{"id":136880,"date":"2017-12-06T04:28:18","date_gmt":"2017-12-06T09:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=136880"},"modified":"2017-12-06T04:28:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-06T09:28:18","slug":"dustin-hoffman-grilled-over-sexual-misconduct-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/12\/06\/dustin-hoffman-grilled-over-sexual-misconduct-claims\/","title":{"rendered":"Dustin Hoffman grilled over sexual misconduct claims"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_136888\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-136888\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Dustin-Hoffman.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-136888\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Dustin-Hoffman.jpg\" alt=\"Dustin Hoffman (Photo by Studio - ebay, Public Domain)\" width=\"800\" height=\"1094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Dustin-Hoffman.jpg 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Dustin-Hoffman-219x300.jpg 219w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Dustin-Hoffman-768x1050.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Dustin-Hoffman-749x1024.jpg 749w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-136888\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dustin Hoffman (Photo by Studio &#8211; ebay, Public Domain)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A starry anniversary discussion of the film \u201cWag the Dog\u201d turned testy Monday when moderator John Oliver confronted Dustin Hoffman about allegations of sexual harassment.<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman seemed blindsided and defensive by the line of questioning from the host of HBO&#8217;s \u201cLast Week Tonight.\u201d Hoffman explained the accusation was 40 years old. \u201cI don&#8217;t love that response either,\u201d Oliver said. Hoffman shot back: \u201cWhat response do you want?\u201d Hoffman maintained that he did nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Actress Anna Graham Hunter has alleged that Hoffman groped her and made inappropriate comments when she was a 17-year-old intern on the set of the 1985 TV movie \u201cDeath of a Salesman.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoffman had said in an earlier statement that the incident \u201cis not reflective of who I am,\u201d which Oliver seized on and called a \u201ccop-out,\u201d adding: \u201cIt is reflective of who you were.\u201d Hoffman complained: \u201cYou&#8217;ve put me on display here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The back-and-forth came at a 20th-anniversary screening panel at the 92nd Street Y. Onstage in addition to Oliver and Hoffman were Robert De Niro, producer Jane Rosenthal and director Barry Levinson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI get no pleasure from having this conversation,\u201d Oliver said. Referring to Hoffman, he added: \u201cBut you and I are not the victims here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The exchange was reported by The Washington Post, which also posted a video of part of the conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Actor Terry Crews, who has been outspoken about his own experience as a victim of sexual harassment and filed a lawsuit against his alleged attacker Tuesday, tweeted his support to Oliver.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor things to truly change, men must hold other men accountable,\u201d Crews wrote. \u201cThank you ?iamjohnoliver, for being an example of what true manhood looks like.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK \u2014 A starry anniversary discussion of the film \u201cWag the Dog\u201d turned testy Monday when moderator John Oliver &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":136888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[37370,32306],"class_list":["post-136880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-dustin-hoffman","tag-sexual-misconduct","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}