An editor tried to publish Weinstein allegations 20 years ago and more stories you might have missed
In this week's Art Post Outpost, THR's Kim Masters reveals the 'wall of silence' that stopped her article
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How fear and a 'wall of siIence' kept Harvey Weinstein allegations under wraps for decades (As It Happens)
"At the 2015 Oscars, Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was thanked more frequently than God. Now, he's been fired from his own company after reports of numerous incidents of sexual harassment were published in The New York Times last week. Kim Masters, editor-at-large with The Hollywood Reporter, has tried to publish a story about these allegations. But she says her source withdrew at the last minute. 'It was more than 20 years ago. I heard through a colleague, a director who happened to be a woman, had heard about a very well-known actress who had one of these bad experiences — a very bad experience as it was told to us — with Harvey. We immediately started looking into it, of course. And it was like this wall of silence that we could not penetrate.'"
Meet the Breaking Bad tour guide who regularly scrapes pizzas off an elderly couple's roof (As It Happens)
"Frank Sandoval usually spends part of his time driving enthusiastic Breaking Bad fans around Albuquerque, N.M., and part of it scraping pizzas off an elderly couple's roof. Sandoval runs Breaking Bad RV Tours, and one of his regular stops is the house that belongs to science teacher-turned-meth dealer Walter White in the hit AMC TV show. In the show's third season, a frustrated White tosses a pizza onto his garage roof after having a spat with his wife. Sandoval said re-enactments of the scene by fans has become such a common problem that he brings a ladder on his tours so he can retrieve the pizzas for the elderly couple who live there."
Grab a shake at Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe, Riverdale is coming to Edmonton (CBC Edmonton)
"A little piece of Riverdale is coming to Edmonton. Route 99 Diner in Old Strathcona will be transformed into Pop's Chock'lit Shoppe. For a few hours on Friday, the restaurant will look like something ripped from the pages of the famed Archie comic books. There will be a Pop's sign on the window, the staff will be clad in classic Fifties garb and there will be free chocolate and vanilla milkshakes for the first 200 customers to come through the door. Route 99 was one the few diners in the country that Netflix is helping to transform into the iconic shake shop to promote the second season of its TV series Riverdale, based on the characters from the original Archie comics."
7 Canadian books to read on the International Day of the Girl (CBC Books)
"Oct. 11, 2017 is the International Day of the Girl, a day organized by the UN to promote the fulfilment of girls' basic human rights. So celebrate by reading one — or all seven — of these great books about strong young women: Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali, The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis, The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks, #NotYourPrincess edited by Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale, Girl Mans Up by M-E Girard, Fatty Legs by Christy Jordan-Fenton and Margaret Pokiak-Fenton and Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery."
Ai Weiwei documents the human flow of the refugee crisis in his new film (q)
"'Everything is art. Everything is politics.' That's a quote from one of the biggest contemporary artists working today, the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei, and it sums him up so perfectly. For his art and activism, Ai Weiwei has been beaten and jailed, and for a long time, he was not allowed to leave China. But soon after getting his passport back, he used his freedom to travel the world and explore another issue: the global refugee crisis. He places a critical eye on the role each one of us plays, whether we realize it or not. It's been an inspiration for his art and his new documentary, Human Flow. Weiwei joined Tom Power to discuss his documentary, public art and his love of Instagram."
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