'Fear is everywhere': a quiet paranoia haunts post-Weinstein Hollywood

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The industry is on edge as allegations of sexual misconduct reach dizzying heights. The question on everyone’s mind is: ‘Who will be next?’

Week five of the great reckoning and Hollywood is frightened and lost, drifting deeper into uncharted waters with no script, no direction and no sense how it will end.

Scandal was always part of the entertainment industry, a ritualised process of rumours, denials and hush money, publicists and fixers, banishment and redemption.

I think there are many people – mostly men – who are very scared of what may or may not come out about them

Related: I hate internet outrage. But could we have stopped Weinstein without it?

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