{"id":12291,"date":"2017-10-25T01:24:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/10\/25\/james-toback-the-film-maker-accused-of-being-a-sexual-predator\/"},"modified":"2017-10-25T01:24:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T23:24:44","slug":"james-toback-the-film-maker-accused-of-being-a-sexual-predator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=12291","title":{"rendered":"James Toback: the film-maker accused of being a sexual predator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s worked with Robert Downey Jr, Sienna Miller and Alec Baldwin and, according to numerous women, used his connections to harass and intimidateDirector James Toback accused of sexual harassment by 38 womenThere\u2019s a strong chance the average moviegoer isn\u2019t familiar with the name James Toback. It\u2019s a fact the 72-year-old writer-director is allegedly painfully aware of. A recent Los Angeles Times expos\u00e9 paints a portrait of a man bragging and name-dropping to get what he wants. According to more than 200 testimonies, what Toback wants is to sexually harass and intimidate women and post-Harvey Weinstein, he\u2019s the next Hollywood heavyweight to find himself accused of being an aggressive predator. Related: Moguls and starlets: 100 years of Hollywood\u2019s corrosive, systemic sexism Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2017\/oct\/24\/james-toback-sexual-harassment-allegations-film-maker\" target=\"_blank\">James Toback: the film-maker accused of being a sexual predator<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He\u2019s worked with Robert Downey Jr, Sienna Miller and Alec Baldwin and, according to numerous women, used his connections to harass and intimidateDirector James Toback accused of sexual harassment by 38 womenThere\u2019s a strong chance the average moviegoer isn\u2019t familiar with the name James Toback. It\u2019s a fact the 72-year-old [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}