Bill Cosby Rape Allegations- Page 5

[ErikJ972]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 9:11am

Good article.
Pretty soon you're gonna need more than an advent calendar.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 12:39pm

Ex-NBC Employee is also speaking out.

As for Lisa Bonet - that is not her verified twitter account, and I believe her agent said she did not post that comment to twitter.
EXCLUSIVE: Ex-NBC employee Frank Scotti claims Bill Cosby paid off women, invited young models to dressing room as he stood guard

[haterobics]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 12:59pm

This one is a bit more baffling:

"Female staffers at “The Late Show With David Letterman” are breathing a collective sigh of relief they don’t have to deal with an upcoming Bill Cosby appearance. A source close to the show tells Confidenti@l that the disgraced comic had some truly bizarre backstage requests.

“He’d include as a request, before he arrived, that the young girls, interns and assistants, all had to gather around in the green room backstage and sit down and watch him eat curry,” our stunned source explains. “No one would say anything, and he would sit silently eating and make us watch and want us to watch.”

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/confidential/cbs-women-curry-favor-article-1.2020179?ref=Outbrain&ADLocation=footer&ADPosition=2

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 1:06pm

Jesus. If female staffers at the Letterman show find something creepy, you know it's bad.

The link YWIW? posted is fascinating, because there are always accomplices, unwitting or not, in byzantine situations like this.

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 1:29pm

It's the NY Daily News, and it's their gossip section. It's crap.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 1:30pm

Namo, true dat.

If Letterman's folks are skeeved out, there clearly is something skeevy going on.

And I had the same thought about all those who enable predators - even if Cosby is not guilty of rape (which I think is highly unlikely, based upon the volume and breadth of the accusations), his conduct towards women is creepy and pathological, and folks have been enabling it for years.

I can only imagine we will be having this discussion again in a few months if the documentary on pedophiles in the entertainment industry "An Open Secret" gets more air time.

The same structure that allows men to prey on women in the entertainment industry allows men to prey on boys (IMO). If they make you money, you enable the behavior and look the other way.





An Open Secret

[Auggie27]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 8:41pm

Whose silence has been deafening? Matt Williams writer of the early seasons of Cosby's show, story editor/show runner. He and the obvious handful of creatives who were decidedly on hand when the Cosby/Huxtable mythology was concocted, preserved, protected at all costs.

I agree with Namo. And why is this a particularly important myth to pierce? Because of the period in Cosby's life when it's exposed to the light and oxygen. A perverse ageism is at work in this toxic mix, since accusations against a beloved grandpa figure leave us with another layer of anxiety. To some, this is like a witch hunt against Mr. Rogers, so treasured is Cosby as a cultural arbiter and scold. To consider even the possibility of his guilt shakes us. We do not like to contemplate 77 year-olds as possessing or hampered by attributes of youth, i.e. sexuality run amok or the reckless abuse of power. We want to grant our white-bearded curmudgeons a strange grandfatherly immunity, because it serves our comfort zones, not theirs.

A woman in Chicago penned a pro-Cosby editorial, and appeared on CNN last night saying "the man is too old and tired to face this." Yet not to old and tired to secure TV series, sell-out auditoriums and receive standing O's just for walking and talking. Therein lies the creepy all-American ageism: when age cannot be used to block employment or the preservation of iconography, but is used readily as a shield against charges seemingly too unseemly for men past their prime. He gets to hide behind his age, because we're uncomfortable? No.

Updated On: 11/23/14 at 08:41 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 11:14pm

The Daily News doubles down with a news article--not a gossip column--that spotlights the confession of a 90-year-old former NBC employee who claims to have arranged for Cosby to have sex with underage models.



NY DAILY NEWS: EXCLUSIVE: Ex-NBC employee Frank Scotti claims Bill Cosby paid off women, invited young models to dressing room as he stood guard: Veteran NBC employee Frank Scotti says he helped Bill

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 11:18pm

PJ, that is the article I linked to above.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 11:18pm

AND delivered payoff money!

[NOB88]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 11:29pm

Maybe it would help some people if they realized it is not Cosby they admire and idolize but Dr. Huxtable. Cosby isn't really a Dr. Huxtable, he just played one on TV.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 11:43pm

That is just your opinion. I think he is a Dr. Huxtable.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 11:44pm

Sorry--I only saw your indiewire link.

Do you think if any of these underage models come forward, they can break the expired statute of limitations? I read somewhere that only underage victims could sue after the stature expired.

[YouWantitWhen????]

Posted: 11/23/14 at 11:50pm

My understanding of state law is that it is tolled as long as the person is a minor. So, it would begin to run once the child reaches the age of majority. So, I think they would have expired.

And, no worries. I am surprised that there has been relatively no commentary on that other link.


Updated On: 11/23/14 at 11:50 PM

[SNAFU]

Posted: 11/24/14 at 2:21am

Mr. Cosby has always been, off camera, an arrogant D-bag. I have worked with him on 2 occasions. I do admire his talent and on screen persona. As a fictional role model he has done a lot of good... in real life however... The house of cards seems to have encountered a brisk wind.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/24/14 at 11:43am

Wow. David Carr in the NY Times takes responsibility for "having looked away":



NY TIMES: Calling Out Bill Cosby’s Media Enablers, Including Myself

[SmokeyLady]

Posted: 11/24/14 at 12:43pm

He needs to disappear . I am now beyond disgusted with him.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 11/24/14 at 2:25pm

You say that as if (a) you were the only one in the world experiencing "disgust" and (b) disappearing were possible.

Bill Cosby is now how we talk about rape.

[SmokeyLady]

Posted: 11/24/14 at 5:35pm

Well I can only speak for myself.

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/24/14 at 8:03pm

Poor Kirk Cameron.

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 11/25/14 at 12:07am

I think Kirk "Banana" Cameron has probably escaped being bill-cosbied.

"Celebtricity.com is a combination of real shocking news and satire news to keep its visitors in a state of disbelief."

^ From their contact / looking for writers page.

(Hi, Jordan! Hi, everybody! Been a while since I posted.)


http://www.celebtricity.com/contact-us/

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 11/25/14 at 12:11am

The site is pretty much all satire.

[JbaraFan1]

Posted: 11/25/14 at 12:23am

Looks it. People believe these parody sites though. I could just about swear that I saw the (false) $100 bill carjacking thing reported on some legit site in the last few days. (And I admit, I believed it! At the time!)

[HorseTears]

Posted: 11/25/14 at 3:59am

The reason so many people fall for it is that the satire's not remotely well done. Lots of Onion imitators out there, but very few get it right.

[dreaming]

Posted: 11/25/14 at 10:47am

That ex-NBC employee should be punished alongside him. He is just as guilty as Cosby. That's disgusting-I don't know how he sleeps at night knowing what he's helped perpetuate-and never told anyone?! Give me a break.

I hope someone who can break the statute comes forward because justice needs to be done.