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Mad Men (Season 3 - Episode 5)

“The Fog”

written by Kater Gordon

directed by Phil Abraham

[bettydraperlookingpissed]

what's the deal with matthew weiner?

He told Kater Gordon, a writer on mad men and his assistant, that she owed it to him to let him see her naked while they were working on the season 2 finale. He never said he didn’t say that he just said he doesn’t remember saying it! Can you believe! I also remember someone else who worked on MM call him an “emotional terrorist” 

That scene with Stan and Peggy in the hotel room is gross to me now :(

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/former-mad-men-writer-starts-nonprofit-after-alleged-harassment?shared=2fd3a7

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I liked louis ck’s shows; I’ve paid a lot of money to see him live. I’ve written enough about mad men to fill entire volumes. I wish these shows had never been made.

our culture excuses predators and silences women because we think that we can’t do without the former and that we don’t need the latter. if the question were whether to sacrifice young women and men to the grotesque appetites powerful men as if they were some modern-day minotaur, and receive in exchange good, beautiful art, it would not be a bargain worth making. human decency is more important than art, even art that celebrates the best of our shared humanity.

but that is not the bargain we have before us. because we had louis ck, we lost countless women comics who knew they would never get ahead in a world that valorized a man like that. because we had mad men, we didn’t have the stories women like kater gordon and robin veith could have told with a fraction of matthew weiner’s platform. 

I understand people’s attachment to what is good about the art we do have, because it can be so good, but we don’t even know what we lost. we don’t know what the people we betrayed could have created. we don’t know what it would be like to experience art without the stain on our conscience.

these people are not your fallen heroes. they’re the people who stole from their victims, and from all of us, a better world.

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‘Mad Men’ Creator Matthew Weiner Has Been Accused Of Sexual Harassment By Writer Kater Gordon

Kater Gordon started out at Matthew Weiner’s personal assistant before working her way up the ranks to become his writing assistant and later a staff writer on Mad Men, and eventually won an Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series.

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Hollywood is canceling all current and future TV and movie productions amid accusations that everyone who hasn’t accused someone else of sexual misconduct is guilty of sexual misconduct.

ROY PRICE

http://deadline.com/2017/10/roy-price-resignes-amazon-studios-1202190107/

JEFFREY TAMBOR

http://deadline.com/2017/11/jeffrey-tambor-sexual-harassment-claims-amazon-1202204220/

BRETT RATNER

http://deadline.com/2017/11/brett-ratner-statement-amid-sexual-harassment-claims-1202199821/

JEREMY PIVEN

http://deadline.com/2017/10/jeremy-piven-denies-groping-accusations-entourage-sexual-assault-ariane-bellamar-1202198959/

HARVEY WEINSTEIN

http://deadline.com/2017/11/uk-police-receives-latest-weinstein-sexual-assault-allegation-1202203398/

LOUIE CK

http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/louis-ck-masterbation-sexual-misconduct-dave-becky-1202594776/

ANDREW KREISBERG

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/warner-bros-sexual-harassment-andrew-kreisberg-1202612522/

ED WESTWICK

http://variety.com/2017/tv/global/bbc-pulls-agatha-christie-special-with-ed-westwick-1202611898/

Eddie Berganza

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/dc-editor-accused-sexual-assault-by-employees-1057236

GEORGE TAKEI

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/george-takei-accused-sexually-assaulting-model-1981-1056698

MATT WEINER

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/mad-men-matthew-weiner-kater-gordon-1202611447/

STEVEN SEAGAL

http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/steven-seagal-exposed-himself-to-csi-actress-at-audition.html

RICHARD DREYFUSS

http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/richard-dreyfuss-accused-of-exposing-himself-to-woman.html

[peggy-faces]

Hell yeah. Drag Weiner. I️ will never stop loving Mad Men (and right now I️ feel conflicted about that) but I’m so glad to see other fans be critical of him.

Thank you for your support. I haven’t seen how the Mad Men fandom outside of my little Tumblr sphere is reacting to this and I don’t really want to.

I also feel really weird and conflicted about Mad Men now. In my mind I justify it because Mad Men wasn’t just Matthew Weiner. There was a very large staff of very talented writers(many of whom were women) who helped create the show and the characters and made it what it was.

Peggy Olson is probably my favourite fictional character ever. She was one of the most realistic, most-well written female characters I had ever seen on tv at the time I first started watching and she helped me become a better writer. I feel kind of gross admitting it now, but it helps when I remember that Kater Gordon, Robin Veith, Erin Levy, Semi Chellas etc had a lot to do with Peggy’s awesomeness.

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The Trouble With Middle-Aged Men <b>Writing</b> About Teenage Girls

Last week, Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner became the latest powerful man in the entertainment industry to face allegations of sexual misconduct in the workplace. A former Mad Men staff writer, Kater Gordon, told the website The Information that eight years ago, when she was 27 and working late one ... http://ift.tt/2AaN7Lm

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Former ‘Mad Men’ Producer Marti Noxon Calls Matthew Weiner An “Emotional Terrorist”

Last week, Kater Gordon, an Emmy winning former writer on “Mad Men,” alleged that the show’s creator, Matthew Weiner,  “said she owed it to him to let him see her naked” while they were working together one night. Gordon was fired a year later, and she said the experience left her feeling “threatened and devalued.” Weiner denied the allegations, and touted the fact the series had “a predominantly female driven writers room.” However, now another voice has called out Weiner for the toxic work environment he created on the show.

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Mad Men (Season 2 - Episode 13)

“Meditations in an Emergency”

written by Matthew Weiner & Kater Gordon

directed by Matthew Weiner

[universomovie]

Ao dar vida à escrava sexual Offred, na premiada série “The Handmaid”s Tale”, a atriz americana tornou-se um símbolo da resistência feminista. Nos EUA e no Brasil, mulheres se vestem com os uniformes das personagens para protestar contra os governantes que ameaçam diminuir nossas liberdades e direitos. Em entrevista à Marie Claire, ela explica por que o enredo criado em 1985 nunca foi tão contemporâneo e defende que o debate em torno da equidade de gênero e da liberdade de expressão é essencial

“SEMPRE ME CONSIDEREI UMA FEMINISTA, mas, como muitas mulheres da minha geração, achava que não tínhamos mais pelo que brigar. Acreditava que todos os direitos haviam sido conquistados”, disse Elisabeth Moss, 36 anos, enquanto chacoalhava a cabeça em sinal de arrependimento.

“Não imaginávamos que precisaríamos nos agarrar novamente às causas feministas como fizemos nos últimos meses. O movimento me transformou”, completa a atriz norte-americana, em um bar de vinhos em Manhattan, vestida toda de preto, com um boné e uma mochila. Foi lá que marcamos de nos encontrar para conversar sobre as questões que envolveram as mulheres em 2018 no mundo. Reflexões sobre a mais recente onda feminista é um tema recorrente em conversas na cidade, principalmente depois da eleição de Donald Trump, o presidente que faz declarações machistas e ameaça diminuir as liberdades das mulheres e de outras minorias, como imigrantes e transexuais. A diferença é que agora quem debateu esse tema comigo é a mulher que se tornou símbolo da resistência feminina, graças à impecável interpretação que faz da personagem Offred, protagonista de The Handmaid’s Tale – O Conto da Aia.

Inspirado no livro homônimo da escritora canadense Margaret Atwood, trata de uma sociedade em que as mulheres são propriedade do estado, proibidas de ler e escrever e, no caso de Offred, obrigadas a gerar filhos para famílias de elite. “Nunca interpretei uma história com paralelos tão claros com o que está acontecendo na realidade ao meu redor”, diz. “As fronteiras entre realidade e ficção são muito mais borradas do que com qualquer outro personagem que já vivi. Mas também é um tanto catártico pegar um pouco da raiva e da frustração que sinto como cidadã e transformar essa energia em um trabalho que acredito.” Não à toa, é possível ver o impacto de O Conto da Aia. O uniforme das escravas como Offred – capas vermelho sangue e capotas brancas – já foi inclusive copiado por ativistas em protestos por todo os Estados Unidos (e no Brasil também).

Foi o que aconteceu, por exemplo, quando parlamentares tentaram extinguir o Planned Parenthood, uma organização não-governamental que defende a legalização do aborto, entre outros direitos reprodutivos da qual Elisabeth é uma antiga defensora – prova de que ela não tem receio de sair em defesa dos direitos das mulheres. Quando ganhou o Globo de Ouro de melhor atriz em janeiro, inclusive, o dedicou às artistas do #MeToo. “Tive a sorte de não ter vivido coisas terríveis que muitas mulheres do cinema denunciaram”, diz. “Mas quando os movimentos #MeToo e #TimesUp explodiram, conversei com as minhas amigas e paramos para refletir sobre os encontros profissionais que tivemos e nos questionamos sobre certas atitudes de alguns homens. Estamos vivendo um momento de tomada de consciência.”

Entre os acusados do #MeToo e #TimesUP está o ex-chefe de Elisabeth, Matthew Weiner, criador de Mad Men – Inventando Verdades (2007-2015). Ex-roteirista da série, a americana Kater Gordon alegou que uma vez, quando eles estavam trabalhando até tarde, Weiner disse que queria vê-la nua e que Kater devia isso a ele. Weiner nega veementemente as acusações. A atriz é muito diplomática para tomar o partido de alguém, mas acredita que “é indiscutível o fato de que as mulheres precisam ter voz”. E continua: “Precisamos poder falar quando nos sentimos desconfortáveis com alguma situação. Quando não temos voz, é o mesmo que estar metida em uma merda de vestido vermelho, com uma merda de um capote branco na cabeça”, diz, em alusão às escravas da série.

Elisabeth é igualmente firme sobre a liberdade de expressão, mesmo quando o ataque se dirige a ela. Criada dentro da Cientologia, foi acusada de hipocrisia por causa do seu discurso no Globo de Ouro – a religião foi acusada de acobertar casos de assédio sexual. Esse é o único assunto que ela não discute. “Você não pode retirar de uma pessoa o direito de ter uma voz”, diz, quando levantei o tema durante nossa conversa. “Não posso negar o seu direito de dizer o que pensa. Se fizer isso, aí, sim, estarei sendo hipócrita”. E emendou: “Acredito profundamente na liberdade e nos direitos humanos. Se não tivesse casca grossa o suficiente para lidar com as críticas, não estaria nessa profissão há tanto tempo”.

Elisabeth Moss compara “The Handmaid’s Tale” aos dias atuais: “Não imaginava que precisaríamos nos agarrar novamente às causas feministas como nos últimos tempos” Ao dar vida à escrava sexual Offred, na premiada série "The Handmaid''s Tale", a atriz americana tornou-se um símbolo da resistência feminista.

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Matthew Weiner’s Book Tour Impacted by Sexual Harassment Allegations

Matthew Weiner, the creator of “Mad Men,” is on the road promoting his new book, ��Heather: The Totality.” But his tour has been impacted by allegations of sexual harassment made by writer Kater Gordon. A Nov. 13 event to be held at Seattle University was canceled, as was a Nov.

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Mad Men, the TV series that made Matthew Weiner one of the most famous, most powerful showrunners alive, obeyed the time-honored tradition of using a story set in the past to tell a story about the present.

It was a show about changing social customs and mores that lulled you into complacency with big sight gags about how much things had changed since the 1960s — hey, we don’t let kids put plastic bags over their heads anymore! — in order to quietly nudge viewers to realize how much things hadn’t changed. In particular, Mad Men contained ample storylines about how little the world had evolved for women butting their heads against the seemingly unbreakable walls of workplace sexism.

In the three years since Mad Men went off the air in 2015 and this week’s Amazon Video debut of Weiner’s follow-up series, The Romanoffs, the lessons of Mad Men’s treatment of workplace sexism have more than come home to roost, including for Weiner himself, who in 2017 was accused of sexual harassment by former Mad Men writer Kater Gordon. (Weiner’s “Who … me?!” response to these accusations in a Vanity Fair profile wasn’t terribly convincing.)

And even beyond Weiner, The Romanoffs’ original studio — The Weinstein Company — was toppled in the wake of the exposure of its co-founder and namesake Harvey Weinstein’s long string of sexual assaults.

But while sexism and gender relations are a part of The Romanoffs’ tapestry — and the three episodes sent out to critics burble with nods both knowing and unknowing to the past year of #MeToo reckoning — Weiner is once again using the past to inform the present. This time, however, he’s also using the past to predict the future.

And the revolution is coming.

Just look at the scope! Look at the sweep! Justina Mintz / Amazon

Everything about The Romanoffs is massive. The show filmed on location across multiple continents. (The first three episodes alone were shot in three different countries.) It boasts an all-star cast, including everybody from Isabelle Huppert to Diane Lane to old Mad Men favorites like Christina Hendricks and John Slattery.

Every episode approaches 90 minutes in length, with opulent production values that practically drip off the screen. And even though Amazon typically drops full seasons of its series all at once, the better to binge, new episodes of The Romanoffs will be released week to week (though the first two are both out Friday).

(Note that I’m also going to use the anglicized spelling “Romanoff” to refer to the actual Romanov family throughout this review, so as to maintain continuity with the show’s title. My apologies, Russophiles.)

The show is probably the biggest blank check in TV history, only really approached in scope by properties that were already established hits, like the later seasons of Game of Thrones. And what’s more, it has a decidedly noncommercial premise: an anthology series of small, character-driven TV films about people all around the world who either are or believe they are descended from the Romanoffs, the final monarchs of Russia who were killed in a hail of gunfire in 1918. (Though the whole royal family was executed, many of their relatives lived on, and there’s even a putative Romanoff heir to the Russian throne alive right now, though good luck getting her on it.)

All of this money is up there on screen, as it were. Weiner directed all three if the episodes sent to critics for review, and he creates beautiful, watercolor-esque images — like the soft, wintry light of a purple morning drifting through an ice-covered window in Paris, or the surreal image of an opulent cruise liner at night, or a streak of fake blood smeared on the floor of a movie set meant to evoke a tumultuous moment in history.

(If you think I’m being a little vague, I am. Weiner’s famous hatred of spoilers — which leads him to regularly send out long lists of things critics are not to reveal — has manifested itself here again, despite the relatively thin plots of the three episodes I’ve seen. Better safe than sorry, I guess.)

The most salient detail I can share about all of these episodes is that they’re all at least 15 minutes too long. Even the one I liked best — the third episode, “House of Special Purpose,” which will debut October 19 — might have been better off with a solid quarter-hour cut out of it. Weiner occasionally uses this additional length well, to create haunting silences, or to hold on an actor’s face longer than you might expect him to, or to drink in a moment of sublime beauty. But sometimes he just uses it to fit everything he can think of into an episode, even when it’s not all that clever.

Still, the qualities that made Mad Men so good are present here, if buried a bit beneath all the excess. Weiner maintains his knack for getting terrific performances out of actors. (His use of Hendricks in episode three feels like a deliberate mission to convince Hollywood of how poorly she’s been used in post-Mad Men projects.) And though his scripts might be too bulky, they certainly boast dialogue that cuts to the quick when he gets out of his own way.

And yet the weird thing about The Romanoffs is that, as an anthology drama, it’s somehow better when taken as a whole than as a set of individual episodes. Any given episode of the show can disappoint with its bulkiness and its inability to zero in on the ironies inherent in its storytelling. (Especially the second episode, which sometimes feels like Weiner flagellating himself in public and sometimes feels like Weiner asking for our love and approval despite his bad behavior.)

But the more episodes you watch, the more The Romanoffs starts to feel like a story about the instability of our modern moment, a story about class consciousness, a story about the guards knocking on the door to point guns at all of our heads, maybe even Weiner’s.

The world might be ending, but at least there are still dogs. And Aaron Eckhart. Chris Raphael/Amazon

The thing I find most fascinating about Weiner’s work when taken as a whole is that he’s simultaneously drawn to white male supremacy and horrified by that quality within himself. Mad Men could only have been as good as it was if Weiner had both wanted to be Don Draper and gaze at the emptiness in the man’s soul. He seems taken by the opulence of lost eras, of ’60s America, of pre-communist Russia. But it’s likely no mistake that in those worlds, the dominance of people who looked like him, or like me, went largely unchallenged.

But in every episode of The Romanoffs, Weiner finds some way to reenact the death of the titular family, sometimes as tragedy and sometimes as farce. It’s an echo that his characters can’t escape, a rhyme of the past they are doomed to repeat, even if they might believe otherwise.

And that doesn’t even count the bulk of the opening credits, in which the 1918 execution of the Romanoff family at the hands of Russia’s new rulers is dramatized to the strains of Tom Petty’s “Refugee.” You can’t escape what’s coming, the knock at the door, the gun to the head, and we’ve all got something to pay for.

The revolutions within The Romanoffs are smaller ones, within families or marriages or friendships, but they presage some justice over the horizon, a sense that the world has become so imbalanced that it will greenlight anthology dramas about people who believe they’re descendants of the Romanoff family that will cost millions upon millions of dollars to produce. The divide between poor and rich only grows, and in The Romanoffs’ very first episode, a character notes that the middle class has largely disappeared.

And yet these characters cling to an aristocracy that ceased to exist a century ago. They are convinced of their own royalty. They display a confidence that, because of their heritage, because of their regality, because of their class, they are somehow more than, even as they are in the same boat as so many of the people who see their charade for the false front that it is. The aristocracy disappeared. So will you.

In The Romanoffs’ second episode, “The Royal We,” an older man addresses a bunch of other older people to say that maybe in 50 years, the world won’t exist anymore, or at least humans won’t, or at least this particular social order won’t. Everybody laughs, because we have to go on believing that death isn’t at the door.

After the massacre of the tsar and his family happens in the opening credits, the sequence revisits the idea that one of the Romanoff children escapes the slaughterhouse, then morphs into a young woman exiting the subway in our present, looking at her phone. It’s a nod to the pervasive idea from the mid-20th century that Anastasia Romanoff escaped that basement room, living on into the late 20th century and animating plenty of stories about the Russian aristocracy in exile.

It wasn’t true, of course. The bodies of all of the Romanoffs have been found and accounted for and DNA tested. But the idea that the lost aristocracy might still exist in you, in me, in somebody, is a powerful one. The Romanoffs knows that someone will have to pay the piper eventually, that this modern lifestyle has become unsustainable, that we have all done terrible, terrible things we must be held accountable for. But the series holds out hope that it, too, might be the one to escape. Or maybe its creator holds out that hope.

After watching the second episode, I jokingly told my wife that The Romanoffs is the sort of series I’d be inclined to give three-and-a-half stars right now, then declare a misunderstood masterpiece in six years. Well. Here are the three-and-a-half stars.

The Romanoffs debuts its first two episodes today on Amazon. New episodes will be released every Friday from now until the end of November.

Original Source -> The Romanoffs, from Mad Men creator Matt Weiner, feels like a period piece about the present

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‘You’ll never work again’: women tell how sexual harassment broke their careers

Actors, writers, assistants, comedians and journalists speak out about the toll that sexual assault and harassment in the workplace took on their futures

As women come forward with accusations of sexual harassment in politics, media, entertainment and other fields, following the flood of allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein, it is striking how many of their stories share the same ending.

Either the alleged abuse, the victims refusal to stay quiet, or both, slams the door on critical job opportunities and puts a serious sometimes terminal dent in her career. In some cases the victim never works in her industry again.

We spoke to a number of women who have come forward about the costs that sexual harassment imposed on their futures and careers. As society debates what sort of consequences should befall their alleged abusers, it is clear that these women have already suffered a penalty.

There are coming to be consequences for those actions, but its too little too late, said one of the women, former DC Comics editor Janelle Asselin. For the people who were harassed and assaulted, the consequences are something weve been living with for years.

The comic-book editor

The longer I read comics, the more I feel the possibilities are limitless, said Asselin, reflecting on her time as an editor at the publishing powerhouse behind Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman and big-budget superhero movies such as the current Justice League.

If youre at DC, youre at the pinnacle of comics, Asselin said. You feel like youve made it into this amazing club where only an elite few get to work. It was a dream come true.

Asselin rose to be the associate editor of one of DCs most treasured properties the Batman comics. From her perch, she shepherded one of DCs first bisexual characters, Starling, into existence and put the brakes on sexist plot devices.

There was a storyline in a Robin comic where the writer wanted the female villain to be tricked by chocolate. Because shes a woman, Asselin recalled with a laugh. It was her first time objecting to a major storyline, and she won.

At DC, Janelle Asselin rose to become the associate editor of the Batman comics, but later quit after reporting a male editors sexual comments. Photograph: Janelle Asselin

But her time with DC would be short-lived. After she and a number of women reported Eddie Berganza, one of the companys most esteemed editors, to HR for making sexual comments in 2010, Berganza received a promotion.

Asselin quit.

Berganza, who has fired earlier this month following a BuzzFeed report about the allegations against him, has not publicly responded to the accusations and did not return a request for comment from the Guardian, nor did DC.

Earlier this month, Asselin tweeted: I loved my job at DC until that year that things went south. I never wouldve left if it hadnt been for DCs lack of respect for the women who came forward. My career and life could be very different if Eddie Berganza hadnt been what he was.

I underestimated what the psychological impact of reporting him and watching DC promote him anyway would be, Asselin told the Guardian. By the end, I hated going to work, because I had a very negative view about the company and their priorities.

Asselin took a new position with Disney but was later laid off. Working as a comics journalist and starting an independent publishing company gave her some satisfaction, but ultimately, she burned out. Today, Asselin is a claims adjustor for a workers compensation insurer.

My career was forever impacted by this, she said. Its hard to know what would have happened if they had done something But I feel like a lot of the women who left would have still been there.

The TV writer

Kater Gordons career reached a peak many writers only dream of in fall 2009, when she shared an Emmy as a writer on the second season of Mad Men.

She hasnt worked in television since.

The reason, she recently told the Information, is that the shows creator, Matthew Weiner, sexually harassed her. The incident robbed her of all her confidence and placed her in a lose-lose situation: She felt it could end her career if she challenged him, but she didnt feel like she could continue to work with him if she didnt.

Weiner denies he harassed her. After leaving the Mad Men writers room, Gordons attempts to stay in television were dogged by tabloid rumors that she and Weiner were in a relationship.

I had the Emmy, but instead of being able to use that as a launch pad for the rest of my career, it became an anchor because I felt I had to answer to speculative stories in the press, she said. I eventually walked away instead of fighting back.

Kater Gordon after the 2009 Emmy Awards in Los Angeles. We are all paying a cost for harassment. Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo

In an interview with the Guardian, Gordon who is setting up a nonprofit to help victims of sexual harassment said, We are all paying a cost for harassment.

By removing talented, capable, willing people from the workforce, we are hindering our ability to capitalize on the full potential of our entire society. When large portions of the population feel unsafe or completely remove themselves or theyre involuntarily removed from the workforce, were limiting our potential. On a large scale.

The costume designer

In 2010, Emma Bowers was one of the thousands of Hollywood strivers who perform creative work, for little to no pay, with the hope of gaining a toehold in the industry.

It made her highly exploitable, she said. Bowers trade was costume design. When she took on unpaid work for Andy Signore, the creator of YouTube series Honest Trailers, she claims, he sexually harassed her and responded viciously when she talked about his conduct to co-workers. Signore has not made a public statement about the allegations, anddid not respond to request from the Guardian for comment.

It killed my desire to work in the industry, Bowers told the Guardian. I had kind of this meltdown. I said, Im done with this industry, I dont want to be in this world any more. And after that, I wasnt.

Today, she works in animal rescue, sometimes running educational workshops for kids. The animals and the children are nicer to me than anybody in the film industry ever was, she laughed.

The reporter

Michael Oreskes spent decades at the top of his field, first as the Washington bureau chief for the New York Times, then as the editorial director of NPR.

At least one reporter who accused him of sexual harassment said Oreskes stripped her of the confidence to reach the same heights.

When I first went to see him, it was after screwing up my nerve to try to be bold and maneuver myself into a better job, and after what happened with him, I never really tried that again, she told the Washington Post.

Oreskes has not publicly commented on the claims of harassment, but in an internal memo obtained by CNN, he wrote, I am deeply sorry to the people I hurt. My behavior was wrong and inexcusable, and I accept full responsibility.

The reporter, who asked to remain anonymous so as not to damage her employment prospects, added: The worst part of my whole encounter with Oreskes wasnt the weird offers of room service lunch or the tongue kiss but the fact that he utterly destroyed my ambition.

The actors

Sophie Dix felt like she was on the verge of success. Then she met Harvey Weinstein.

Now a screenplay writer, Dix in the 1990s was an actor with a growing repertoire, scoring roles opposite Donald Pleasence and Colin Firth. Weinstein, she claims, interrupted her rise after he sexually assaulted her in a hotel room one night and she refused to keep his attack to herself.

I was met with a wall of silence, she told the Guardian. People who were involved in the film were great, my friends and my family were amazing and very compassionate, but people in the industry didnt want to know about it, they didnt want to hear.

Dix doesnt know exactly what happened behind the scenes, but she never landed another movie role again.

Part of her was all right with that. I decided if this what being an actress is like, I dont want it, she said. She threw herself into her screenwriting career. But the assault, she said, was the single most damaging thing thats happened in my life and derailed her acting ambitions.

Weinstein has repeatedly denied accusations of non-consensual contact, although he has appeared to acknowledge having sexually harassed some workers.

Sophie Dix: I was met with a wall of silence. Photograph: Graeme Robertson for the Guardian

I had done some TV and stuff before, that but this was my big movie break, Dix recalled. I still had a decent acting career, but it was all in TV. I never really had a film career. I think my film career was massively cut short.

Ive had friends call after the New York Times pieces came out, some who are now really famous, who knew about it at the time, and they say: This was the moment it changed for you.

Others believe Weinstein himself played an active role in icing them out of the industry.

Annabella Sciorra, who has accused Weinstein of violently raping her, believes he wielded his power to cloud her reputation.

From 1992, I didnt work again until 1995, she told the New Yorker. I just kept getting this pushback of We heard you were difficult; we heard this or that. I think that that was the Harvey machine.

Her friend, the actor Rosie Perez, recalled urging her to go to the police. She said, I cant go to the police. Hes destroying my career.

Annabella Sciorra in New York. Photograph: Charles Sykes/AP

The Hollywood producer was a storied bully and media manipulator.

Darryl Hannah claims there were instant repercussions for resisting his advances. The Miramax plane left without her at an international premiere of Kill Bill 2, and her flights, stylists and accommodations were cancelled for another.

I thought that was the repercussion, you know, the backlash, Hannah said.

This fear of losing your career is not losing your ticket to a borrowed dress and earrings someone paid you to wear, said the actor Ellen Barkin. Its losing your ability to support yourself, to support your family, and this is fucking real whether you are the biggest movie star or the lowest-pay-grade assistant.

Emmy and Golden Globe-winner Jane Seymour was a young actor when she rejected the propositions of the most powerful man in Hollywood at that time.

Seymour said the man, who she did not name, threatened to blacklist her if she ever repeated the details of their encounter.

Youll never work ever again anywhere on the planet, Seymour said he told her. She called the incident devastating and said it caused her to drop out of acting for at least a year, and almost permanently.

The production company assistant

Weinstein Company assistants also say they came in for abuse that forced them to leave the industry.

Emily Nestor was a law school graduate and business school student when she considered turning a temporary position at the Weinstein Company into a career in movies.

Then Weinstein began to relentlessly proposition her, she says.

I was definitely traumatized for a while, in terms of feeling so harassed and frightened, Nestor said. It made me feel incredibly discouraged that this could be something that happens on a regular basis. I actually decided not to go into entertainment because of this incident.

Emily Nestor (right) at a film party in New York. Photograph: Patrick McMullan/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images

The comedians

Louis CK was one of the most revered names in comedy, and so was his agent.

That proved to be a career obstacle for comedians Dana Min Goodman and Julia Wolov, who claim that the comedian exposed himself to them and then grew angry when they told friends in the comedy world about his behavior.

Whenever they saw Louis CKs agent, Dave Becky, attached to a project and there were many times they didnt even bother to put themselves in the running.

We know immediately that we can never even submit our material, Wolov told the Times.

Louis CK has said the sexual allegations against him are true. Know I never threatened anyone, Becky has said.

Abby Schachner said she was deeply discouraged when she called Louis CK to invite him to a show and he masturbated while on the phone. She said the incident was one of the factors that pushed her out of comedy. Today, she illustrates childrens books.

I cant even make a phone call, how am I going to pursue this as a career? Schachner thought to herself at the time, she told the Guardian. It knocks your confidence away If you honestly feel no confidence, its better to hide.

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