The star of "The Breakfast Club" and "Sixteen Candles" didn't hold back about
the Hollywood casting couch in a tell-all article for
The New Yorker. "When I was thirteen," she wrote, "a fifty-year-old crew member told me that he would teach me to dance, and then proceeded to push against me with an erection."
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"At fourteen," she continued, "a married film director stuck his tongue in my mouth on set. " But the former teen idol also takes the time to call out another Hollywood producer for hypocrisy. She doesn't name Dreamworks executive Jeffrey Katzenberg, but still brings up a painful memory...
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"In [a magazine] article, the head of a major studio — and, incidentally, someone who claims himself to be
horrified by the Harvey allegations — was quoted as saying, 'I wouldn’t know [Molly Ringwald] if she sat on my face.' I was twenty-four at the time. Maybe he was misquoted. If he ever sent a note of apology, it must have gotten lost in the mail."
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Fortunately, Molly can claim to have met one showbiz gentleman — at least, by Hollywood standards. She once recounted how
Warren Beatty called her up after seeing her in a film, with the conversation taking a different turn when Molly mentioned that she was in school...
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"He said, 'Oh, college?' "I said, 'No,' and he said, 'Acting school?' 'No,' I said. He went, 'High school?' and I said, 'Junior High.' There was a long pause and he said, 'How old are you?' I said, 'Fourteen.' I think he was disappointed and shocked. The telephone voice got more paternal, like he was talking to a little girl."
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