Oct/24/17 Update – 10:11 a.m.: The Daily Beast is out this morning with a piece detailing multiple allegations against five-time Oscar-nominated writer-director David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook, American Hustle). Russell’s $160 million TV series starring Robert De Niro, which had been set up at The Weinstein Company, was axed by Amazon as the sex harassment scandal engulfed Harvey Weinstein. Daily Beast: The stories that former co-workers have told about David O. Russell should have been enough to render him unhireable. In fact, just glancing through a list of behaviors that Russell himself has admitted to would appear to bar the director from future employment. Instead, Amazon jumped on the Russell project, making a deal that was reportedly worth $160 million for just two seasons. As Pajiba’s Kayleigh Donaldson recently wrote, “The multiple Oscar nominee behind American Hustle and Silver Linings Playbook has one of the industry’s most visible reputations as a nasty piece of work, both as a bullying colleague and a sexual abuser off-screen. He’s made multiple people’s lives hell and never faced the consequences.” LOL Lily is no angel herself...LOL What movies were these ? Update – 11:36 a.m.: Celebrity chef John Besh has stepped down as the chief executive of his 12-restaurant emperor, Besh Restaurant Group, after twenty-five women told the New Orleans Times-Picayune that they were groped, pressured to have sex with their superiors, “sexually harassed, and verbally assaulted almost every day.” In a statement, Besh admitted to being unfaithful to his wife with a member of his staff but said he has “never sexually harassed or tolerated such” behavior. “I have to deal with the fact that I was not the best human being that I could be, that I had made mistakes, but even with the worst that I had ever been, I have never sexually harassed or tolerated such,” he told the Times-Picayune. “I’ve had my issues in my life. But I’ve never tolerated that sort of behavior.” More here. Update – 11:00 a.m.: Actress Julianne Moore said Harvey Weinstein is guilty of “criminal behavior.” “I hope that he’s prosecuted for some of these things. I hope that some of the charges stand,” the Suburbicon star said Tuesday sitting alongside Matt Damon on NBC’s Today show. “This is criminal behavior,” said Moore, who says she’s known Weinstein for more than two decades but was never alone with him. “Rather than continue to discuss what could have happened — what if? what if? — I think it’s important to think about, what we can do now? What can we do to prevent it? How can we communicate to people that it’s not OK, they should speak out, they will have support and that people will be taken to task?” “Rather than continue to discuss what could’ve happened…It’s important to think about what can we do now.” @_juliannemoore on Weinstein pic.twitter.com/tGdFZFY3Wn — TODAY (@TODAYshow) October 24, 2017 More here. Update – 10:07 a.m.: More than 200 women have reached out to share their stories about sexual harassment or other misconduct at the hands of writer-director James Toback. Toback was previously accused of sexual harassment by 38 women in a Los Angeles Times exposé published Sunday. Los Angeles Times: Filmmaker James Toback has long had a bad reputation with women. Stories about the writer-director often referred to him as a womanizer, but what that actually meant did not become clear until the Los Angeles Times published an investigation Sunday in which 38 women accused the writer-director of sexual harassment. Within two days those numbers swelled as more than 200 additional women contacted The Times and, in emails and phone calls, recalled encounters with Toback similar to those detailed in the story. The majority of the new accounts, which have not been verified, told of Toback approaching women on the streets of Manhattan, offering them the chance at a part in an upcoming movie, and a wide range of unwanted sexual advances and behavior. More here. Update – 9:15 a.m.: Actress Anna Faris has become the latest to share a story about her own experience with sexual harassment in the film industry. The House Bunny actress said on her podcast this week that she had been filming a scene on a ladder when the project’s director slapped her backside. From Entertainment Weekly: “I was doing a scene where I was on a ladder and I was supposed to be taking books off a shelf and he slapped my ass in front of the crew so hard,” said the Mom star. “And all I could do was giggle.” Faris added, “I remember looking around and I remember seeing the crew members being like, ‘Wait, what are you going to do about that? That seemed weird.’ And that’s how I dismissed it. I was like, ‘Well, this isn’t a thing. Like, it’s not that big of a deal. Buck up, Faris. Like, just giggle.’ But it made me feel small. He wouldn’t have done that to the lead male.” Update – 9:07 a.m.: Tom Hanks says “there were people who knew exactly” what was going on in Hollywood. Hanks said he’d only heard about various “shenanigans” himself, though. Hollywood Reporter: