There are others.
What is interesting about this whole Hollywood thing is that the open secret has become simply open, or is in the process of doing so.
In every other business, sexual harassment has been punished quickly and severely for decades now. The question is why it has been allowed to continue in Hollywood, with both men and women coming out now in large numbers.
I was reading an op/ed citing a rabbi who claimed that the Times piece on Weinstein was the result of his plan to make a philo-Semitic movie about the Warsaw Ghetto, and they found that politically unacceptable. I suspect, though, that they had no idea how many rats would come fleeing out as well.
It seems likely left-wing culture itself made the sexual harassment possible. It both stipulates that all sex is meaningless, that one should pursue pleasure at all times and all costs, and that the cause is always more important than any individual sacrifices. Weinstein was a staunch leftist, so hurting him was hurting Democrats was hurting whoever it is that person thought they actually helped. The little people, lets say, or oppressed minorities who would otherwise be completely helpless.
Weinstein knew everybody, and they seem to have known him. We might call this the “Bill Clinton” principle, that all sins are forgiven if you are on the right side, because, again, the cause exceeds any sacrifice. Paula Jones and the rest of them were just the price of progress, so called.
It will be interesting to see if the naked and undeniable double standard being displayed everywhere at the moment will open any eyes.
For his part, Trump seems to have been quite astute at picking willing women. Weinstein was pretty much a “I’ll fuck anything that moves, bring me meat”, but Trump has always seemed to me to truly enjoy feminine beauty for its own sake, and the company of intelligent, individuated women. He may have grabbed pussies, but if so, those woman likely consented at some point, and slept with him because they wanted to.
Trump has been sued over 4,000 times, but not ONCE for sexual harassment. Ponder the odds of that: a multi-billionaire playboy not sued once. And I have never seen one allegation of hush money, which have trailed Bill Clinton and Weinstein (and others) all their careers.
Here is the thing: I think Weinstein and Clinton HATE women. Sex becomes a means of punishing them, of asserting power and dominance over them. This is the real turn-on, which makes it so the target doesn’t matter at all. They are all–perhaps, if I might indulge myself in some psycho-dynamic oversimplification–their mothers.
I think of Fellini’s City of Women, which presumably echoed Freudian themes, but I do not think Freud was fully wrong about everything. He always got to the right intersection, then made the wrong turn.