| In Spacey Trial Keller
Trolls Rapp on American Beauty,
Reax Mixed Unlike Ghislaine
Maxwell
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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BBC -
Honduras
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LITERARY SDNY,
Oct 11 – Now Anthony Rapp was
on the stand, or on the cross,
under cross examination by
Kevin Spacey's lawyer. She
mocked him, as selling only 26
CDs of his music.
She
repeatedly implied that the
basis for his accusation was
that he was jealous of Spacey
and his movies, which she
mentioned in turn.
You threw
pencils at the TV screen when
Kevin Spacey won the Oscar,
didn't you, she
asked. One pencil,
Rapp insisted.
American
Beauty was very well received,
wasn't it, she asked. He
supposed it was, adding how
the predator - or was it
slacker? - character Spacey
played, Lester Burnham, made
him feel. This became a
worldwide lead.
The
coverage was
defendant-centric. This was
true in the Ghislaine Maxwell
trial too, Kurt Wheelock
supposed. But this was
different. While live tweeting
that trial, he had got over
the transom almost no defense
of Ghislaine.
Here he
was hearing from Spacey
supporters, and perhaps
separately, from MeToo
doubters. Rapp had
said he decided to go public
once he read an op-ed about
Harvey Weinstein. But it
turned out that was published
five days later.
Did that
mean Kevin Spacey was not a
predator? Kurt Wheelock
thought, and sang, No. But
would the jury doubt Rapp?
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