On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 5:04 PM Tom Wolper <twol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 5:25 PM Melissa P <takingupspace...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> In such a severe case of misogyny, I'm assuming she's an enabler. >> Perhaps I'm making an incorrect assumption. >> >> I've just read a story in another group about how he helped a high school >> classmate he really didn't know when the classmate lost his job and >> couldn't find another. >> >> Very few people are pure evil. >> > > My assumption was that she was willfully ignorant about him, possibly in > denial. She might have heard snippets of stories over the years but there > was no good to come from confronting Les about rumors. To call her an > enabler means that she knew what was going on and I won't dismiss that > possibility. How she responds might shed light on that. > > As to how she got her jobs, I think we all agree that it's naive to > believe that show business is a meritocracy. And it would be naive to think > that there was an open competition for host for those two shows and she > proved herself better than her competitors. But that's a systemic problem > with the industry and not simply a strike at her for not being deserving. > I know of one concrete example of pure nepotism from my time in tv. A producer hired his girlfriend on every show and gave her titles for which she was woefully unqualified. It forced others to double up and assume her responsibilities, and it forced others to jobs where she was technically her supervisor. The woman in question could not have been nicer, but the situation made a lot of people resent her. They eventually broke up, and she is no longer in the industry, but the producer still is. Now that their boss is no longer Chen’s husband, it’d take a miracle for the casts and crews of her shows not to speak up to the new CBS bosses. Chen might be sweet, she might’ve been oblivious, but Hollywood is too cutthroat to let that situation stand. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
