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Is It #timesup for the #metoo Movement?

Jacob Hoggard (July 9, 1984) I’m beginning to think that taking high profile men to court for sexual misbehaviour is becoming passé. Men have always been sexual predators, just ask the cavewoman who got knocked on the head with a … Continue reading

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On Your Way to the Top, Watch Out What You Do…

Anatomy of a Scandal (2022) Or they’ll get you on the way down This Netflix series is a slow burn that gets hotter and hotter as it progresses. (They say that it is even outscoring viewing numbers of Bridgerton 2, … Continue reading

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Maybe the Devil Made Him Do It

Roger Ailes (May 15, 1940 – May 18, 2017) Honestly, I wasn’t going to look at this man who was alleged to have acted like a sexual predator during his Fox Network days. Then I looked at his birth chart … Continue reading

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Can a Royal be Successfully Sued for Sex Crimes?

Prince Andrew, Duke of York (February 19, 1960) It’s a given fact: royalty have always thought they were above the law, especially when one is the favourite son of a reigning monarch. And who would the jury of his peers … Continue reading

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Producer’s Couch Casts a Long Shadow

Harvey Weinstein The “casting couch” has been a ‘fact’ of Hollywood life for so long that it even became an apocryphal joke from the set of “The Ten Commandments”. Charlton Heston, in his autobiography In The Arena, wrote that the orgy … Continue reading

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Just Add a Pinch of Blonde Rice

The Front Runner First of all, I have not seen this movie. That said, I remember the scandal that brewed around Gary Hart’s run for the Democratic Presidential Candidacy of 1987-8. In America, the term ‘ladies man’ took on a … Continue reading

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