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Topics => General Board => Topic started by: IronDioPriest on August 13, 2011, 08:14:54 AM
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It's a HuffPo link.
Corey Feldman: Pedophilia Is Hollywood's Biggest Problem (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/12/corey-feldman-pedophilia-is-hollywoods_n_925287.html?icid=maing-grid10|htmlws-main-bb|dl2|sec1_lnk3|86024&ref=fb&src=sp)
Former child-star Corey Feldman is making some shocking claims in a new interview with ABC's Nightline.
The 40-year-old actor, who starred in hit films in the 1980s like "The Goonies" and "Stand By Me," told Nightline that the biggest threat to children in show business is something that just isn't talked about -- pedophilia.
"I can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia. That's the biggest problem for children in this industry... it's all done under the radar. It's the big secret," he said.
Feldman said he was surrounded by pedophiles when he was 14-years-old and didn't realize until he was older just what these "vultures" were and what they wanted. Feldman says it was these people who abused both him and close friend and troubled teen actor Corey Haim, who died last year at the age of 38.
"There is one person to blame in the death of Corey Haim, and that person happens to be a Hollywood mogul -- and that person needs to be exposed but unfortunately I can't be the one to do it," he said.
Both Feldman and Haim have talked about their abuse before, even confronting one another about it on their 2008 reality series "Two Coreys," revealing that they were both being molested by different people at the same time.
Feldman told Nightline, "There are so many people in this industry who have gotten away with it for so long that they feel they're above the law. And that's got to change, that's got to stop."
There still seems to be a rift between Feldman and Haim's family. When Haim died in 2010, Feldman was not invited to the funeral and when Nightline reached out to Haim's mother for comment, she told them she wasn't going to respond to anything Feldman had to say, and wishes he would only talk about himself.
Video @ link...
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Forgive my crassness but they only did to them what they do to us...
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These vultures exist at every establishment that offers "drama lessons".
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I don't understand. He was the victim, but refuses to name the perp? What's wrong with this picture?
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I don't understand. He was the victim, but refuses to name the perp? What's wrong with this picture?
Maybe he's afraid Steven Spielberg will have him killed.
::thinking::
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"I can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia..."
And I can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be a proliferation of politically correct liberalism which makes a legion of "problems," of which pedophillia is but one, not only possible but proudly celebrated as "life's rich pageant."
You aren't entitled to bitch about the environment which you willingly participate in and perpetuate.
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Why say you're going to do it? Why not just do it? Unless you're trying to getchya some hush-money.
Now Feldman says he will reveal names. (http://www.newser.com/story/137082/lost-boy-to-bare-hollywood-pedophiles.html?utm_source=9at9&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20120109)
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Why say you're going to do it? Why not just do it? Unless you're trying to getchya some hush-money.
Now Feldman says he will reveal names. (http://www.newser.com/story/137082/lost-boy-to-bare-hollywood-pedophiles.html?utm_source=9at9&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20120109)
He could use the dough. His career's kind of tanked lately.
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"Lately", as in "since 1987"?
Rotfl
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"Lately", as in "since 1987"?
Rotfl
::newyear::
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Is pedophilia Hollywood's biggest problem?
"The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson"
A review:
As any number of books on the subject have shown, including Mary Astor's My Story (1959), editor Rudy Behlmer's Memo From David O'Selznick (1972), Kenneth Anger's Hollywood Babylon (1981), Lawrence J. Quirk's Norma: The Story of Norma Shearer (1988), and John Gilmore's Severed: The True Story of the Black Dahlia Murder (1998), life near the power centers of the entertainment industry during Hollywood's Golden Age wasn't any less desperate a place than it is today.
At first glance, Robert Hofler's The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson: The Pretty Boys and Dirty Deals of Henry Willson (2005) appears to be little more than another lowbrow show business expose, but Hofler is actually providing a service by responsibly shedding some badly-needed light into the darker corners of the American psyche. One of the book's themes is the sociology of the American Dream: Hofler examines a world where physical desire and the hunger for power meet and intertwine freely.
Broadly stated, The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson concerns the lengths many now well-known men were willing to go to be given an opportunity at stardom. For a great number, this meant repeatedly spending time on the homosexual casting couch, regardless of what their own public persona, sexual orientation, or marital status might be. The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson supports the idea that yesterday's gossip and scandal is often presages today's historical record.
While the book focuses on Willson, Hofler makes it clear that he was only one of many Hollywood agents and talent scouts who typically found the average handsome young man on the California streets more than willing to climb into his bed in return for even a slight industry favor. Hofler underscores that, once his reputation was established, Willson was not always the initiator; while he freely exploited his clients, he was also actively pursued by men who offered their bodies to him freely. At the height of Willson's power, which endured for decades, the problem was not too few willing candidates, but too many: one witness recalls the line of male hopefuls trailing down the stairs of the agent's second floor office and continuing down the block.
Despite the publication and notoriety of the Kinsey Report on Male Sexuality in 1948, most Americans of the era remained ignorant about same sex relationships; many were unable to conceive of how such a relationship was possible or could be enacted physically. Supporting Kinsey's conclusions, Hofler provides abundant evidence that there was indeed a much wider range of sexual behavior occurring between males of the period than generally assumed, especially among the ambitious and the opportunistic.
Thus, ironically, the idols of millions of teenaged girls, as well as many of the ruggedly handsome heroes of television westerns of the Fifties and Sixties, who were the masculine role models for American men and boys everywhere, were actually both Willson's clients and his sexual partners.
The difference between The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson and similar books is that Hofler names names, and names names hand over fist. Hofler is unafraid to refer to Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, and Caesar Romero as "homosexuals," or follow the meandering path of a sexual relationship between Guy Madison and Rory Calhoun, going so far as to inform readers which man was the physically dominant partner and which the submissive.
Like many of the men discussed, Troy Donahue seems to have lived in an uncomfortable state of liminal sexual orientation, but Hofler quotes him as admitting that he "got into a pile" at one of his agent's all-male orgies. A later passage describes a firsthand account in which Donahue, "zonked out of his mind," is found hosting a "midday drug orgy" composed of "degenerates," "degenerates" being standard code of the era for "homosexual." Hilariously, Donahue's new bride, Suzanne Pleshette, files for divorce when she finds her spouse sneaking in "through the bathroom window at 5 a.m."
Unsurprisingly, those clients of Willson's who are still living, such as John Saxon and Mike Connors, state they were able to successfully fend off the agent's advances, or that no advances upon them were ever made, while evidence suggests that most of those who have passed away surrendered willingly or succumbed eventually.
Rock Hudson, Tab Hunter, Anthony Perkins, Roddy McDowall, Farley Granger, George Nader, even Raymond Burr--not all of whom were Willson clients--Hofler tosses the idols of a generation on the fire. Other famous "Willson boys" included Alain Delon, John Gavin, Robert Fuller, Clint Walker, Van Williams, Guy Williams, and Chad Everett.
Willson, who also arranged sham marriages, publicly betrayed those who had outlived their sexual usefulness, and threatened those who opposed him with extreme violence, is today as fondly remembered by some as he is loathed by others.
The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson will make uncomfortable reading for those who would rather not know either the facts or the compromises that many of their childhood heroes made in the name of entertainment industry success. Readers will also have to decide whether the evidence presented is credible on a case by case basis.
But Hofler's book, like the missing piece of a complex mosaic, balances out several equations, including the extreme and awkward stratification between 'heterosexual' and 'homosexual' identities still presumed to exist today.
http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Invented-Rock-Hudson/dp/078671607X (http://www.amazon.com/Man-Who-Invented-Rock-Hudson/dp/078671607X)
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::puke::
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Is pedophilia Hollywood's biggest problem?
This looks like a lame attempt to try and "normalize" homosexuality. After all, ALL of the big masculine stars of the 50s and 60s were homosexuals. I don't doubt such behavior may have been coerced from younger men seeking entry into the business, but once you have a name and people know you, why would you you continue to play that game if your bread was buttered right side up? Especially when your stock and trade is in being Masculine? Don't Sh*t where you eat.
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I was thinking the same thing Weisshaupt. That piece not only makes the claim that homosexuality was rampant among known Hollywood icons, but that heterosexual Hollywood icons whose livelihoods relied upon masculinity regularly engaged in homosexual behavior in order to achieve and maintain stardom. He expects us to believe that of all the ambitious heterosexual men who seek success in any field, iconic masculine males casually traded homosexual favors for success in alarmingly disproportionate numbers. He expects us to believe that most of the he-men admired by the culture for decades were either homosexuals, or engaging in homosexual behavior.
I call BS.
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Maybe you're both right and I've just had my head twisted 'round a bit by the number of Hollywood "men" who have come out or been outed.
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Well, that certainly isn't to say that Hollywood has not been a cesspool of homosexuality and perversion. I think it's plain that it has. But I just find it hard to believe that heterosexual leading men regularly engaged in homosexual behavior in large numbers. Straight men don't have gay sex. If you have gay sex, you're gay.
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I don't know a lot about many of them, but one name surprises me a bit that might give credence to Weisshaupt & IDP's suspicions...Clint Walker. Clint was a big man, he was in the Dirty Dozen if you recall, I seriously doubt someone of that stature could be coerced into anything without having their head pounded down into their chest cavity...and he didn't seem to exhibit "the signs". He was married three times, has a daughter and according to Wiki makes appearances on Levin's show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Walker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clint_Walker)
I'm thinking perhaps this story has a healthy enough amount of BS in it to throw doubt on many accusations, but I am sure there are a smattering of those which may be true. Would be nice to see people to come forward and officially debunk the falsely accused.
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I have personal experience in this matter and I would say 90% of it is true.
I didn't partake and there for made it no where.
Somethings are just not worth it to me. ::cussing::
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I guess I should just be thankful John Wayne didn't make the list.
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palate cleanser:
The Wild Bunch (1969) killcount (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUg1Rf7U1Eo#ws)
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"I can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be pedophilia..."
And I can tell you that the number one problem in Hollywood was, and is, and always will be a proliferation of politically correct liberalism which makes a legion of "problems," of which pedophillia is but one, not only possible but proudly celebrated as "life's rich pageant."
You aren't entitled to bitch about the environment which you willingly participate in and perpetuate.
Hollywood has more problems than you can shake a homo at . The fact that Corey Feldman got bent over a director's chair a few times is the least of them .
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If his story is true there does come a point where you can't rape the willing.He had plenty of time and reasons to get the hell out of there or press charges.