Her lecherous boss Jack gets the brunt of it too.
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They're overtly sexual, lecherous, cunning, frivolous and not much else.
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Corralling minorities and making lecherous advances...sound like anyone you know?
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Now that golden-hued trip to Warped Tour seems predatory. Lecherous.
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When she reports, for instance, on a lecherous ship captain named
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Berlusconi is lecherous, vulgar and dishonest, but somehow impossible not to love.
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He refuses, in a paternalistic effort to protect her from lecherous journalists.
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In Jhabvala's fiction, gurus are, to a man, grifting, lecherous, manipulative—and successful.
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Now we seem to be a country known for lecherous reaches for women's bodies.
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All my male teachers have either been lecherous, or assholes, or mouthbreathers with coffee breath.
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He channels Nabokov, aping his stylistic flourishes, while depicting Wilson as a gouty, lecherous grump.
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He's a blur of a character, by turns lecherous, sensitive, funny (or "funny"), impulsive, or terrified.
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The stories shared sometimes concerned workplace harassment, but they also involved lecherous doctors, relatives or boyfriends.
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Everyone she meets, from a macabre makeup artist (Jena Malone) to a lecherous motel owner (Mr.
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Mr. Grandage may have been trying to explore the deeper recesses of the lecherous Don's makeup.
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An interlude of sour flutes captures just the way she feels about her husband's lecherous brother.
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The tubby, bespectacled, lecherous Hill remains Britain's greatest comic export; he is a cult figure in France.
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The episode then takes a leap into a 1950s beach party attended by a lecherous Bill Murray.
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This joke has been made by everyone from Silicon Valley techies to a lecherous disgraced former congressman.
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It got lecherous fast, and numerous men saw the veil as an invitation to undress its wearer.
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The #MeToo movement has exposed plenty of lecherous predators, but Mr. Ansari is not one of them.
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But there's none of the lecherous lewdness, of the drooling, lascivious gaze we've come to associate moments.
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But he often presents himself more as Falstaff — vain, portly, joyful and lecherous, yet clever underneath it all.
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The photograph captures him on a military plane, mugging for the camera as he performs a lecherous pantomime.
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Yet I was made uncomfortable at several moments by what seemed like language that veered into the lecherous.
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Even in lecherous Santa scenes, the directors and actors often can't resist leaning into the humor of the character.
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The most revolutionary change-up, though, is saved for "Does Your Mother Know", one of ABBA's most lecherous songs.
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Americans do lecherous, off-color comedy with great gusto, but they tend to get nervous about sensuality and eroticism.
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A dog's, or a wolf's, innermost nature is far more empathetic than that of the low, greedy, lecherous human.
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On screen she triumphed over the worst—scheming stepmothers, lecherous men, evil god-men—that could be thrown at her.
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Hill had the courage to show up and testify before the world about Clarence Thomas's lecherous behavior as a boss.
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This weekend, an episode of CBS political drama Madam Secretary will feature a lecherous Filipino president getting punched in the face.
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Manley kills the tramp — now twice murdered — and quickly cooks him in his wok, his face "impatient and lecherous" with anticipation.
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And Van Vechten's crime, when it is revealed, is exactly what we'd expect from a clubby, insidery, lecherous man — a letdown.
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Watching this reversal, it's hard not to think, If only more collisions between drunken women and lecherous men ended this way.
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His clipped, fluid prose avoids academic stodginess with élan, and there is nothing insolent, narcissistic, lecherous, or self-protective about it.
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Perhaps it's tough to imagine queer women tweeting about wanting to dominate straight celebrities because it would resemble the "lecherous lesbian" stereotype.
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But Suicide Squad tries so hard to be seedy or lecherous or scuzzy that it somehow warps back around and becomes laughable.
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Everybody has in the back of their mind the idea of fauns as lecherous forest creatures or fairies as deceitful shape-shifters.
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Now his alleged victims are coming forward with accounts of lecherous behavior, unwanted advances and sexual misconduct, most of which he denies.
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A lecherous gym coach, for example, is the king of a castle filled with cruel machines that torture and sexually humiliate his pupils.
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Can you elaborate on the different opinions Debbie and Ruth have on how women in entertainment should deal with lecherous and powerful men?
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Commander Waterford (Joseph Fiennes) looks at her boobs with such a lecherous glare I'm tempted to reach through the screen and smack him.
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Plus, these large, sweaty, shirtless men in neon swimming trunks are considered obnoxious, inconsiderate, basic, lecherous—a scourge on the dancefloor writ large.
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Back in Aretuza, Yenn was almost assigned to the lecherous King Fergus of Nilfgaard but conspired instead to serve King Virfuril of Aedirn.
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I'd have seen evil Asians and conniving Asians and friendly Asians and lecherous Asians and ethical Asians and brave Asians and complicated Asians.
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No one is safe, be it Hopper from his adopted daughter's first boyfriend, or belligerent Billy from the lecherous eyes of middle-aged moms.
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But the 1992 film's offensive character stereotypes appear to be downplayed: Jafar seems less like a lecherous caricature, Jasmine slightly less like a prisoner.
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Matt Lauer, Mark Halperin, Charlie Rose, "and many other powerful media men may well be lecherous sexual predators," writes Damon Linker at the Week.
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Of course, Michelle's inspiring message is somewhat undercut by the fact that her husband is ushering the lecherous Bill Clinton back to the White House.
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By contrast, Keiser portrays a Herod who is less lecherous than simply uncouth — what you would expect of a power-hungry princeling of an empire.
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These stories differed from a third Gawker post in March 2015, which included more serious allegations: that Spacey had been "lecherous and predatory" on movie sets.
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"We had to really think about this character who we'd kind of been having fun with, and his lecherous behavior towards women in general," Star said.
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The writers also continue to have considerable fun with Snow's barbaric pal Tormund (Kristofer Hivju) and his lecherous interest in the towering knight Brienne (Gwendoline Christie).
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Yesterday, 500,000 people took to Washington DC to tell the lecherous little pussy-grabber in the White House that they weren't falling off without a fight.
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There are familiar commuters, malfunctioning toll arms, occasional scofflaws — and an incessant barrage of come-ons, sexual comments, lecherous stares and crude gestures from male motorists.
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The rotten patriarch might be anyone from a handsy pastor or a lecherous pillar of the community to the leader of a sect or religious order.
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She juxtaposes this background with a full-page drawn copy of Gentileschi's "Susanna and the Elders" (1610), showing a fleshy woman cowering beneath two lecherous men.
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Esposito, prosecutors concluded, was not credible, despite her clean criminal record, the secret audio of Isaac, and statements from two other people describing Isaac's allegedly lecherous behavior.
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The kind of lecherous comments and invasive advances made toward women in their circle of influence are of a piece with a broader pattern of lashing out.
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Shatner added spoken word verses to "In Love," playing a lecherous older man who'd read up on '90s new age material in an effort to seduce women.
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K.), his teenage daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz), and the lecherous writer-director (John Malkovich) with a history of dating much younger women who comes between them both.
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" James MacDonald, a pastor who had agreed to serve on Mr. Trump's Evangelical Executive Advisory Council, called Mr. Trump "lecherous and worthless" and the council "a joke.
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Rodrigo Duterte, an unapologetic, straight-talking, lecherous mayor is next in line to be president of the Philippines after running a campaign that pitted principal versus policy.
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But he was also a punchline, a lecherous pouch of soft serve ice cream that had somehow developed the ability to live-tweet episodes of Access Hollywood.
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In the play's second half, Irma is propped up as a queen by the revolutionary government, and her lecherous clients are propelled into actual positions of power.
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"Gold Hole," meanwhile, tells the story of a lecherous sugar daddy, one made all the more uncomfortably vivid by frontman Charlie Steen's lusty growls and choked desperation.
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The aria is sobering — a reminder that behind the opera's comedy is a woman who loved and married a man she didn't know was a lecherous boor.
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Women who worked at Fox News have said that the network's behind-the-camera culture could be even more lecherous than what viewers saw on the screen.
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The kind of lecherous comments and invasive advances made toward assault victims in their circle of influence are of a piece with a broader pattern of lashing out.
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Earlier this week, Schiappa announced plans for a new law against sexual harassment and violence that would fine men for wolf-whistling and lecherous behavior, among other measures.
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Pope Alexander XI is a polarizing figure in Vatican history, with some saying he was the most immoral, lecherous man to ever sit the throne of Saint Peter.
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"He would give me, and countless other women, lecherous up-and-down looks (or unwanted hugs and touches) almost every time we crossed his path on campus," she writes.
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She's overseen by a lecherous monster until Perseus comes to her rescue, which is where Ibert and his librettist (and brother-in-law), Michel Veber, throw in a twist.
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Mr. Groissböck's baron looks to be about 40, and at first comes across as imposing and good-looking, which makes his lecherous treatment of women all the more dangerous.
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Some are lecherous bosses who think their power gives them a version of the right of the old lords to sample the favors of every girl in the neighborhood.
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He finally broke through in 1982's "Tootsie," in which he played John Van Horn, a lecherous actor (who portrayed, of course, a doctor in the film's fictional soap opera).
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But such a diagnosis would be too generous to the lecherous, desperate fuckwits who gleefully throw fuel onto these non-stories and demand contrition while the world burns around them.
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It's at this precise moment that a lecherous club goer takes it upon himself to prey upon this woman who can barely stand, let alone consent to any bedroom activities.
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And yet, his yearning is undercut by his lecherous drive, enough to at times make him wish to stay, as long as he finds white female flesh to satiate his longings.
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Let's start with the obvious: Sexism is horrible; lecherous dudes are creepy, and anyone who treats women as objects deserves to have his (or her) toenails plucked out with rusty pliers.
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Men bite each other's posteriors, grope older women, and then turn into an emotional mess and reform their lecherous ways because their wives choose to fast for them on Karva Chauth.
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Actor Aiden Gillen has perfected his character's evil grin as he steps up the ladder of chaos, but we wonder if someone else has learned his lecherous mannerisms: a certain Stark sister.
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In Nichols' flashbacks, she's a 2000-year-old girl preparing for her bat mitzvah, passed back and forth between vain mother and absent-minded, vaguely lecherous father like she's a bargaining chip.
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Before I went to fabric, I was forced out to Leicester Square clubs where I had to dress up and feel uncomfortable, and be surrounded by lecherous knobs after only one thing.
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And Chris O'Dowd plays Tommy, the lecherous Canadian-Irish "bad boy of mascoting," whose character, the Fist, more or less demolishes the stage and amid the mayhem gleefully raises his middle finger.
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Baker & McKenzie in 1994, when a Palo Alto–based law firm had to pay $3.5 million after failing to protect at least nine female employees from the advances of a lecherous attorney.
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In a letter collected in "Welcome Home," Berlin describes an uncomfortable lunch in 1960 with her agent, whom she calls "a goddamn pimp," and a lecherous book editor from a major house.
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In a suburb of Tokyo, the unpredictable and faintly lecherous Mr. Nakano runs a shop selling secondhand goods, from T-shirts and air-conditioners to vintage Glico plastic toys from the 1930s.
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When the culprit is revealed at last, he sidles inadvertently into view, and the figure that he cuts, to Emad's consternation, could not conform less to the image of a lecherous fiend.
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The title character is an innocent young Japanese woman who falls into the clutches of men bearing the names Osaka and Kyoto—one a lecherous aristocrat, the other a cynical brothel-keeper.
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But many of them centered on how Clinton was able to make Trump look like a "lecherous, potentially abusive threat to women" and a "skeevy tax evader," as Vox's Dylan Matthews noted.
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He called Clement Greenberg "a small and lecherous man," and in general, thought critics were arrogant and stupid "pimps" — a quote hammily and hilariously read aloud by New York Magazine critic Jerry Saltz.
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She keeps things winningly lecherous, but all that energy is channeled into a larger project of fulfilment—self-love being ultimately more important, this record seems to argue, than whatever other people can offer.
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Cloud, in an effort to save one of his friends, disguises himself as a woman to gain access to the house of a lecherous mafia-like figure, complete with a very Bachelor-esque moment.
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When the dancer Daphné Koutsafti raced up a ramp to escape the lecherous advances of Ulises Alvarez — he stood at the bottom and simulated masturbation — she backed away until she fell into the darkness.
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This isn't to say that good-looking men can't be lecherous, or that Offred will necessarily find this particular man attractive, but it does make me wonder if perhaps the show is sending a message.
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Now, the scene I can't get out of my head is that of Beverly Marsh (Sophia Lillis), teetering on the knife's edge of her adult sexuality, having a tense conversation with her lecherous father (Stephen Bogaert).
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I wound up doing the walk of shame in pitch darkness, and had to break into a run at one point because a lecherous freak making vaguely threatening sexual comments began following me in his car.
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Mr. Kristof also brings up the "misogynist and lecherous musings" in Mr. Allen's writing over the past 40 years, but someone could just as easily note his obsessions with death, Ingmar Bergman or the Marx Brothers.
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Theater Basel in Switzerland commissioned this zany rewrite of Molière's comedy about the unmasking of a lecherous charlatan from the German electropop musician and writer PeterLicht, and cast it with eight of the company's superb actors.
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Brixton's Goat Girl takes its name in tribute to Bill Hicks—a play on the late comedian's lecherous alter ego, the questionable, satiric id that is "Goat Boy" ("Goat Boy loves young girls...16 years old...ooh").
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Grisham's heroine is Lacy Stoltz, an investigator for Florida's judicial conduct board whose most interesting case, after nine years on the job, has been ousting a lecherous judge who preyed on women with divorces on his docket.
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The multitude of revelations in France has led to discussion of legislative proposals that would fine men for aggressive catcalling or lecherous behavior toward women in public, and lengthen the statute of limitations for cases involving minors.
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We have to prove that our institutions are more important than our ideologies, that the dream, the whisper, the precious possibility of America cannot be trampled by the corrupt and the fraudulent, the venal and the lecherous.
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PARIS (Reuters) - France voted to outlaw sexual harassment on the streets, leaving cat-callers and aggressively lecherous individuals facing potential on-the-spot fines of up to 750 euros as part of tougher legislation to fight sexual violence.
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But what about poor Susanna, whose idyllic bath is intruded upon by lecherous Elders who attempt to rape her, then falsely accuse her of promiscuity and establish a Kafkaesque trial in which they are the witnesses and judges?
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Their father is a force of rage that keeps the women around him perpetually terrified: He is physically violent toward his wife and daughters, especially as he tries to marry off Ayoola to a wealthy, lecherous older man.
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That means the frequent demeaning of others and himself as he fights to stay on top: He's queasily lecherous, he's conniving, and he's perfectly willing to throw a colleague to the wolves in order to make a deal.
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The final-season episode "American Bitch," a two-hander for guest-star Matthew Rhys and the show's star and creator, Lena Dunham, was a late-in-the-game stunner, probing the cultural confusion around lecherous, literary men. 6.
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But as I walked in slow motion through the doors of the Chicago gay club Berlin, a phantom wind machine blowing back my hair, I was not met with the lecherous stares or surreptitious gropes I'd always imagined.
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On Wednesday France voted to outlaw sexual harassment on the street, leaving cat-callers and aggressively lecherous individuals facing potential on-the-spot fines of up to 750 euros ($870) as part of tougher legislation to fight sexual violence.
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But after the Washington Post released unseen footage from 2005 of a lecherous Mr Trump explicitly bragging about his genital-grabbing ways, Republicans in Congress, who had previously tolerated his innumerable indecencies, began ditching their standard-bearer en masse.
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"Quai des Orfèvres," first shown in 1947, is one of his most elegant films, an ensemble mystery in which a music hall performer, her jealous husband and a photographer become variously implicated in the murder of a lecherous businessman.
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But late Hef was a lecherous, low-brow Peter Pan, playing at perpetual boyhood — ice cream for breakfast, pajamas all day — while bodyguards shooed male celebrities away from his paid harem and the skull grinned beneath his papery skin.
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In her absurdist encounters with doctors, mystics, academics, gardeners, lecherous uncles, messenger boys and others, each of whom has sexual designs on her, Candy obliviously self-designs a kind of pincer movement on the citadel of her own chastity.
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Whether he's writing as a Japanese businessman in the midst of a mid-life crisis, an Archie Bunker-ish uncle, a lecherous mall cop, Muhammad Ali, or his own ex, he brings characters to life with a novelist's eye for detail.
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"I don't think that people were looking the other way; I think that people weren't looking, because in some ways, a lecherous guy with money picking up younger girls is unfortunately not a news story in our society," the actor said.
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In episode 101, we first meet Tyrion Lannister in a brothel and are introduced to him as the clever, lecherous "imp" whose love of wine and whores is made clear when his brother Jaime shows up to rib him about it.
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" But as my lecherous ass soon landed me in Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous and even Sex Addicts Anonymous (yay, me and 12 guys in a church basement!), I began to understand why they referred to other people as "2-legged dope.
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The issue of access is compounded further by safety factors: Most women I know in New York have been in the horrifying position of sitting in a nearly empty train car with a lecherous guy staring into her eyes while touching himself.
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And on the season opener for Younger on TV Land, a lecherous fantasy author was left literally suspended in midair during a presentation of his work, his book series canceled because of the lewd comments he made to women through the years.
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True, he sang well himself, and drummed too, but the family had already declared Esma's older sister Sajka as dead, in shame and shock after she became a singer in a cheap bar, prancing around under the lecherous glances of drunken men.
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Not only did it take eight minutes for the hosts to ask her a question—initially enamored by her label manager who's a former professional baseball player—but the discussion rapidly went to lecherous questioning over her sexual proclivities and physical shape.
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The novel's "intimidating illumination" of the lecherous, aging David Kepesh is too repellent for him fully to embrace, as it seems to be for Roth himself, who, Amis writes, "does not equip Kepesh with moral clarity" but with "rationalizations" and "suffering" instead.
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There are four main protagonists: The Marschallin; her lover, Count Octavian Rofrano; the lecherous cousin Baron Ochs (pronounced "ox" rather than "oaks" for obvious reasons); and the Baron's prospective fiancée, Sophie von Faninal, daughter of a recently ennobled bourgeois arms dealer, Herr von Faninal.
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That said, all four games have an irritating deference for fan service: Cidney's costume in Final Fantasy XV, the lecherous snapshot mission in Gravity Rush 2, female "pain sponges" in Yakuza 0, and skimpy bikini costumes meant for Future Tone's cast of underage girls.
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But I cringed reading her story about a young woman who makes a series of bad financial decisions and ends up stuck with a lecherous boss and an abusive boyfriend because she has mountains of debt and less than $200 in her checking account.
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Sexually abused by the lecherous drunk she calls Daddy and all but abandoned by her mother, she runs away with a band of feral teenagers who travel the country in a white van, selling magazine subscriptions door to door and sleeping in cheap motels.
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By the time this article went to press, Trump was facing a blizzard of new revulsion over a 22008 video obtained by The Washington Post in which the candidate is heard making lewd and lecherous claims about his treatment of women to the television host Billy Bush.
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Meanwhile, it turns out that Allen's private notes over the decades are "filled with misogynist and lecherous musings," showing "an insistent, vivid obsession with young women and girls," according to Richard Morgan, who sifted through Allen's 56-box archive and recounted his findings in The Washington Post.
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Proposals are under discussion to fine men for aggressive catcalling or lecherous behavior toward women in public, to extend the statute of limitations in cases of sexual assault involving minors, and to create a new age ceiling under which minors cannot legally consent to a sexual relationship.
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In "Volver," Penélope Cruz's Raimunda is the moral center; she's the kind of woman who protects her teenage daughter, stashes her lecherous unemployed husband's corpse in the freezer of the restaurant next door, and then runs the restaurant, all while contending with her mother's flatulent ghost.
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WASHINGTON — Senator Claire McCaskill, Democrat of Missouri, got her first tutorial about life as a woman in politics as a college intern at the statehouse in Jefferson City in 1974, when male lawmakers made lecherous remarks to her in the elevator; she took the stairs after that.
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This unconventional point of view exposes itself especially in passages describing a lecherous father who hasn't spent a day sober from weed for nearly 50 years, as well as the process of caring for an ailing mother, while battling her brother over the paltry estate left behind.
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She mercifully omits the period during which their birthday was declared a national holiday by a horde of lecherous sexual deviants or when Mary-Kate battled anorexia and alleged heroin addiction and was the first person Heath Ledger's masseuse called when he died of an overdose in 2008.
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Each of these characters—and indeed the doting spouses, or abusive girlfriends, or foul-mouthed school chums, or lecherous preachers, or the rest of the human parade—feels specific, and vibrant, and not quite complete, insofar as the best fictional characters remain as elusive and surprising as real people are.
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Those include fines for aggressive catcalling or lecherous behavior toward women in public; an extension from 20 years to 30 years of the statute of limitations in cases of sexual assault of minors; and the creation of a new age threshold under which minors cannot legally consent to a sexual relationship.
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Michael had met him a month earlier, on Grindr, expecting nothing from his "hello there" message—always expecting nothing, and feeling lecherous and gross and in over his head, forty-seven years old but only two years clear of the proverbial closet, which nowadays seemed as antiquated as an armoire.
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Ross Douthat Here's the good news, America: The Donald Trump versus Kim Jong-un showdown may be making you nervous, but it isn't the first time a reckless, lecherous U.S. president obsessed with his own vigor and out of his depth on foreign policy faced off against a thirtysomething dictator armed with nukes.
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There's still just enough time to make the summer of 2016 the summer of something else and — at least for another 30 days — deny that patently ridiculous, highly unstable, dictator-loving, tax-hiding, weirdly lecherous, morally and corporately bankrupt racist son of a bullying billionaire slumlord the oxygen of publicity he so desperately craves.
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I don't think anyone in their right mind would refer to their own partner as their squeeze, but it is possible one of the more rosy-cheeked, lecherous members of your grandparents' squad might throw a "this must be your new squeeze" in for good measure when they meet your boyfriend/girlfriend at a christening.
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Facing highs and lows that include a torrid romance with fellow mag-crew'er Jake (Shia LeBoeuf), lecherous potential clients, and the squalor that streaks America's lower-class realities, Star's experience is shared with the audience as a journey without a specific endpoint: a reflection of growing up, and the confusion and ecstasy that surrounds it.
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He hatched a viral publicity stunt for the unabashedly lecherous author Tucker Max ("I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell"), which involved vandalizing billboards for a movie based on the book and emailing photos of the defaced ads to blogs in an attempt to stir up a feminist boycott of the movie on college campuses.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpPossible GOP challenger says Trump doesn't doesn't deserve reelection, but would vote for him over Democrat O'Rourke: Trump driving global, U.S. economy into recession Manchin: Trump has 'golden opportunity' on gun reforms MORE's daughter says her father, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, is not the lecherous man described by The New York Times.
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Still, it's both striking and unfortunate that in the weeks leading up to the book's publication, much of the literary world seems to have decided en masse to act out the role of both Tess's lecherous restaurant manager and her co-workers: first singling out a young woman for her good looks and charm and then accusing her of benefiting from special treatment.
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Adding yet another layer of weirdness is that Big Mouth personifies puberty by way of opposing "hormone monsters," with the lecherous Maury (series co-creator Nick Kroll) following meek Andrew (John Mulaney) as he frets his way through his new urges, while curvaceous Connie (Maya Rudolph) tags alongside Jessi (Jessi Klein) to prod her into indulging in vicious mood swings.
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Here, she's Maggie, who gets to deliver the closest thing the film has to a moral message, which is that C.K.'s character, Glen, needs to grow up so he can tell his daughter, China, who just turned 18, that it's inappropriate for her to spend so much time with a lecherous older filmmaker, no matter how much she enjoys it.
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They include an over-the-hill ballet star (Irina Dvorovenko, in the Garbo part) who falls in love with an aristocratic thief (Barrymore's role, played by James Snyder); a poor but ambitious typist (Heléne Yorke), working for a lecherous tycoon on the verge of bankruptcy (John Dossett); and a consumptive Jewish clerk (Brandon Uranowitz) who wants to live, live, live before he expires.
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From the grizzled satyr Mickey Sabbath's imagined obituary ("did nothing for Israel") to his elation at his late mistress Drenka's "uberous" breasts, to the unseemly depths of his lecherous interest in friends' daughter's underwear or his urge to urinate on Drenka's grave, he erupts into exhilarating life even as he contemplates suicide in his grief at Drenka's death and his own aging diminution.
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It ends with a narrator pleading with a judge for leniency and promising to abandon his lecherous ways: I ain't gonna bother none 21957, I ain't gonna bother none 21960, I ain't gonna bother none 22007, I ain't gonna mess with none 20043, I'm gonna leave them 22004-year-old ones alone too, Gonna get me a girl about 212.
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This includes not only the unaccountable tournament organizers and shady managers, but the cottage industry of lecherous betting sites and ELO boosters (where people pay more skilled players to improve their matchmaking rank on their account) that exist like leeches on Dota 2's professional scene—and it's worth acknowledging that SmAsH has been accused of taking part in ELO-boosting schemes as well.
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The show's tagline— "if you want to be the perfect host, accentuate the positives, and medicate the negatives"—manifests in full nostalgic-surrealist burlesque mode, with Sedaris in 1950s house dresses knocking around her candy-colored home (if houses married, this one would have wed Pee-wee's playhouse), creating cut-rate 1970s cocktail party eats and deranged crafts to entertain everyone from lecherous businessmen, in one episode, to a rich uncle—who is not in fact rich at all—in another.
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His credential-chasing yielded a book of short stories, Palo Alto, a plainspoken and undistinguished set of accounts of middle class high school hijinks, adapted for the screen by Gia Coppola in 2013 with Franco as a lecherous high school teacher; and a chapbook of poems, Strongest of the Litter, about, among other things, Hollywood actors, including, presumably, himself: In fifty yearsMy sleep will be death,I'll go like the rest,But I'll have playedAll the games and all the roles.
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There were all of these clichéd male fantasies—the nude female neighbor walking into the bachelor pad, the sexy young call girls with their Madame in Victorian-inspired negligees and hairdos, the lecherous boss, orgies, nudist hippies, swinging couples, threesomes, artists, and every sex joke imaginable—and I put a female protagonist in the center of it all as a witness, so that we can think about what that time was, who it was for, what it looked and felt like.
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It is time to collect all memories of violence living in our bodies… the heart-pounding footsteps approaching behind us, the "accidental" brushing against our breasts, the muttered-under-the breath vulgarities, the cat-called threats, the porn-induced fantasies, the subway erections, the casting couches, the ogling bosses, the lecherous uncles, the pinches, the tweaks, the grabs, the unwanted kisses, the pinning against walls, the reminders that they are stronger (and they could do it, even if they didn't), the ones-we-thought-were-friends who did not "stop," the monsters who came out of nowhere to take what they wanted, the ones who laughed at our helplessness as they held us down, the ones who took turns with our bodies, and the ones who killed us, or left us for dead.
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