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Cakedaddy wrote: Rereading the title of the video "Let me be Frank". Is he actually asking for his job back? Appealing to the people who watched the show and liked his character. Trying to get them to rally and petition for his return?

Leisher wrote: The Bryan Singer article has finally come out.

Lots of pedo stuff.

This should be a career ender.

GORDON wrote: Protected for so long by other Hollywood pedos.

Power and money, using the young and vulnerable.

It's The Circle.

Leisher wrote:

GORDON wrote: Protected for so long by other Hollywood pedos.

Power and money, using the young and vulnerable.

It's The Circle.

Ha! I, literally, just came here to tell you there's lots of material in this article about how these predators function as a group.

Some actors like Mira Sorvino and Colin Firth have expressed regret about working with Woody Allen. How do you feel about it?

I'd work with him again if he wanted me. I'm not qualified to judge him. I don't know all the facts. I don't know if he's guilty or innocent. But you can be uncertain — that's what I go on. I just don't have enough information to convince me I shouldn't work with him. And he's an enormously talented guy.

You played a Republican presidential candidate in The West Wing and a Republican senator in The Aviator. Why are you always playing Republicans? Typecasting?

(Laughs.) The funny thing about playing the guy on The West Wing is how many people have asked me if it was hard to do: "Is it hard playing a Republican?" Nobody has ever asked me that question about playing a mass murderer.

Leisher wrote: 339 arrests in Cali involving sex trafficking. (Including kids, of course.)

Shouldn't the death penalty be on the table for sex traffickers?

Some of the victims found by law enforcement were as young as 13 while other cases involved children as young as 6

Pope Francis has admitted that clerics have sexually abused nuns, and in one case they were kept as sex slaves.

He said in that case his predecessor, Pope Benedict, was forced to shut down an entire congregation of nuns who were being abused by priests.

He said the Church was attempting to address the problem but said it was "still going on".
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"Pope Benedict had the courage to dissolve a female congregation which was at a certain level, because this slavery of women had entered it - slavery, even to the point of sexual slavery - on the part of clerics or the founder."

Alessandro Gisotti of the Vatican press office later told CBS News that the order in question had been based in France.

Pope Francis said sexual abuse of nuns was an ongoing problem but happened largely in "certain congregations, predominantly new ones".

Last November, the Catholic Church's global organisation for nuns denounced the "culture of silence and secrecy" that prevented them from speaking out.

Just days ago the Vatican's women's magazine, Women Church World, condemned the abuse, saying in some cases nuns were forced to abort priests' children - something Catholicism forbids.

The magazine said the #MeToo movement meant more women were now coming forward with their stories.