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Chicago PD cast member Jason Beghe investigated for Anger management issues

For what it's worth - Jason Beghe is a former Scientologist, and was interviewed extensively for the documentary expose about Scientology Going Clear, originally run by HBO, and now, I think - also available on Netflix. He is in the Leah Remini camp of disgruntled former members with a lot to say.
 
Okay, but is this #metoo thing now extending to other interactions? For example, that member of congress who settled financially with a woman for sexual misconduct, is now under fire for being (to paraphrase) too mean. Don't get me wrong, sexual assault or harassment is totally wrong and should not be tollerated. It's starting to look like this is expanding into people's feelings also.
 
Kelly A said:
Okay, but is this #metoo thing now extending to other interactions? For example, that member of congress who settled financially with a woman for sexual misconduct, is now under fire for being (to paraphrase) too mean. Don't get me wrong, sexual assault or harassment is totally wrong and should not be tollerated. It's starting to look like this is expanding into people's feelings also.
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My problem with all this harassment is that people like Weinstein, and famous actors, broadcasters, and politicians, get it in their heads that they have power, and can get away with the harassment. Perhaps because I work in public sector in the most politically correct place in America - the San Francisco Bay Area - I knew 30 years ago that any kind of harassment (sexual or otherwise), bullying, or apparent discrimination in the workplace, was a way to torpedo your career in a hurry. I've seen a number of people fall from this kind of behavior - from a CEO to Administrative Assistants.
 
LKellerIII said:
My problem with all this harassment is that people like Weinstein, and famous actors, broadcasters, and politicians, get it in their heads that they have power, and can get away with the harassment.
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You're right but unfortunately they have been able to get away with it for a very long time. In Hollywood, the term "casting couch" was considered a joked-about term, but as been revealed recently, is/has been SOP.

Between the power to make or break peoples careers, money, adoration from fans, and teams of lawyers on retainer, these folks really feel like they're coated in Teflon(tm).
 
Kelly A said:
You're right but unfortunately they have been able to get away with it for a very long time. In Hollywood, the term "casting couch" was considered a joked-about term, but as been revealed recently, is/has been SOP.

Between the power to make or break peoples careers, money, adoration from fans, and teams of lawyers on retainer, these folks really feel like they're coated in Teflon(tm).
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True. But no more. Though this entire thing is starting to look like a witch-hunt, I do not feel sorry for them. Anger issues are a bit different though, and IMO, should be addressed through diversion into Anger Management classes, or similar. Ironically, this kind of behavior has not been as tolerated as sexual harassment. The list of actors who can't get work - or at least very much work - due to disrespecting co-workers, directors, and producers is decades long - Sean Young, Edward Norton, Steven Segall, Lindsay Lohan, Val Kilmer, etc. Sounds like Beghe might be in that category, but it's not like he's an "A" list actor, so his character could be 'shot-by-a-perp' or whatever, if he's not careful. As far as I know, no Dick Wolfe show has ever lost a ratings point because cast members left or were fired. How many cast members did the original Law & Order have over the years? Probably about 100.
 
LKellerIII said:
Anger issues are a bit different though, and IMO, should be addressed through diversion into Anger Management classes, or similar. Ironically, this kind of behavior has not been as tolerated as sexual harassment. The list of actors who can't get work - or at least very much work - due to disrespecting co-workers, directors, and producers is decades long - Sean Young, Edward Norton, Steven Segall, Lindsay Lohan, Val Kilmer, etc.
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Actor's, Directors, Executive Producers, and Studio Executives behaving badly toward underlings has been around since acting became a profession. Now with social media and things like Twitter, anytime someone in the industry is offended by something their boss says, can 'out' them right into the fires of public opinion.

We've heard the rants of actors with over-inflated egos like Christian Bale lousing his sh*t at a lighting tech for making some noise on the set. Was Bale being a d*ck? Sure, but it wouldn't fall to the level of what could be considered "abuse" to a colleague or underling.
 
Kelly A said:
Actor's, Directors, Executive Producers, and Studio Executives behaving badly toward underlings has been around since acting became a profession. Now with social media and things like Twitter, anytime someone in the industry is offended by something their boss says, can 'out' them right into the fires of public opinion.

We've heard the rants of actors with over-inflated egos like Christian Bale lousing his sh*t at a lighting tech for making some noise on the set. Was Bale being a d*ck? Sure, but it wouldn't fall to the level of what could be considered "abuse" to a colleague or underling.
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Bale has gotten a lot of blowback for that rant, but AFAIK, he isn't necessarily a consistent a'hole. The problem is with people like Kilmer or Sean Young, who make everybody's life miserable from the first day on the set to the wrap. After wrapping the last scene with Val Kilmer in Island of Dr. Moreau in 1996 , Director John Frankenheimer is reported to have said, "Cut. Now get that bastard off my set." And the infamously difficult Marlon Brando was also in that film, so that should give Kilmer some kind of award for being a d**k.
 
Kelly A said:
Actor's, Directors, Executive Producers, and Studio Executives behaving badly toward underlings has been around since acting became a profession. Now with social media and things like Twitter, anytime someone in the industry is offended by something their boss says, can 'out' them right into the fires of public opinion.

We've heard the rants of actors with over-inflated egos like Christian Bale lousing his sh*t at a lighting tech for making some noise on the set. Was Bale being a d*ck? Sure, but it wouldn't fall to the level of what could be considered "abuse" to a colleague or underling.
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https://www.radiodiscussions.com/sh...ago-manager-Marv-Nyren-for-emotional-distress

Well There was another thread like this but it was Mancow suing the GM of Cumulus Chicago. At first on the surface its sounds like here we go again another harassment scandal at play here. But this time its business beefs between the GM and Mancow and he said "Emotional Distress" in the lawsuit. I swear on the surface I thought its an Onion article in the middle of a series of major scandals that hit recently. But the Chicago Tribune explained the history between the GM and Mancow prior to Cumulus Chicago taking Mancow for one of its stations.
 
RadioPatrol said:
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/sh...ago-manager-Marv-Nyren-for-emotional-distress

Well There was another thread like this but it was Mancow suing the GM of Cumulus Chicago. At first on the surface its sounds like here we go again another harassment scandal at play here. But this time its business beefs between the GM and Mancow and he said "Emotional Distress" in the lawsuit. I swear on the surface I thought its an Onion article in the middle of a series of major scandals that hit recently. But the Chicago Tribune explained the history between the GM and Mancow prior to Cumulus Chicago taking Mancow for one of its stations.
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Mancow was the morning drive guy at Wild 107 (KYLD) in San Francisco in the 90s until he went back to Chicago. My kids loved him, so we would listen while I drove them to school. Mancow could be bizarre, and get emotional - I could never figure out if it was genuine, or put-on for effect. One day, there was a news story that a young teen girl had been murdered somewhere in the Bay Area. He got very emotional about it, started weeping loudly, played a corny souldie (not part of their contemporary urban format), then finally had to leave the studio because he was so upset, leaving the flabbergasted sidekick and traffic reporter to finish the show. I don't think he knew the girl or her family personally, and although it was a sad story, it was (sadly) not an unusual one. It was a bizarre display, and not the only one Mancow did in those days.
 
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