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From 'The Apartment' and '9 to 5' to our current moment of sexual harassment in the workplace

Last Wednesday, former "Price is Right" game show host Bob Barker turned 95, prompting a number of seemingly anodyne birthday tweets from news organizations including USA Today - which linked to an article that contains no mention of the lawsuits in which Barker was named over the years.

Funny, that.

Barker left the show in 2007. Here's Time magazine's reporting on the culture of the show's workplace, which includes a history of "complaints - including sexual harassment, racial discrimination, wrongful termination and emotional abuse and intimidation - against 'Price is Right' producers and its longtime former host Bob Barker (that) depicts an institutionalized attitude that allowed executives to treat models on the show (and.

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