Hollywood

by  Julie Telgenhoff

“It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.” ― Mark Twain

It is difficult trying to discuss the Hollywood ‘Tranny’ movement because it’s not a popular subject. We all need to understand how this ‘inverted’ and ‘perverted’ agenda is being pushed upon all of us, especially the youth, by the globalists, controllers, Satanists, whatever people want to call them …they control every institution especially Hollywood.

These sadistic controllers of our world are pushing the gender inversion and confusion (gender fluidity) …if you know any young adults and/or school age children, many now discuss there being 3 genders, one such being pangender. Wikipedia’s definition of it is as follows: 

“a non-binary gender defined as being more than one gender. A pangender person may consider themselves a member of all genders.”

These younger adults and children have been fully and sucessfully indoctrinated into this planned agenda unbeknown to them or their parents….

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The film and television industries may be America’s go-to source of escapism and entertainment, but the glossy magazine covers documenting celebrity meltdowns and box-office predictions serve as a convenient distraction from some of the lesser known connections tying together Hollywood and the nation’s national security establishment.

In this two-part series, Watching the Hawks’ Sean Stone is joined by a variety of Hollywood insiders in exploring the entertainment industry’s institutional embrace of Washington, DC’s military-industrial complex.

Hollywood insider, Stephen Shellen, appears at 21:10 of the first video. He is a good friend of mine and has fought tirelessly to expose covert harassment and targeting. His new feature film, The Spark, deals with this subject.

For profit commercial entertainment like movies, music, TV shows and pro sports are mindless entertainment tools used by the controlling elite to distract and pacify people while continually exploiting them for labor and consumption …

Not until humanity wakes up to what is being done to innocent people around the globe will all this be stopped and this film will give you an inside view into things you didn’t know about Hollywood, D.C.

Get this information out to the masses by sharing it with your friends and family….

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I remember when my parents told me that if I worked hard enough, I could be anything I wanted when I grew up ….even become president of the United States one day.

That was back in the 1970s…

How little I didn’t know then …

All these industries are controlled ..ALL OF THEM.

No longer can if be ‘when I grow up, I am going to be ??? Sorry to say, but if you think you can be mainstream this or that …better get into their club…

CHRISTIAN DIOR’S FREEMASON FASHION SHOW…

This is a fashion show from January 22 2018, and i mean take a look at the amazing styles and dresses!!!! I guess this is in style for spring 2018.

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When watching the following video clip, I’d like to know how people can dismiss these things as someone having drug abuse issues or “they’re just tired of the fame and want to be left alone.”

It’s more than that…

And of course it may sound crazy, but all celebrities are controlled in some way. Some are born into it and go through years of mind control and training. Some sell their souls for fame and fortune.

Could some of them possibly be clones???

Have any of you noticed how freemasonic and satanic all their music videos are?

….or all the Illuminati symbols their always shoving in our faces?

To those that say “lol the Illuminati isn’t real it’s a joke xddd” ….that’s what they want you to think, they’ve turned the illuminati into a joke.

Do you believe and follow everything the government, celebrities or anyone who has some sort of power or public influence?

If so …. may just be a sheep.

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Six women filed a lawsuit Wednesday against Harvey Weinstein and current and former executives at both The Weinstein Company and Miramax accusing the disgraced movie producer of sexual misconduct, and a coverup by his associates.

BREITBART|Filed in New York’s U.S. District Court, the suit says the women encountered “credible and objective threat of being blacklisted by Weinstein and major film producers such as Miramax and TWC if they refused Weinstein’s unwanted sexual advances or complained about his behavior.”

The civil suit says the women were subjected to “flashing, groping, fondling, harassing, battering, false imprisonment, sexual assault, attempted rape and/or completed rape.”

“The proverbial ‘casting couch’ was Harvey Weinstein’s office of choice, a choice facilitated and condoned by TWC and Miramax,” the suit reads.

The women — Louisette Geiss, Katherine Kendall, Zoe Brock, Sarah Ann Masse, Melissa Sagemiller, and Nannette Klatt — who want a class action certification, accused Weinstein, his associates, “complicit producers,” attorneys, reporters, and other operatives of constructing what the suit calls “The Weinstein Sexual Enterprise” which helped “facilitate and conceal his pattern of unwanted sexual conduct.”

“Each participant in the Weinstein Sexual Enterprise had a systematic linkage to each other participant through corporate ties, contractual relationships, financial ties, and the continuing coordination of their activities,” the lawsuit says, claiming that the so-called enterprise violated the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act.

In a statement, the six women said: “Harvey Weinstein is a predator. Bob knew it. The board knew it. The lawyers knew it. The private investigators knew it. Hollywood knew it. We knew it. Now the world knows it.”

Among the defendants named in the civil suit include New York Knicks owner James Dolan and Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry.

The suit comes a day after the New York Times published a 7,800-word exposé detailing how Hillary Clinton, Bob Weinstein, the Walt Disney Company, and elite talent agency CAA were all complicit in facilitating or enabling Harvey Weinstein’s sexual abuse over a period of several decades.

Harvey Weinstein’s lawyers Blair Berk and Ben Brafman professed their client’s innocence of criminal conduct in a statement responding to the Times report.

“Mr. Weinstein has never at any time committed an act of sexual assault, and it is wrong and irresponsible to conflate claims of impolitic behavior or consensual sexual contact later regretted, with an untrue claim of criminal conduct,” Berk and Brafman said. “There is a wide canyon between mere allegation and truth, and we are confident that any sober calculation of the facts will prove no legal wrongdoing occurred. Nonetheless, to those offended by Mr. Weinstein’s behavior, he remains deeply apologetic.”

Meanwhile, Sandeep Rehal, who worked as Harvey Weinstein’s personal assistant for two years, is set to file a sexual harassment lawsuit of her own against the embattled producer.

“No one should have to endure what Ms. Rehal experienced at the hands of Harvey Weinstein,” said Rehal’s attorney Genie Harrison on Wednesday, announcing the forthcoming legal action. “We look forward to holding Harvey Weinstein, the Weinstein Company, and all other responsible parties, accountable for the trauma and harm inflicted on Ms. Rehal,” Harrison said.

JUST AS COREY FELDMAN WARNED, LOS ANGELES POLICE WERE QUICK TO DECLINE AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE SEXUAL PREDATORS WHO TORMENTED HIM WHEN HE WAS A CHILD.

(TFTP) As Corey Feldman predicted on the Today show over a week ago, the Los Angeles Police Department has quickly closed the investigation into the pedophile ring that allegedly operates in Hollywood.

LAPD officials told Page Six on Thursday that they would not be launching a full-scale investigation into the allegations because the statute of limitations has passed.

“The alleged accordance is out of statue and Robbery/Homicide have no avenues to pursue the case. However, the LAPD applauds Mr. Feldman for coming forward, as an out of statute assault report could potentially bolster any current and forthcoming case as it creates a pattern of behavior. The latest rash of sexual assault reports are particularly troubling and the LAPD encourages and will gladly take a report from anyone who feels they may be a victim,” an LAPD spokesperson said in a statement.

It took the department just a few days to decide that they were not interested in pursuing the case, despite the fact that new sex crimes have been popping up in Hollywood on a daily basis after producer Harvey Weinstein was outed in October.

Feldman responded to the news of the investigation getting shut down on Twitter, saying, “MAYBE NOW U WILL #BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY I NEED 2 DO IT MY WAY: LAPD Not Investigating Corey Feldman’s Abuse Claims.”

MAYBE NOW U WILL #BELIEVE ME WHEN I SAY I NEED 2 DO IT MY WAY: LAPD Not Investigating Corey Feldman’s Abuse Claims https://t.co/XmdD0M2MBH

— Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) November 9, 2017

Many critics and skeptics of Feldman’s claims have suggested that he is just doing this for money or publicity and that he should have gone to the police to make a formal complaint. However, the quick disregard that this case was given by the LAPD shows that the laws in California are set up in such a way as to make investigating older claims of abuse nearly impossible.

Prosecution for “normal” sexual assault has a statute of limitations of six years in the state of California. According to Feldman, he told the Santa Barbara police within this time period. However, according to Feldman, the police turned off the recorder when he named his abusers and never looked any further as they were more concerned with hammering Michael Jackson.

Even if Feldman’s abuse is not covered within the statute of limitations, the abusers are still out there, they are still mentally deranged and some of them are still in positions of power where they can prey on children. Any normal person would be under constant surveillance and have their lives run through a fine tooth comb if these types of allegations were leveled against them—but Feldman’s abusers, along with the likes of Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and others, seem to be getting a pass from local law enforcement.

Feldman has been extremely open about his traumatizing experiences in the entertainment industry throughout his career, and in recent weeks he has been taking things a step further by naming his abusers. As we reported last week, Feldman revealed during an interview with Dr. Oz that one of his abusers was former co-star John Grissom. Grissom is also a convicted child molester from other unrelated cases, lending more evidence to the fact that he could still be a very dangerous man.

On the same day that the LAPD decided to drop the case, it was also reported that Feldman’s “Goonies” co-star Sean Astin corroborated his story of Hollywood pedophile rings.

Astin told Page Six at TBS’s “Search Party” premiere that,

“Hopefully, this doesn’t play out as a personal tabloid story. The fact is, real people all over the country are starting to have a conversation, and it can be very distracting if it distills down into some kind of typical [story]. My only concern is [it] won’t actually develop into the complex conversation that needs to happen. And if it doesn’t, and it becomes about quickly pointing fingers and making accusations and the obvious stuff, I think it will be a missed opportunity.”

H/T: The Last American Vagabond

The following article was written by Aaron Nelson and originally published at ANTI MEDIA.

As more accusers come forward alleging sexual misconduct by powerful Hollywood figures, Family Guy fans have noticed a pattern: Seth MacFarlane has used the show and his platform to warn of these people several times, and he’s been doing it for many years.

1) Kevin Spacey in 2005

Twelve years before Anthony Rapp accused Kevin Spacey of sexually assaulting him when he was 14, an episode of Family Guy included a scene that seemed to suggest Spacey was a predator.

“Help, I’ve escaped from Kevin Spacey’s basement! Help me!” yells Stewie Griffin as he runs through a crowded mall wearing only a diaper.

Following the floodgate of accusations against Spacey, MacFarlane has yet to release a statement addressing the scene.

The avalanche of revelations about the perverted and predatory sexual underbelly of Hollywood and the entertainment industry is long overdue. It has always been an open secret of sorts, but the whole house is coming down right now as more people are suddenly feeling empowered to speak out, and the media is finally ready to listen and take seriously to the stories of victims.

But what if pedophilia and the sexual harassment of women in entertainment is only a symptom and not actually the disease?

Just below the surface, hidden in plain sight in Hollywood is the overwhelming influence of the occult and the esoteric schools of ancient black magic. It has always been present in this industry because those who seek power in our world have long recognized that television, film and music are the most efficient and important roadways into the public psyche and the collective conscience.

Many have warned us about this for years, composing volumes of books and videos, gathering evidence of this bizarre conspiracy.

“Hollywood is, as David Lynch titles it, an “inland empire” – a kind of covenantal city-state of its own, with its own religion, including all the trappings of neophytes, acolytes, servants, agents, star saints, hierophants and hierarchs and holy sites.  It is a veritable polis of initiatory esoterica where the holy sites and rites of Hollywood are not the altars of mainstream religion, but another ancient religion, ultimately summed up in the epithet of the ancient mysteries.  The ancient mysteries comprise the competing religious practices of the empires of old, but the one empire that seems to have achieved the most appropriate association with Hollywood is Babylon – the “gate of the gods”.” ~Jay Dyer

SEE MORE: PERVERTED Disney Empire: Symbolically Preparing Kids For The NWO & Sorcery (Black Magic) 

Clues appear in the form of symbols and the use of symbolic set and setting in order to introduce occult memes into the subconscious.

Subliminal messages packed with sexual innuendo including veiled pornographic images and reproductive anatomy are vaguely concealed in films. Music videos are laden with satanic imagery and overtly demonic themes.

Here is a compilation of examples of this in many of Disney’s children’s films:

Here is a compilation of Iluminati and satanic symbols appearing in music videos. There are hundreds of more examples of this that are quite easy to find.

Illuminati symbolism is a recurring theme, often resurfacing as the chosen celebrity covering one eye. The symbol of the one eye is of course the same single eye that watches from atop the symbolic pyramid, a symbol on our money and scattered throughout the political world.

There are so many instances of actors, musicians and pop stars being photographed with one eye covered that it defies the definition of coincidence.

Here is a collage with just a tiny fraction of available examples.

Hollywood has its own hidden language that is stunningly pervasive in entertainment media, with recurring themes applied over again in new contexts. There is so much to it that it cannot be ignored, but you don’t see it until you’ve been introduced to it.

Once you see, though, you see it everywhere.

The themes are applied in so many productions that it utterly defies coincidence, which means there must be some greater unifying message or purpose to it all.

Based on the type of symbols and when looked at in the historical context of esoteric religious movement, Egyptian theology, Babylonian mythology, Satan worship and so on, Hollywood and the movie industry is clearly working to serve a particular idealogical movement.

The worship of dark and satanic forces has historically been linked to human sacrifice, pedophilia, sexual perversion, ego worship, celebrity worship, fragmentation of the individual psyche into controllable parts, mind control and corruption of the soul.

The use of the occult and its symbols is a methodology employed to weaken the power of the individual and to create psychological slaves. It is a serious form of mind control.

While there certainly is reason to applaud the growing tidal wave of truth about Hollywood, one can only hope that these revelations ultimately go all the way to the core of the depravity in Hollywood, and that we can finally liberate our culture from these dark influences.

Source: Waking Times

ZeroHedge| As many predicted, it appears the Harvey Weinstein scandal which exposed rampant sexual abuse in Hollywood by powerful movers and shakers and a corresponding cover-up “culture of silence” was just the tip of the iceberg.

Overnight, Kevin Spacey issued what was clearly an already prepared and carefully crafted statement in response to bombshell allegations published by Buzzfeed a mere hours prior late Sunday night wherein actor Anthony Rapp alleged he was sexually assaulted by Spacey when Rapp was only 14-years old. And far from denying the allegations it appears that Spacey has more or less confirmed the assault on the then child actor who emerged as a Broadway star in the musical “Rent”, and who currently plays Lt. Stamets on “Star Trek: Discovery”.

Spacey posted his statement to Twitter, which actually reads as confirmation of the shocking allegations while attempting to obfuscate, saying, “I’m beyond horrified to hear his story. I honestly do not remember the encounter, it would have been over 30 years ago. But if I did behave then as he describes, I owe him the sincerest apology for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behavior, and I am sorry for the feelings he describes having carried with him all these years.”

pic.twitter.com/X6ybi5atr5

— Kevin Spacey (@KevinSpacey) October 30, 2017

The sequence of events which caused Rapp to come forward after all these years – a recent near encounter with the man he “dreaded” – are described by Buzzfeed, based on Rapp’s personal testimony, as follows:

Last June, Anthony Rapp settled in at the home of his good friend and fellow actor Camryn Manheim to watch the Tony Awards. The New York natives were both in Toronto working, and Manheim had invited Rapp and his boyfriend over to partake in the beloved theater geek ritual. But for the first time, Rapp — a working actor since he was 9 years old, and most famously part of the original cast of the musical Rent — felt something he’d never experienced before with the Tonys: dread.

And that’s because the host that night was Kevin Spacey.

Buzzfeed continues the description:

In an interview with BuzzFeed News, Rapp is publicly alleging for the first time that in 1986, Spacey befriended Rapp while they both performed on Broadway shows, invited Rapp over to his apartment for a party, and, at the end of the night, picked Rapp up, placed him on his bed, and climbed on top of him, making a sexual advance. According to public records, Spacey was 26. Rapp was 14.

Rapp posted a response to Spacey’s overnight statement a mere minutes later, saying, “I came forward with my story, standing on the shoulders of the many courageous women and men who have been speaking out” – which is an apparent reference to the women coming forward in the midst of the Harvey Weinstein revelations, which Rapp acknowledged when speaking to Buzzfeed.

The child actor, who began his career at the age of six and landed his first professional job at nine years old, told Buzzfeed that the experience haunted him all these years as Spacey’s fame grew and as he became a more of a ubiquitous presence across the film industry:

Rapp’s frustration, anger, and incredulity with the sexual boundary he said Spacey crossed with him grew as well. Seeing Spacey now, “My stomach churns,” Rapp said. “I still to this day can’t wrap my head around so many aspects of it. It’s just deeply confusing to me.”

to shine a light and hopefully make a difference, as they have done for me. 2/3

— Anthony Rapp (@albinokid) October 30, 2017

Rapp’s detailed recounting of the assault begins by being surprised that he was invited to Spacey’s Manhattan apartment for a party even though he was so young:

When he arrived at Spacey’s apartment, Rapp quickly realized that he was the only nonadult there — which, again, did not worry him, since he so often had found himself in similar situations as a child actor. The bigger issue: “I didn’t know anyone,” he said. “And I was quickly kind of bored.”

Rapp said he ended up wandering into the bedroom, sitting on the edge of the bed, and watching TV well past midnight.

And Rapp’s account of the moment the alleged assault happened includes reference to Spacey picking him up as a 14-year old boy “like a groom picks up the bride over the threshold” and then laying down on top of him:

“My memory was that I thought, Oh, everybody’s gone. Well, yeah, I should probably go home,” Rapp said. Spacey, he recalled, “sort of stood in the doorway, kind of swaying. My impression when he came in the room was that he was drunk.” Rapp doesn’t remember Spacey saying anything to him. Instead, Rapp said, “He picked me up like a groom picks up the bride over the threshold. But I don’t, like, squirm away initially, because I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’ And then he lays down on top of me.” 

“He was trying to seduce me,” Rapp said. “I don’t know if I would have used that language. But I was aware that he was trying to get with me sexually.” 

Rapp recalled this all happening — Spacey appearing at the door, coming into the room, picking him up, and putting him on the bed — in one clumsy action, with Spacey landing at a slight angle on top of him. He said Spacey “was, like, pressing into me,” and that he remembers Spacey “tightening his arms.” But while he can’t recall exactly how long Spacey remained on top of him, Rapp said he was able to “squirm” away after a short period.

The night ended when Rapp pushed Spacey away, went into the bathroom, and then headed for the apartment door:

“It was a frozen moment,” Rapp said of the entire encounter, with a deep, exasperated sigh. “In terms of fight or flight or freeze, I tend to freeze.”

After pushing Spacey off him, Rapp remembered he was able to step into the bathroom and close the door…

…Then I opened the door, and I was like, ‘OK, I’m going to go home now.’ He followed me to the front door of the apartment, and as I opened the door to leave, he was leaning on the front door [frame]. And he was like, ‘Are you sure you wanna go?’ I said, ‘Yes, good night,’ and then I did leave.”

As Buzzfeed’s fact-checkers confirm, what gives Rapp’s detailed account added veracity is that he attempted to convey the same exact allegations during a 2001 interview with the Advocate magazine – this, in addition to quietly telling multiple other people over a period of a couple decades. Buzzfeed explains further:

Between that encounter and Spacey winning the Oscar for Best Actor the following year for American Beauty, Rapp was riled up enough to speak about what Spacey did to him in a Q&A with the Advocate in 2001 — “I was bored, so I was in his bedroom watching TV and didn’t know everybody had left, and he came to the bedroom and he picked me up and lay down on top of me” — with Spacey’s name redacted from the story. (Bruce Steele, then the executive editor of the Advocate, confirmed to BuzzFeed News that Rapp was talking about Spacey.)

All of this sheds further light on a somewhat cryptic October 13 tweet by former television news anchor Heather Unruh, who tweeted the following while not explaining further:  “The Weinstein Scandal has emboldened me … I was a Kevin Spacey fan until he assaulted a loved one. Time the dominoes fell.”

The #weinsteinscandal has emboldened me– #truth time. I was a Kevin Spacey fan until he assaulted a loved one. Time the dominoes fell pic.twitter.com/C0eiWEfHSO

— Heather Unruh (@HeatherUnruh) October 13, 2017

Though Heather Unruh has kept silent since her allegation was posted to Twitter, her and Rapp’s speaking out could mark the beginning of more stories of abuse at the hands of Oscar winner and American Beauty star Kevin Spacey to come, which is precisely the “opening the floodgates” scenario that continues to unfold in the case of Harney Weinstein.

Meanwhile, when it comes to legal terms and the question of whether a formal investigation against Kevin Spacey can take place, though some states like Florida don’t have a statute of limitations on child sexual assault crimes, New York’s is one of the least favorable toward victims in the country: victims have until the age of 23 to either bring criminal charges or file civil lawsuit against the alleged perpetrators, and Anthony Rapp is now 46-years old.

But in terms of Spacey’s defense of his career and reputation in the media spotlight, it appears that his statement – again which appears to be more of an ambiguous and roundabout confirmation rather than flat denial – was tailored to play up the “I choose to live as a gay man” aspect in the hopes that this element would dominate the headlines.

ABC initially published under the above headline.

Indeed, some outlets in their overnight reporting are already falling right in line – People Magazine, for example makes it all sound quite innocuous that Spacey attempted to allegedly have sex with a child – with its headline that reads, Kevin Spacey Comes Out as Gay After Anthony Rapp Alleges the Actor Made Sexual Advances Toward Him at 14. And CNN’s headline hides the fact that the reported “misconduct” involves a child of 14: Kevin Spacey apologizes after accusation of sexual misconduct. The New York Times makes sure to emphasize the assault is “decades-old” in its headline, Kevin Spacey Apologizes After Allegation of Decades-Old Sexual Advance on a Minor, while also emphasizes the operative word “apologizes”.

To Anthony Rapp and potentially other victims out there, the news should hardly be cast in terms of Spacey’s “coming out” – but shamefully this is how the mainstream media is already choosing to frame it.

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In light of the long awaited revelations of sexual abuse in Hollywood finally being reported ESPONDA PRODUCTIONS presents AN OPEN SECRET for free for a limited time.

Our goal is to get a Netflix or Amazon to step-up and buy this and get this out around the world which is far better than we can and to help fund a foundation.

This is a film about the sexual abuse of children in the entertainment industry so if you want to see just how organized the Zio-Pedo network is out in Hollywood, WATCH THIS FILM. It’s pretty uncomfortable to watch, but it’s a must see Red Pill movie for people that don’t know just how messed up Satanic Zio Hollywood really is.

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Adventures in TV reports:

Directed by Deliver Us From Evil‘s Amy Berg, An Open Secret tells the story of 4 young men who say they were abused by men connect to a powerful network of influential Hollywood predators. Successful talent agents, directors, investors and casting agents are all named as being part of the paedophile ring.

Much of the alleged abuse catalogued in An Open Secret centres on an early web TV company called Digital Entertainment Network (DEN) and its owners Marc Collins-Rector, Chad Shackley and Brock Pierce.

Entertainment moguls David Geffen, Michael Huffington and others invested $150 million into the company which aimed to create content target at the “global youth audience”. Collins-Rector had made millions with early internet ventures in the ’90s.

Collins-Rector lived with DEN co-founder and boyfriend Shackley, whom he met as a 15 year-old, together with former child star Pierce, in a sprawling mansion – called the M&C Ranch (Marc and Chad) in Encino, California. This is where the paedophile parties, where DEN’s teenage stars were passed between older men, are alleged to have take place.

Described in the documentary as a proto-Netflix, DEN intended to generate unique programming for dispersal on its site. However, it was doomed to fail since the early internet did not have the capability to fulfil streaming requirements for such an admittedly forward-thinking project.

One such programme mentioned in the documentary was 1998’s ‘Chad’s World’. Co-written by Collins-Rector, produced by Pierce, and loosely based on Shackley’s life, the show followed a sexually confused boy who goes to live with his wealthy older brother and his rich boyfriend.

Chad’s World (which features American Pie’s Seann Williams Scott as the character apparently based on Collins-Rector) which was also filmed at the M&C mansion, is described as “art imitating life”.

Three men speak out about their abuse on camera, while the story of another who was allegedly abused is discussed by his parents.

In heartbreaking archival footage shot during the time of the abuse, the misery is plain on the face of one victim (‘Nick S’) who nonetheless tells the camera how “wonderful” an experience working with DEN is. His expression is that of a child in conflict.

“It was as though they were from the industrial home for the blind…”

Lending credence to claims of a powerfully connected paedophile network is the fact that attempts to enact safeguards which would protect child actors have been met with resistance.

When a SAG (Screen Actors Guild) Young Performers committee responsible proposed circulating a memo asking if any of their members had been abused by acting coach Bob Villard (convinced of child sex offences in 2005), one member, Michael Harrah, “vehemently” opposed the move.

Harrah, a ‘child talent manager’ explains his opposition to Berg – and unwittingly articulates a singularly significant factor in the silence surround abuse – by claiming: “I don’t know that we’ve “hidden” them [abuse claims]. I would think you would want to…not hide it, but you would want to protect the child whose identity is going to come out. A situation like this never helps anybody and, yes, the sooner we can get it under control the better, but the less the child has to live with the stigma of it having happened I think it’s better for them not only career-wise, but personally.”

Until as recently as 2012, managers, photographers, acting coaches and other professionals in the entertainment industry that represent minors were not required to prove that they were not sex offenders.

Even when victims do come forward, studios work hard to quash stories. The story of Brian Peck, an acting coach and friend of Bryan Singer, is held up as an example.

Peck, who coached on many Nickelodeon’s shows, was accused of abuse by one of the network’s major child stars. The anonymous child filed charges against Peck, to which he almost immediately pled guilty.

Clearly he, or the studio, did not want an investigation to continue. The victim remained anonymous in order to protect their career.

Citing the fact that not a single child star has spoken out about their abuse and continued to work afterwards, Ann Henry, co-founder of BizParentz, a non-profit corporation providing education, advocacy, and charitable support to parents and children engaged in the entertainment industry, tells Berg: “A kid that wants to speak out and say what happened to them beyond their family, would truly have to give up their career.

“It’s very sad that that’s the case but it’s the reality.” Peck, according to the documentary, continues to work on children’s TV shows, despite having been convicted of a child sex-offence.

But Peck is just the tip of the iceberg, says Henry, the bulk of which remains hidden as so many overwhelmingly powerful forces prevail upon it.

With the exception of Collins-Rector, Shackley, who now runs a computer shop and Pierce, who is a Bit Coin investor, many of the other alleged abusers: Brian Peck, Marty Weiss, Bryan Singer continue to work in the entertainment industry.

Their victims, whose lives are littered with alcohol, mental health and substance abuse issues, do not.

Strangely, director Berg refused almost all requests for interviews promoting the movie, which led to her being sued last year by producers. (One rare interview Berg gave about the movie can be found here.) She was accused of not only refusing to help market the film, but also of delivering the movie late and “in poor shape.”

One reason for Berg’s refusal to participate in post-release publicity could centre around alleged changes made to the movie by producers – without Berg’s consent – after the veracity of one of the abuse victims, Michael Egan, was called into question.

Scenes in which Egan had named Bryan Singer as one of his abusers were removed after Egan’s case against Singer collapsed.

Whatever the truth, it is a sad fact that wherever there are children there will be those willing to prey on them and unfortunately Hollywood – much like the Catholic Church in Berg’s excellent Deliver Us From Evil – offers fertile ground for such abuse.

The reluctance towards acknowledging the extent of the problem, coupled with an apathy around naming and punishing perpetrators is worrying.

It is for these reasons that ‘An Open Secret’ is a worthwhile, if not troubling, piece of work.

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