Another woman is accusing celebrity chef Mario Batali of sexual misconduct, detailing an incident where the chef sexually assaulted her at a New York City restaurant in 2005.
“I woke up by myself on the floor. I don’t know where I am, of an empty room, wooden floor, I see broken bottles. The first thing I think is I’ve been drugged. That was the first thing I thought. I’ve been assaulted,” the unnamed woman told Anderson Cooper during an interview on “60 Minutes” Sunday.
“I also did find — I looked on my skirt — there were two areas it looked like DNA. Semen.”
Also Read: Mario Batali Faces Sexual Misconduct Investigation by NYPD
The woman, who worked at Batali’s New York City restaurant Babbo, said Batali invited her to another party at The Spotted Pig restaurant, owned by his friend Ken Friedman, and that things quickly escalated between them.
“I woke up by myself on the floor. I don’t know where I am, of an empty room, wooden floor, I see broken bottles. The first thing I think is I’ve been drugged. That was the first thing I thought. I’ve been assaulted,” the unnamed woman told Anderson Cooper during an interview on “60 Minutes” Sunday.
“I also did find — I looked on my skirt — there were two areas it looked like DNA. Semen.”
Also Read: Mario Batali Faces Sexual Misconduct Investigation by NYPD
The woman, who worked at Batali’s New York City restaurant Babbo, said Batali invited her to another party at The Spotted Pig restaurant, owned by his friend Ken Friedman, and that things quickly escalated between them.
- 5/21/2018
- by Jon Levine
- The Wrap
The irrepressible Robin Williams is Joey, a trash-talking Cadillac salesman with three women on the line, who becomes an involuntary hero when Tim Robbins smashes his motorcycle into the car showroom and threatens to kill everybody. Roger Donaldson’s crisis-farce black comedy is still funny — and my favorite Robin Williams feature.
Cadillac Man
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1990 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date January 2, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed, Fran Drescher, Zack Norman, Lori Petty, Annabella Sciorra, Paul Guilfoyle, Bill Nelson, Eddie Jones, Mimi Cecchini, Tristine Skyler, Judith Hoag, Lauren Tom.
Cinematography: David Gribble
Film Editor: Richard Francis-Bruce
Original Music: J. Peter Robinson
Written by Ken Friedman
Produced by Roger Donaldson, Charles Roven
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Perhaps Robin Williams’ biggest impact was through his cable TV comedy specials, teamed up with Whoopi Goldberg and others. An amazing natural humor machine, Williams could go...
Cadillac Man
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1990 / Color / 1:85 widescreen / 97 min. / Street Date January 2, 2018 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Robin Williams, Tim Robbins, Pamela Reed, Fran Drescher, Zack Norman, Lori Petty, Annabella Sciorra, Paul Guilfoyle, Bill Nelson, Eddie Jones, Mimi Cecchini, Tristine Skyler, Judith Hoag, Lauren Tom.
Cinematography: David Gribble
Film Editor: Richard Francis-Bruce
Original Music: J. Peter Robinson
Written by Ken Friedman
Produced by Roger Donaldson, Charles Roven
Directed by Roger Donaldson
Perhaps Robin Williams’ biggest impact was through his cable TV comedy specials, teamed up with Whoopi Goldberg and others. An amazing natural humor machine, Williams could go...
- 1/2/2018
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Famed chef Anthony Bourdain took to Twitter on Tuesday to show his support and affection for his girlfriend, Italian actress Asia Argento, in the midst of the several sexual harassment allegations both in the entertainment and in the food world.
The Parts Unknown host, 61, shared a photo of himself lying in a hammock with 42-year-old Argento, captioning the shot: “I ain’t ‘woke’. I was lucky enough to meet one, truly extraordinary woman @AsiaArgento.”
Argento responded to his tweet and said, “I miss everything about that picture.”
A Twitter user also commented on Bourdain’s tweet noting that Argento “looks...
The Parts Unknown host, 61, shared a photo of himself lying in a hammock with 42-year-old Argento, captioning the shot: “I ain’t ‘woke’. I was lucky enough to meet one, truly extraordinary woman @AsiaArgento.”
Argento responded to his tweet and said, “I miss everything about that picture.”
A Twitter user also commented on Bourdain’s tweet noting that Argento “looks...
- 12/13/2017
- by Collier Sutter
- PEOPLE.com
Anthony Bourdain would've gladly helped women who were allegedly sexually harassed or abused by Mario Batali ... if they'd shared the allegations with him. Bourdain's been taking some heat for his reaction to the Batali claims because he hinted he knew about some of the inappropriate behavior. Now, he wants to make it clear he stands "unhesitatingly and unwaveringly with the women." He says his past admiration for Batali and famed restaurateur Ken Friedman -- who's...
- 12/12/2017
- by TMZ Staff
- TMZ
Ken Friedman is the latest high-profile restaurant owner to be accused of sexual harassment.
A day after sexual misconduct allegations against Mario Batali were reported, 10 women came forward on Tuesday in a New York Times article, describing how the owner of N.Y.C.’s famed gastropub The Spotted Pig has allegedly been subjecting his employees to unwanted sexual advances for years.
Friedman, whose restaurant has earned several Michelin stars, a James Beard Foundation award, and is known as a celebrity hot spot run by chef April Bloomfield, has reportedly groped several of his female employees in public and has...
A day after sexual misconduct allegations against Mario Batali were reported, 10 women came forward on Tuesday in a New York Times article, describing how the owner of N.Y.C.’s famed gastropub The Spotted Pig has allegedly been subjecting his employees to unwanted sexual advances for years.
Friedman, whose restaurant has earned several Michelin stars, a James Beard Foundation award, and is known as a celebrity hot spot run by chef April Bloomfield, has reportedly groped several of his female employees in public and has...
- 12/12/2017
- by Jessica Fecteau
- PEOPLE.com
Hemdale became one of the largest indie studios of the 80s with films like The Terminator and Platoon. Ryan charts its turbulent history...
When Platoon won four Oscars in 1987, it marked not only a new chapter in Oliver Stone's career as a filmmaker, but also the end of a decade-long battle. Since the 1970s, Stone had been struggling to make his harrowing account of the horrors he'd seen firsthand as a soldier in the Vietnam conflict, but was famously turned down by every major studio in Hollywood.
Platoon, and Stone, finally found sanctuary at a small independent studio with a grand-sounding name: the Hemdale Film Corporation. It was Hemdale, and its co-founder John Daly, that had taken a chance on Stone, and when Platoon came out in 1986, the gamble proved to be a shrewd one: its $6m investment was covered by the first month's ticket sales, and the film...
When Platoon won four Oscars in 1987, it marked not only a new chapter in Oliver Stone's career as a filmmaker, but also the end of a decade-long battle. Since the 1970s, Stone had been struggling to make his harrowing account of the horrors he'd seen firsthand as a soldier in the Vietnam conflict, but was famously turned down by every major studio in Hollywood.
Platoon, and Stone, finally found sanctuary at a small independent studio with a grand-sounding name: the Hemdale Film Corporation. It was Hemdale, and its co-founder John Daly, that had taken a chance on Stone, and when Platoon came out in 1986, the gamble proved to be a shrewd one: its $6m investment was covered by the first month's ticket sales, and the film...
- 4/2/2015
- by ryanlambie
- Den of Geek
The Spotted Pig, the pioneering gastropub in Manhattan’s West Village whose gang of high-profile investors includes Jay Z and Bono, has committed to a site along continually gentrifying Venice’s hottest stretch, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. Sources say it will take over 1205 Abbot Kinney Blvd., the former home of Local 1205, an upmarket deli and marketplace. Spotted Pig partner Ken Friedman did not immediately return a request for comment. Photos: The Grill on the Alley Turns 30 The boisterous, ever-crowded restaurant opened a decade ago. It’s known for dishes like ricotta Gnudi and a chargrilled burger with Roquefort cheese,
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- 4/2/2014
- by Gary Baum and Alexandria Abramian
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The Anchor Bay Entertainment re-release of director Jonathan Kaplan's 1994 action western drama, "Bad Girls", is now available on Blu-ray and DVD.
The film stars Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore, based on a screenplay by Ken Friedman and Yolande Turner :
"...four former prostitutes, on the run following a justifiable homicide and a prison escape, later encounter difficulties involving bank robbery and 'Pinkerton' detectives..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Bad Girls"....
The film stars Madeleine Stowe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Andie MacDowell and Drew Barrymore, based on a screenplay by Ken Friedman and Yolande Turner :
"...four former prostitutes, on the run following a justifiable homicide and a prison escape, later encounter difficulties involving bank robbery and 'Pinkerton' detectives..."
Click the images to enlarge and Sneak Peek "Bad Girls"....
- 1/21/2012
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Creatives gravitate to a showy New York hotel lobby to work hard and look good doing so.
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On a sticky summer day in New York, I walk east on 29th Street. My destination: the Ace Hotel. As I pass the expansive windows of the John Dory--the mod oyster bar that's part of Ace's ecosystem--i notice Norah Jones at a window table, having lunch. This is the place. The bellboy on duty, who looks exactly like Keanu Reeves (circa Point Break), opens the hotel's weighty double doors, and I enter the cavernous but intimate lobby and find a seat. To my left, several well-coiffed thirty-somethings, speaking Italian, assemble camera equipment. To my right, at the long wood table outfitted with vintage library-carrel lamps, sit an array of people, earbuds in place, eyes glued to laptop screens.
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On a sticky summer day in New York, I walk east on 29th Street. My destination: the Ace Hotel. As I pass the expansive windows of the John Dory--the mod oyster bar that's part of Ace's ecosystem--i notice Norah Jones at a window table, having lunch. This is the place. The bellboy on duty, who looks exactly like Keanu Reeves (circa Point Break), opens the hotel's weighty double doors, and I enter the cavernous but intimate lobby and find a seat. To my left, several well-coiffed thirty-somethings, speaking Italian, assemble camera equipment. To my right, at the long wood table outfitted with vintage library-carrel lamps, sit an array of people, earbuds in place, eyes glued to laptop screens.
- 8/12/2011
- by Lizzy Goodman
- Fast Company
Hollywood films have always been rife with images of the disabled, frequently casting them as misunderstood pariahs, idiot henchmen, or occasionally malevolent geniuses, filled with wrath at their despised place in the world. But rarely is there anything like Johnny Handsome, a film which deftly avoids making any sort of statement about disability by avoiding making a statement on virtually anything at all, shoehorning its sarcastically named title character into a plot so conventional it’s virtually weightless. In fact, were it not for Mickey Rourke spending half of the movie looking like a grilled cheese sandwich gone terribly wrong, you probably wouldn’t give it a second thought. But the effect of his makeup is so strange, and so belabored upon, that you can’t help but feel that there’s some considerable distance between the intended and the achieved effect, and wonder exactly what the intended effect was.
- 7/29/2010
- by Anders Nelson
- JustPressPlay.net
You never know where life is going to take you, and Frank Beddor can certainly be a testament to that. His life’s adventure seems like a well orchestrated movie with a lot of twists and turns. How else can one explain going from the Us Ski Team to producing hit movies like, ‘There’s Something About Mary,’ and now a New York Times Best-Selling author?
Iae sat down with Mr. Beddor to discuss what’s next for the man who took Alice from Wonderland and brought her into our world as the real person, Alyss Hart in "The Looking Glass Wars."
Iae: Could you please tell us where you are from and what inspired you to pursue a career in entertainment?
Fb: I have such a varied and unusual background to be where I am right now. I grew up in Minneapolis and was framed by my parents. My father was an impresario,...
Iae sat down with Mr. Beddor to discuss what’s next for the man who took Alice from Wonderland and brought her into our world as the real person, Alyss Hart in "The Looking Glass Wars."
Iae: Could you please tell us where you are from and what inspired you to pursue a career in entertainment?
Fb: I have such a varied and unusual background to be where I am right now. I grew up in Minneapolis and was framed by my parents. My father was an impresario,...
- 7/13/2010
- I Am Entertainment Magazine
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