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Director Bryan Singer attends the 2014 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Graydon Carter on March 2, 2014 in West Hollywood, Calif.Alberto E. Rodriguez鈥擶ireImage/Getty ImagesBy Kate PickertMay 5, 2014 5:02 P stanley cup M EDTUpdated 5:50pm ESTThe casting couch is as old as Hollywood itself. Ever since there stanley cup have been aspiring actors eager for a chance to break into the business, there have been powerful producers and directors offering opportunity and access in exchange for sexual favors. But in the wake of accusations that X-Men director Bryan Singer sexually abused underage boys, therersquo a re-examination now going on in Hollywood of exploitation in all its forms. Some of it concerns the alleged abuse of minors, but the scandal has also thrown a spotlight on the places where the line between Hollywood networking and the casti stanley cup ng couch is sometimes blurry, if not obscured altogether.In a lawsuit filed May 3, a British man identified only as John Doe No. 117 says that when he was 16, he had sex with Broadway producer Gary Goddard and that Goddard later lured him to a London hotel suite where he was sexually abused by Singer. In a press conference held Monday in Los Angeles, Jeff Herman, a lawyer for the alleged victim, outlined the case and presented what he said was evidence linking the alleged victim to Goddard and Singer. Herman showed members of the media an email, a handwritten note and several photographs that he said support his client claims that he travel Bwoe There Is a Risk to Democracy. Brazil Wakes Up to the Reality of a Bolsonaro Presidency
Sen. John McCain in Washington on June 18, 2014.T.J. Kirkpatrick鈥擥etty ImagesBy Zeke J MillerJuly 17, 2014 9:26 PM EDTArizona Sen. John McCain, once one of the most ardent defenders of American involvement in Iraq, said Thursday that had he been President in 2003 the af1 U.S. might never have invaded.Yo yeezy u ;ll find this surprising, McCain said at an event hosted by CNN and National Journal Thursday in Washington, but I think I would have been more reluctant to commit American troops.The 2008 Republican presidential nominee and one of the chief proponents of the Iraq surge argued that his background in the military and his experience in Washington would hav air max e led him to see through flimsy evidence, had he defeated former President George W. Bush in the 2000 Republican primaries.I think I would have challenged the evidence with more scrutiny, McCain said. I hope that I would have been able to see through the evidence that was presented at the time.The guy named Curveball that we were relying on turned out to be some guy in a German prison that was an alcoholic, McCain continued. On the evidencemdash;I think I would have challenged the evidence with greater scrutiny.But McCain added that he was not blaming the Republican President for his handling the run-up to the war, which polarized the nation and cost more than 4,400 American and tens of thousands of Iraqi lives. I ;m not blaming P |
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