I can't watch Fat Albert since the accusations
It would be just too weird.
shareMe neither nor any full episode of any of his shows.
When did everyone first hear this story? Like most of America and probably the world, I never heard this until the leaked cellphone video of a Hannibal Buress standup routine. At the time I thought it was simply a case of a comic trying to be edgy crossing the line not only of good taste but of what might be legal, and looked it up only because I wanted to see if Buress was in trouble for slander, not because I believed anything bad of Cosby.
That's dumb! I still Watch The Cosby Show occasionally. Not b/c I support him, but b/c I'm still a fan of the other actors who did nothing wrong
shareNot dumb at all... if it sends a message to producers that their money streams are going to be at risk if they hire rapists it will mean they will be more likely to vet their actors before they hire them.
sharevet them how?
shareWell in many instances you have the insiders being fully aware about things like Harvey but the industry ignores it. Sure you weren't going to find out any past convictions on someone like Harvey or Bill but there was enough smoke that neither of them should have been used. Cosby was a hard one as there wasn't a lot of smoke around him until he was well into the show. But how many different shows did he work on after things were already showing up on the radar screen? Vetting someone doesn't require the same level of guilt as a court conviction it only requires you to get a sense of whether someone is more likely than not to be tainted and he was more likely than not tainted during the Cosby show years but still was involved in more than a dozen productions afterwards.
shareeasier said then done.
what you are basically proposing is mob rule , no trials , "cancel" someone when the rumours start.
Also , the actor may turn bad later , there could be a squeaky clean guy , you make him a pirate , you make 5 films , grossing billions , then one day . bang!
beats his wife up.
No one will watch the films anymore . no more TV licensing , no more dvd , no more streaming etc etc.
What we have now is already mob rule. Look at the number of people chased out of jobs simply because the upset the wrong group on a social media site. It happen all the time outside Hollywood right now. So let Hollywood join in the fun, after all these Hollywood loons are always quick to jump on the bandwagon to ride someone out of their job in the real world, let them all join in the lynchings.
As for actors turning bad later... sure it happens. But if a studio would embrace the methods of doing proper vetting along with psychological testing of people before the hired them they could eliminate most of the problems. If you want a job with the CIA you get vetted and tested like made, and out of the hundreds of thousands of people they have hired over the years how many have turned out to be spies that tried to sell them out? You can weed out a lot of bad apples if you try, but the industry in Hollywood doesn't even try.
" how many have turned out to be spies that tried to sell them out?"
well , according to the movies about half! :P
and in real life theres no way you'd ever know.
I dont want to see a world where all the actors with any "abnormalities" have been weeded out, all you'd have left would be a bunch of straight laced fbi agents.
If psycological testing could detect and prevent rape murder etc , why dont we just test everyone now and execute the hopeless cases?
I have no problem killing people before they commit the worst crimes. Hell you don't even need to do much testing to clean up most of the problem, just start executing any shop lifters and car thieves... criminals almost never start out committing major offenses so kill everyone caught doing any minor things and you've pretty much eliminated the major offenders from the start.
shareI watch Cosby and listen to Michael Jackson...and watch movies Weinstein produced.
If they are good and provide me with entertainment...then the art has zero to do with What they do in their private lives.
So if Hitler had made Star Wars you wouldn't have a problem with watching it and handing over money to him? I think that says more about you than it does anything else. The reality is if you watch the movies and shows of someone like Harvey you are handing him more money to continue doing what he is doing. The only way to stop someone like that is to stop enabling them and that means not watching their shows or listening to their music, it isn't like there isn't more entertainment out there than anyone could consume in a lifetime even when you remove the like of Harvey and Polanski from the mix.
shareHitler made the vw beetle , that didnt bother anyone
shareI know lots of Jewish families today that will not buy any car from a German manufacturer, I also know Americans that won't buy a car from Japan. So while it might not bother some, it does bother others.
shareWe put men on the moon (our greatest technological achievement) due to scientist who worked for Hitler. The Autobahn is still used today. The Napoleonic Code and the Metric System are still used today despite Napoleon being a warmonger and a dictator.
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