Mark, I sort of agree with you, but there's also the matter of his sleeping with the teenage daughter of his then lover, a daughter he had known since birth and played with since her infancy. At least borderline incestuous, though even without the incest angle he would still raise eyebrows marrying her when she was 21 and he was 56. And you can add to that the reports of several women who have worked with him. Mariel Hemingway, for example (in a movie that took for granted it was okay for a middle age man to date a teenager), says that he came onto her on the set when she was pretty much just a kid.
But I agree that he is no Harvey Weinstein. And I wouldn't boycott his movies if they were any good, but it's been a long time since that's been the case.
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