No Baby Will Ever Be Named Harvey Again

Filed in National by on November 2, 2017

After this year, the name Harvey will forever be linked with disaster. First Hurricane Harvey drowned Houston, then Harvey Weinstein’s fall triggered an earthquake in Hollywood. The first one is history, but the aftershocks from the second continue. Yesterday saw new allegations against Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Piven and — I kid you not — Dustin Hoffman.

One welcome development has been renewed attention to actor Corey Feldman’s long-voiced warnings of predatory pedophiles in Hollywood. Yesterday he visited Tower Hill alum Dr. Oz to talk about his assault by a pedophile actor, whom he finally named on air: John Grissom. Didn’t ring a bell with me, either, but they appeared together in a couple of ’80s movies. Grissom later served prison time for a 2003 child molestation conviction.

Meanwhile allegations emerged that Danny Masterson, best known from “That ’70s Show,” faces rape charges that are being “slow-rolled” through the legal system. This particular case drags another Hollywood secret society, Scientology, into the mess. Scientologists are known to try to keep police out of such matters between members, adding a layer of paranoia to the ickiness parfait.

Forget the Richter scale. For Hollywood, this is the Big One.

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  1. Dana says:
    November 2, 2017 at 9:55 pm

    Harvey was already only the 348th most popular boys’ name, though it does beat out Dana, which came in at 1692. 🙁

  2. chris says:
    November 2, 2017 at 10:01 pm

    Even before the scandals, would never scar a kid with the name HARVEY.
    Anyone in the mood for a Harvey Wallbanger? LOL

  3. Dana says:
    November 2, 2017 at 10:01 pm

    Alby wrote:

    Forget the Richter scale. For Hollywood, this is the Big One.

    Nope, not at all. Kevin Spacey’s ‘coming out’ is being used to obscure his preference for underaged boys, and Hollywood has long feted Roman Polanski, who was convicted of raping a 13-year-old girl. Michael Jackson? Forgiven. The glitteratti don’t care, not in the slightest, as long as the victims aren’t famous.

    Woody Allen, who married his step-daughter, is making a movie with a sex scene between a 44-year-old man and his 15-year-old ‘concubine,’ and nobody cares.

  4. Alby says:
    November 2, 2017 at 11:03 pm

    @Dana: Didn’t you see? Eight more complaints today about Spacey. More rape allegations against Weinstein, who is going to face prosecution. More on Piven. Brett Ratner, whose name I had never heard, and James Toback, also unknown to me.

    I didn’t make my prediction lightly. The tide has turned. We aren’t going back.

  5. puck says:
    November 3, 2017 at 5:43 am

    From NY Daily News:

    Welcome to the life of Leonardo DiCaprio in the post-Weinstein era—at least if this New York Daily News report is anything to go on.

    According to NYDN sources who spotted DiCaprio at a lower Manhattan Halloween party this week, the star showed up dressed in a human shield of “five friends” and a baseball cap. Then, he barely moved or talked to anyone (one source attests that Leo “had a drink and ate something without hardly moving”).

    Sure, everyone has an off night, but for DiCaprio that usually means fewer female models trailing him, not traveling in a human cockblockmobile. NYDN’s source seems to think DiCaprio’s sheepish behavior (the room was full of women who, according to the report, were just his type) has to do with the heightened attention being paid by the media to sexism and sexual misconduct, a shift that began with allegations from within the entertainment industry. “[DiCaprio] has always been guarded, but it seems different now,” the source said. “These guys need to be careful.”

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