>LOS ANGELES (AP) — Writer and director James Toback, who received an Oscar nomination for writing "Bugsy," has been accused of sexual harassment by 38 women in a report published Sunday in The Los Angeles Times.
>In the report, many of the women allege that Toback approached them on the streets of New York City and promised stardom. His meetings would often end with sexual questions and Toback masturbating in front of them or dry-humping them, according to the accounts.
>Thirty-one of the women spoke on the record including Louise Post, who is a guitarist and vocalist for the band Veruca Salt, and "As the World Turns" actress Terri Conn.
>Actress Echo Danon recalled an incident on the set of his film "Black and White" where Toback put his hands on her and said that he would ejaculate if she looked at his eyes and pinched his nipples.
>In the report, many of the women allege that Toback approached them on the streets of New York City and promised stardom (and soon after became stars)
Kek, finally those idiots who went to acting school are finally and forever btfo now that there is undeniable proof acting takes 0 skill and is just your appearance.
Daniel Gutierrez
>another ugly fat man accused
chads are laughing it up and they get away with it every day!
>His opening line had a few variations. One went: “My name’s James Toback. I’m a movie director. Have you ever seen ‘Black and White’ or ‘Two Girls and a Guy’?”
>Probably not. So he’d start to drop names. He had an Oscar nomination for writing the Warren Beatty movie “Bugsy.” He directed Robert Downey Jr., in three movies. The actor, Toback claimed, was a close friend; he had “invented him.” If you didn’t believe him, he would pull out a business card or an article that had been written about him to prove he had some juice in Hollywood. That he could make you a star.
>During these meetings, many of the women said, Toback boasted of sexual conquests with the famous and then asked humiliating personal questions. How often do you masturbate? How much pubic hair do you have? He’d tell them, they said, that he couldn’t properly function unless he “jerked off” several times a day. And then he’d dry-hump them or masturbate in front of them, ejaculating into his pants or onto their bodies and then walk away. Meeting over.
Aaron Mitchell
Looks like a porn director/strip club owner
Christopher Cook
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Joshua Barnes
>Toback was born in New York City. His mother, Selma Judith (née Levy), was a president of The League of Women Voters and a moderator of political debates on NBC.[1] His father, Irwin Lionel Toback, was a stockbroker and former vice president of Dreyfus & Company.[2] He is Jewish.[3]
I'm starting to notice, you know, a trend with these cases.
Hudson Green
>soon after became stars
They are all literally whos.
Samuel Myers
Well I've heard of Veruca Salt.
Jacob Fisher
>literally whomst?
David Williams
Me too. They're all fat guys who were shunned by women in their youth. It's a vicious cycle, cunts!
Brandon Sanders
Ever notice how attractive men are never perverted? Because it's not assault when they do it. It's sexy. Lol.
This is why I could not take big little lies seriously. In real life those women would never have even thought he raped them. Hot people don't do that. Lol.
Josiah Richardson
it's antisemitic to notice patterns
David Thomas
You're saying women should have to have sex with ugly, fat weirdos that they don't like? Seems like a bad deal for women really.
Liam Peterson
kinda like if I put my hand on a girls shoulder and say "how's it goin hon?" it's an unwanted sexual advance, but if a girl puts her hand on my shoulder and asks that it's just how girls talk or a waitress looking for a bigger tip.
Noah Cooper
>Actress Echo Danon recalled an incident on the set of his film "Black and White" where Toback put his hands on her and said that he would ejaculate if she looked at his eyes and pinched his nipples.
These fetishes are so niche, man. I don't even understand what compels a man/woman to say shit like this or to get off on that type of shit lmao.
It's more hilarious than anything. For fucks sake, Weinstein would play the bathrobe trick on several women and just masturbate and/or ask for massages, lmao.
It's so bizarre. It's never something like, "Oh, he touched me inappropriately." It's always something out of a weird, surreal Hollywood fucking movie. >He actually told her he would ejaculate if she looked at his eyes an pinched his nipples.
That is fucking specific, man.
Carter Ross
zero chance Sup Forums has seen any of this guy's movies. can you imagine your average Zack Snyder fan sitting down to watch Fingers?
Noah Lopez
>only good films are the gambler and fingers >those were directed over four decades ago hack
Hunter Ross
Oh no. Not obscure Warren Beatty footnote James ("Bugsy") Toback
Lincoln Ross
get away with what exactly? consent is an important distinction. and you can't point to 2 ugly guys who got arrested and say "see? that proves only ugly guys get punished in life". you know how illogical that is
Thomas Powell
Yeah but a girl don't want your ugly flabby hand touching her shoulder or any other part of her body, so it's natural they are upset.
Easton Clark
All kinds of kinks in kinkdom, user. Look at QT's foot thing.
Asher Davis
Feet is the most common of all fetishes, approx 10% of all males have it to some degree.
William Sanchez
Being attracted to them, yes. I am part of that group. I do like me a girl who takes care of her feet.
Finding feet to be a sexual body part is one thing. Cumming from sucking toes is something else.
Jackson Fisher
Is he a Jew, too? Is it fucking happening??
Evan James
Used to read a film periodical he wrote articles for. Was very aggressively jewish. Like a "tough-guy jew" persona. Always brought it into the articles.
Turns out he was a stereotypical jew movie sleaze.
David Rodriguez
The media has no problem reporting every single unverified sexual assault but they will protect their own. There is a Google Spreadsheet that was posted titled Shitty Media Men and they refuse to report on it. One media guy that was apparently on the list was some VOX higher up. He's already been fired. Allegedly Sam Biddle in on the list but they are doing their best to protect them. Get this... Allegedly Sam Biddle's thing was to masturbate in front of women.
Jace Russell
See
Thomas Morgan
is there some kind of rape blog where I can follow the latest accusations? I wanna be up to date
> In what appears to be the first and probably not the last repercussion of last week’s Shitty Media Men list, and the larger floodgates of assault and harassment survivors speaking out against their attackers, Lockhart Steele, Vox Media’s Editorial Director and former Curbed CEO and founder, has been fired, effective immediately. Vox employees were alerted by a message in the company’s CEO AMA slack channel
>Last week when the spreadsheet was still circulating, several women I know remarked at the lack of Vox representation on it, especially given the outsize number of Buzzfeed employees who were named. The aforementioned viral Medium post by Eden Rohatensky alleges misconduct by more than one Vox employee; one wonders how many more firings are yet to come. I would be remiss not to point out that Steele would likely have been leaving the company within a month anyhow; November 2017 marks four years from the sale of his Curbed properties (Curbed, Eater, Racked) to Vox for a reported $20-30 million. Looks like the golden handcuffs are off, one month early to boot. I’d be further remiss in not noting that Steele was also the editorial director of Gawker Media, which had its own notorious “problem with women”.
Matthew Morgan
It's a pretty standard thing, masturbating in front of potential actresses. How else are you going to decide if they belong in your movie or not?
>The women allege Brisseau, 60, forced them to masturbate during several auditions between 1996 and 2001 for his 2002 feature Secret Things, the story of two twentysomethings who use sex to climb the social ladder.
>On Wednesday afternoon, I received an email from a friend, a woman writer, that had been forwarded from another woman, also a writer. The body of the email contained an anonymous Google spreadsheet labeled “SHITTY MEDIA MEN.” On the top, it said, “DISCLAIMER: This document is only a collection of misconduct allegations and rumors. Take everything with a grain of salt. If you see something about a man you're friends with, don't freak out. Men accused of physical sexual violence by multiple women are highlighted in red.” I saw some of the names and thought: fucking finally. Finally, the grossest men in media will be exposed.
>The allegations on the spreadsheet range from “flirting” and “weird lunch dates“ to accusations of rape, assault, stalking, harassment, and physical violence. What these things have in common is that they remind women, particularly vulnerable women, that they are not in power.
>But things do get complicated when you start lumping all of this behavior together in a big anonymous spreadsheet of unsubstantiated allegations against dozens of named men — who were not given the chance to respond — that, by Wednesday night, seemed to have spread far and wide. At various points on Wednesday, dozens of anonymous accounts were looking at the spreadsheet. This was by design; because of the way the document was structured it meant that anyone could look at it, download and share it, and so there was no way to know if they were all the intended female recipients. Several men who were on the spreadsheet had reached out to other staffers at BuzzFeed News because they had seen it.
BuzzFeed had the highest number of names on it of any media company.
Nolan Torres
>jew >jew >buzzfeed, a notoriously anti-trump site
This is obviously Bannon.
Brandon Bennett
literally who
Matthew Thomas
>My name’s James Toback. I’m a movie director. Have you ever seen ‘Black and White’ or ‘Two Girls and a Guy’? no
Luke Nelson
based
Daniel Rogers
why is he dressed like tony clifton?
Jayden Fisher
This guy is 72 years old? He's ugly, but age-wise I would have never guessed. Is molesting vulnerable QT's the secret to never aging?
Carson Reyes
Cuckolding isn't the fetish popular amongst the entertainment industry. It's actually CFNM.
