{"id":235231,"date":"2021-04-24T01:31:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T22:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/scott-rudin-is-another-reason-not-to-listen-to-preaching-at-the-oscars\/"},"modified":"2021-04-24T01:31:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T22:31:28","slug":"scott-rudin-is-another-reason-not-to-listen-to-preaching-at-the-oscars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/scott-rudin-is-another-reason-not-to-listen-to-preaching-at-the-oscars\/","title":{"rendered":"#Scott Rudin is another reason not to listen to preaching at the Oscars"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Scott Rudin is another reason not to listen to preaching at the Oscars<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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Hollywood\u2019s latest hypocrisy is perfectly timed. Here we are, Oscar weekend. Those who watch \u2014 and if this awards season trend holds, about 12 people might tune in \u2014 will doubtless hear more preaching and proselytizing than usual from our social<\/a> justice warriors in Hollywood: The pandemic, the election, Black Lives Matter, structural poverty, bias and racism, the need for compassion, inclusivity, kindness, calls to demolish power structures and leaders who abuse the weak and powerless \u2014 all are guaranteed talking points.<\/p>\n

Speaking of . . . <\/p>\n

Have you heard the one about Scott Rudin, the super producer behind such films as \u201cMoneyball,\u201d \u201cThe Hours,\u201d \u201cNo Country for Old Men\u201d and countless others? Hot topic this week, even though he\u2019s been protected by the Hollywood industrial complex for decades. In fact, I wrote about Rudin and his well-known, decades-long reign of abuse and terror back in 2014<\/a>, to nary a ripple of outrage.<\/p>\n

Now, seven years later \u2014 our climate different, but not different enough \u2014 more victims have spoken out to The Hollywood Reporter.<\/p>\n

To those stars who would claim \u2014 a l\u00e1 Meryl Streep, commenting on that other monster Harvey<\/a>, not to know, to have no idea, to be shocked, I tell you, shocked! \u2014 the article\u2019s headline nullifies that defense.<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone Just Knows He\u2019s An Absolute Monster,\u201d first published April 7, is full of allegations that might shock moviegoers but have been fully accepted by studios, financiers, A-list directors, producers, and stars. Want to talk white male privilege, Hollywood? Here\u2019s a physically abusive terror who has never been arrested or charged with felony assault.<\/p>\n

A thumbnail sketch: Rudin is said to have smashed<\/a> an App<\/a>le computer on an assistant\u2019s hand, leaving him bloodied, traumatized and en route to the ER. Said assistant couldn\u2019t get Rudin a seat on a sold-out flight.<\/p>\n

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Scott Rudin is said to have smashed an Apple computer on an assistant\u2019s hand because the assistant couldn\u2019t book a seat on a sold-out flight.
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AP Photo\/Matt Sayles, File<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After another assistant forgot to deliver a message, Rudin reportedly picked up whole computers and threw them at his staffers. \u201cNot at a wall; at the assistants,\u201d one told New York magazine this week. The most serious allegation, one circulated for years, has Rudin pushing assistant Kevin Graham-Caso out of a moving car. Four people close to Graham-Caso, including his twin brother David, say he sought treatment for PTSD after leaving Rudin\u2019s employ. He committed suicide last year.<\/p>\n

But yes, Hollywood, by all means, please lecture us. Pray tell: How can we be better? Show us your ways.<\/p>\n

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Scott Rudin\u2019s most serious allegation was pushing assistant Kevin Graham-Caso out of a moving car.
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Walter McBride\/WireImage<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Rudin has a lot in common with Weinstein. There is, of course, the physicality. But there is also a culture they\u2019ve cultivated and exploited<\/a>, one in which powerful men who make other people rich and famous \u2014 and who impart a rare sheen of intellectualism \u2014 can brutalize and blackball with impunity, like little King Joffreys.<\/p>\n

In any sane universe, Rudin would have been canceled along with Weinstein. Why hasn\u2019t that happened? Why are these allegations just now drawing the faintest condemnation from collaborator Hugh Jackman<\/a>, the lone A-lister to dare speak out? Why is backer Barry Diller so quiet?<\/p>\n

Again, to anyone who would say they didn\u2019t know, consider what another assistant told New York about Rudin\u2019s celebrity clientele visiting his open-plan NYC office: \u201cThere\u2019s no way they didn\u2019t [hear the abuse] . . . and they keep coming back.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Samuel L. Jackson (left), LaTanya Richardson (center) and Scott Rudin attend the opening night on Broadway of Lucas Hnath\u2019s \u201cA Doll\u2019s House, Part 2\u201d at Golden Theatre in New York City on April 27, 2017.<\/figcaption>
Getty Images for “A Doll’s House, Part 2”<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

According to one former junior exec, Rudin collaborator Chris Rock once walked past Rudin\u2019s assistants and said, \u201cIt\u2019s okay, you can relax. I know he beats the s\u2014t out of you all day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Nice.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany in Hollywood are nonetheless rooting for Rudin,\u201d THR reported on Thursday. \u201cNot a word from talent like Frances McDormand, who electrified the audience at the Oscars in 2018 with the \u2018inclusion rider\u2019 battle cry . . . Nothing from Aaron Sorkin, a close Rudin collaborator whose whole oeuvre has been a call for justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

When this year\u2019s Oscars tanks, it won\u2019t just be due to the pandemic. America, it seems, is on to Hollywood\u2019s greatest performance of all: Hypocrisy in plain sight.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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