L.A. prosecutors reviewing new sex assault case involving Kevin Spacey

[fleur-de-lisa]

https://www.yahoo.com/news/l-prosecutors-reviewing-sex-assault-case-involving-kevin-192000068.html

Los Angeles prosecutors said on Wednesday they were reviewing a sexual assault case involving actor Kevin Spacey.

"A sex assault case was presented yesterday to our office by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department involving Kevin Spacey. It remains under review," Los Angeles District Attorney spokesman Greg Risling said in an emailed statement, without providing details.

Representatives for the actor did not immediately return requests for comment on Wednesday. The District Attorney's office said in April that it was reviewing a case involving Spacey dating from 1992, involving an adult male.

More than 30 men have said they were victims of unwanted sexual advances by Spacey, who became embroiled in controversy last year when actor Anthony Rapp accused him of trying to seduce him in 1986 when Rapp was 14. In October, Spacey apologized for any inappropriate conduct with Rapp but has not commented since.

[hlthe2b]

1. sigh....

Why are so many talented people such horrible people?

[MrsCoffee]

2. I heard his new movie made $126 on opening day.

That's one hundred twenty six dollars, not one hundred twenty six million dollars as I first read it.

[WillowTree]

3. And a total of something like $615 for the weekend. In other words, Spacey is pretty much toast.

Breaks my heart.

I still haven't forgiven him for the atrocity that was "Beyond the Sea". Total delusion that he thought he could even imitate the cool and smooth of Bobby Darin.

[LanternWaste]

4. Sometimes, I feel pretty rotten about separating the art from the artist.

We can enjoy books that may not be in line with our political ideology (I think William Buckley is a damned genius with language), dance to music created by assholes (I'll still tap toes to Jackson's 'Billy Jean'), and appreciate art made by idiots (James Henry Pullen may be the only sculptor I'll ever appreciate on a visceral level).

In fact, this is mostly what we do all the time. If we didn’t, we would have very few options for entertainment. From Wagner to Spacey, from Jimmy Page to “Don Giovanni,” there's a lot of creepy men out there.

When I'm listening to Wagner, I almost invariably remember what Brian Magee wrote: "I sometimes think there are two Wagners in our culture, almost unrecognizably different from one another: the Wagner possessed by those who know his work, and the Wagner imagined by those who know him only by name and reputation..."

So I listen to Wagner, I enjoy it, and for a delicious twist of antiSemitic irony, I listen to The Master: Mendelssohn.