As with Harvey Weinstein, allegations regarding the predatory behavior of writer/director James Toback (above) were an open secret in Hollywood and New York. Now, 38 women have come forward, claiming he sexually harassed them. Toback denies the charges.
Glenn Whipp of the Los Angeles Times reports:
He prowled the streets of Manhattan looking for attractive young women, usually in their early 20s, sometimes college students, on occasion a high schooler. He approached them in Central Park, standing in line at a bank or drug store or at a copy center while they worked on their resumes.
His opening line had a few variations. One went: “My name's James Toback. I'm a movie director. Have you ever seen ‘Black and White' or ‘Two Girls and a Guy'?”
Toback's goal, Whipp writes, was to have them agree to interviews or auditions that quickly turned sexual:
Read Full Article »During these meetings, many of the women said, Toback boasted of sexual conquests with the famous and then asked humiliating personal questions. How often do you masturbate? How much pubic hair do you have? He'd tell them, they said, that he couldn't properly function unless he “jerked off” several times a day. And then he'd dry-hump them or masturbate in front of them, ejaculating into his pants or onto their bodies and then walk away. Meeting over.
