Elijah Woodâs own twitter feed:
Thatâs interesting. Its also interesting that this interview was in the Sunday Times (unless I missed something). Britain has just been reeling/seedily obsessed with that whole BBC molester cover up thing. It seems pretty likely they would take some offhand comments from Wood about the issue, and spin it into confirmation of a similar problem/conspiracy in the US. Iâve never had much luck gauging where the Sunday Times sits on a scale of 1 to Daily Mail, but if theyâre anything like much of the British press it doesnât much surprise me.
That said this wouldnât much surprise me. Iâve heard too many first hand accounts of clearly unethical and deeply weird party scenes (although nothing about children) from friends who have lived and worked in Hollywood. Between the number of gay friends Iâve had whoâve had run ins with Bryan Singerâs notoriously creepy parties, and that whole Dr. Luke thing it wouldnât shock me on the whole. Lot of skeevy abusive people in the entertainment business, with a lot of people whoâll hide/back it guarantee their paycheck.
Itâs a broadsheet, so allegedly a step up from the tabloid rags, but it is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
Say no more, tabloid rag with the faint stink of authority.
Am I being too wary/suspicious if I halfway read that as âSomeone pushed me to publicly renounce this story, or I would never work in Hollywood againâ?
Whistle blowers, let the sun shine in!
Predators in the entertainment business⌠I am reminded of the discussion of Kim Fowley and the Runaways here from a while ago. http://boingboing.net/2015/07/13/the-jackie-fox-rape-disclosure.html
That would be the Times, yes.
On the one hand, I wouldnât be surprised in the slightest if there was child abuse in Hollywood, and the studios were exerting pressure to keep it covered up.
On the other hand, I also wouldnât be surprised in the slightest if a newspaper/ânewspaperâ were to take someoneâs quotes wildly out of context in order to sensationalize a story.
So I donât think, in todayâs world, that you can be wary/suspicious enough when looking at a news story.
OK, but what about the Coreys? Or can you get Cusackâs take on all of this?
I donât think so, and the frightening implication of that is that Woodâs attacker(s) still have considerable influence, and are probably finding new victims even now.
Yeah, on the balance, Iâd agree there. It just seemed so detailed for being âtaken out of contextâ. In what context would any of that have been ok? Then again, those details may have been fabricated out of whole cloth for all we know. Then again, thereâs Polanski, and thereâs Woody Allen. And, not entirely unrelatedly, Cosby.
I never really like it when anything is reduced to one of those information stalemates that Putin try to pull off, ie, the conclusion that none of the sources of information can be trusted. It never sits quite right with me, somehow.
Well, since as @daneel points out, Sunday Times is owned by Rupert Murdoch, itâs not surprising itâs doing all it can to remind people of the role the BBC played in the cover up, as it can be leverage for pushing for greater privatization of another public institution.
You left out his big break as âvideo game kidâ in Back to the Future 2.
Even in the original quotes, pre-clarification-via-Twitter, it seemed he was only connecting dots and repeating rumours, not speaking from experience.
It wouldnât surprise me if Hollywood is teeming with predators and/or pedophiles, it wouldnât surprise me if the Twitter clarification was made under pressure from Woodâs agent, but those things can be true and it can also be true that Wood himself has never been sexually harassed or assaulted, just as he says in one of the tweets: âI have no first hand experience or observation of the topic.â
Right, itâs not like he said âthis doesnât happenâ or even âthe problem is being blown out of proportion.â Merely âitâs a serious subject worthy of diligent investigation but it never happened to me personally so I canât speak from first-hand experience.â
Huh, that is Elijah wood?
Off-topic: is it just me, or Elijah Wood looks more and more like Bradley Cooper with age?
