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freshwest

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7. Hollywood always had problems. Don't recall any women being treated fairly there.
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 12:22 AM
Oct 2014

As far as the propositions go, I didn't get those as often as proposals.

Total strangers or casual friends or class mates who out of the blue asked me to meet their mothers, or marry them. Promising me all kinds of stuff.

So I started wearing an engagement ring. Some still didn't get the hint. They still kept it up for some reason.

As Benedick said, 'The world must be peopled.'

This producer had such a sense of entitlement it's in my 'Well, ain't he just so special' box. Otherwise called the 'Jerk' box.

I wonder if there's ever been a survey of how many women got the 'casting couch' treatment. Or how many got their lives destroyed if they said yes, or if they said no.

I'm glad that Marlo and Gloria still suceeded in everything they ever did, and had no real need for employment from the Jerk.

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