2fer, who KNEW?!1 H'wood producer molested Barbra. & Rita COSBY resurfaces!1

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Really, all these years somebody's name appears on HUGH!1 movie screens as "PRODUCER" and the name appears to be a really classy brand, and it turns out to be a sleeze!1

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http://www.nypost.com/seven/05242009/gossip/pagesix/casting_couch_turndown_170792.htm

CASTING COUCH TURNDOWN

GITA Hall is one actress not surprised by our recent scoop that, according to a book proposal by Jon Peters (which he's since withdrawn), Barbra Streisand and Lesley Ann Warren were molested by sleazy producer Ray Stark. The former Miss Stockholm says when she landed a part in "The Gun Runners" with Audie Murphy, Stark, whose company was producing, called her to his office. "I naively thought he was going to wish me luck. Imagine my shock when he pulled down (his) zipper and said, 'You know what to do,' " Hall told Page Six. "I turned to walk out as he shouted, 'Don't you want the part?' I said, 'Not that much!' " After complaining to the director, "the filming went on and Stark was barred from the set. I escaped somewhat unscathed in comparison to Ms. Streisand and Ms. Warren, but the experience was nonetheless shocking," added Hall, who's penning a memoir titled, "I Was Always There."



http://www.nypost.com/seven/05242009/gossip/pagesix/my_dad__a_hero_170773.htm

MY DAD, A HERO

RITA Cosby (above) has another book in the works. The TV talker, who wrote the controversial "Blonde Ambition" on Anna Nicole Smith with Bruce Littlefield, is doing another project with him. It's based on Cosby's discovery that her father fought with the Polish resistance in World War II, and was captured and rescued as a POW by American soldiers. Littlefield said at Da Tommaso restaurant that Simon & Schuster's Threshold imprint has purchased the story.

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1. Steisand and Hall, at least, appear to have been in their mid-twenties when they first met Stark.

Is "molested" the right word?

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2. Well, that word was in the original item, but I wondered that Barbar

was always SO powerful that I didn't think she was VULERNERABLE.