Harvey Weinstein’s Fall Opens the Floodgates in Hollywood<br />“The Weinstein scandal would probably have been taken less seriously if Cosby, Ailes and others hadn’t come first and been within easy memory.”<br />Melinda McGillivray, who stepped forward last year to accuse Mr. Trump of groping her at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida in 2003, told BuzzFeed last week<br />that Ms. Paltrow and Ms. Jolie had an impact her accusation did not because of their star power.<br />“See you at the next Oscars, where — and this is true — Casey Affleck will be presenting Best Actress.”<br />The reference was cutting: Mr. Affleck, who won the best actor award at this year’s Oscars for “Manchester by<br />the Sea,” had settled sexual harassment allegations made against him by two female producers in civil suits.<br />The BuzzFeed writer Doree Shafrir weighed in on the list, writing of men who were said to be guilty of behaviors like leering: “Things do get complicated<br />when you start lumping all this behavior together in a big anonymous spreadsheet of unsubstantiated allegations against dozens of named men.”<br />Ms. Jacobson, the film producer, said, “There’s an importance to a careful vetting and a careful reposting and not just a free-for-all.” She added<br />that she was in favor of more information, not less, which is why, she said, the industry has to tackle the use of nondisclosure agreements.<br />Since 2015, the Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, the Fox News prime-time host Bill O’Reilly<br />and the comedian and actor Bill Cosby have suffered professional, financial or reputational setbacks after numerous women told stories of their sexual misconduct.<br />And one list circulating among ranking female executives in the industry has tracked a string of promotions of men to senior jobs — at Apple<br />and AMC, Sony and Hulu, Fox and CBS — amid fear that progress for women has stalled since November
