‘If that’s Hollywood’s idea of being a woman,” Maureen O’Hara once said, “I’m ready to quit now.” The Irish beauty, and star of The Quiet Man, told The Mirror in 1945, “Because I don’t let the producer and director kiss me every morning or let them paw me, they have spread word around town that I am not a woman — that I am a cold piece of marble statuary.”
No doubt O’Hara would have had a thing or two to say about Harvey Weinstein, the former movie mogul, who was convicted of a first-degree criminal sexual act and third-degree rape. More than 90 women brought forward allegations of rape, sexual assault, and harassment spanning decades, and — last week — Weinstein was tried and found guilty of having sexually assaulted his British production assistant in 2006 and of raping an American actress in 2013. Weinstein’s lawyers maintained his innocence throughout the trial, and he “unequivocally denied” having partaken in “nonconsensual” sexual activity, but the jury disagreed.
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