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    Mary McNamara: Outcry over 'Richard Jewell' is proof that #MeToo is changing things

    by Mary Mcnamara, Los Angeles Times Dec 13, 2019 6 minutes

    It seems unlikely that Billy Ray wrote and Clint Eastwood directed "Richard Jewell" in order to test the state of sexism in post-#MeToo Hollywood. But that's exactly what their film did. And lo and behold, it seems that things are not as bad as they once were.

    Oh, in the actual film they are very bad. In the actual film, sexism is alive and well and multitasking, as it has been for so long, under the guise of character development and exposition. But this time, people are noticing. This time, people are not having it. There have been so many critiques, essays and takes that the media outrage churned up by "Richard Jewell" the movie, which opens in theaters Friday, is now almost as intense as the media circus that surrounded Richard Jewell the man. And for much the same reason.

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