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A New Front in the #MeToo War

Timothy Hutton was accused, investigated, cleared (sort of), but still lost a lucrative job. Now Hutton is suing his former employer, setting up a legal battle with no easy answers.

Timothy Hutton
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Matthew Belloni
February 28, 2022

People sometimes ask me, as I’m sure they ask you, whether the #MeToo movement has actually changed Hollywood. I usually say it’s shifted nothing and everything, meaning the power structures that gave rise to all that awful behavior still exist, but a lot of the specifics—from casting decisions, to how people conduct themselves in personal and professional settings, even to the things people fight over—have definitely changed.