Further confirmation, this time on the record, from Mad Men writer Marti Noxon, who echoes that Gordon’s “confidence was shaken” after the alleged incident and describes Weiner as “an ‘emotional terrorist’ who will badger, seduce and even tantrum in an attempt to get his needs met.”

The original report confirmed that Gordon had shared her story with several confidants at the time, including at least one Mad Men colleague. And it quotes a “longtime staff writer” on the show who indicated that “I could see her confidence was shaken” when she returned to the show for season 3.

Yeah, wealthy and powerful men having their book tours and movie premieres screwed up because of corroborated allegations of them being harassers and abusers is much worse than that time a bunch of day care workers went to prison for child molestation because of insane stories of Satanic ritual abuse.

Unfortunately, things don’t look good on the debunking front. Takei opted for a “I’ve never met this person” defense, but not only did several of the accusers’ friends confirm on the record that Brunton told them about the encounter over the years, but according to Buzzfeed, Brunton kept a piece of paper showing that…

That’s a different Gary Goddard, apparently, which Deadline made a point of mentioning in their article: “The Gary Goddard Agency, based out of Toronto, is completely unrelated to the Gary Goddard referenced here. The man whose name is in the Toronto moniker passed away in 2002.”

Because the point of Murray’s advice is supposed to be that he sees himself in Nancy and he’s telling her what he would’ve wanted someone to tell him, but it’s obscured by the fact that a teen girl’s romantic perspective seems so altogether different from what a young Murray would’ve experienced.

To me this is still primarily a representational issue. It’s true that Stranger Things didn’t feature many interactions among its female characters, but there are few instances where I think the story would be better served by jamming those characters together into the same storyline. I feel like the solution is…

I mean, it’s not as bad as some of the other allegations that have come out lately, but it’s certainly not nothing. He supposedly made an overtly sexual proposition to an especially vulnerable underling, with the suggestion that she “owed it” to him to accede. Even if that’s all he ever did, that’s inevitably going to…

I don’t think he was jealous in the sense of being envious of her talents. But in the “jealous boyfriend” sense of being preoccupied with not losing what you think is yours?

Goddammit, can’t any of you fucking pervs keep it in your pants?

Per the Times: “Ms. Notaro said she learned of his reputation after they sold the series to Amazon.”

Ugh. Sad but to me not unexpected. The notion that Gawker had just run with a totally fake story seemed much more improbable than the notion that it was at least partly true.

That’s exactly the possibility I’m dreading the most, particularly since a lot of the ugliest allegations against Singer seem to hark back to his work on Apt Pupil.

I’ve been waiting for the Bryan Singer shoe to drop for years now. At the very least he’s uncomfortably close to some very unpleasant people and activities, and if even some the darker allegations are true, that’s a shitbomb that will hit Hollywood with the force of ten Weinsteins.

I tend to think the studio response was reactive rather than elaborately conspiratorial—most of what I’ve heard about Rappe being a studio plant or a sex worker seems like the result of Arbuckle’s friends trying to defend him at her expense—but at the very least the execs leaned on the Hays Office to blacklist…

Yep, and some of it may be pure opportunism, but some of it might also be legitimate victims who are desperate for justice but have no other way of getting around statute of limitation laws. For instance, saying something happened in a different state that has a less restrictive statute, or claiming to have recovered…

True. It just seemed like a good time to remind folks that sometimes the people you hope are innocent actually are. (Keeps fingers crossed.)

To be fair, Arbuckle probably was innocent. He was a beloved comedian with a family-friendly reputation who didn’t want anyone to know he was stepping out on his wife (from whom he’d secretly been separated for several years). And his “victim” was a respectable career woman who wasn’t exactly going to advertise that…

I’ve heard people say that, but I also know gun hobbyists who’ve visited the Book Depository and say it’s an easy shot they could’ve made themselves.

“. . . an article from, of all places, The Washington Post . . .”