Tomi-Ann Roberts was deciding whether to pursue a life in theater when she met Harvey Weinstein, an emerging Hollywood power broker whose heavy-handed sexual advance pushed her toward a career exploring the sexualization of women in society. “I’m not going to say the line between walking out of Harvey Weinstein’s apartment is the line that got me here,” the 54-year-old Colorado College psychology professor said Thursday, “but that was foundational.” Roberts was a Smith College student waiting tables in New York City’s theater district in the summer of 1984 when Weinstein and his brother, Bob, sat down for a meal at the restaurant. var _informq = _informq || []; _informq.push(["embed"]); She had been involved in theater throughout high school and college and arrived in the city planning to audition and maybe snag some acting jobs.
Comment on Weinstein’s harassment 30 years ago led Colorado College prof to study objectification of women
Tom McGhee, Denver Post: Movies
Thu, 10/12/2017 - 5:06pm
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