A woman who gave FOOT RUBS to Dustin Hoffman, is complaining he went too far.
FOOT RUBS?
When you are STUPID enough to put yourself in a position of adulation and servitude, giving FOOT RUBS to somebody, do you expect a whole lot of respect?
If you are happily posing for publicity photos with this guy...for PLAYBOY...what message does THAT send?
Now she's writing a "guest editorial" and the message is SHAME SHAME SHAME.
The message is more accurately, TEASE TEASE TEASE.
Either you tell the man, "No, don't touch my tits, don't touch my tush..." or you allow him to keep right on doing it and acting like you don't mind.
Oh, right. EVENTUALLY, she told him off. She told "Mr. Method Actor" to stop diddling with her before she goes out on stage. That came a little late.
She whines that a few days later, he was touching her ("Groping") is her word) again.
Maybe because she was acting like she was playing "catch me catch me?"
Let's not be mean and say "she was asking for it," but how many women who condescend, apparently quite a few times, to give FOOT RUBS, are sending an "I'm not interested" message? As opposed to, "keep flirting...I'm just playing hard to get."
Here's the two of them in "Death of a Salesman" YEARS AGO.
Hoffman is playing a middle aged business man.
Rossitter is what, playing stupid? Doing Goldie Hawn?
I took photos of Dustin Hoffman once. He was polite, tolerant, and he seemed to be what almost everyone says he is: a fairly humble and pleasant guy. I don't for a minute think that my experience means a whole lot. After all, I wasn't on assignment from Playboy and asking him and his actress co-star to play frisky for me.
Rossitter wrote her expose for "Hollywood Reporter." Did she fight Dylan Farrow to get this, or is "Hollywood Reporter" alternating on "let's keep harping on the little old Jews?"
Funny, Anita Hill isn't writing "why haven't they forced Clarence Hill to resign" pieces.
Maybe she realize it's in the past. That there's no evidence he's done anything awful since.
Isn't that a valid point? That we shouldn't flog someone for what was done decades ago, in another time and place, when being PC wasn't such a life and death issue, and touching a fanny couldn't get you booted out of the U.S. Senate?
Notice the line, "I would stop at his calves."
Why the FUCK were you massaging his feet at ALL, lady?
I could see doing it once, if he had a cramp. But fer Chrissake, HOW MANY TIMES WERE YOU MASSAGING HIS FUCKING FEET LIKE A SLAVE GIRL?
Now we have the "money shot," the anecdote about Hoffman pulling Rossetter's slip up over her head.
We don't know if he did it, or if the slip was over her head, or for how long. A quick flash?
It's important to remember that "show biz folk" ARE strange. I know this...from SHOW BIZ FOLK. They've told me many a Trumpish anecdote about seeing people walking around half naked, leaving their dressing room doors shut, routinely undressing or dressing without much modesty because it's a hectic environment and "show biz folk" are sophisticated.
What Hoffman did, if he did it, would not have been that shocking to backstage people. And at NO TIME did Rossetter do the SMART thing, and a) stop massaging the man's feet, b) stop allowing him to be so close to her, and c) not knee him in the nuts. Notice that "she became so fed up with Hoffman..." SHE DID A PLAYBOY SHOOT WITH HIM, knowing damn well PLAYBOY would want a sexy photo or none at all.
Hypocrisy, they last name is ROSSETTER.
What would you do if Dustin Hoffman was getting grabby? Tell him off the very first time, right? Refuse to massage his feet, right? Make sure that a burly stage hand was alongside you in the wings when you were both waiting to make an entrance, right?
Otherwise, you're STUPID. Right?
Now let's go back in time to the big story that holier-than-thou John Oliver was bitching about in his ambush of Dustin Hoffman. You remember. Oliver was declaring, in his sanctimonious haughty way, that HE was "pissed off" at Hoffman's actions, and not accepting any apology (as if Hoffman gave HIM one). Here's the director of Hoffman's film explaining what happened on that set:
The bitching and moaning on this is that Hoffman was middle-aged and the intern was 17. As if Hoffman was asking to see ID. As if Hoffman was seriously interested in bedding her. As if 17 year-olds don't have the capacity to avoid frisky talk on a film set.
Yes, at some point in our warped culture, a culture where eBay can sell fake porn photos of celebs as real, and anyone can watch PORNHUB or visit Blogspot's many porn blogs just by ticking the "I'm over 18" box, we've gone conservative and PC about CERTAIN issues.
But when did we take a page from the backward world of ISIS and Boko Haram and superstition, and start witch hunts?
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