Lot of tweets about this sleazeball. While I thought it would be Nickelodeon's Dan Schneider to be exposed next, James Toback is gaining ground.
Thirty women have spoken out about his twisted requests. Evidently Toback went to the same school as Weinstein.
And there is an article on UNDERAGE pick-up attempts. Pointing this out for MF because that does satisfy Rule #1. :)
https://twitter.com/i/moments/922077100936499200
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Pete Quily @pqpolitics 4h4 hours ago
7 Years ago. Sleazy Film Director James Toback's Underage Pick-up Attempt by Adrian Chen at Gawker, March 31st 2010
http://gawker.com/5506842/sleazy-film-director-james-tobacks-underage-pick-up-attempt
About 10 years... when I was about 14. This man approached me on the street around 72nd street and broadway. He told me his name was James Toback and that I had "the look" and that he could make me a star. He told me he was working on some movie called "Harvard Man" and name dropped Sarah Michelle Gellar. He gave me his phone number and told me he was giving a lecture at like Hunter college (I think) the next day and that I should come to the lecture. I went home and told my parents about this. They said I could call him, but they would need to speak to him if this was to proceed any further.
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Toback did this to my friend when she was seventeen years old, picking her up at a deli near our NYC high school. He took her to a taping of Charlie Rose and asked her how often she masturbated. She wisely declined an invitation to audition for him in a hotel room.
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carmencita ago
Somehow this all seems to be happening way too fast. Boom Boom Boom.
migratorypatterns ago
Never fast enough for me.
Some very angry victims have been waiting a long time for their stories to be heard. Think about it. There was no media outlet that would touch this ... now there is.
carmencita ago
You certainly are right about that. It is just that so many do not trust them.
migratorypatterns ago
They're disinfo agents.
We wanted people to speak ... they're speaking .... and now hauling off PedoWood abusers is distraction?
No, it's what we were after!!!! This will lead to the bigger fish and then the owners of the fish pond!!!