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“I’ll follow you into the parking lot and kill you.” Carol and Tom talk about James Toback

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(This conversation was recorded over dinner.) CAROL:  When I was a VP at Lorimar, I was asked to take James Toback to lunch and make him my new best friend.  He had a development deal at Lorimar.  At lunch he put away more than a bottle of wine.  He flirted, but didn’t do anything inappropriate—just […]

“Mr. Smearkase, that’s my knee!” Carol and Tom talk about Harvey Weinstein

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TOM:  Were you ever in a room with Harvey? CAROL:  Nope.  Never. TOM:  You were in rooms alone with a boss who was a known womanizer. CAROL:   I was in elevators with him when he was inappropriate. TOM:  Did he ever hit on you? CAROL:  He’d flirt.  He’d touch your hair.  But none of us […]