i recall a tyrannical bitch boss using the sentiment in so many words after someone (and several others) had abruptly quit their federal contractor jobs. she said “DC is a small town, this will get around so don’t anyone else get any ideas”. so basically threatened the rest of the team when the others had quit.

It’s weird that this is a threat in Hollywood, a town where failure is merely a gateway to alternative routes to success.

I dated a guy who had a very public on-set battle with a huge producer who pulled out that old chestnut. He was worried for about twenty minutes until another producer pulled him into a trailer and said “there are too many people in this industry for any one person to stop you from working. What gets people…

Maybe it’s too soon, but um... Kesha?

Except, it was such an open secret that, right after his death, Newsnight (BBC) produced a special program (that never aired) detailing the sexual abuse allegations. ITV picked up the story a few months later.

STRONGLY SECONDED (i just mentioned this miniseries in another comment)

And BBC executive! I had just finished reading David Peace’s Yorkshire series, and it was like that came to life - that David Peace was a reporter, not a novelist.

Everyone knew =- Johnny Rotten talked about it in an interview in the 70s! I’ve followed this story since it broke.

It’s news today because they’ve decided to pin it on a few top dogs. Good that someone is being held accountable, but no one gets away with decades of abuse with just one or two people protecting them. Far more people than we could ever prosecute turned a blind eye and allowed it to happen

The new information is the formal, extensive report. It was known or suspected, but the full extents and specifics were not known.

He also predated my childhood but I think everyone found him creepy, even at the time. As someone said elsewhere on the thread, many people were genuinely surprised by Rolf Harris as he had been well liked. No one was surprised by Saville. He’d always been a creep.

Netflix is/was streaming a BBC show called Detective (I think) a docu-series that spent time investigating this case. CHILLING. I won’t ruin it but there is a scene where they uncover evidence that is mind blowing. Great little series/procedural on how investigations are conducted across the pond. Oh, yeah this guy is…

He’s before my time (and I’m not British) but my mom tells me she always found him creepy, even when he was at peak-belovedness.

From what I can tell from my time there, people thought he was a bit weird and a bit of a loony, but there being actual meat to the allegations was a shock; they thought it was just easy jokes and low hanging fruit for poking a bit of fun at an eccentric. The big shock, according to my UK friends, was the Rolf Harris…

Of course, nothing like this would ever happen in the US

Louis Theroux made a documentary following Savile that was disturbing enough at the time (when Savile was still alive) let alone after details of his abuse of children came out after his death.

And then the BBC tried to bury the report today by sacking a celebrity colleague of Saville. Have they learned? It doesn’t look like it.

The scope of the offences, and the entertainers involved, was staggering and horrifying. Operation Yewtree seemed at one stage to be sweeping up every children’s entertainer who was big in those days.

Anyone I know living in Great Britain has been saying these rumors existed for decades. Good that he’s finally been given the butcher’s bill and it’s a large one.

The report, which is the result of a three-year investigation, identified 72 victims of Savile (eight of whom were raped, including an eight-year-old)