california governor gavin newsome. she described the communications as a requirement when dealing with someone as powerful and as connected as weinstein. the trial in l.a. follows weinstein s conviction and sentencing on rape charges in new york and amid an on going investigation in london. he is charged with rape and sexual assault of multiple women and faces decades in prison on the l.a. charges. elizabeth wagmeister is the chief correspondent at variety and co-host of the take. she was in the courtroom during the testimony and joins us now. i read a lot of the testimony. i m wondering, elizabeth, i mean, it just seems like a brutal experience to put this witness through. i don t know how the defense was getting anywhere by torturing her on the stand.
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dancing, we re going to be singing and keeping people s names out of our mouths and we re going to be giving out awards all throughout the night. all right. i m going to present this award, and i trust that you people will stay 500 feet away from me. the shocking moment from the oscars still has hollywood talking. smith resigned from the film academy over the weekend as they investigate what they will do. that is yet tbd. and this morning, there are now reports several of smith s upcoming projects are being put on pause. joining me is elizabeth wagmeister from variety and co-host of variety s the take. thanks for coming back in. the fact the oscar slap is becoming this reoccurring, i guess now joke in some regard from the grammys to snl and beyond, it says, what, to you about this whole thing? you know, this says to me that this is now bigger than will smith. this is a story that is dominating headlines, not just in america, but globally.
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