For the past four months, @megjamesLAT and I immersed ourselves in the world of Randall Emmett. The journey of working on this investigation was unlike any experience I've ever had in journalism. 🧵latimes.com/entertainment-… So why review thousands of emails, texts, contracts & lawsuits involving a producer arguably less known for his films than being on "Vanderpump Rules"? Bc the story is bigger than just him. This kind of alleged behavior is still going on in Hlywd, even post-Weinstein, Rudin, etc

I have an important quarantine love story to share. Please follow along. (THREAD) On March 23rd, my roommate @MonaghanShelby matched with a guy named Wes on @bumble. They started talking on the phone pretty quickly.

THREAD: In a new Rolling Stone interview, David Simon attacks the LA Times' 2018 story on James Franco by insinuating we reported the story on the actor because we were aware "that the lion’s share of the real, aggressive, meaningful reporting on this stuff..." "...had been done by The New Yorker and The New York Times. They were the ones who were delivering real, solid, fundamental journalism, about real offenders who were using their positions to obtain sex, and misusing women in that fundamental way."

OK, #BachelorNation, the guys competing for @AlabamaHannah's heart are up, which means it's time for my favorite game: Parsing their bios! Brian, 30, is a math teacher who teaches "at the same high school he attended" in Louisville, Kentucky. He is also a "pun and sarcasm enthusiast."

Breaking: Two weeks ago, @20thcenturyfox deleted a scene from "The Predator" featuring a registered sex offender, Steven Wilder Striegel. Striegel was cast by his longtime friend, director Shane Black, who has put the actor in three of his films. latimes.com/entertainment/… Fox decided to delete the scene after being informed of Striegel's background by actress @oliviamunn, who was in the scene with him. Fox says it ​was not aware that Striegel was a sex offender when he was hired, but Black ​acknowledges he was.