BUT FIRST: Leslie Moonves Accused of Sexual Misconduct in Ronan Farrow Expose

Ronan's great. Just expose them all. Every single jerk.

I WIN!

Hope Ronan has many large body guards.

Ronan is my gay hero. Did he come out yet?

Not surprised.

I think he came out as a member of the LGBTQ community.

LOL R6. Interestingly in a reality show big brother [it is on CBS] a gay House guest also introduced himself in same way

Let us shed a tear for Mrs. Moonves.

Her repeated facelifts and Botox render her unable to shed her own tears.

Somewhere on Park Avenue, Shari Redstone's pussy just broke out in a rendition of "You're Gonna Hear From Me".

It would be extremely weird if a studio dinosaur like Les didn't have a #MeToo skeleton in his closet.

Personally I think that everyone at that power level has done their fair share of taking advantage (sexually and otherwise) of underlings. I just assume the ones who don't get named have paid off the right people.

The public has moved on from these #MeToo stories, so Moonves is probably safe in that regard. He's got bigger problems with Redstone and might lose his job that way.

If he does lose his job he has plenty of money. He'll be fine.

So this is "it" right? The big story we've been hearing about for the past 6 months?

[quote]The public has moved on from these #MeToo stories

Speak for yourself.

Honestly, the timing of it suggests it is a hit piece being done on behalf of the Redstone camp.

[quote]Honestly, the timing of it suggests it is a hit piece being done on behalf of the Redstone camp.

Yashar Ali:

@RonanFarrow has been working on this long before Moonves public battle with Shari Redstone so this shouldn’t be seen as some plot by her allies.

What is a redstone camp ?

Karma for giving Brad Kern a new two-year deal in June. That POS has had two internal investigations into his sexual harassment in two years. And that was even before the Weinstein revelations so you know it's bad that people reported him.

Pigs will always cover for pigs.

CBS recently fired two Star Trek: Discovery showrunners for bullying the writers. Of course, there are totally different standards for Moonves and Kern.

R17 Sorry, but I don't buy it. Remember the Weinstein story only broke because Harvey's brother leaked Harvey's personal file (he was trying to remove Harvey from the Weinstein Company and gain sole control over the company). That said, I'm no fan of Moonves or of him putting his wife all over CBS. I predict he steps down but what happens to Julie Chen and all her shows on CBS? Does she support him or throw him under the bus to save her career (which only exists because she was sleeping with and later married the CEO).

On whether or not Ronan is now out: Jon Lovett has started acknowledging their relationship a little more in interviews. He still doesn’t use his name, but he makes it clear that this boyfriend (Farrow) is famous.

r22 He's dating Jon Lovett? What the fuck?

Doesn't seem to be much of a secret:

Jon Lovett is an American screenwriter, speechwriter, television producer, and podcaster. After working as a speech and joke writer for President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, Lovett co-created the ... Wikipedia Born: August 17, 1982 (age 35 years), Woodbury, NY Partner: Ronan Farrow (2011–) Education: Syosset High School, Williams College Show: 1600 Penn

WTF??

Stock is plunging. You know it's going to be bad because a) it's being referred to as an exposé and b) it's by Ronan Farrow.

Lesh Moonvejzsh.

Will they discuss this on The Talk?

Sumner Redstone is still alive, age 95. Is he ga-ga?

Like a poster upstream, I, too, think that every single man in a position of power has a MeToo moment in his past. Those who rise to the top are going to be more aggressive, hard driving, alpha, etc. Good guys who obey the rules are generally not the one on top of an organization. Also, the accusations are from 20 years ago when the climate was much different. I know that doesn't excuse bad behavior, but it is wrong to judge past behavior with the standards of today. Although I certainly would never engage in sexual misbehavior now that I realize how wrong it is, I certainly engaged in it 20 odd years ago, when I had a fairly senior position at a large fashion house. It was the prevailing culture, and it was not out of the norm. Was it right? In retrospect, no, it was not right at all, but it was so ingrained into the company's culture that we -- or I -- never stopped to think about how inappropriate it was. If I were in the public eye, I would be guilty of having committed egregious behavior 20 years ago, but would that really be fair, if my behavior changed once I realized it was wrong?

R31 A similar argument was used at Nuremberg.

Gunn got fired for his [italic]jokes[/italic] so if Moonves gets off scot-free, it's going to look really, really bad.

[quote]Leslie Moonves on Donald Trump: “It May Not Be Good for America, but It’s Damn Good for CBS”

Bury him!

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

Ronan may be dating Jon Lovett but he is getting regularly topped by at least one other person.

Who who who who r36????? Don’t tease us!!!

Just some third-tier Instawhore with a bigger dick than Lovett, probably.

So Ro is a bottom?

LOL Ro is Mia's nickname in Rosemary's Baby. Never saw the connection until now.

Anyway Ronan shall now heretofore always be referred to as Ro on Datalounge.

One thing I've learned from the Chris Hardwick situation is that an accusation alone is not enough.

R31 - Sexual harassment wasn't considered OK twenty years ago. You may have used your position to intimidate people so they wouldn't report it. Twenty years ago was 1998. We'd been through high profile sexual harassment cases: Clarence Thomas, Bill Clinton and Bob Packwood. I know I had been thorough at least one training seminar on preventing and reporting sexual harassment years before 1998.

In other words no, it was not an acceptable or normal workplace behavior. You should consider yourself lucky that the people you abused didn't come forward. What did you threaten them with?

Wow, Ro.......

R43 Also don't forget the Bob Barker lawsuits (first Dian Parkinson, then Holly Hallstrom) and Martin Lawrence/Tisha Campbell lawsuit.

Chris Hardwick lucked out that he had Hearst money and their "investigators" behind him.

[quote]Twenty years ago was 1998.

Ouch.

While I know that, it hurts to see it in print.

The "investigators" don't work for the Hearst Family, r46. The law firm worked on behalf of a non-Hearst related trust administrator of the William Hearst Foundation.

What I think you meant to say was, "Chris Hardwick lucked out when AMC contracted a prominent woman lawyer who handles investigations for the Times Up movement."

When did Julie Chen come into the picture? Has she had any comment on this?

R49 She started sleeping with him shortly after he became CEO and while he was still married to Nancy Wiesenfeld

R46 Yes if he got Jules Koll on retainer, he would get away with it. Jules Kroll kept Harvey Weinstein out of trouble for decades. Nick Kroll is a friend of Hardwick. I wonder if he got a discount for services. Nick Kroll has also funded Nerdist for years and has been on Harwick's podcast more than any other comedian. Wacko stuff going on in Hollywood these days, or maybe it was always that way.

When is the exposé being released?

I hope this makes Dan Rather feel a little better. Ain't it grand when someone finally gets the karma they deserve?

Chris is still a rat-faced asshole, just a rich one now. Anyone could do his "jobs".

Leslie is a terrible name for males and females.

Doesn't matter if anyone could do his job. Still doesn't give a woman with BPD the right to use metoo as a means of revenge.

We don't know any further details, but he definitely likes younger that he can control and throw in a little anorexia.

When is the Trump expose dropping?

I don't think one woman could bring him down. It would take a pattern of behavior with multiple women. Ronan tweeted - and it sounds like he's got some serious stuff.

I take it you don't know her whole story, r57, including her posting a completely different account of the blacklisting on Reddit a few months ago. And she got caught lying about the break up with the texts. So, while we don't know the whole story, what we do know makes her look like a loon with a grudge.

If Moonves goes, say goodbye to the Tony Awards on network TV.

I didn't even knew who this guy was but i heard rumours about sexual harassment (the same with Harvey Weinstein). Maybe if all this jerks dissapear something changes and people start to behave like they were in 2018 instead on the 50's

Moonves is finally going to be brought down. He and Chenbot think they own the company. Maybe his previous wife that he cheated on can have some closure.

I wonder if she stays with him? And what happens to The Talk?

R36: There was a BI about him dating a couple of high profile actors or something like that

Here it is.

Wasn't he the network executive in Cybill Shepherd's book who tried to fuck her than said it probably wasn't a good idea because he'd have to cancel her show if she did when she turned him down?

I can’t take another heartache!

Satchel is going to get himself killed if he keeps setting out to destroy powerful alpha males.

I'm sorry if this is just ass grabbing allegations from decades ago, I don't give a shit. It wasn't right, but it was a different era. Posters like r63 above are showing the true colours of the hashtag. They're women who are pissed off at adultery and not being treated like princesses, and angry that other women who would fuck these types to get ahead stalled their careers. It's about revenge and social media attention. Chris Hardwick went through hell, because he was an asshole in a relationship. What happened to Spacey, who had the most serious allegations? Nothing. Male (alleged) victims, no one gives a shit. Now the Machiavellian 1% media are all looking to make their careers on it. They know, to paraphrase Voltaire, whom they can and can't investigate.

I'm more concerned about current egregious harassment/assault, rape and pedophilia. Notice how no one is reporting on that, i.e. doing the old school investigative journalism.

[quote]I didn't even knew who this guy was but i heard rumours about sexual harassment (the same with Harvey Weinstein). Maybe if all this jerks dissapear something changes and people start to behave like they were in 2018 instead on the 50's

Oh, DEAR!

R71: Hey, i'm not american and i don't even care for the CEOs of an american channel i can't watch

R70 I sometimes bring up the pedophilia thing that's rampant in Hollywood on the Deadline website and my comments NEVER make it through moderation. I think that's very telling. It's one big cover-up.

R72, yet you felt compelled to come into the thread and post a comment?

"Come on, you’re not some nubile virgin.” Damn, Leslie is such a smooth operator

I always wondered why Illeana sort of went off the rails careerwise. Like Mira Sorvino, there were other forces at work.

But WHO is the woman who was on a CBS police drama in the 80s that wouldn't mention her name?

A prominent actress who played a police officer on a long-running CBS program, who was too frightened of reprisals to use her name, said that she also attended a business meeting with Moonves that ended in unwanted advances. The actress had known Moonves for years. In the late eighties, at the height of her show’s popularity, Moonves, who was then at a production company called Lorimar, requested a lunch meeting at a restaurant. There, Moonves told the actress that he had long had a crush on her but had not said anything to her because she had been in a relationship with a mutual friend. She declined his advance but thanked him for lunch. “It wasn’t offensive,” she recalled. In 1995, when Moonves became president of CBS Entertainment, the actress called to congratulate him. “He said, ‘You should have fucked me when I asked you to,’ and I said, ‘No shit!’ ” the actress told me. They laughed.

Soon afterward, CBS Business Affairs informed the actress that her series deal with CBS was being terminated. She called Moonves and expressed shock. He requested a lunch meeting in his private dining room at the office. She told me, “I went in, I thought, to make a deal.” At the lunch, Moonves told her that he intended to focus on younger talent, and that she was too old. “Then he again said, ‘I’ve always been so attracted to you,’ ” she told me. “I was so upset. I said, ‘Jesus, Leslie, I’m gonna go.’ ” Moonves asked her to sit down. She did so, pushing food around her plate until she had to leave. Then, she told me, “I walked over and leaned to give him a kiss on the cheek.” Moonves, she said, grabbed her and forcibly kissed her: “He shoved his tongue down my throat. I mean shoved.”

Appalled, she pushed him away. “He had approached me to go to bed with him twice, but he did it politely,” she said. “But this time he just stuck his tongue down my throat.” As she left, she began to cry. “No one had ever done that to me before,” she said. “I found it sickening.”

Like Douglas, the actress said that she never worked for CBS again. Almost two decades later, an executive at CBS contacted her about coming back to the network. It turned out that the executive wanted her to sign a book deal with Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS. (CBS said that Moonves has no recollection of making unwelcome advances toward the actress, and that he made no efforts to block future business between her and CBS.)

The actress thought that the consequences would be too great if she told CBS about the incident. “I never reported it,” she told me. “I just thought, Gee, there goes my career.” At an event not long afterward, she encountered a showrunner who has overseen multiple programs at CBS, and told her the story. The showrunner, who had also worked with Moonves, recalled that the actress was still hurt by the incident and told me that she was “not surprised” by the story. “I had already had to deal with misogynist bullying from him myself,” she told me.

In 1992, a former child star who asked to be identified only by her first name, Kimberly, was introduced to Moonves by a friend, who was a member of Moonves’s staff and told her that Moonves could help her get back into television. At a dinner meeting that the three attended, Moonves began by asking questions about Kimberly’s acting career. But when the friend went to the bathroom Moonves turned to Kimberly and said, in a perfunctory way, “Let’s go. Let’s just get a hotel room. Let’s just do this.” She was shocked. “I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ ” When she explained that she had a husband and a child, Moonves became angry and left. (The friend recalled making the introduction to Moonves, and said that her only motivation in doing so was to help Kimberly’s career. CBS said that Moonves has no memory or record of the meeting.)

“The power differential was so great,” Kimberly told me. “I was really scared, because I thought I was burning some sort of a bridge that was going to be great for me.” As a child star, she said, “I’d been taught that powerful people can hurt you, they can ruin you, they can ruin your career.” She said that the turn from business meeting to sexual overture seemed to be well practiced. “It was set up to be that way,” she said. “I thought, Wow, is this the way the world works and I just don’t get it?”

R76 Sharon Gless?

R74: Yes, because the first thing i heard about him was that he was a sexual predator (i thought that i was saying exactly that but maybe my bad english is even worse than i thought)

R76 Sharon Gless or Tyne Daly

Gotta be Sharon, since Tyne was in Judging Amy on CBS.

Nobody wanted to fuck Tyne Daly. Had to be Sharon Gless.

I thought maybe Gless, but she was in a relationship with a producer (later her husband) and, well, I can't imagine anyone really wanting to fuck Tyne Daly. Though the voice sounds a bit like them!

The way it was phrased was "police officer on a long-running show" so I was thinking maybe it wasn't a cop show like C&L. Trying to brainstorm what would have been on the the late 80s.

R82 The timeline is late 80s, so it would have been during C&L.

Angie Dickinson hosted SNL in the 80s when C&L was on; she played Pepper Anderson in a sketch with Nora Dunn's Mary Beth Lacey; Pepper showed MB how to seduce a crime lord to get the goods on him.

Hilarious.

Donna Jepsen was a police officer on Simon & Simon for several years in the late 80s. Officer Susie.

Anyone remember this character?

[quote]The public has moved on from these #MeToo stories

One so hopes.

I loved Illeana Douglas in the 90s and she was everywhere one minute, then she just disappeared. Of course some powerful dick turns to revenge when they don’t get what they want.

I do think Les is much less hideous than Harvey and if you have to sleep with someone for a part would be an easier lay. but with Harvey you got a movie career.

R88 Didn't her career dry up when she hooked up with Scorsese (after getting her face bitten off by De Niro in Cape Fear) and she suddenly decided she was too good for indie movies?

R88 the last thing I remember her in was Grace of My Heart. Did she decide she didn’t want indie movies? That’s too bad she could have had a nice Parker Posey career

R90 I'm not sure anyone would want Parker Posey's career. At least not in regard to her financial status. She recently did an interview in which she said, until the Lost in Space gig came about last year, she was in serious danger of losing her home.

R91 well this is making me very sad. But I didn’t even realize she’s in lost in space and now ive got a reason to watch it

R92 Here's the interview she did with EW. She talks about almost losing her home in it. Then Netflix came knocking and saved her ass.

R89 Actually the opposite. She owes her entire career to Scorsese. She had zero acting credits before she met him while he was making Last Temptation of Christ and slept with him while he was still married to producer Barbara De Fina.

Thoughts and prayers.

Illeana Douglass was pretty good in that series in the early 2000s with Jay Mohr, lasted one season. She played a former child star.

Illeana is one of my favorite actresses.

How embarrassing for his wife after all her comments on her talk show. hahahahaaaaaa

Has she quit yet?

DID HE FUCK HER?

Julie doing her best Tammy Wynette/Hillary Clinton impersonation.

Has Olivia Munn commented yet?

Julie will love you longtime for five dollar

He went after Illeana Douglas?! He really is a cunt.

I thought Heather Locklear for the police show actress (TJ Hooker). Do the dates match up? It has to be show that was cancelled in 95.

For "Kimberly" chi;d actress - that should be easy to figure out.

R96 Action. In one episode he sells her to stand-ins for the Weinstein Brothers.

R105 TJ Hooker was on ABC. The story specified that the show was a CBS show.

Not sure where you're getting that the show needed to be cancelled in 1995.

Reading the article now. This is some rock-solid stuff right there. If nothing happens to Les, I'm going to scream until my lungs collapse.

Also, Julie Chen is dead to me.

That's the one r106. It was ahead of its time. There was a bald gay producer who was supposed to be Barry Diller.

R107, the 1995 date is from this:

[quote] In 1995, when Moonves became president of CBS Entertainment, the actress called to congratulate him. “He said, ‘You should have fucked me when I asked you to,’ and I said, ‘No shit!’ ” the actress told me. They laughed..... Soon afterward, CBS Business Affairs informed the actress that her series deal with CBS was being terminated.

"T.J. Hooker" was on CBS its last season.

I don't give a shit whether this is coming out because of the merger. Had he behaved like a decent human being back then, he wouldn't be haunted by this stuff now.

R105 Perhaps Kim Richards of RHOBH for the “Kimberly” child actress? Has Andrew Cohen made a statement yet regarding the allegations? He and Julie Chen are tight and go way back. They were both interns at CBS This Morning. My prediction is Julie divorces Les if it gets really bad. She won’t sacrifice her career for him. CBS won’t fire her from The Talk or Big Brother. She’s too closely associated with both shows especially Big Brother and could claim ignorance of his behavior. Based on the article all of the assaults took place at his office.

Yes it has to be Sharon Gless, that sounds like her humor and to be honest, I have always been as gay as a Christmas Tree full of Christopher Radko ornaments and back then even I would have wanted to have sex with Sharon Gless.

[quote] She won’t sacrifice her career for him.

Oh, the irony of that statement.

Are all the accusations from 20+ years ago? It was a very different time back then with a very different corporate culture. I wouldn't be suprised if all men in power were sex pests back in the 80s and 90s.

Looking back 20+ years through the lens of today just isn't helpful.

r116 Who cares if it was five, fifteen, or fifty years ago? The shock and the trauma these women experienced in the moment of harassment was the same. But sure, let's treat their stories differently because the men in power back then didn't yet know how to behave, the little kids that they are.

No, there are more recent accusations, this isn't just in the 80s and 90s. Some are even after his marriage to Chen.

I’m shocked! (He used to sleep with Roma Downey, who is not an Uber Christian)

Hot daddy. DL forgives.

[R70] you are full of it. Kevin Spacey had professional repercussions. He was replaced in All The Money in the World after production was finished and to great fanfare, and fired from House of Cards, and lost other deals.

Thanks, r118. The excepts posted above weren't from recent examples.

R117, women weren't the delicate flowers you seem to think they were nor could they be in the workplace during those decades. And, r117, it may suprise you, but people evolve. It's not about revenge and retribution or is it for you?

Gless had a mystery/PI series in development at CBS in the mid-90s. It wasn't jokingly referred to as Whatever Happened to Nancy Drew until they settled on a title. When Moonves took over, he immediately killed it, saying CBS wanted to go after a younger demo.

*was

Excepts = excerpts.

R110 A series deal isn't the same as a series.

The series she was on was in its heyday in the late 80s. Her series deal was probably a development thing.

R123 You could be right, it could be Gless. I just thought that Gless and Daly wouldn't have necessarily been on Moonves' radar sexually. But it could be.

Yep, it's Gless. Look at this article from May regarding Cagney and Lacey, using similar language about liking them younger:

[quote] The films did extremely well in the ratings, but the head of CBS, Les Moonves (who came in after the films had been green lit) decided not to go with any additional installments. "He admitted that he never really liked Cagney & Lacey," she says. "He didn't help us do anything to promote them, but they still got high numbers. All four of them. So he sort of killed the franchise. He liked them younger."

He ruined these women’s careers for not sleeping with him. It’s one thing to hit on someone, but to screw up their entire livelihood? Just hire a hooker creep.

It's actually funny that CBS wanted a younger demo when hey have always been known as having the oldest viewers.

So Julie Chen is standing by her man? That means she's calling Illeana Douglas and others liars. How will Sara Gilbert react? Will the other cohosts support her after they ALL went after the other sexpests on air?

The Monday episode of The Talk will be SUPER AWKWARD. Can't wait.

R130 don't be surprised if it's a repeat. Being summertime, and all...

R127 This is interesting....not Moonves but a reminder what a horrible jackass Wayne Rogers was. Sexism and assholism.

Ronan Farrow is a pretty amazing investigator and writer. Also, he must have an ease about him to get these women to spill these bad memories.

I’ve always had the hots for Les. He’s a very handsome man.

Is Ronan going to expose his mother's abuse of her adopted kids and how she favoured the white ones or no?

R133 I'm not sure about his investigative skills. I think a lot of his scoops are coming from people leaking stuff to him in the hopes Ronan will be able take out their enemies. I'm not buying the story that Shari Redstone didn't play a part in this Moonves story. If Moonves had not blocked the CBS/Viacom merger and played nice with Redstone, I don't think this story would have ever been published. Much like the Harvey Weinstein story only broke because his brother leaked Harvey's personnel file because he wanted to oust Harvey from the Weinstein Company.

[quote]How will Sara Gilbert react?

The same Sara Gilbert who worked with Roseanne?

Ronan has started his victory tour. First stop, Erin Burnett:

I think it’s excellent he’s trying to dismantle the system. These women likely feel safe with him because they know if a story is coming from him it will get respect and attention and he will take the heat for them to some degree.

It helps that little Ronan is a homosexual who can relate to abused women.

Wasn't there a CDAN blind about this? Implicating both Redstone and Moonves.

Ileana Douglas? She was a victim?

I know Enty is full of lies, but...

Marg Helgenberger

Ooh, that John Clark apparently sued everyone, including Lynn Redgrave, who divorced him.

R144, What about Marg Helgenburger?

Is the Chenbot programmed to deal with stuff like this?

Not even close, r143.

R12 Hi Les.

Are you in hiding from Jules?

R134 Hi Julie.

Are in hiding with Les?

YAWN. This is so 2017.

R153

This specific scandal or sexual assault?

Even if Julie stops going to the Talk studio while this is in the media, what will become of her important hosting duties on Big Brother 20?

She certainly wouldn't step down from that job now would she?

Julie Chen is a bitch. Years ago on The Talk, the hosts were all talking about pie and a PA came out to serve them pie. The PA then serves Julie's slice before she's finished speaking and Julie slams her hand on the table to prevent her from setting the slice down and then glares at the camera. Later on or in the next episode, Julie brings out the PA to apologize but you know that it's just to save face.

#JusticeforATWT

What the fuck? Are people no longer allowed to flirt? It is like we have all been put in straight jackets.

holding people down and forcibly climbing on top of them is not flirting

R156 I've seen many episodes of the Talk but I must have missed that one.

Can you tell me if it's on YT or at least the approximate year it took place?

I'd really like to see it & the follow up episode.

Thank you.

On the bright side my old dvd of "Grace of My Heart " that I had listed for sale on ebay for a long time sold today. Illeana Douglas being in the news must have stirred interest.

Can you name a name, R36? Asking for a friend.

Loved Grace of my Heart

You’re delusional R12. He will be fired because of this, not Shari Redstone.

Of course no one dares question why Farrow is provided public forums to work out his heavy-duty Daddy issues.

I’m amazed that he’d let his relationship with Lovett be more known when his extracurriculars are bound to come out eventually. Not going to be a good look.

R166 provides the method to Farrow's (and the media's) obsessive madness.

The woman from the cop show can't be Sharon Gless. The article says the actress never worked for CBS again and Gless has worked for them throughout the 90s.

Please don't tell me it was Tyne Daly then.

Tyne Daly was on Judging Amy, so, no, r170.

I picture Tyne Daly like that waitress that got her pussy grabbed by that redneck trash last week, Tyne would body slam Les if he put a move on her!

Police detective on CBS's Magnum PI.

Melody Anderson. Played as Police Sergeant in Jake And the Fat Man CBS 1980's. Her last television appearance was in "1995" as a guest star in the CBS revival of Burke's Law.

Would Scarecrow and Mrs. King count as a cop show. We could be talking about Kate Jackson.

Any of these women ahead of Tyne Daly.

While assault's about power and not attraction, Les, for the love of G-d, have some standards!

Ronan should keep doing what he's doing but I'm exhausted thinking about all these powerful old perves and their crimes of decades ago.

Wasn't there a police officer character in Hearts Afire? I didn't watch it but my parents did. But Gless was my first thought, too.

Melody Anderson's bio, looks, and age fit. And the dates match.

No way can Moonves survive this.

Julie will bail after he resigns and Ross Matthews will be the interim host of BB.

Melody Anderson is a "prominent actress"? And Simon & Schuster wanted her to write a book?

OF COURSE NOT r181.

Will "The Talk" suddenly have a week of repeat shows next week like it did after the Roseanne Twitter situation so Sara would not have to speak about it?

And what will Sharon "I always have to respond first" Osbourne say about this on the first "live" show?

Will Sheryl cry her crocodile tears?

I'm calling bull shit on this.... I think someone is jumping on the ME TOO bandwagon. I mean, 20 years ago? She's even late for the ME TOO movement .... Unless I see pictures/proof I'm not buying it. There is no doubt it happens, but there is also stories being made or exaggerated truths

Of course it's true! I totally believe it.

Your boy Paul Abrahamian has been tapped to take over as Big Brother host. His first show will be Thursday's live eviction. Can't wait to see him interviewing Brett.

He fired someone who refused to sleep with him. That's what the daily news is reporting. sorry if someone already mentioned it, i didn't read the whole thread.

Lord, the Daily News is really falling apart. They spelled CBS wrong in the internet headline

He will not survive this.

I agree, he will have to step down. surely he knew it was coming...

what about tom werner? any dirt on him?

LOCK 'IM UP!

R188 Didn't they fire most of their staff?

It was pretty bold to hit on Illeana Douglas when she was still "sort of" with Martin Scorsese. Marty must have had a bunch of Goodfellas aficionados who could take care of something like that!

Ileana on Seinfeld. Oh dear!

Illeana Douglas' story is quite harrowing.

Was Ronan Farrow ever on "The Talk" to discuss his Harvey Weinstein article?

R190 = Roseanne

Second t hat hashtag #Justice ATWT - my Luke and Noah got cancelled so that bitch Julie Chen could have a talk show.

Yashar Ali:

Will be interesting to see what happens to Julie’s influence at the network. Not only is she the host of two popular shows...multiple sources have told me over the last year that she has outsized influence on programming decisions.

His wife said, ' i fully support my husband". what a stupid cunt. she is probably the same.

So is it 'I support #metoo until it is my husband/boyfriend?'

i don't see how he can stay on when so many women has come forward. what an arrogant cunt. that papa john cunt had to step down after simply saying the N word

"I recognize that there were times decades ago when I may have made some women uncomfortable by making advances," the network chief admitted.

^^^Those "advances" were when he was married.

Following the publication of Farrow's story, Moonves' wife, Julie Chen, said on Twitter, "I have known my husband Leslie Moonves since the late '90s, and I've been married to him for 14 years. Leslie is a good man and a loving father, devoted husband and inspiring corporate leader. He has always been a kind, decent and moral human being. I fully support my husband and stand behind him and his statement."

Ileana Douglas played the secretary to Jay Mohr’s agent character who is forced to go to bed with a parody of the Weinstein brothers to seal a deal for Mohr’s agent character in the Fox sitcom “Action!” Wish I could find a clip. How ironic.

“Inspiring corporate leader.” Romance lives!

#metoo is Ro's cottage industry.

[quote]Those "advances" were when he was married.

Men are only as faithful as their options.

Here is the Action episode

The Weinstein parody starts at 14:00 and Illeana’s part follows

Ro's on a roll!

What happened to his wife's face? She has the same swollen look as Kimora Lee Simmons, or whatever she calls herself now.

Remember, Julie had surgery to change the shape of her eyes R214. I'm sure she had more than that one procedure.

Chen was a total bitch to Leah Remini and played a big part in getting her fired from The Talk. I bet Leah is cackling now!

I thought it was Sharon Osbourne R216

R215 Sayonara!

Bitch ain’t Japanese!

Julie has been frantically making edits to her new children's picture book due out this fall.

Little Boy: "When I grow up, I want to be just like daddy!'

Mother: "Um, no you don't"

Probably because she is Chinese R219.

R15, most of the non-social media population has. Its the social media population that hasn't. Remember, social media loves destroying people. Its part of the hobby.

Sayanara, r221.

Julie was crying on the show the other day about Demi Lovato.

She has a heart, guys.

R208 I don't think Douglas played a secretary on Action". IIRC she was a hooker who Mohr went to for career advice.

Ronan is such a starfucker. He almost exclusively likes pictures and comments from celebrities, most recently Maria Shriver and Jewel, and he liked a picture posed by Tiffany Trump praising her father. You’d think being raised by Mia Farrow he wouldn’t be so enthralled by the rich and famous. Or at least as the guy who is taking down sex abusers, you’d think he wouldn’t be kissing up to Donald Trump’s family.

she is the ugliest chinese person on tv. she looks even worse without make up and have you noticed that the never do a close up or tight shot on her face? scary shit.

she must have been on her knees 24/7 servicing that asshole to get on TV. and stay there.

R224 This has been rumored to come out for days if not weeks so I think she is just cranking it up a notch.

If my memory serves me, there was at least 1 BI about Les cheating on Chenbot last year.

All of his behaviors have been leaking for awhile now.

I'd say she's been in damage control mode with her show's small female demo for at least a month now.

She isn’t human. How can he cheat on her?

The lack of film knowledge may be the biggest sin of millennials

R218 A greater sin than engineering the next super-AIDS through rampant unprotected sex?

Did r70 even read the article?

Moonves is a straight-up SERIAL ASSAULTER.

How has this thread turned into shaming/bashing Julie Chen? Why aren’t we focusing on Les Moonves?

Ok, she defended her husband of 14 years who she shares a child. I can’t fault her for supporting him until this plays out a little further. In fact, two top female CBS executives have written letters in support of Les as well. Perhaps she’s waiting for the investigation by CBS to be completed before making any moves/decisions? We don’t know what she knew or when she knew it. We will never know.

Based on the article Les sounds like a deplorable human being and I hope CBS shows him the door.

That being said, give Julie a minute to figure things out. She’s got a child, a marriage and a career on the line. Stop shaming the spouse and focus your indignation where we it belongs, squarely on Les, the perpetrator.

Hi Les.

I'm fine.

How are you?

The GORGEOUS Georgina Chapman is giggling and downing the bubbly today!

R11 I am with you.

It isn’t acceptable but back n the day it seems it was protocol. The kicker in all of the Me Too movement is it should start at the top with Trump. Everyone else has had to pay a price with their families, job, coworkers and the public not Trump.

Ronan show us what you are made of and get Trump.

R234 Hi Julie!

Who do you think will win BB20?

Also did you ever hear of the phrase "birds of a feather flock together?"

Well you were flocking the boss as a willing employee while he was still married so you knew what kind of husband, father & president he really was.

We're all supposed to believe you've never heard any of these stories in the past 2 decades?

You're no innocent bystander in all of this honey

so don't try to weave your web in that direction 'kay?.

I wonder if those in the news division are going to be able to get away from this because their story got mixed up with Moonves, and he's the bigger target. Anderson Cooper pretty much put his reputation on the line defending Jeff Fager in the article, as did Lesley Stahl.

Can you imagine the scandals if Julie and Les were put into the Big Brother house for a summer?

R238 Nope I’m not Julie. I just think it’s ridiculous that somehow Julie has become just has guilty as Les. Julie wasn’t even mentioned in the article. I’ll reserve further judgement on her actions or lack thereof until this all plays out. I’m actually curious as to whether she will show her face on The Talk Monday.

I would imagine Les is trying to hammer out some sort of severance with CBS over the weekend. I read that if he’s fired “with cause” that he stands to lose out on a $182M severance package.

$182 million! Jesus maria! That's quite the parachute.

R241 Really? Like it’s ridiculous that we all believe Georgina Chapman knew her husband is a rapist because EVERYONE IN HOLLYWOOD knew her husband is a rapist? The poor, innocent, gorgeous dear who married an old, obese, violent man had nooooooo idea that approximately 10,000 people all looked the other way as her husband assaulted woman after woman.

Now, Julie Chen unlike Chapman is a precious naif who married for love, not for money or a career on the network her husband runs...

R156, so funny… that's the first thing that popped into my mind too! They were talking about Patti LaBelle's sweet potato pie. Julie Chen seems like such a b*tch!

R241, she knew what the fuck was going on and said nothing. She was there for the job and money and the rest of it. and she was she on the talk talking about all the other guys guilty of the same thing as her husband? I don't watch her shit show so I don't know but I wonder if any of her comments are gonna come back to haunt her. fuck this ugly cunt. they can both fuck off tv.

I am personally offended that Julie married her rapist boss.

Join us this winter for a special edition Big Brother Celebrity Predators. 8 accused sex offenders will compete in the BB house against their former and/or current mates. Hosted by Ronan Farrow. Expect the unexpected!

R247 Will Ronan turn out to be the one doing the bad touches in the dark?

R241, I agree with you on Julie Chen.

But CBS is doing an investigation and I'd be willing to bet that Moonves is willing to roll the dice on the outcome. It seems like a she said/he said situation and, if anything, we've seen a turn in sentiment with Chris Harwick being able to show that a lot of what his "she said" wasn't true.

Come on, Chenbot defender(s)--we've flung enough crap at her over the years, how can you expect we won't make fun of her and assume she knew something when her husband is all over the news?

Please...

R247 I had that one coming. Poor choice of words.

[quote] The GORGEOUS Georgina Chapman is giggling and downing the bubbly today!

Alyssa- You can stop that now, sweetheart. The show has been cancelled.

It’s very possible these women knew their husbands were cheating and using the casting couch but had no idea they were assaulting women. I’m sure there are many producers in Hollywood who hit on women, with a wink wink agreement to help their careers but don’t assault them physically or harm them if they say no.

“Les, hon, I’ll be in New York next week. Please habe Maria clean up after the rapes before I get back, OK?”

Any reasonably intelligent woman who is married to a mogul should have demanded to know about the rapes and worked out a divorce settlement by now.

What role did Kim Carnes play in this?

Everything around Sara Gilbert turns to shit!!!

This isn't like the Chris Hardwick situation. If I recall correctly, in that case, it was one woman making the claims. In this case, a journalist has done a thorough job of reporting and checking out sources. And a lot more money is on the line.

What? PR all Stars has been cancelled? They already had another season in the can.

I think the child actress is Kim Richards, too. I've been watching some "James at 15" episodes on Youtube and that girl was so adorable and talented.

"He ruined these women’s careers for not sleeping with him. It’s one thing to hit on someone, but to screw up their entire livelihood? Just hire a hooker creep."

Yes, because contributing to a system that destroys "bad" women in order to save "good" women isn't creepy at all.

No wonder what Letteman wasn't canned for sleeping with interns.

This is nothing like the Chris Hardwick situation, which was a blog post written by an ex girlfriend. This was a sourced and months long researched article in the New Yorker written by a (whether you like it or not) well respected Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter who is essentially the public’s authority on the #metoo movement.

Les Moonves is FINISHED, right along with his little concubine. CBS board will announce his removal within the week. There is no recovery for him in this situation.

[quote]r260 I think the child actress is Kim Richards, too. I've been watching some "James at 15" episodes on Youtube and that girl was so adorable and talented.

I'LL DRINK TA THAT!

I was molested!

Ewww...so he fucked all these whores on CBS? He probably has herpes and that Julie Chen as well. gross!!

We cannot get herpes.

Robots can’t acquire STDs.

Sharon Osbourne, Lynda Carter and a few CBS female execs tweet their support of Moonves.

@MrsSOsbourne :Interesting timing, seems like an attempt to discredit Leslie before a major court case. I hope people don’t rush to judgement and let @CBS conduct their investigation. Sending my love and support to my friends @JulieChen and Leslie Moonves

@RealLyndaCarter : Les Moonves is a close friend. I’ve known him for 40 years. He is a kind, decent and honorable man. I believe him and I believe in him.

All these women except Carter get paid by Les Moonves. Of course they "support" him.

Wow. They had to dredge up Wonder Woman.

There are more woman and witnesses. Not only did Les cover up the abuse that was happening by other men at CBS, he abused women directly. He created the system where men could abuse woman at work, at CBS.

BTW, there have been reports of this for decades. Les was able to block NYT with threats for decades. Ronan went to the New Yorker to publish. Les has a lot of enemies, and they know Ronan's reporting is factual. Julie Chen is well hated too.

TIMES UP

Didn't Phylicia Rashad stick up for Cosby when his shit hit the fan? Lynda Carter better get her bracelets ready to deflect all the crap sure to come her way should this all turn out to be true.

Switch out "honorable" for "moral" in Lynda's tweet and you end up with Julie's tweet.

When Carter spoke with The Daily Beast about the sexual harassment she endured she was asked about the Bill Cosby case and accusations against Trump.

“And,” she said emphatically, “I believe every woman in the Bill Cosby case.”

And President Trump’s accusers?

“I believe them, too,” Carter told me. “Why would they lie? I believe the women.”

But if she believes Moonves, then she can't believe the women. Or she questions the women's versions of the truth.

Or she was offered something in the future to sweeten her tweets, R275.

Lynda just said goodbye to her cameo in the WW sequel.

That The New Yorker article is pretty damning, and it is The New Yorker, not some sleazy gossip rag. I'd be really surprised if Moonves survives this.

Rub a dub dub. Groanin Ronin is horny on the day of his big story!

Don't expect Julie Chen to make her annual visits to Howard Stern and Andy Cohen.

How many Les Moonves jokes will Colin Jost and Michael Che have in their monologue when they host the Emmy Awards in September?

Zero or one jokes.

What does Lauren Holly have to say about all of this?

TIred of the idiots who think Julie Chen can survive this if her hubby is removed. The Talk and Big Brother are at CBS Studio City. She can’t walk its halls where every trace of him, down to the photos on the walls, have been removed. I’m sure BB producer Alison Grodner is coming up with a replacement right now. It will be fun to see if the houseguests on BB will be told the truth about her sudden absence.

They're aren't going to just remove Julie mid-season. I'm sure she's contractually obliged to host the entire season.

Julie can always just marry the next CBS president. No big deal, movin’ on up.

When I was on a Los Angeles studio tour a few years ago, the tour guide mentioned that Les and Julie live in separate houses.

Good of him to do his rape attacks off campus, R288.

Julie knows he didn't rape anybody, because she lives in the same city as him.

Also, he didn’t rape her. That was just “overzealous foreplay” followed by a marriage proposal.

R286, are you for real? His removal will supercede everything. Contracts are made to be broken. They’ll probably offer her a deal. And she’ll take it.

Les always had a sharp, rapist wit. Skip to 6:00

Could the woman from the cop show be Heather Locklear?

I just noticed TJ Hooker's last season was on CBS.

R293 Les and Dave probably traded "dating" tips outside of the show. I'm surprised Letterman has yet to be outed by #metoo. The video is all kinds of creepy including the Melina Kanakaredes interview where she tells Dave she had to "audition in a hotel room".

R287 Oh she will. Her interest in Les is only in his power as CEO. Once he loses that power by being fired or resigning, she'll dump him and move on to some other power player in the media.

HA! You guys talk about Julie Chen as if she's this hot thing who men lust after.

Letterman already was outed prior to #metoo for cheating on his wife (then girlfriend) with interns and staff. I guess non of it was unwanted attention since the women probably would have come out with it during this whole movement.

Wasn't a chick blackmailing him for unwanted advances/an affair, and the admitted it on air to scotch the situation.

I wonder if Rhoda was harrassed at some point?

I just couldn't live with that.

r299 the husband or ex-husband of some woman Letterman had an affair with was blackmailing him and was arrested in a sting operation. (I think he wanted Letterman to produce a screenplay or something.) Letterman went on the show and explained it before it broke in the press. People thought it was a joke at first. He started it by saying you are going to be hearing about Dave doing bad things.

Does anyone think Bill Paley ever tried to force himself on Lucy?

Sharon Gless, Heather Locklear, and Melody Anderson need to each release a statement -- or else silence means it was one of them.

It is 100% fucking Sharon Gless for crying out loud! Did you read the fucking interview she gave above? For christ sake!

Lets figure out who Kimberly is!!!

MELODY ANDERSON? Give me a break! She doesn't remotely fit the clue.

[quote]Sharon Gless, Heather Locklear, and Melody Anderson need to each release a statement -- or else silence means it was one of them.

Why would they release a statement when they purposely stated in the article they did not wish to be identified?

Was Julie Chen a victim?

BUTT HOLE FIRST;

Heather Locklear wouldn't have been lucid enough to give a recent interview to Ronan. Besides, she was on Melrose Place when Moonves took over CBS.

It isn't Gless.

She has a book coming out with Simon and Schuster.

Actually, that's more evidence for it being Gless!! And why she is "frightened of reprisals."

[quote]Almost two decades later, an executive at CBS contacted her about coming back to the network. It turned out that the executive wanted her to sign a book deal with Simon & Schuster, which is owned by CBS.

Its fucking GLESS for christ sake. My god!

Let's figure out Kimberly- Kim from Real Housewives does seem like a possibility!

R305, yes she does. She was prominent actress at the time, played a police officer in very popular CBS show in late 80's. Her series development was canceled in 1995 and she hasn't worked for CBS since. She was hot when younger and age 40 in 1995, the age when an actress becomes "too old" in Moonves' words. Plus she is now out of show business and wishes to remain private.

She is not retired R313. If you want to "remain private" you don't write a book.

R314, Melody is a social worker now and her book is about substance abuse. Not a bio.

ENOUGH WITH SHARON GLESS!

There were two women on Cagney and Lacey you know.

Somehow I don't think the other one was his type, R316.

Tyne is a cutie.

If he goes down for a few aggressive acts of affection, he made a nice exit deal and will only be thought of as a healthy red blooded American boy who likes da wimins a little too much. Just like me. You know how it goes, you get a little rough and they tell you to retire.

Tyne is going to be in the Murphy Brown re-boot.

" a healthy red blooded American boy"

He's Israeli, grandson of the founding terrorist of Israel, David Ben-Gurion. Likewise, the Weinstein Brothers' father was a founding terrorist of Israel, and they're proud Israelis. Likewise, Ari and Rahm Emmanuel's father was a founding terrorist of Israel, and they're proud Israelis.

Are you noticing the pattern here?

Deplorables need a new shtick because the antisemite thing is played out.

It’s been done to death.

Hate to tell you this, R322, but R321 is a liberal SJW. He's been outed on other threads. Both sides have their own versions of anti-semites.

He could have privately apologized to Ileanna Douglas years ago.

It’s so tired and worn out, already. The staleness of it all.

[quote] Does anyone think Bill Paley ever tried to force himself on Lucy?

He did, but Gary talked him out of it. He explained to Bill that Lucy's dick was even bigger than his.

"Kimberly"

Good Lord, that was a cute kid.

Article said "Kimberly" had a husband in 1992. Kim Richards was divorced in 1991 and single in 1992.

It will be interesting to see the board gets rid of him tomorrow or if they put it off it in the hopes that the story doesn't have legs. Considering how much the board is in love with him, I'm inclined to believe they will go with the latter.

But Kim Richards life was such a mess the past few years - I’m surprised she feels threatened by him. What more could he do to her at this point?

Fear is an irrational emotion. An anxiety disorder or panic disorder from paranoia about him could easily lead to drug abuse. The fear doesn't have to be rational even to the person feeling it, just overwhelming and controlling.

CBS Films' President Terry Press made a Facebook post about Moonves.

[quote]But Press added that the story "generates as many questions as answers". She wrote that she wasn't questioning the accounts of the women who came forward but wondered whether "we are examining the industry as it existed decades before through the lens of 2018 should we also discuss a path to learning, reconciliation, and forgiveness?"

To clear up a popular misconception that ran through the first half of this thread, Ronan's partner is JON LOVETT, a former speechwriter for both Clintons. He later wrote and produced for TV and currently has a couple of popular podcasts.

JON LEVITZ was a popular Saturday Night Live performer whose career gradually went to naught after he left the show.

They are not the same person.

of course, they will get rid of him, the stock tanked....and will continue to if he doesn't get the fuck out.

JON LOVITZ, not LEVITZ. I guess I fucked up my whole post. Point still stands.

[quote]R395 MELODY ANDERSON? Give me a break! She doesn't remotely fit the clue.

I don't think any of those quoted are Melody Anderson. She did have a lovely and gentle presence, though...and I can unfortunately imagine sleazy men hitting on her at work.

Why did no one chase MY tits and pussy?

I feel violated!

Me too! Me too!

Countdown to the board’s firing announcement in 3... 2...

"My husband can fire all of your asses!" - Julie Chen to The Talk cast, 2011, Hollywood Reporter

"CBS can fire your husband's ass! AND NOW YOURS, TOO!" --Grateful employees at The Talk

Things Julie Chen Learned From 'Big Brother' and May Be Doing to Les Moonves at This Moment

1.) Waking him u by banging pots and pans in his ears 2.) Cleaning the toilet with his toothbrush 3.) Calling him to the "diary room" to hear his side of the story 4.) Holding a knife to his throat while they have foreplay

5.) Dressing up as Zingbot to announce, "You've been CAAAAAAN-CEEEEELLLED! ZIIIIIIIIIIIING!"

Hilarious, R334. That is basically the line put out by Weinstein's lawyer, Lisa Bloom, at the beginning. Remember? He was a "dinosaur learning new ways".

Well, I guess we can forgive the Holocaust because it isn't fair to judge the bloodthirsty Nazis for being murderous -. It was a different time.

[post redacted because linking to dailymail.co.uk clearly indicates that the poster is either a troll or an idiot (probably both, honestly.) Our advice is that you just ignore this poster but whatever you do, don't click on any link to this putrid rag.]

"I'm an ACTOR!"

r344, except Nazis were judged evil IN THEIR TIME and not retroactively decades later.

"I'm a ASS PLUNGER!"

Moonves alma mater, Bucknell University, has scrubbed references to him.

[quote]@MrsSOsbourne :Interesting timing, seems like an attempt to discredit Leslie before a major court case. I hope people don’t rush to judgement and let @CBS conduct their investigation. Sending my love and support to my friends @JulieChen and Leslie Moonves

Yashar Ali: A remarkable tweet considering how often Sharon has privately maligned Julie/Leslie according to multiple sources.. But Sharon is a survivor and she knows how to work within the system when it suits her. Also important to note @RonanFarrow has been working on this for 8 months.

Merger talks between the two companies go back to at least late last year. So Farrow starting his piece 8-months ago doesn't preclude it from being a Redstone hit piece. In fact, it bolsters the argument.

Fuck Sharon Osbourne. She's an opportunist and is just trying to protect her job. Fucking hypocrite.

Fuck Julie Chen. She unexpectedly hit me in the face with a pie the day I was without my shit-bra.

Anyone who is home today be sure to tune into "The Talk" @ 2 to see if its a current ep or repeat (my guess it will be)

The Talk is a new ep tonight. The real question is whether Julie is on a “pre-planned vacation” or not.

Today**

I am holding in pee just so I don't miss a minute of it!

Please post what happens!

She said she made the one and only statement about it on Twitter last Friday, and will stand by that statement today, tomorrow, forever. And that's all she's going to say about it.

She said that the statement on Twitter will be the only one she will EVER make on the matter.

A dud.

What else could she really say?

Jules had major balls for even showing up today.

In a black dress, no less.

Thanks r359/60. Did she at least look embarrassed and/or reeking of shame?

She has no shame. She’s a cunt and knows her shitpile of mediocrity ass is getting kicked out of that building any minute now.

R343 It's even funnier when you consider the fact that she was the one who publicly said she was going to quit the Academy if Weinstein wasn't expelled: "The idea that anyone would give him a second chance or entertain the notion that he can change is beyond absurd"

Why should SHE be fired though?

R64, she looked resigned and stoic.

R367 She'll probably be fired because Moonves replacement will want to put his/her own picks in executive positions. This is why she's singing a different tune than when she called for the expulsion of Harvey from the Academy. She's just trying to save her job.

If she's an ounce of sense, she's already consulted a divorce attorney just for the 411 she needs if it comes to that. Even if he's criminally innocent, maybe she could dodge civil liability by dumping him sooner than later.

CBS CEO Les Moonves Contemplating Stepping Aside Temporarily While Misconduct Probes Continue

R369, do you think Holly Robinson Peete will be reinstated?

There’s no “temporarily” about it. He’s toast and heading out the door PERMANENTLY swiftly followed by his wife.

Why the hate for Julie? What did she ever do?

Some of it's just schadenfreude, R374. For me, the rest is fatigue of her appearing everywhere and her holding herself as an arbiter of morality on The Talk and Big Brother.

She’s a mediocrity and has never deserved her jobs on The Talk and Big Brother. She only got them because she was married to and getting pumped full of jizz by the boss.

She’s been through the DL mill for about 10 years now.

She’s a whore, darlin’.

I can't see Julie leaving under ANY circumstances.

Julie Chen Doubles Down on Support For Husband Les Moonves in Talk Return

They’re still rich as hell. If I were her I’d just resign and live a quiet rich life somewhere

R91, she deserved a laugh for saying on W&G as Dorleen: "Here you are at Barney's New York in New York."

here's what I don't get. ever. guys saying to girls: "c'mon...just have sex with me! c'MON! it won't be that bad. You know you want it!"

those charmers!!!

Chen should have left the word "forever" out of her statement.

CBS CEO Leslie Moonves Will Remain at Work Amid Sexual Misconduct Investigation

I will say it.

He is the best looking of the preverts.

the stock tanked further today. He's WILL be out, no doubt about it.

He's about 5'4. Napoleon complex?

Am I the only one who wants to run their fingers through his wig?

The ladies are circling the wagon as visions of cancellation dance in their heads. as far as Chenbot's statement, let's see what she says in a month or two when divorce proceedings commence.

Lynda Carter stood by her embattled husband as well and they are still together.

He has admitted that his behavior might have caused some women discomfort. Looks like CBS will determine the most recent case and if it is too recent he would probably be let go. If it is 20 years ago?

Her husband was acquitted of the charges R391.

I suppose it also comes down to advertisers. If the #metoo movement successfully lobbies the advertisers that make CBS possible, almost anything can happen.

He was acquitted BECAUSE she stood by him in court EVERY DAY!!!

R386 what am I chopped livah?

Did that crazy cunt Rose McGowen make a comment yet? I'm surprised I haven't heard anything.

Yes Dave, but your victims were very willing so you don't count.

They’re just delaying the inevitable. They’ll both be gone by the crucial live double eviction on Big Brother a week from Thursday.

CBS needs to FIRE him.

For unleashing James Corden on us?

Les called Tyne Daly into his office and demanded that her brother Tim have sex with him.

Leslie is only 5 and half feet.

R387, a $54 dollar stock declining to $51 and change is not tanking. Tanking is what Facebook did the other day.

Just wait until tomorrow, R404. The market HATES uncertainty.

Pretty soon Moonves will be found out and hopefully Julie gets fucked up the ass and pussy with Lucille as punishment.

The market hates knee jerk reactions more, r405. The stock was up in after hours trading.

R404 I agree that the stock hasn't really met the definition of "tanked," but the price before the news hit on Friday was around $57.80. I think you have to take both Friday's and Monday's drops into consideration. And if it's at $51 and change, then the decline is more like 11%.

FIRE LES FIRE LES FIRE LES

You have fired the sleazy decades ago.

That's still not "tanking", r408. About 10% is called a correction. Again, tanking is what Facebook did.

I cahn't breathe.

Guys like Leslie need to go, but it’s only a matter of time before someone picks up on Ronan’s constant, public trolling for hookups and puts it out there. Don’t know why he’s not more discreet.

Maybe he's willing to stand by his behavior. Because he's definitely a target now for attacking power groups.

Jon!

Will Stephen Colbert who Leslie referred to as "America's Conscience" take a jab at him tonight?

I doubt it.

Anyone looking for a replacement for Julie?

I can't stand Colbert.

Is it juste moi?

R413, if anyone can frame “I’m in a long-term relationship but it’s non-monogamous (at least for me) so I pick up whatever Instagram trash on the daily” in a way that’s palatable to the masses, he could probably come close, but still. Pretty risky.

No, r418. I thought it was me. His funny guy TV persona wears pretty thin within seconds. Just banal, try hard humour.

R417 Erica the robot news anchor from Japan will be taking Julie's place.

Ro's lover.

Oh, the irony!

I enjoyed Colbert on Comedy Central. The vitriol that late-night put out since the campaign got tiresome. People who want to laugh can only be fed so much angst before they just tune out.

[quote] I agree that the stock hasn't really met the definition of "tanked," but the price before the news hit on Friday was around $57.80. I think you have to take both Friday's and Monday's drops into consideration. And if it's at $51 and change, then the decline is more like 11%.

Bigger picture, CBS is down 25% from its 52 week high.

R415 I really thought Trump would have tweeted about this by now. I think it does make it harder for Colbert to attack Trump.

Colbert Addresses CBS’s Les Moonves Allegations: He May Be ‘My Guy,’ But ‘I Believe in Accountability’

I would like to know what is so special about Les Moonves that he is being treated like the Trump. How do they get treated differently than the other Me Too movement?

[quote]I would like to know what is so special about Les Moonves that he is being treated like the Trump.

He's made hundreds of millions, if not billions, for CBS.

The accusations are old and it's she said/he said, r428.

Keep trying, r425. It still doesn't meet the definition of tanking. Last time...tanking is what happened to Facebook.

These men only stop because they can't get it up anymore and then they say "well that was a long time ago, if I made someone uncomfortable......"

R430 = Les Moonves.

R418, no, it's not just you. Colbert is predictable, which isn't funny.

Yes, 433.

And last night's defense of his guy was just a bunch of PC doublespeak.

Due to statute of limitations the Los Angeles DA will not press charges.

But does that include all charges?

Ya just know more recent incidences will come to light as this goes on.

But was it rape/rape?

R415 Les referred to Colbert as "America's Conscience" ?!?! LMFAO!!

It's all scripted theater for the dumbed down.

SMH

Remember this guy - before he snared Katie Couric - actually considered SHARON STONE as the new anchor of the CBS News. Would he have insisted she wear her Fatal Attraction dress?

Chen very distinctly mocked "The View" because they were too concerned with socially relevant and political topics. Fuck her. The Talk is a garbage fest. Would love to see this sanctimonious bitch fry. And who the fuck is "Eve?"

R441 This is who I am. Who da fuck is you bitch?

I always liked Colbert, and his style of delivery and sophisticated humor was similar to Letterman, who I also enjoyed. But his monologues when he attacks Trump are so shrill and unlike his past relaxed sardonic style. He has the brain to really go for the jugular and I can't figure out why he doesn't. It's the perfect target for someone like him, and he's missing it consistently

Colbert will never mention it again, ever. He'll immediately go back to shouting about Trump like he's about pop a vessel.

I wonder how Chen's reputation in the industry is?

When they did that big send off for Barbara Walters a few years back, practically every current big female name on the big three networks past and present was there to help send her off, but noticeably missing was Julie Chen.

One of The Talk's first big gets was Oprah. But Winfrey did it on the condition that she would only be interviewed by Holly Robinson Peete. In the interview she praised Holly to the hilt reducing Holly to tears. This supposedly made Chen LIVID and it was a big reason why Holly got fired.

Is she viewed as serious competition, or someone who just fucked her way to the top?

The stock has bounced back up somewhat, but Wall Street sees an exit.

Other trouble.

He pinned a woman down at a work function. How many times do you have to be told, FIRE HIS ASS NOW!

Moonves is fucking VILE.

Just to make it clear, Julie Chen is a nasty piece of work too. She was NEVER respected, due to her lack of skills and appalling, abusive behavior.

R430 Ronan would not have put the time and effort into this if it were only a few gropings decades ago. For ever person who is on the record there will be many more who are still quiet but won't necessarily stay that way. He seems to be looking at the systematic nature of it all.

[quote] He pinned a woman down at a work function.

Hard to imagine since he's only 5'5".

It was Zelma Rubinstein, R451.

It is Zelda R452.

The five women included in Ronan's New Yorker article reported incidents that occurred in the 1990s and early 2000s. The woman whose claims the LA DA said he couldn't prosecute was a sixth woman reporting incidents in the 1980s. She went directly to law enforcement and never talked to Ronan.

I FIND IT interesting that CBS is still investigating. I think they hope this will just blow over. I wonder if Julie stays with her two shows if Leslie is booted.

No way does she stay, she heads out the door right behind him.

I’m sure CBS is already negotiating his exit and lining up his replacement. Bad timing with the fall season starting next month.

LOL.

I feel like they have had more than enough time to investigate. CBS just wants it to go away.

Combining investigations.

Are any Hollywood Husbands faithful?

Doesn’t Ronan Farrow have another article on Moonves ready to go?

News about Moonves attorney this week.

When the fuck will Les leave CBS?

R445, I heard - not sure if it's true - one reason Holly was let go from The Talk was because she was casually mentioning a bunch of products on-air during the host chat and taking fees from the backdoor endorsements.

R462, I wonder if Moonves thinks he's hired Barry Kaufman. TV's Petrocelli

Interesting post on DL Big Brother thread about 10 years ago:

Les Moonves cheats on Julie.

When Viacom tried to sue Howard Stern after he got to Sirius a few years ago, things got nasty. He said that he would retaliate against Moonves by 'telling what he knows about what Les was up to in New York'.

Viacom hurridly dropped the lawsuit, and even gave Howard his library of years and years of tapes of old shows. In turn, Howard isn't allowed to even say the name 'Moonves' on his Sirius channels for a few years.

Julie should get a blood test now and then. There are some good pictures of her out there on the celebrity plastic surgery websites. She had a nose job years ago that totally changed her whole look.

But that strapless black dress she wore tonight was way too tight. It was not the type of dress that one sits down in for an upper-body close up on television.

I can't believe he still has a job. Either their are dozens of cases to investigate or CBS hopes this will quietly go away. I don't understand why they are protecting him when they canned Charlie Rose almost immediately.

The should replace The Talk with axed talk show Patterns.

R465 Barry Newman. A woman I worked with in the 90s told me her friend dated him for a short time and that he was an arrogant prick.

Do these guys even own a fucking mirror?

I think he’s out of there as soon as Premiere Week is over.

When you're rich and/or powerful, your looks aren't even a factor in your behavior.

Moonves out at CBS - breaking

Good, I hope Julie is gone, too, and Ross/Marisa take over co-hosting Big Brother.

Yep. Bye bye creep.

Not confirmed yet.

CBS is waiting for big brother to end before making the announcement.

Is Julie going with?

Julie will definitely go with. And it will be THIS week, not after BB ends. The Ronan Farrow follow-up is the last straw.

Here’s the link. He tried to force a woman to go down on him and when she wouldn’t he called her a cunt.

Ronan still blowing the lid off Nookie.

R463, apparently 6 other women asked the same question, which inspired Ronan's follow-up article.

The question is no longer will Les leave, but will Les leave with $100 million.

I think he’ll not only get fired without being paid an extra dime but he could face criminal charges.

Ronan the Barbarian takes no prisoners.

one of the women in the article said he came quickly (that's not a compliment) and the other said he wasn't a big man, referring to his physical frame, but you have to wonder if it was a backhanded slap at his size - or lack thereof

How many more stories like this are going to come out? it's so odd, one day it was acceptable to be this way in the TV biz and now suddenly it's SO not.

How many psyches has Ronan Farrow saved?

When or will it come out that a gay man was doing this or a woman to straight guys?

Teeny Sheeny

Julie has to be so devastated by these revelations.

R488 She’s devastated that her husband has been found out. What a headache for her to have to fend off all the cries that she is complicit and then find a new billionaire husband. Life is a fucking pain!

you know THE VIEW will go after this; I bet the TALK just ignores it and my is on NO Julie tomorrow; HOW can she hold her head up.

TWELVE women lying? I don't think so.

Anyone who doesn’t think she’ll head straight out the door behind her husband is an idiot. She won’t be on The Talk tomorrow or Big Brother Thursday.

I preferred the talk show PATTERNS.

[quote]r412 it’s only a matter of time before someone picks up on Ronan’s constant, public trolling for hookups and puts it out there.

Not a crime. Or half the whores here would be in jail [italic]for life.

R493 Trolling for gay sex isn’t even illegal in India anymore suddenly! By SHEER COINCIDENCE, Aaron Schock has been spending lots of time in India recently.

I can feel bad for Julie Chen if I want to.

She knew, R495.

How the hell did Kathy Griffiin find a way to insert herself into this drama?

I thought Chen was a home-wrecking whore that he turned into a housewife?

R496, How do you know that she knew?

It's over.

It’s official.

No fucking way will Julie stay at CBS now.

Why should SHE have to pay for HIS sins?

Well, when the news first broke, Julie said she was supporting him and standing by her statement "today, tomorrow, forever."

So let her go stand by him.

Illeana Douglas' accusations were probably the last straw. She is very highly regarded in the industry. Impeccable credibility.

So what happens to The Talk? Or Big Brother?

I assume the Moonves's can go live well in the south of France. Or some country where he can't be expedited!

Maybe they’ll replace Julie Chen with Stephen Daigle.

Why r502?

Well because Julie "boasted about her ability to have people who displeased her fired, and exercised her clout behind the scenes to work her will against management decisions she disagreed with."

All of that and much, much more at the forthcoming link.

Bye bitch.

And no payout!

Golden-Gottlieb worked with Moonves at the television production company Lorimar-Telepictures in the nineteen-eighties. She was already an industry veteran who had held senior positions at NBC, MGM, and Disney. Golden-Gottlieb, who is now in her early eighties and retired, told me that the first incident in which Moonves assaulted her occurred in 1986, when he was in charge of movies and miniseries at Lorimar and she was the head of comedy development there. Moonves, she recalled, came into her office in the middle of a workday and suggested the two of them go out for lunch. Instead of taking her to a nearby restaurant, she said, Moonves drove her to a secluded area. When Golden-Gottlieb began to ask if he was having trouble finding a parking space, she said that Moonves “grabbed my head and he took it all the way down onto his penis, and pushed his penis into my mouth.” She said he held her head in place forcibly. “He came very quickly,” she recalled. “You sort of just go numb. You don’t know what to do.” Distraught, Golden-Gottlieb demanded that Moonves take her back to the office. When she got there, she said, she vomited. “It was just sick,” she told me. She didn’t report the incident at the time because she was a single mother supporting two children and feared for her career. “I realized he was the new golden boy,” she told me. “I just kept quiet.” But the incident, she said, “never left me.”

Golden-Gottlieb continued to work with Moonves, who was later promoted to more senior positions within Lorimar. She said that she had avoided being alone with Moonves whenever possible in the period after the first assault. In early 1988, she told me, she entered Moonves’s office to discuss a work matter, and he said that he was going to get a glass of wine. He left briefly and, when he returned, she said, he was not wearing pants, and was aroused. She turned away, embarrassed, and ran out of the room. The following day, Moonves approached her in her office and berated her for not sending a memo to another executive. When she told Moonves that she didn’t typically share her memos with that executive, he became enraged, she recalled. “He reaches over and pulls me up and throws me, I mean hard, against the wall,” she told me. Afterward, she said, she collapsed and “couldn’t get up.” She recalled “lying on the floor, just crying.”

After she rebuffed Moonves, Golden-Gottlieb said that Moonves retaliated against her professionally, moving her into ever smaller offices. “Every two days, he’d find a darker space, or a place downstairs, or something,” she recalled. She told me that her career in the entertainment industry suffered, which she attributed to his influence at Lorimar and, later, CBS. “He absolutely ruined my career,” she said. “He was the head of CBS. No one was going to take me.”

R269 R350 Sharon Osborne has now removed that tweet from her feed. LOL!

it's too bad for the people who stood by Les and didn't know all the details.

if any women are fired for standing by Les then they can claim they were fired for being women.

this is unending.

Based on what's at R512, this is why when people say oh it was twenty years ago, let's deal with the now, it effects the now. His career went on while he sabotaged the careers of others who are still living with the consequences. Earlier in thread there were some comments about 20 years ago being a different time, it wasn't. It was never a different time for victims on the receiving end of harassment and assault. The behavior was always unacceptable, just now people of the receiving end stand a better chance of being heard. That's probably why it seems like there are so many stories, and accusations.

20 years ago was 1998 and forcing somebody's head down into your lap was definitely not acceptable then

DId Jules give him a blowjob last night????

R517 I imagine it went something like this, “Julie, Honey, I’m sorry that you have to go through all of this because of me. It’s not fair. But listen, it’s gonna be hard for me to discreetly get a whore for a while, and I obviously can’t facerape any of the slut executives now that I’ve left CBS, so would you mind? Daddy has gotten a little worked up what with all the excitement...”

Golden-Gottlieb was on Good Morning America today talking about it

Why do I think r518's imagined scenario is scarily close to reality?

Will Julie address this on The Talk today, or just ignore it?

[quote]And no payout!

No payout now. I have no doubt he'll get his millions quietly, after this fades from the spotlight.

R521 I hope The View is petty and throws shade towards The Talk and Julie today.

Not happening R522. You think Shari Redstone or CBS will willingly give him money? Lol. Nope. He won’t see a penny of severance. What he is going to see is hundreds of millions in civil lawsuits coming right his way.

The Squawk.

She’s out of there. Did any of you really think she’d stick around?

[quote]Not happening [R522]. You think Shari Redstone or CBS will willingly give him money? Lol. Nope.

HuffPo: In a public filing on Monday, the company said Moonves would stay on for one year to “perform transition advisory services.”

You think he's going to "advise" for free? Also under the agreement, he gets office services and security support from CBS for two years.

R523, The View threw the worst shade possible -- they didn't talk about it at all. (Unless I missed it.)

In other news Dr. Phil was their guest today and all but called Robert Wagner a murderer.

So Jules didn’t have the balls to show up for her job but when this happened to Roger Ales and Charlie Rose, she was all over the story. What a backstabbing pussy!

Julie announced today she was taking a few days off from The Talk to be with her family but she would appear Thursday on Big Brother.

[quote]r516 20 years ago was 1998 and forcing somebody's head down into your lap was definitely not acceptable then

Hauling someone from their chair, slamming them against a wall and leaving them huddled on the floor, crying, would probably also be deemed professionally ... iffy.

I wonder how Julie Chen would react to that.

Chen won’t be returning to The Talk or BB.

She will NOT be returning to Big Brother. Jesus, use some common sense, people.

Did Jules give Les a blowie this morn????

Les and Julie have the most slappable faces

ronan that turdy queen still at it...

u know that billionaire moonves is gonna git even...

MIA WILL NEVER WORK IN THIS TOWN AGAIN

Does Ronan have "Professional Snitch" on his business card? Or just "Shit Stirrer"? Why does he care about this shit so much anyway? It's not even remotely tied in to the Woody/Soon-Yi mess since that wasn't a professional workplace thing.

There's an alien character in Marvel Comics called Ronan the Accuser. Coinkidink?

Who "asked" Sharon Osbourne to initially tweet in support of Les back in July? (She's now removed that tweet.)

The way she revealed that during her segment on The Talk made it sound like she'd been coerced into doing something that she really didn't want to do.

Per the NY Times, it's unlikely that Moonves will see a dime of severance, no matter what CBS's investigations turn up. Why? He lied repeatedly to CBS's Board of Directors.

How long does Chen's contract run on THE TALK. I'd think it will be very awkward over there.

The molested elephant in the room will accompany her.

how long before Julie leaves him and how much $$$$ will she git

Isn't their official residence their Bel Air mansion, despite their Malibu home and UES townhouse?

CA is a community property state. Do they have a binding pre-nup?

They all expressed their support for the Chenbot but not so much for Moonves. How does this show carry on with her sitting there with the elephant in the room?

Will he get enough severance for white the next marriage?

Bump.

I feel bad for Charlie.

R544 Back in 2011, Chen told Howard Stern that she signed a pre-nup, "a very generous one."

TMZ says Moonves wasn't invited to the Emmys. HAHA!

It's been confirmed. Julie Chen is OUT at The Talk! They've got her up the ass and pussy now!

New stories on the early morning shows that Moonves tried to silence another accuser. Finish him off already!

Should make for a very awkward 3 weeks on Celeb BB. Too bad Grodner didn't stack the cast with his accusers.