Last week, former child actor\u00a0Corey Feldman<\/a>\u00a0(Stand by Me<\/em>,\u00a0The Goonies<\/em>)\u00a0tweeted<\/a>\u00a0that he\u2019d been asked for a statement about\u00a0Harvey Weinstein\u2019s sexual-harassment and rape allegations<\/a>. It makes sense, since he has spent years speaking out about\u00a0sexual abuse in Hollywood<\/a>\u2014not of women, but of young men. He has long alleged that pedophilia is the worst problem in Hollywood and that it\u2019s in part responsible for his best friend Corey Haim\u2019s eventual death by drug overdose.<\/p>\n Speaking to\u00a0The Hollywood Reporter<\/em>\u00a0in 2016,\u00a0Feldman said<\/a>: \u201c[Haim] had more direct abuse than I did. With me, there were some molestations, and it did come from several hands, so to speak, but with Corey, his was direct rape, whereas mine was not actual rape. And his also occurred when he was 11. My son is 11 now, and I can\u2019t even begin to fathom the idea of something like that happening to him. It would destroy his whole being. As I look at my son, a sweet, innocent, 11-year-old boy and then try to put him in Corey Haim\u2019s shoes, I go, \u2018Oh my God\u2014well of course he was erratic and not well-behaved on sets and things like that.\u2019 What more could we expect of him really?\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cEverybody deals with things differently. I\u2019m not able to name names. People are frustrated, people are angry, they want to know how is this happening, and they want answers\u2014and they turn to me and they say, \u2018Why don\u2019t you be a man and stand up and name names and stop hiding and being a coward?\u2019 I have to deal with that, which is not pleasant, especially given the fact that I would love to name names. I\u2019d love to be the first to do it. But unfortunately California conveniently enough has a statute of limitations that prevents that from happening. Because if I were to go and mention anybody\u2019s name, I would be the one that would be in legal problems and I\u2019m the one that would be sued. We should be talking to the district attorneys and the lawmakers in California, especially because this is where the entertainment industry is and this is a place where adults have more direct and inappropriate connection with children than probably anywhere else in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n http:\/\/youtu.be\/roW238dfUUk<\/p>\n Legal problems stemming from sexual-harassment or -assault allegations are a major issue in Hollywood, and contribute to\u00a0a culture of silence.<\/a>\u00a0Weinstein is alleged to have paid off at least eight of his accusers\u2014on the condition that they agree to strict nondisclosure agreements to prevent their stories from going public. Furthermore, the movie mogul\u2019s employment contract at The Weinstein Company reportedly\u00a0protected him<\/a>\u00a0from being fired because of sexual-harassment allegations.<\/p>\n Beyond the legal hurdles, Weinstein accuser Rose McGowan alleges that the actor Ben Affleck knew about his sometime employer\u2019s predatory behavior and failed to speak up, while other A-listers Matt Damon and Russell Crowe\u00a0were named<\/a>\u00a0by journalist Sharon Waxman as unwittingly helping to kill a\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0expos\u00e9 on Weinstein back in 2004.<\/p>\n Similar barriers exist in the cases of abuse allegations from younger men in Hollywood. Feldman once discussed child abuse\u00a0on\u00a0The View<\/em><\/a>, where Barbara Walters charged that he was \u201cdamaging an entire industry.\u201d<\/p>\n And when people make allegations that are later withdrawn or dismissed, it becomes that much more difficult for victims to speak up. Famed director Bryan Singer (X-Men<\/em>) has had accusations leveled against him for years, from\u00a0a lawsuit<\/a>\u00a0alleging that he made minors shower in the nude on film for\u00a0Apt Pupil<\/em>\u00a0in 1997 to\u00a0sexual-abuse allegations in 2014<\/a>. The\u00a0Apt Pupil<\/em>\u00a0lawsuit was later dismissed due to lack of evidence, and the other sexual-abuse lawsuits were withdrawn by the accusers. However, that hasn\u2019t stopped actors from singling out Singer. On Sunday, as the Weinstein scandal continued to unfold, actress Evan Rachel Wood\u00a0tweeted<\/a>, \u201cYeah lets not forget Brian [sic] Singer either.\u201d<\/p>\n And then there was former\u00a0The Real O\u2019Neals<\/em>\u00a0star Noah Galvin, who in\u00a0a since-deleted quote<\/a>\u00a0from an interview with Vulture, said: \u201cYeah. Bryan Singer likes to invite little boys over to his pool and diddle them in the f\u2014ing dark of night. (Laughs<\/em>.) I want nothing to do with that. I think there are enough boys in L.A. that are questionably homosexual who are willing to do things with the right person who can get them in the door. In New York there is a healthy gay community, and that doesn\u2019t exist in L.A.\u201d<\/p>\n The quote was later removed from the interview and Galvin issued an apology on Twitter: \u201cI sincerely apologize to Bryan Singer for the horrible statement I made. My comments were false and unwarranted. It was irresponsible and stupid of me to make those allegations against Bryan, and I deeply regret doing so.\u201d<\/p>\n The Singer allegations were also\u00a0to be included<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0An Open Secret<\/em>, filmmaker Amy Berg\u2019s\u00a0eye-opening documentary<\/a>\u00a0on the child sexual-abuse epidemic in Hollywood, but were later excised from the final cut. (Singer, for his part, stated that, \u201cThe allegations against me are outrageous, vicious, and completely false.\u201d)<\/p>\n
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TINSELTOWN<\/h4>\n<\/div>\nHollywood\u2019s Other \u2018Open Secret\u2019 Besides Harvey Weinstein: Preying on Young Boys<\/h1>\n\u2018This is a place where adults have more direct and inappropriate connection with children than probably anywhere else in the world,\u2019 claimed former child actor Corey Feldman.<\/h2>\n
\u2018This is a place where adults have more direct and inappropriate connection with children than probably anywhere else in the world,\u2019 claimed former child actor Corey Feldman.<\/h2>\n
IRA MADISON III
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