The Washington Post - USA (2021-12-25)

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ACROSS
1 Surprise with
cheese and
wine, perhaps
11 Craft fare
15 Traveler’s
question
16 Mother of Judah
17 Pieces for
a wannabe
conductor?
18 Afterthought
preceder
19 U.S.’s leading
employer of
mathemati-
cians, it’s said
20 How some
agents travel
22 What looks
can’t do?
25 Wind
26 Arranges
30 Took off
32 Give false hope

33 __ wedge:
golf club with
maximum loft
35 Evil
37 Sunday morning
server
38 Blank spaces
41 Underwater
beginnings
42 First-aid
product prefix
44 Cone’s
counterpart
45 Long and hard,
as a stare
47 Trig calculation
49 Metaphors for
high esteem
51 Home of the
75-feet-tall
Golden Driller
statue
53 Controversial
late Russian
painter
Glazunov

54 Tiger, perhaps
57 Only team
with a gold
at every
Summer
Olympics: Abbr.
60 Bush adviser
61 Weather record
65 Lumberjack

66 Cleaning
product claim
67 Lawn care
brand
68 Corridor

DOWN 1 Leg, slangily 2 Pressing need? 3 Mulder and Scully, briefly 4 Fine-tuned 5 “The Fresh Prince of __-Air” 6 NFL passing stat 7 Ear-piercing 8 New Jersey public univer- sity with a cam- pus in China 9 Swedish company that invented Bluetooth 10 Mortise mate 11 Shut out 12 Place for pets at an airport 13 Right way? 14 “Yay!” 21 __ pal 23 Role model 24 Like some probes 26 Blighted area 27 Dwarf planet between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter

28 “Give me that!” 29 Get past 31 Online flame thrower? 34 Swiss cultural city 36 2019 and 2020 Grammys host, or what she plays 39 Get time off?

40 Maker marketplace 43 Not yet delivered 46 Knickknack stand 48 Director Roth 50 Signs of repetition 52 Hawk tickets 54 QED part 55 Amorous letters

56 Trees with split- resistant wood 58 Squandered 59 Parks of Alabama 62 Words with bit and way 63 Plant activity: Abbr. 64 Word that sounds like its last letter

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James Franco addressed the sexual misconduct allegations against him in a podcast interview released Thursday, marking the first time the 43-year-old ac- tor has publicly spoken about them in nearly four years. “In that silence, in the vacuum of me speaking out, now my family and friends have had to answer for me,” he told podcast host Jess Cagle. “And I don’t think that’s right. I don’t want anybody to have to answer for me.” In 2018 — shortly after Franco accepted a Golden Globe Award while wearing a pin for Time’s Up, the nonprofit organization sup- porting victims of sexual harass- ment — the Los Angeles Times reported that five women had accused Franco of “inappropriate or sexually exploitative” behavior. The next year, actresses Sarah Tither-Kaplan and Toni Gaal sued Franco, his two business partners and his production company over the alleged sexual exploitation of women who attended his acting school, Studio 4. The complaint stated that the men had “engaged in widespread inappropriate and sexually charged behavior toward female students,” and had misused their power by “dangling the opportu- nity for roles in their projects.” Franco’s attorney denied the claims, stating that they had “al- ready been debunked.” The law- suit reached a settlement this year, with Franco and his co-de- fendants paying the actresses $2.2 million. In a statement shared with The Washington Post, attorneys rep- resenting the actresses wrote that “in addition to being blind about power dynamics, Franco is com- pletely insensitive to, and still apparently does not care about, the immense pain and suffering he put his victims through with this sham of an acting school.” “Nobody should confuse this interview with Franco taking ac- countability for his actions or expressing remorse over what happened,” they added. “It is a transparent ducking of the real issues released just before a ma- jor holiday in hopes that he wouldn’t face any scrutiny over his response.” In the nearly hour-long episode of “The Jess Cagle Podcast,” recorded this month, Franco stated that he had slept with some of

his students at Studio 4. He denied that he was creating a “pipe- line” for sexual exploitation, as he was accused of doing in his capac- ity as a teacher, but said he did not factor in the power imbal- ance. “Look, I’ll admit, I did sleep with students. I didn’t sleep with anybody in that particular class,” he said of the Sex Scenes master class described by the Times, “but over the course of my teaching, I did sleep with students. And that was wrong. But like I said, it’s not why I started the school. ... It wasn’t a master plan on my part.” Studio 4, which had locations in New York and Los Angeles, shut down a few months before the Times report ran. Franco said he opened the school in 2014 after taking note of how expensive tuition was for the graduate film programs in which he taught. He ran Studio 4 in between other teaching and acting gigs. Former Studio 4 students have said nudity was often required of them. Franco said on the podcast that he was not aware of any nudity requirements. He also stated that the name of his Sex Scenes class was not indicative of what he actually taught, and that it was instead a “provocative title” for a class that explored modern dating and relationships. Some of his students did end

up working on his projects. Tit- her-Kaplan told the Times that, in 2015, Franco removed the plastic protective gear she and other actresses wore over their private areas while filming an orgy scene for one of his independent films. Franco denied this claim on the podcast — “I never took a guard off anyone, ever, in my life,” he said. “It just didn’t happen” — but he added that his set could have benefited from the presence of an intimacy coordinator, as he had on HBO’s “The Deuce.” “I’ve been acting professional- ly since I was 19 — I want to give people some of the opportunities I was given,” he said. “What I couldn’t see is that when I’m out in the middle of Ohio and I’ve got all these up-and-coming actors, I’m James Franco, and they want to keep working with me. So if they feel uncomfortable about something, they don’t necessarily have an outlet to go and say, ‘I feel uncomfortable.’ ” Franco repeated in the episode that he has “just been doing a lot of work” over the past four years. He attributed some of the behavior in question to a history with addiction, stemming from his al- cohol abuse as a teen, and said he “really used my recovery back- ground to start examining this and changing who I was.” [email protected]

James Franco speaks out about

allegations: ‘I did sleep with students’

DIMITRIOS KAMBOURIS/GETTY IMAGES FOR IFP James Franco said he has been “doing a lot of work” on himself.

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