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The casting couch—where, as the story goes, aspiring actresses had to trade sexual favors in order to win roles—has been a familiar image in Hollywood since the advent of the studio system in ...

Google “vintage casting couch” and prepare to descend into a rabbit hole of porn. Weinstein didn’t invent the transaction, but as he did with the mainstreaming of independent film, he gave ...

Riverdale’s K.J. Apa Takes Over Kian Lawley’s Part in The Hate U GiveLawley was fired from the film after a video surfaced of the YouTube star making racist jokes. The production had almost ...

"Casting Couch" is a collaborative work between a Los Angeles street artist known as Plastic Jesus and Joshua "Ginger" Monroe, designer of 2016's nude Donald Trump statues placed in major U.S. cities.

Casting couch culture wasn’t limited to Hollywood. The Broadway theater owner Lee Shubert was known to bring leading ladies and chorus girls into private rooms near his office. Associated Press ...

Casting Pros Debate Harassment, Whitewashing and Why the Term “Casting Couch” Is Offensive Six top casting directors open up about diversity and weigh in on whether they deserve an Oscar ...

G-8: The Movie As the G-8 summit begins in Italy, The Daily Beast goes to the casting couch for actors to portray our world leaders—and a couple of first ladies. VIEW OUR GALLERY >> ...

“The days of the casting couch—if they ever existed—are over.” That was the Hollywood casting director Marvin Paige, speaking to the celebrity columnist Dick Kleiner in 1965.

The casting couch mentality has been around ever since the beginning of the film industry when powerful movie moguls would make sexual advances to young or vulnerable actors or actresses in return ...

CASTING COUCH CLEOPATRA One-time Brit it girl Joan Collins has long claimed she lost the starring role in Cleopatra (it went to Liz Taylor) because she wouldn’t put out for a studio chief.