 

[Smallcock]

James Toback and Jeremy Piven have also been accused.

 

[wazup]

I suffered ongoing and savage sexual abuse from my right hand for decades, but nobody cares about me. Ben affleck will soon follow.

 

[explorerzip]

The lawyers and the cocaine dealers will be busy for a very long time.

 

[james t kirk]

Ironically, the more accusations that come out the more fatigue sets in and this becomes Meh, just another headline...

Yes.

In the grand scheme of things, this woman's announcement to the world about something so minor that happened 35 years ago provokes one question in me. Really?

 

[italianguy74]

I prefer to congratulate people that get seduced and fondled by a big film star or artist.

 

[rhuarc29]

Who knows. It's getting retarded.

So if it's my birthday at work, people come by wishing me well, and someone comes by giving a gentle hug and one of those European double cheek kisses for fun, I can tell HR that's harassment and get a coworker in shit?

Yes sir! Common sense has left the building.

As for Hoffman, the only problem I see with what he did is that she was 17 at the time. If she was of legal age, it appears it would have been consensual. Ultimately, people are responsible for their own decisions. I know that's an unpopular opinion these days, when all people want to do is blame others for their own failings.