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mr_lebowski

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6. "Making a sexual advance" is a pretty friggin vague term ... apparently he was drunk at the time ...
Tue Oct 31, 2017, 02:37 PM
Oct 2017

And may have not realized that Rapp was so young. I've seen a number of 14 y.o. that could pass for 18 very easily, esp. if one was intoxicated.

Personally I'd like to know a bit more 'detail' before I go proclaiming the man as some horrifying monster. Did he tell the kid he was 'really cute, and I'd like to date you in a few years', or did he grope him in the privates and threaten to ruin his career unless he came back with him to his trailer right now? Pretty huge difference there, and both constitute 'making a sexual advance'. A picture of the young man at the time would also be useful in interpreting just how egregious this action was on his part.

BTW, none of you even knew who Kevin Spacey was in 1987, so it makes no sense to talk like he was some all-powerful figure like Harvey Weinstein ... all the way back in 1987. He'd never been in any big movies yet by that point. Just a point of fact.

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