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QuebecYank

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Mon Dec 11, 2017, 04:36 PM Dec 2017

Meryl Streep covers up her past [View all]

When Dustin Hoffman was accused of sexually assaulting a woman, I immediately thought of what Meryl Streep had said of her first encounter with Hoffman. She said that he had grabbed her breast. This was reported decades ago.
Earlier this year, before the Weinstein accusations, I read where Hoffman had slapped Streep during a break in filming of their movie Kramer v Kramer
Now, after the outing of Hoffman, the assaults of Streep were raised publicly, and she has now denied the incidents ever happened.
Well! Taking into account how vocal she was about Walt Disney (calling him an anti-Semite), and speaking out about Trump, etc., she seems to be backtracking.
It appears she doesn't want to admit that she kept quiet - like all the others - and in doing so enabled him to assault other women.
As for Weinstein, I wouldn't be surprised if she knew what he was up to, but choose to ignore it in exchange for Oscar-nominated performances in his films. He did after all - with her permission - go to the the Academy, and *persuade* them to give her the Oscar for 'The Iron Lady', instead of odds-on favorite Viola Davis.

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