But how come, I live in Colorado, work in medicine, rarely read anything having to do with Hollywood (I like movies, but celebrities are not my thing) and I knew about it? I mean, you could be right, certainly. I just find it odd.

and not the rule...I'm a female former film major who lives in Chicago and I never heard it.

Thank you!

a second sense about who and who not to approach. And she's probably not a gossip.

The women who went along with some of his crazy said they went along with it to get something they really wanted.

These were women who wanted a part or other assistance with their career. The New York times articles only discussed women in that category. However, I just recall another article where he sexually harassed a reporter in a restaurant hallway. It was an interesting story because both the victim and her friend knew about Harvey pervy behavior.

I mean, he could sort of make 'em or break 'em in The Business. Sounds like it extended all the way to print media.

The business- that ain't Meryl's history with him. Young women told each other- not old pros like Meryl.
And I'm sure there are tons of inaccurate rumors too.

And it's possible a few people knew that was what it took to get work with him and went for it without his prompting. It's likely we'll not know much from women who decided the abuse was worth the career help. None of that justifies this crap.

Long ago when I was working in a hotel, I had a boss, the general manager, who was horribly abusive and misogynistic. I was young, naive and always sort of blamed myself. It would have never occurred to me to wire-up and bust his ass. Now, sure.

It said they did have him recorded and Weinstein had so much power in ALL media that he quashed the stories. Now it's all coming out. One very reputable reported tried to expose him for years.

Guess I'll give her the benefit of the doubt. I do love her.

She's normally so brave to speak truth to power, I can't imagine she'd not tell the truth about this.

He probably "chose his victims" based on how he thought they might react.

My concern was how she didn't know about his reputation before now. I just read where Jessica Chastain said she was "warned from the beginning; the stories were out there."

Yeah, the stories were out there, and most of the blame outside of Weinstein himself belongs with the company because they were fully aware of it and knew of the settlements. But at the same time, there's thousands and thousands of actors, circles, cliques, and so forth and it's akin to not knowing what's going on with a company president at some other company in the same industry when you're mid-level management. You're dealing with what's in front of you, your own production company, etc.

We're all pulled in so many different ways that when you add onto it what actors also deal with in being pulled to dozens of press junkets around the world, you don't hear everything. And a lot of them, when they're not working on set, unplug from Hollywood entirely out of state.

This kind of thing could be going on at a "rival" business to my own within my industry and I'd have no clue. Because I don't pay attention to what their personnel are up to as I'm focusing on my own and what I need to accomplish because I don't even have enough time in the day to do that.

And what complicates a lot of this more are the settlements because that locks up people that could actively talk about under NDAs.

And also not sure what you consider "perverted", but sure, I'm certain that abuse of power and misogyny are in all industries. Is that what you meant?