So, Google "actors over 60" just to jog the memory... Ruling out Brits as being less likely to be Hollywood power players at the time, some names that turn up: Michael Keaton John Goodman Robert Redofrd Robert Deniro Christopher Walken Tom Selleck Richard Gere Jack Nicholson (Hmmm.....) Dustin Hoffman Sean Connery (I made an exception) Danny Glover James Earl Jones (why do I get the notion it's not gonna be a black guy) Bill Murray Dan Akeroyd Tommy Lee Jones Robert Duvall Donald Southerland Jeff Bridges Bruce Willis Kurt Russell Warren Beatty Al Pachino Clint Eastwood Kevin Costner Martin Sheen Harrison Ford Kurt/Michael Douglas John Travolta Dennis Quaid Sly Stallone Jon Voight James Woods Albert Brooks Arnold Kevin Kline Richard Dryfuss Billy Crystal Tom Berenger Don Johnson Ed Harris Mickey Rourke Obviously, a lot of those guys wouldn't be called "A lister" in most contexts.
A lot of them aren't squeaky clean family men either. Arnold, Nicholson, Beatty, Don Johnson, Mickey Rourke, they were wild horndogs in the 1980's.
Robert Downey Jr. has slammed Kurt Douglas for raping Natalie Woods, and he has pointed to the existence of a big Hollywood pedophile ring that nobody can touch. I would go ahead and rule out any right wingers like James Woods or Clint Eastwood because they'd have been destroyed by the Hollywood rumor mill in a heartbeat. It's also probably not a New York based actor due to the difficulty of keeping a huge secret in two different cities with two different communities.
Partly, but mainly because such a revelation would taint their entire body of work, and both actors have performed in many of my favorite films. If I could never again watch The Thing or The Big Lebowski without being constantly aware I'm watching a despicable pedophile, I'd be very sad. It's much like it is with Cosby. His comedy albums--to say nothing of his TV and movie roles--are some of my favorite entertainments of all time, and now I can't listen to them (or recite from one) without thinking about what he's become.
The original radaronline article keeps referring to an "A-List individual" and never definitively identifies him as an actor.
It would be interesting to see whether any trumpeters would renounce him under such a circumstance. I doubt they would.
This. Finding out Bill Cosby was a rapist destroyed my enjoyment of the Cosby Show, Himself, and a whole bunch of other fond memories I have of his work. Jeff Bridges, Kurt Russell, or in my case Tom Hanks especially, because I adore Tom Hanks. That would just break my heart.
In general, guys like this tend to not only have squeaky clean images, but there's something about their other activities which connect them to children. A lot of them tend to run charities or programs for children. Poke around in charitable organizations with strong ties to an A-Lister, and you'll probably find your man. Paul Newman, Richard Marx, Michael Jackson, and George Lucas, are four that I can think of off the top of my head who have such charities. No clue if any of them are kiddie diddlers, and I'm sure they're not the only ones who have such charities, so it could well be someone else.
We need to change gturner's username to brainzapper. He's like a bug zapper that attracts intelligent people. No matter how aware they are that he's full of shit and usually posts pointless irrelevancies, they respond to him anyway. They can't resist the droning noise and flashy purple light.
You mean Bill Clinton was impeached, disbarred, and heavily fined over irrelevancies? I would think his many rape and sexual assault victims would disagree.