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Hello. I'm Conrad Bain.
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Tonight, in "Arnold",
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we will start a two-part special
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a very sensitive and important subject.
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We ask families, children and parents,
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watch the two educational episodes
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and discuss the problem presented
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which is very worrying for all of us.
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Mr. Bike Guy!
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Mr. Bike Guy!
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Arnold, the "guy's" name is Mr. Horton.
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Right!
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Mr. Bike Guy!
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This series was very
uncomfortable for me.
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I can't watch her, I don't
want to get close to her.
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I ask them: "don't include
me and leave me out."
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Give me a bike, please! Please!
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Don't just stand there! Help me flatter!
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Dad, I think he could
leave his bike in the garage.
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Yes father. There are plenty of
safe places to cycle in the park
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and no matter how far lost
they go, they are everywhere!
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We have one living in our apartment!
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It was a nuisance because...
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I was going through that.
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And watch what happens in the series,
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how was it:
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"We're reliving all of that."
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I was reliving all that.
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Maybe it's best we don't let
your father know about the bike.
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In truth,
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Maybe it would be better if you don't
even mention that you came back here
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and I gave you this
ice cream before dinner.
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Why don't we keep this
as our little secret, huh?
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You know what, Mr. Horton?
You are sneaky!
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Sneaky?
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Yes! I'm starting to respect
sneaky people too much!
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This happened in my
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life, and they didn't know.
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You know what, Arnold?
I really like you.
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I like you very much.
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You and I will have a lot of fun.
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We met when I was a baby.
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I was 14 years old and he was 17 years old.
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There was a dance at my
school called "Bale dos Amores".
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Fred called me, we were
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talking on the phone and...
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all he said was: "Jan?"
And I said: "yes?"
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"Do you want to go to the dance with me?"
And he put down the phone!
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I hate rejection. I can not stand.
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And when he got back on
the phone, I said, "yes, I will!"
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We dated during high school and I
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ended up serving in the Armed Forces.
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In fact, I proposed
to her before I served.
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When I came back to stay, there was
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a big oak tree in her
mother's front yard,
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I walked down the
street and there was a big
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yellow bow with a big
bell around the tree, so...
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I wanted him to see that
I was waiting for him...
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and always...
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I will wait for him.
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And I needed him to know that
when he walked down the street.
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I loved him and couldn't wait to see him.
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I couldn't wait for him to come home.
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Fred was born on Easter Sunday.
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We brought him home
in a bunny outfit with ears.
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And Mark was born three years later.
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We had a great time as the kids grew up.
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They played sports.
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Fred played football and baseball.
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Mark played football,
baseball and football.
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We had a boat.
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We went camping, fishing.
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We watched movies, they
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got tired and fell asleep.
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Reason to put dye in your hair...
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putting on makeup and
things like that while they slept.
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- They had fun.
- Yes. We were blessed.
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Mark had a lot of fun...
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when he was a boy at school.
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Very good dear. He had many friends.
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I would wake up and there would
be five, seven, eight boys down here.
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They decided to spend the night
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here and raided the refrigerator.
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He had a girlfriend
throughout high school
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they loved each other very much.
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He was very popular, fun...
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and he loved high school.
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I don't know what took him...
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thinking about being a model, but...
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- When you are very young...
- It was early adolescence
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when he started talking about it.
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He wanted me to take him to a
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modeling agency here in Cincinnati.
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We had to say we couldn't pay.
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We couldn't afford it.
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He wasn't happy. He was disappointed.
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But he was fine. I think it was a
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dream of his when he was at that age:
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12, 13, 14 years old.
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So when he got an opportunity,
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- I couldn't deny it.
- Upon graduating from high school
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he went to California.
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My grandparents moved away.
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From Switzerland.
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They took a map and...
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They pointed to where they wanted to go.
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My grandmother forced
my grandfather to move,
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and he told me they
purposely came to Los Angeles
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because he wanted to
see the celebrities and stars
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that people think they can see here.
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I think every little boy dreams of being
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famous, being in movies
and things like that.
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Many of my heroes were actors.
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Johnny Depp was...
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the biggest one at the time.
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Everything he was capable of
doing, the personas he could do.
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This fascinated me.
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Everyone said, when I was growing up:
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"Mike should model. Mike should act."
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It was great. So, I found
a good manager and
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did several jobs.
Especially for printed matter.
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I couldn't stop doing these jobs.
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He was excited and excited.
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We are from a Midwestern city
and that was very new and different
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and Mike seemed very excited to do it.
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I had a good life growing up.
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I started doing operas
and things like that
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with my grandmother at
the Houston Grand Opera.
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I remember walking in at
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the very end of the opera
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holding a sword up.
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It was at the very end.
I appeared holding a sword.
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Everyone stood up, applauded,
threw flowers and so on.
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The noise was incredible.
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The noise from the audience.
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That's probably the happiest
acting memory I have.
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The happiest experience I have.
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I became interested in acting and
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started acting classes in Houston.
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I got an agent.
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I don't know where you want to go.
I don't know where it comes from, but...
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This is California.
This is where you get it.
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It's here, understand?
This is where it all starts.
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People kill themselves
to get here, you know?
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- You are here! Good luck, man!
- Thank you very much!
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Simply the love for cinema and films.
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I grew up on this since I was 5 years old.
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I've been to "Gilbert Grape"
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I've been in a few other films.
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I was in "The Apostle"
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with Robert Duvall and Farrah Fawcett.
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This tells me about the love of the Savior
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who died to set me free.
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The audition process was
we met with Robert Duvall,
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he sat at the piano
and "my sister" and I...
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We sang some songs with him.
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Oh, how I love Jesus!
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Oh, how I love Jesus!
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Oh, how I love Jesus!
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Because He first loved me!
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A big round of applause for Jesus!
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I know we could change
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the sadness in the smiles.
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I was always singing.
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Since I was 3 years old.
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I remember him taking afternoon naps...
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and when he woke up, he sang.
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We thought he had a great voice,
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but then we heard from friends...
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and even from strangers.
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We went to a restaurant, Evan sang...
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and they came to say:
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“My God, how cute he is
and has a beautiful voice.
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He has talent. You should
do something with this talent."
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I wanted to introduce myself.
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I wanted to be part of this in public.
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I wanted to be friends with the stars.
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Tell everyone that I am...
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friend of your celebrities.
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There is this lovely creature.
There it is, there it is...
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with your hair full of bows
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and green gloves on his hands.
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Are you attracted to...
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I guess, being the center of attention.
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I asked this kind creature
Yes, I asked. Yes, I asked...
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if she would walk a little with
me on this long lasting night.
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I was a star-looking kid.
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I was "Mr. Entertainment."
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Long blond hair.
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Hello! Can I borrow your towel?
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- Yes! Clear!
- Thanks!
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I looked like a stud.
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A person your mother warns about.
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I looked very young. At 12 years old,
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he could act as an 8, 9 or 10 year old.
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That's what Los Angeles
is looking for, you know?
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Like now! I can act...
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like I was 25 or 30, for sure!
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You made the movie studios a lot of money
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and I hope you pocketed a lot.
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- Have you been getting along well?
- I am.
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What do you want to do when you grow up?
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It's tough!
It's not easy glamor as you think.
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My name is Mason Gamble
and I'm six and a half years old.
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You need to understand, right away,
that you will receive millions of "no"
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and maybe a "yes".
If you're lucky. Perhaps.
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He understands?
Otherwise, you shouldn't be in this.
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Especially as a child, there
are doors knocking every day.
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Sometimes six times a day.
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You can go to auditions
for years and not get a job.
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And it can be very
frustrating, because you
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don't see any benefit
from what you're doing.
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{\an5}If you are watching this DVD,
you must be looking for information
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{\an5}about starting a career in entertainment,
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{\an5}if you are a child or teenager.
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{\an5}Now there are a lot of
entrepreneurs in the mix.
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{\an5}When I arrived in the city as a
child entrepreneur, I was the only one!
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{\an5}Nobody did that. They never heard of it.
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{\an5}They looked at me as if I were crazy.
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Many old agents in the
field wouldn't even talk to me.
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I was a terrible person if
I showed up with the kids.
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It took a while to understand that...
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Kids need entrepreneurs,
just like everyone else.
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I am one of the founding members of the
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Screen Actors Guild
Young Performer Committee,
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which is now SAG AFTRA.
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I was chairman of the
Committee in the past.
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Now I'm just a field soldier.
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Children, for the most
part, are willing to listen.
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They are ready to absorb things.
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They have not yet developed
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any preconceived ideas
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about who they are and
how they will get somewhere.
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We try to advise them...
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which direction to follow
and, in doing so, you
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will also be entrepreneurship
for your parents.
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When parents enter the
entertainment business it
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is typically because their
children asked them to,
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because it is their son's
dream or because someone
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approached them and
told them that their son,
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In some way, it serves the industry.
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They have no idea how
the medium actually works.
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Many kids I knew were emancipated because
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they wanted the studios
to see them as adults
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and didn't need to pay a set teacher
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having parents in the set and so on.
It's easier to get hired.
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The actor is responsible...
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for his photo and resume.
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I get irritated when the
actor arrives and says:
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"My mother is with
them in the waiting room."
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Your mother should never
have your photo and resume,
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unless she got them from the printer.
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At 8 years old, you are responsible
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for your own career.
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The internet changed everything for us.
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We were very surprised to
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learn that photos of our children
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were being sold on eBay.
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Just regular headshots.
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Nothing erotic or erratic.
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Our children were not famous at all.
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They worked, but they
didn't care if anyone
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cared that photos of
them were sold on eBay.
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However, it was clear that they were
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sold and were being
sold for a lot of money.
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And you ask yourself: who wants
a photo of my son for 300 dollars?
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Plus a printed photo
that we send for free.
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We started an investigation process
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and started by putting together a matrix
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the photographers, salespeople
and what each one did.
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We were very shocked to learn
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that they were very close to us.
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Very, very close.
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My cousin Darian worked all the time.
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He participated in about 50 auditions...
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over a period of two months or so.
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It looked like he was really going to...
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be successful.
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All this happened because of his cousin.
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He had already signed a
contract with his manager.
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My parents and my sister came and said:
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"Darian is doing great with
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Marty and you should see it."
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Martin Weiss, better known as Marty,
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was a businessman in
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Hollywood for probably 15 years.
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He managed child actors.
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Boys and girls, but mostly boys.
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Marty had a close
relationship with his clients.
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They spent the night
with him at home regularly;
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he had acting parties
with clients, regularly.
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He took them all to Trick
or Treat on Halloween
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together and he dressed
up as a dinosaur, a shark,
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or something like the Grinch.
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He was very aggressive as a businessman.
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Honestly, he was really good.
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Clients got auditions. They got work.
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He said I needed to sing some songs
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and make them look really good.
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You will meet a producer,
sign a record deal;
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you can...
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star in Disney Channel programs.
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What kid doesn't want that, right?
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It happened very quickly.
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I remember him signing a contract
with Marty when he was 9 years old.
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Actually, I didn't think
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Honestly, nothing much would happen.
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Our next artist
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began his singing career
less than 1 year ago
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and has already caught the attention
of important people in the industry.
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I remember I was at the Young Artist Awards.
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He was excited. He got ready and...
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he was a little nervous.
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So do we!
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Maybe we were more nervous than he was.
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For us, it was very exciting
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and we were very proud of Evan
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and there was the
impression... At least, I
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had the impression
that it was for Evan too.
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When he was singing, he acted naturally.
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Marty called me one day...
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and said, "Evan, surprise!
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You'll be in a Burger King commercial."
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It was exciting because I had never
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done a commercial or been in one.
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Great to see your son
on TV for the first time.
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"There's Evan!"
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That. We were very proud.
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Marty really...
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You did a lot for Evan.
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My parents dropped my brother and
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I off at my aunt's house we met Marty,
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he took my cousins, my brother and me...
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and we went to play basketball in the park.
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He was actually nice.
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He told jokes.
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He was very immature.
We were immature at the time.
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He would tell jokes about sex
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and I thought he had no problem.
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My cousin and him
already seemed to be friends
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and there was no filter.
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They said what they wanted.
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As far as we knew, he was...
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a nice guy, and over the years he became
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more or less, part of the family.
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Marty came every weekend,
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every holiday, every Christmas...
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and every birthday.
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We were playing basketball and...
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He kept telling weird jokes like:
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"Evan, do you know what a blowjob is?"
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It made me feel like
I didn't fit in because
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I didn't know some of these terms yet.
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I had...
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11 years.
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We learned that Marty had
no family, he was alone...
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and he became a kind of...
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I don't know if the word would be
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"adopted", but he
became part of the family.
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Later that night...
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He said, "Why don't we talk about music?"
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I was in the front passenger seat.
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He drove and we
talked about things like...
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I said the artists I liked and...
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Marty suddenly
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He said, "Have you ever...
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Have you seen an older man's penis?"
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And I kept thinking...
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"Wow. That's kind of weird."
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I didn't mean to be disrespectful...
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and get out of the car.
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What was I going to do? I was in
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the middle of nowhere with this guy.
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I replied: "No. I've never seen...
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an older man's penis."
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AND...
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we went out, walked
and arrived at a park.
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There was a tree...
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he pushed me against the tree and said:
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"I'll show you what a blowjob is."
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- Thanks, Marty!
- You are welcome!
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Cool!
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- Right!
- Thanks, Marty!
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- The pleasure is mine!
- Cool!
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I kept saying, "No, no."
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He pulled down my pants...
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It is...
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I didn't know what to do after that.
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I should...
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tell someone?
Because he was really cool.
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Everyone liked him.
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And I considered it as if
nothing had happened.
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I can just delete this.
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Let it go. No problem.
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Around November 2009 I
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became aware of this problem
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of child abuse in Hollywood.
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There are children...
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who are aspiring actors.
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Because of these aspirations, they
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end up being easy targets for someone.
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In some cases, there are
parents who ignore common
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precautions and allow their
children to open up to adults,
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when parents would normally be attentive.
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Any actor is vulnerable in this position.
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Actors pose...
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in the hands of teachers,
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agents, businesspeople, publicists
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and give them complete trust.
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Sometimes you have to wake
up very early for auditions.
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That's when...
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Michael Harrah approached me and said:
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"You can stay at my house with
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the other guys who are there."
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He had three guys in his house.
They were customers.
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Many of the kids I worked with
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wouldn't have the slightest chance
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to take advantage, being in this field,
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if they had moved their families here.
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There were 10, 9 year old boys
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to 16, 17 years old.
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But even so, I thought it
was very strange, you know?
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Someone let their 10
year old son go live...
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at the time, I think he was in his 50s.
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I understand the possibility
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of things being misinterpreted
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and I tried to be very aware of that.
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It doesn't matter how closely
you work with someone
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and, in fact, we work closely
with clients in these situations,
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There still needs to be a
professional boundary where it says:
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"We don't go beyond it."
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We care about strangers.
Don't leave your child with strangers.
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Everyone is inclined to think
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that a pedophile is a type of rapist,
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But that's not how they operate.
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They use a process called grooming
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which is a slow and painstaking way
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of convincing children
and parents to trust them.
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- She's the official photographer!
- That!
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With a beautiful smile!
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The criminal, in these types of situations,
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has an ideal layer.
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It's their environment.
They are creating
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or constructing a reality for themselves
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that accommodates their
patterns of sexual desire.
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The predator looks at this as a way...
447
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to chart a path for the person's life.
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Create a personal relationship with
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the child and be there to bond with them.
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Stand up, guys. Clap. He won.
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Is the guy!
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Typically, a predator preys on
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many children at the same time
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and there are different
levels in the grooming process
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because the predator
knows, like a tiger in the jungle,
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that he won't catch all the rabbits.
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He just needs to catch the weakest ones.
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We went back and started
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trying to make a kind of compiled
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to try to determine how
widespread this problem is.
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Marty was well known in the community.
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He had friends who were
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buying and selling photos on eBay.
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We began to see that some of
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these sellers were convicted abusers.
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We learned that he was involved with
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another convicted abuser, Bob Villard,
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who sold photos on eBay.
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Bob Villard was a very prominent
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publicist in the 80s in Hollywood.
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I met Bob Villard
casually, as someone in the
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industry, and he was
a publicist a few times
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for clients I had.
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He looked after big names like
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Tobey Maguire and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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He was well known as a publicist.
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Bob Villard was also a photographer.
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I met Bob Villard as
a publicist who was a
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great photographer,
brought exposure and so on,
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and that's who I trusted,
through Michael Harrah.
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He was one of the
biggest sellers on eBay.
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It became obvious to us that Bob
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Villard was selling
photos of poses he took.
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If you spent a weekend
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there, he felt very comfortable
486
00:26:08,171 --> 00:26:11,202
to try to touch you when
you had a few beers
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or it was always nice to have the beers
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for him to try to touch me.
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We always recognized his photo style
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because he always
left the kids shirtless,
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always got the angle from top to bottom
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so that the children
looked up as if they were
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looking at the predator
in an abusive situation.
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Bob Villard was a businessman, publicist.
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He had contacts.
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I say the number one problem in Hollywood
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It was, is, and always will be pedophilia!
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There was a circle of older men,
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and they have their power
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or connections with great powers
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who surrounded themselves
around groups of boys.
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- And this on a large scale?
- Yes.
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I was surrounded by them.
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They were everywhere, like vultures.
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For us, this connected a lot of people.
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To find out the connections that got
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00:27:09,866 --> 00:27:12,108
kids hooked, we start
to look at patterns.
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00:27:12,564 --> 00:27:16,062
One of Bob Villard's
favorites was Brock Pierce.
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He was the kind of
kid in the casual photos
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00:27:18,965 --> 00:27:22,670
being sold by Bob
Villard's seller on eBay.
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Brock, in the photos, was young.
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He looked to be 13, 14 years old.
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Brock Pierce, in turn, was linked
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to Marc Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley.
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We saw that they had
a company called DEN.
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Looking at it from above, it even
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seems logical for a
child actor to grow up
518
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:47,146
and use the money you perhaps earned
519
00:27:47,147 --> 00:27:49,616
as a child and start an internet company.
520
00:27:50,726 --> 00:27:54,405
When we started to
realize what this really was,
521
00:27:54,406 --> 00:27:57,001
it became a much bigger thing.
522
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:02,612
NEW YORK
523
00:28:02,757 --> 00:28:04,996
I was a New York police
524
00:28:04,997 --> 00:28:07,193
detective, I went to law school,
525
00:28:07,827 --> 00:28:10,953
I was a stockbroker and
then I went back to writing.
526
00:28:10,954 --> 00:28:12,912
I've uncovered big cases over the years.
527
00:28:12,914 --> 00:28:15,639
I was very happy to reveal great cases.
528
00:28:16,240 --> 00:28:18,486
At the end of the 90s I learned
529
00:28:18,543 --> 00:28:21,295
about the Internet Bubble.
530
00:28:21,296 --> 00:28:24,814
And it was extraordinary.
Many people lost fortunes.
531
00:28:24,816 --> 00:28:27,701
One of the companies was
Digital Entertainment Network
532
00:28:27,702 --> 00:28:31,110
It came to me by chance
and I read a little about it.
533
00:28:31,111 --> 00:28:33,792
And I thought it would be a good story.
534
00:28:34,049 --> 00:28:36,495
In the 80s, it was MTV that captured
535
00:28:36,496 --> 00:28:39,035
the attention of young
people around the world.
536
00:28:39,036 --> 00:28:41,648
However, young people are going online.
537
00:28:41,650 --> 00:28:44,183
A company called Digital
Entertainment Network
538
00:28:44,185 --> 00:28:47,185
believes he has the chance
to become the new sensation.
539
00:28:47,187 --> 00:28:49,332
They create television programming,
540
00:28:49,333 --> 00:28:51,695
exclusively for the internet.
541
00:28:57,516 --> 00:28:59,453
The internet makes DEN different
542
00:28:59,455 --> 00:29:02,156
from other internet
companies that came before.
543
00:29:02,157 --> 00:29:05,414
It's a fusion of the marketing
power of Madison Avenue...
544
00:29:05,482 --> 00:29:07,687
with Silicon Valley technology
545
00:29:07,688 --> 00:29:10,432
and Hollywood entertainment.
546
00:29:10,663 --> 00:29:14,165
They aimed programming
mainly at young people.
547
00:29:14,191 --> 00:29:16,361
It was a totally new concept.
548
00:29:17,554 --> 00:29:21,639
Most young people these days don't
see themselves reflected on television.
549
00:29:29,009 --> 00:29:31,763
We create content targeted to your needs
550
00:29:31,765 --> 00:29:34,219
your wishes, your desires.
551
00:29:36,603 --> 00:29:39,821
We are creating a new
form of entertainment to meet
552
00:29:39,822 --> 00:29:42,761
the global young audience.
553
00:29:43,190 --> 00:29:46,161
Can you get a sponge
to remove Marc's light?
554
00:29:46,162 --> 00:29:48,585
Right there.
There is a little light below the eye.
555
00:29:48,586 --> 00:29:50,307
Right.
556
00:29:50,821 --> 00:29:52,318
Makeup!
557
00:29:52,320 --> 00:29:54,936
Marc Collins-Rector, somehow,
558
00:29:54,937 --> 00:29:58,025
in his talking points at the
beginning, which were...
559
00:29:58,026 --> 00:30:00,203
practically brothels,
560
00:30:00,517 --> 00:30:03,241
came to know Chad Shackley.
561
00:30:03,698 --> 00:30:05,922
You should be on camera.
562
00:30:08,138 --> 00:30:10,861
- I am already.
- You know what I meant.
563
00:30:10,862 --> 00:30:13,562
At the time, he was a
boy of about 15 years old
564
00:30:13,564 --> 00:30:17,126
and Collins-Rector was much older.
565
00:30:18,771 --> 00:30:20,927
Marc Collins-Rector has moved
566
00:30:20,929 --> 00:30:22,906
to be close to Chad Shackley.
567
00:30:22,907 --> 00:30:26,290
Then they started, so to speak, dating.
568
00:30:26,461 --> 00:30:29,878
At one point, Chad moved
in with Marc Collins-Rector.
569
00:30:30,017 --> 00:30:33,845
Chad and I developed
Concentric Network Corporation
570
00:30:33,846 --> 00:30:36,971
which is one of the
first internet providers.
571
00:30:37,040 --> 00:30:39,176
Then they brought in Brock Pierce.
572
00:30:39,177 --> 00:30:41,904
How Brock Pierce ended up in all
573
00:30:41,906 --> 00:30:44,012
this is what everyone is wondering.
574
00:30:44,041 --> 00:30:46,698
A friend of ours introduced
us to Brock Pierce.
575
00:30:46,700 --> 00:30:48,928
At the time, Brock was doing
576
00:30:48,929 --> 00:30:50,929
his first independent film.
577
00:30:50,931 --> 00:30:55,041
He had been an actor for many
years, and together the three of us
578
00:30:55,337 --> 00:30:58,574
we finished what became DEN.
579
00:30:59,163 --> 00:31:01,298
Everyone poured money into them.
580
00:31:01,300 --> 00:31:03,592
David Geffen put in $250,000.
581
00:31:03,594 --> 00:31:05,717
Bryan Singer put in 50 grand.
582
00:31:05,719 --> 00:31:08,438
Michael Huffington
put like 5 million into it.
583
00:31:08,485 --> 00:31:11,633
There must have been more
than 150 million put into this.
584
00:31:11,669 --> 00:31:15,166
15 years later, 150 million
is still a large amount.
585
00:31:15,168 --> 00:31:18,012
If someone asks me
something, I give the answer.
586
00:31:18,524 --> 00:31:22,160
Is it Jay? Come on, Jay!
Direct me on camera!
587
00:31:23,375 --> 00:31:25,620
He was intense. Everyone told me
588
00:31:25,621 --> 00:31:28,312
he was very theatrical, very dramatic.
589
00:31:28,313 --> 00:31:29,819
He had...
590
00:31:29,821 --> 00:31:32,630
perverse means to get what he wanted.
591
00:31:32,939 --> 00:31:34,493
Reflect on this:
592
00:31:34,494 --> 00:31:37,010
He picks up a 15 year old boy
593
00:31:37,558 --> 00:31:40,131
from his parents, to live with him.
594
00:31:40,132 --> 00:31:41,925
This is Chad.
595
00:31:41,927 --> 00:31:43,569
Most of us would be afraid if we
596
00:31:43,570 --> 00:31:45,716
accepted it, whether male or female.
597
00:31:45,718 --> 00:31:47,887
We would be terrified to
talk about the hypothesis,
598
00:31:47,888 --> 00:31:50,426
fearing that we would
end up with handcuffs.
599
00:31:50,500 --> 00:31:53,978
There's definitely something in
this drug that you can cut 55 sec
600
00:31:53,979 --> 00:31:56,500
- that made me, right?
- Yes.
601
00:31:56,501 --> 00:31:59,056
They had a great idea. The idea was...
602
00:31:59,085 --> 00:32:02,139
make your own films and
put them on the internet.
603
00:32:02,140 --> 00:32:04,629
That's what Netflix does now.
604
00:32:04,668 --> 00:32:06,987
Of course fifteen years later.
605
00:32:09,086 --> 00:32:10,762
The problem was that...
606
00:32:10,764 --> 00:32:14,525
the internet and computers
were not capable of this.
607
00:32:14,854 --> 00:32:17,398
Meanwhile, they were paying people,
608
00:32:17,399 --> 00:32:20,906
filming and they were a big studio.
609
00:32:21,294 --> 00:32:24,008
I was called to audition for
610
00:32:24,010 --> 00:32:26,584
the Royal Standard program.
611
00:32:27,032 --> 00:32:31,414
I'm 14 years old and I started
acting when I was around 5 years old.
612
00:32:31,416 --> 00:32:33,898
NICK S., 14 YEARS OLD Behind
the scenes at Royal Standard
613
00:32:33,899 --> 00:32:36,123
I really liked it, so...
614
00:32:36,491 --> 00:32:38,667
It's a fun thing.
615
00:32:39,722 --> 00:32:42,709
So, I went to DEN and...
616
00:32:42,710 --> 00:32:44,754
I had an audition and met him.
617
00:32:44,756 --> 00:32:48,144
I met Marc Collins-Rector
and other people there.
618
00:32:50,468 --> 00:32:52,731
Everyone seemed impressed:
619
00:32:53,635 --> 00:32:56,959
"This is the guy for the role.
The boy for the role."
620
00:32:58,644 --> 00:33:00,651
This had never happened.
621
00:33:00,652 --> 00:33:03,650
Being in the spotlight like that.
622
00:33:05,633 --> 00:33:08,592
I thought he was cool.
That he was a good guy.
623
00:33:12,851 --> 00:33:15,187
I thought he was cool, you know?
624
00:33:15,325 --> 00:33:18,082
How do I feel working on
the Royal Standard set?
625
00:33:18,083 --> 00:33:20,877
Excellent! The team is wonderful!
626
00:33:21,546 --> 00:33:24,573
It's a lot of fun to
work on green screen.
627
00:33:25,445 --> 00:33:28,885
I still learn more martial
arts than I already know.
628
00:33:31,965 --> 00:33:34,153
It is very fun. It is wonderful.
629
00:33:54,966 --> 00:33:57,060
We are in the basement of my house.
630
00:33:57,062 --> 00:34:00,903
This is where Mark
basically lived for a few years.
631
00:34:02,453 --> 00:34:04,762
He spent most of his time here.
632
00:34:04,764 --> 00:34:07,016
He was like a hermit down here.
633
00:34:07,017 --> 00:34:09,200
This was where he hid.
634
00:34:12,864 --> 00:34:15,052
I was looking for some documentation.
635
00:34:15,054 --> 00:34:18,735
Mike asked me to look for
some of Mark's documentation.
636
00:34:18,736 --> 00:34:21,569
Mark had a copy and Mike had a copy.
637
00:34:21,570 --> 00:34:25,633
I came and found these documents.
I found Mark's testimonies.
638
00:34:28,805 --> 00:34:30,246
Mark says:
639
00:34:30,247 --> 00:34:32,105
"I met Michael Egan in 1999
640
00:34:32,106 --> 00:34:34,586
when I moved to Los Angeles."
641
00:34:34,650 --> 00:34:36,870
He called us and said he was
642
00:34:36,872 --> 00:34:38,766
working for a company called DEN.
643
00:34:38,768 --> 00:34:40,639
I knew he was very happy.
644
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:42,664
It was a big step for him.
645
00:34:42,665 --> 00:34:45,439
Mike was with him at the time.
646
00:34:45,563 --> 00:34:49,065
I already knew Marc Collins-Rector,
Chad Shackley and Brock Pierce.
647
00:34:49,067 --> 00:34:51,806
It was at graduation
at our private school.
648
00:34:51,808 --> 00:34:53,745
There were few people in my class.
649
00:34:53,747 --> 00:34:56,048
Scott Shackley was
Chad's younger brother.
650
00:34:56,049 --> 00:34:59,599
So I was introduced to
them and they gave me
651
00:35:00,058 --> 00:35:02,978
a job as an actor at DEN in a series.
652
00:35:03,084 --> 00:35:05,217
It is good?
653
00:35:07,730 --> 00:35:11,571
{\an5}- What are your favorite hobbies?
- My favorite hobbies?
654
00:35:13,574 --> 00:35:16,298
One of the first series
they did was Chad's World.
655
00:35:16,299 --> 00:35:19,567
It was about a boy
moving in with older men.
656
00:35:19,569 --> 00:35:22,424
It was a real example
of art imitating life.
657
00:35:22,426 --> 00:35:23,953
Their life.
658
00:35:23,955 --> 00:35:25,957
Welcome to your new world, Chad!
659
00:35:25,959 --> 00:35:29,006
Our!
You guys sorted everything out for me!
660
00:35:29,196 --> 00:35:33,083
In fact, they even filmed
Chad's World at their house:
661
00:35:33,327 --> 00:35:34,976
The M&C mansion.
662
00:35:34,977 --> 00:35:38,973
You have your TV, telephone, VCR, stereo
663
00:35:39,179 --> 00:35:41,931
and your own jacuzzi at your disposal.
664
00:35:42,416 --> 00:35:45,861
Oh yes! I think I can live here!
665
00:35:46,849 --> 00:35:48,681
That was...
666
00:35:49,569 --> 00:35:51,473
the realization of a dream.
667
00:35:51,474 --> 00:35:55,131
"On or about September
1999, Michael Egan and I
668
00:35:55,132 --> 00:35:57,292
we were invited to a party."
669
00:35:57,293 --> 00:36:01,260
We were on what they
called the M&C Estate:
670
00:36:01,492 --> 00:36:04,733
The home of Marc
Collins-Rector and Chad Shackley.
671
00:36:05,385 --> 00:36:07,518
"We got there and Michael introduced me
672
00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:10,117
to Collins-Rector, Chad and Brock.
673
00:36:11,802 --> 00:36:14,981
Marc Collins-Rector showed me the house,
674
00:36:14,982 --> 00:36:17,926
the back yard and the guest houses.
675
00:36:17,927 --> 00:36:19,717
We visited all of it.”
676
00:36:19,718 --> 00:36:22,803
There was no spending
limit at the M&C Estate.
677
00:36:24,729 --> 00:36:27,998
The pool was unbelievable.
There was a swim-up bar in it.
678
00:36:27,999 --> 00:36:31,788
I remember lunch being
served by a butler and the chef
679
00:36:31,905 --> 00:36:34,920
would come and take us
lunch from the swim-up pool bar.
680
00:36:34,921 --> 00:36:37,755
Literally, it was like going
to Disney for the first time.
681
00:36:37,756 --> 00:36:40,074
It was like, "This is amazing!"
682
00:36:44,038 --> 00:36:47,184
This house can definitely
give you an advantage.
683
00:36:47,231 --> 00:36:49,909
Bring some girls!
They would love this place!
684
00:36:49,910 --> 00:36:51,313
It seems good!
685
00:36:51,314 --> 00:36:54,509
Before I went to the house,
Scott said, "My house is different.
686
00:36:54,510 --> 00:36:58,194
The dynamics in my house
are not the same as in any other.”
687
00:36:58,242 --> 00:37:00,982
I need to tell you: they are gay.
688
00:37:01,680 --> 00:37:03,639
Fine by me!
689
00:37:03,795 --> 00:37:06,472
Marc, of course, was the leader.
690
00:37:06,473 --> 00:37:08,913
It was as if Marc was the husband and
691
00:37:08,915 --> 00:37:13,029
Chad was the female
figure, the wife, and...
692
00:37:13,651 --> 00:37:16,965
I don't know how, in a normal
693
00:37:16,966 --> 00:37:19,198
context, we fit Brock into this scenario.
694
00:37:19,199 --> 00:37:21,061
- Do you want my eyes?
- Look at the lens.
695
00:37:21,062 --> 00:37:22,730
- For lens.
- Tell her...
696
00:37:22,732 --> 00:37:25,148
- Right!
- ...and for the public.
697
00:37:27,827 --> 00:37:29,596
If I stayed up late at night I would
698
00:37:29,597 --> 00:37:32,624
see people getting into the jacuzzi
699
00:37:32,625 --> 00:37:35,191
with Chad, Brock,
Marc or all three at once.
700
00:37:35,192 --> 00:37:39,277
Once, with him naked and everyone
naked getting into the jacuzzi.
701
00:37:39,279 --> 00:37:41,858
And I saw these different
things and asked myself:
702
00:37:41,860 --> 00:37:44,265
"What the hell is happening?"
703
00:37:44,538 --> 00:37:47,214
There was a rule about
swimming naked after dark.
704
00:37:47,216 --> 00:37:50,408
So, anyone present, no
matter the person, had
705
00:37:50,458 --> 00:37:53,822
to go skinny dipping
after dark or something.
706
00:37:53,996 --> 00:37:56,421
You know what's going
on, so you don't want to look.
707
00:37:56,422 --> 00:37:59,216
It's like seeing the sun
in an eclipse, you know?
708
00:37:59,217 --> 00:38:01,590
You want to look, but you don't, you know?
709
00:38:01,591 --> 00:38:03,139
But...
710
00:38:05,297 --> 00:38:09,617
It was obvious that they weren't
having sex in the jacuzzi for everyone to
711
00:38:09,619 --> 00:38:12,904
see, but it was clear to me that something
was happening, just for that reason.
712
00:38:12,906 --> 00:38:14,492
The posture, you know?
713
00:38:14,493 --> 00:38:17,206
But I just remember...
714
00:38:18,108 --> 00:38:20,922
asking myself, "What's
going on? It's weird.
715
00:38:20,923 --> 00:38:24,268
But I'm in a heated Olympic-size
swimming pool and doing laps."
716
00:38:24,269 --> 00:38:26,729
He understands? Who cares, understand?
717
00:38:26,781 --> 00:38:28,292
AND...
718
00:38:28,930 --> 00:38:32,036
It was definitely weird. For sure.
719
00:38:32,461 --> 00:38:35,577
What excites you most about DEN?
720
00:38:37,472 --> 00:38:39,722
The most exciting things about DEN are...
721
00:38:39,723 --> 00:38:42,314
the people who work
here, who create content
722
00:38:42,315 --> 00:38:44,287
who make the show happen.
723
00:38:44,288 --> 00:38:45,866
We're a cool bunch.
724
00:38:45,868 --> 00:38:48,252
"Brock Pierce told me they would
725
00:38:48,253 --> 00:38:50,610
to a party in the Hollywood Hills.
726
00:38:50,648 --> 00:38:54,798
There were lots of drugs
and lots of teenage boys
727
00:38:54,947 --> 00:38:57,056
aged 14, 15.
728
00:38:57,058 --> 00:39:00,701
Anyone who clashed with
him would not enter that place.
729
00:39:00,892 --> 00:39:02,704
I don't remember his name.
730
00:39:02,706 --> 00:39:05,009
A boy who was at the Royal Standard.
731
00:39:05,010 --> 00:39:08,068
He was younger. Even more than me.
732
00:39:08,069 --> 00:39:11,250
And I remember, once,
Marc at the auditions.
733
00:39:11,252 --> 00:39:14,930
They went to auditions to
choose the ones they wanted.
734
00:39:14,932 --> 00:39:17,012
And I remember this younger boy.
735
00:39:17,013 --> 00:39:19,734
A blond boy. I don't remember his name,
736
00:39:19,735 --> 00:39:23,237
but I remember Marc
eagerly going after him.
737
00:39:26,650 --> 00:39:29,967
Do I remember the first time?
Yes I recall.
738
00:39:33,107 --> 00:39:36,609
He picked me up at the studios,
739
00:39:38,099 --> 00:39:40,168
He took me to his house and...
740
00:39:40,170 --> 00:39:42,498
along the way, he asked
741
00:39:42,499 --> 00:39:44,546
me if I liked boys or girls.
742
00:39:44,548 --> 00:39:46,629
I said I liked girls.
743
00:39:46,631 --> 00:39:48,347
And he was fine with it:
744
00:39:48,349 --> 00:39:51,044
"The secret to picking up girls is...
745
00:39:51,254 --> 00:39:53,081
put a sock in your underwear to
746
00:39:53,083 --> 00:39:55,049
make your 'package' look bigger."
747
00:39:55,051 --> 00:39:56,740
So when we got to the house,
748
00:39:56,741 --> 00:40:00,287
He took a sock, straightened it and said:
749
00:40:00,288 --> 00:40:02,718
"It's like this, understand?"
750
00:40:04,738 --> 00:40:06,501
At one point he said:
751
00:40:06,502 --> 00:40:08,680
"You know what?
Why don't you take off your clothes?
752
00:40:08,681 --> 00:40:12,239
Take off your clothes and
let me see what you look like.”
753
00:40:14,017 --> 00:40:15,976
I don't know why I took it off, but I
754
00:40:15,977 --> 00:40:18,251
took it off, and he
looked at me and said:
755
00:40:18,253 --> 00:40:20,449
"Yes yes".
756
00:40:23,122 --> 00:40:24,684
That night he dressed me
757
00:40:24,685 --> 00:40:27,349
in someone else's clothes
758
00:40:27,420 --> 00:40:30,078
and he wanted to take me out to dinner...
759
00:40:30,621 --> 00:40:32,621
It is...
760
00:40:33,096 --> 00:40:36,569
I went with a sock in
my underwear that night.
761
00:40:39,267 --> 00:40:41,452
He took me to his house.
762
00:40:41,453 --> 00:40:43,997
He had a home cinema.
763
00:40:45,411 --> 00:40:48,885
We entered the cinema.
I don't remember how he caught me.
764
00:40:48,887 --> 00:40:51,448
He started doing what he was doing to me.
765
00:40:51,450 --> 00:40:53,147
I do not remember.
766
00:40:53,148 --> 00:40:56,180
In my memory I'm just...
767
00:40:57,250 --> 00:40:59,404
sitting there and...
768
00:41:00,383 --> 00:41:02,785
terrified, at first.
769
00:41:06,045 --> 00:41:09,378
We were sitting and
watching something and he...
770
00:41:09,423 --> 00:41:11,639
he talked to me, while he did and said:
771
00:41:11,641 --> 00:41:14,428
"There's nothing to worry about.
772
00:41:14,556 --> 00:41:17,512
Do not be afraid. It's totally normal."
773
00:41:20,058 --> 00:41:22,400
I remember being scared
774
00:41:23,713 --> 00:41:25,925
and I remember him saying:
775
00:41:27,026 --> 00:41:29,737
"Come on! Think of
a girl you really like.
776
00:41:29,738 --> 00:41:32,566
Think of a girl you really like."
777
00:41:43,326 --> 00:41:46,001
Royal Standard is a
good series at the moment.
778
00:41:46,002 --> 00:41:49,403
And I hope that when I
grow up, I make a lot of films.
779
00:41:49,404 --> 00:41:51,772
Trying to climb the career ladder and...
780
00:41:52,021 --> 00:41:54,899
I hope to get into a
good series at some point,
781
00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:57,398
or internet series, which I'm doing.
782
00:41:57,399 --> 00:41:59,048
And that.
783
00:42:01,666 --> 00:42:04,066
We know that in child abuse,
784
00:42:04,067 --> 00:42:06,018
power dynamics are rampant.
785
00:42:06,019 --> 00:42:08,864
There is an adult who chases
786
00:42:08,865 --> 00:42:10,664
the child, who manipulates him.
787
00:42:10,666 --> 00:42:14,639
They tell me, in interviews,
that they fear professional
788
00:42:14,776 --> 00:42:17,496
reprisals and fear that
they will never work again.
789
00:42:17,886 --> 00:42:20,640
He showed me porn and
said they were clients...
790
00:42:20,642 --> 00:42:23,329
having sex with their managers.
791
00:42:24,190 --> 00:42:26,515
60 year old men having
792
00:42:26,516 --> 00:42:28,440
sex with 14 year old clients.
793
00:42:30,349 --> 00:42:34,053
He told me it was normal
and that it happens all the time:
794
00:42:34,170 --> 00:42:36,438
"That's what you need to do.
795
00:42:36,719 --> 00:42:39,893
Everyone does it.
Everyone who would manage children."
796
00:42:39,998 --> 00:42:43,291
And he constantly
told me: "You'll like it!"
797
00:42:44,170 --> 00:42:45,798
AND...
798
00:42:45,800 --> 00:42:48,334
At one point, I believed him!
799
00:42:51,362 --> 00:42:53,439
He said, “We can call a guy.
800
00:42:53,440 --> 00:42:55,464
He will be pleased to meet you."
801
00:42:55,466 --> 00:42:58,159
And he showed important people
802
00:42:58,295 --> 00:43:01,411
who would be mad at me if I told anyone.
803
00:43:03,543 --> 00:43:05,822
There is an additional
804
00:43:05,874 --> 00:43:07,533
element in which these children
805
00:43:07,534 --> 00:43:10,142
They hope to achieve a professional goal.
806
00:43:10,143 --> 00:43:14,426
This fact creates extra weight on the child.
807
00:43:14,463 --> 00:43:16,339
She or he being abused would make
808
00:43:16,340 --> 00:43:19,849
reporting difficult in this circumstance.
809
00:43:19,850 --> 00:43:21,899
"Marc Collins-Rector started telling me
810
00:43:21,900 --> 00:43:25,842
how much money he had, how
powerful he was in the environment,
811
00:43:25,843 --> 00:43:28,308
all the things he could do for me
812
00:43:28,309 --> 00:43:30,894
and that if I screwed him,
813
00:43:31,068 --> 00:43:33,637
I would never work in Hollywood."
814
00:43:34,270 --> 00:43:35,670
The sad part
815
00:43:35,672 --> 00:43:38,338
is that they can weaken
you emotionally forever.
816
00:43:38,339 --> 00:43:41,719
Man, I would never have
imagined that Mr. Horton was
817
00:43:41,843 --> 00:43:43,686
You know. Gay.
818
00:43:43,688 --> 00:43:45,237
He's not, Willis!
819
00:43:45,239 --> 00:43:48,159
This is the common
fallacy about child molesters.
820
00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:51,612
They are not gay and are
only interested in boys and girls,
821
00:43:51,613 --> 00:43:54,647
- and not in adults.
- I'm only 9 years old.
822
00:43:54,648 --> 00:43:57,174
Should I be listening to all this?
823
00:43:57,439 --> 00:44:00,869
I felt so ashamed and
guilty behind this secret...
824
00:44:00,871 --> 00:44:03,073
that I held him for so long...
825
00:44:03,199 --> 00:44:05,789
And then I thought that everyone...
826
00:44:06,028 --> 00:44:08,732
You start to think that all
homosexuals are pedophiles:
827
00:44:08,733 --> 00:44:11,047
"This guy is gay. He's a pedophile.
828
00:44:11,048 --> 00:44:14,800
If I stay alert, he'll try to
catch me or something."
829
00:44:15,151 --> 00:44:17,374
People need to understand this clearly:
830
00:44:17,376 --> 00:44:19,295
These people are predators.
831
00:44:19,297 --> 00:44:21,110
They go after young boys and
832
00:44:21,111 --> 00:44:23,367
they do it for their own reasons.
833
00:44:23,368 --> 00:44:25,509
So, it has nothing to do with being gay.
834
00:44:25,510 --> 00:44:27,498
This happens because they are bad people
835
00:44:27,499 --> 00:44:29,755
and, particularly, they choose bad people
836
00:44:29,756 --> 00:44:32,072
that they know they will be victims.
837
00:44:32,096 --> 00:44:34,781
They are predators.
That's what they are.
838
00:44:36,058 --> 00:44:38,564
At first, everything was a bed of
839
00:44:38,565 --> 00:44:40,645
roses, and then things started to change.
840
00:44:40,646 --> 00:44:42,460
Slowly,
841
00:44:43,577 --> 00:44:46,218
he was different on the phone.
842
00:44:46,809 --> 00:44:49,972
Then I realized that something was wrong.
843
00:44:50,249 --> 00:44:53,016
Something wasn't going right, because...
844
00:44:53,330 --> 00:44:57,123
I know when he's not "one
hundred percent" Mark.
845
00:44:57,277 --> 00:45:01,840
Suddenly he wasn't so happy, and suddenly
846
00:45:02,178 --> 00:45:04,747
Suddenly he wanted to go home.
847
00:45:05,585 --> 00:45:08,053
I never knew why that was.
848
00:45:08,194 --> 00:45:09,594
Hello!
849
00:45:09,596 --> 00:45:11,934
Ben Savage visits Marc
Collins-Rector's house
850
00:45:11,936 --> 00:45:13,629
- Hello my dear.
- How are you?
851
00:45:13,630 --> 00:45:16,012
- Right. Lets go in?
- Your friend is here!
852
00:45:16,013 --> 00:45:17,587
- Who?
- Mr. Huffington.
853
00:45:17,588 --> 00:45:19,388
Fantastic.
854
00:45:19,389 --> 00:45:21,553
- Have you ever been to this house?
- Yes!
855
00:45:21,554 --> 00:45:23,775
- It's incredible!
- But I never came to a party!
856
00:45:23,776 --> 00:45:25,289
- Have you already come?
- Yes!
857
00:45:25,290 --> 00:45:26,712
- Good ones?
- Lots of!
858
00:45:26,714 --> 00:45:28,759
How crazy are they?
859
00:45:28,981 --> 00:45:31,398
They often threw big parties.
860
00:45:31,399 --> 00:45:35,242
Neighbors complained about
the sidewalk being blocked.
861
00:45:35,333 --> 00:45:38,511
There were valets who were there...
862
00:45:38,557 --> 00:45:42,087
and this street was full of cars.
863
00:45:42,670 --> 00:45:45,733
Everyone was induced
to drink, drink, drink.
864
00:45:45,814 --> 00:45:48,689
I had never had a drink
in my life until I was at
865
00:45:48,691 --> 00:45:52,509
M & C Estate. I don't
even remember every drink.
866
00:45:52,558 --> 00:45:55,745
At 14, that wasn't at the top of my list.
867
00:45:56,033 --> 00:45:58,929
"There was an after-party.
Michael Egan, Brock Pierce,
868
00:45:58,930 --> 00:46:02,111
Chad Shackley and Marc
Collins-Rector were present.
869
00:46:02,113 --> 00:46:03,947
They made drugs available to us,
870
00:46:03,948 --> 00:46:07,040
including Quaalude, Valium, Soma...
871
00:46:07,171 --> 00:46:11,234
Vicodin, Demerol,
Marijuana, Ecstasy and more.
872
00:46:11,662 --> 00:46:13,488
Brock Pierce and Marc Collins-Rector
873
00:46:13,490 --> 00:46:17,014
They tried to force me to
take the drugs, and I refused.
874
00:46:17,357 --> 00:46:20,064
Afterwards, they offered
me cocktails and I accepted.
875
00:46:20,065 --> 00:46:24,247
I believe they drugged
my cocktail with Ecstasy."
876
00:46:24,977 --> 00:46:27,228
If you stayed at the mansion...
877
00:46:27,379 --> 00:46:31,300
late at night, I needed to
get into the jacuzzi naked
878
00:46:31,827 --> 00:46:33,662
during the festivals.
879
00:46:33,663 --> 00:46:37,514
And the parties weren't just
for young people to have fun.
880
00:46:37,647 --> 00:46:39,985
They were also to attract investors.
881
00:46:40,022 --> 00:46:41,852
And there were a lot of investors
882
00:46:41,853 --> 00:46:44,276
who got into the jacuzzi with the kids.
883
00:46:44,349 --> 00:46:47,702
One of those who was there was Bryan Singer.
884
00:46:47,704 --> 00:46:50,021
Bryan Singer liked one of the young men
885
00:46:50,022 --> 00:46:51,791
so much that he wrote a character for him
886
00:46:51,793 --> 00:46:54,129
in Bryan Singer's film: X-Men.
887
00:46:54,131 --> 00:46:56,602
The character was written just for him.
888
00:46:56,603 --> 00:46:58,178
He was in the jacuzzi.
889
00:46:58,180 --> 00:47:01,052
"I felt very disoriented,
dazed and confused.
890
00:47:01,053 --> 00:47:02,997
Collins-Rector told me
891
00:47:02,999 --> 00:47:05,398
that I could sleep in his bed,
892
00:47:05,452 --> 00:47:08,825
but if I went to his bed,
I needed to be naked.
893
00:47:08,827 --> 00:47:12,311
Collins-Rector went from
caring and compassionate
894
00:47:12,313 --> 00:47:14,531
to energetic and threatening.
895
00:47:15,322 --> 00:47:17,819
I said I wouldn't sleep with him,
896
00:47:17,821 --> 00:47:19,398
and he replied:
897
00:47:19,400 --> 00:47:22,760
'So don't worry about going
to work tomorrow morning.'
898
00:47:22,762 --> 00:47:24,552
I went to sit on the couch.
899
00:47:24,553 --> 00:47:27,025
At one point, I blacked
out and, when I woke up,
900
00:47:27,026 --> 00:47:29,778
I found myself in Marc's
bed, completely naked,
901
00:47:29,779 --> 00:47:31,609
with my clothes on the floor.
902
00:47:31,611 --> 00:47:35,612
Collins-Rector was in bed
and he was naked too...
903
00:47:36,928 --> 00:47:38,739
with his arms around me.
904
00:47:38,741 --> 00:47:41,253
I don't know all the things
that were done to me.
905
00:47:41,255 --> 00:47:45,176
However, I know that Collins-Rector
drugged and abused me.
906
00:47:46,488 --> 00:47:49,517
Immediately, I got out of bed,
got dressed and went downstairs.
907
00:47:49,518 --> 00:47:51,520
I saw Michael Egan sleeping on the couch.
908
00:47:51,521 --> 00:47:55,308
I woke him up and told him I
wanted to get out of that place."
909
00:48:03,667 --> 00:48:06,448
I think the best description
of this is pedophile ring.
910
00:48:06,449 --> 00:48:08,158
That was it.
911
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,683
Did all investors know
what was happening?
912
00:48:10,724 --> 00:48:13,962
Probably not. Many suspected? Clear.
913
00:48:14,218 --> 00:48:17,589
Hello! I'm Bryan Singer!
You're watching Rawleywood...
914
00:48:17,590 --> 00:48:21,749
at www.den.net.
915
00:48:21,790 --> 00:48:24,578
Bryan Singer is a
well-known Hollywood director.
916
00:48:24,580 --> 00:48:26,526
He directed great films:
917
00:48:26,528 --> 00:48:28,322
"The suspects",
918
00:48:28,384 --> 00:48:30,303
"X-Men" and "X-Men 2".
919
00:48:30,304 --> 00:48:33,989
So, there are ways to recognize his work.
920
00:48:34,519 --> 00:48:37,879
What many people wouldn't
recognize are some strange connections
921
00:48:37,881 --> 00:48:40,453
that seems to link him to that world.
922
00:48:45,290 --> 00:48:49,999
Brian Peck was convicted of child abuse.
923
00:48:50,270 --> 00:48:52,513
Worked for him on "X-Men"
924
00:48:52,514 --> 00:48:56,414
and did the film's
commentary with Bryan Singer.
925
00:48:56,496 --> 00:49:00,489
Hello. My name is Bryan Singer
and I'm the director of X-Men.
926
00:49:00,765 --> 00:49:02,909
I'm the other Brian. Brian Peck.
927
00:49:02,910 --> 00:49:05,228
I'm not the director of X-Men.
928
00:49:05,974 --> 00:49:08,646
I asked Brian if he could help me
929
00:49:08,647 --> 00:49:12,118
because I'm a little uncomfortable
doing these things alone.
930
00:49:12,119 --> 00:49:14,185
You will see something really cool now.
931
00:49:14,187 --> 00:49:17,120
First, it's Stan Lee selling hot dogs.
932
00:49:17,122 --> 00:49:18,549
My friend Gary Goddard
933
00:49:18,550 --> 00:49:21,236
It's the guy walking sideways
with a checkered shirt.
934
00:49:21,237 --> 00:49:24,026
And the guy eating the hot dog is you!
935
00:49:24,027 --> 00:49:26,833
The fat guy in the Hawaiian
shirt eating a hot dog.
936
00:49:26,835 --> 00:49:28,258
Hello! That's me!
937
00:49:28,260 --> 00:49:30,204
Thanks! I appear on the scene a lot!
938
00:49:30,206 --> 00:49:32,936
It really appears!
In fact, he's so posed
939
00:49:32,938 --> 00:49:35,417
that people don't even notice Stan Lee.
940
00:49:35,418 --> 00:49:39,784
{\an5}I think what attracted me
most was the idea that it was...
941
00:49:40,247 --> 00:49:43,012
{\an5}of anyone who feels excluded,
942
00:49:43,013 --> 00:49:44,898
{\an5}who feels that they suffer prejudice.
943
00:49:44,900 --> 00:49:48,127
{\an5}It's about a group of
reluctant superheroes.
944
00:49:48,128 --> 00:49:50,925
{\an5}Their powers manifest at puberty
945
00:49:50,926 --> 00:49:52,899
{\an5}and they wake up one
day and they're different
946
00:49:52,900 --> 00:49:54,844
{\an5}most people around.
947
00:49:54,846 --> 00:49:58,147
{\an5}And shows how they learn to hug
948
00:49:58,185 --> 00:50:01,245
{\an5}the extraordinary abilities,
what is unique about them,
949
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:04,311
{\an5}and help defend the
world that may be doomed.
950
00:50:04,313 --> 00:50:07,547
The people I talked to who
invested money in it completely
951
00:50:07,548 --> 00:50:11,118
denied that anything
strange was going on there.
952
00:50:11,484 --> 00:50:13,466
And was,
953
00:50:13,957 --> 00:50:16,411
to me it was like a house for the blind.
954
00:50:16,412 --> 00:50:19,585
Look: if you see young people naked...
955
00:50:19,757 --> 00:50:21,431
in a jacuzzi, when having dinner or
956
00:50:21,510 --> 00:50:24,260
having dinner with naked young people
957
00:50:24,262 --> 00:50:27,106
or young people with
inappropriate clothes for a dinner,
958
00:50:27,108 --> 00:50:29,319
if you weren't deaf, dumb
and blind, you would say:
959
00:50:29,320 --> 00:50:32,631
"This isn't cool!
Something's wrong here!"
960
00:50:33,724 --> 00:50:35,539
This is not naivety.
961
00:50:35,540 --> 00:50:37,931
These guys are very smart.
962
00:50:40,031 --> 00:50:42,823
Hollywood has no
system to protect anyone.
963
00:50:42,825 --> 00:50:45,064
And children are last on their list.
964
00:50:45,065 --> 00:50:46,932
I can guarantee you.
965
00:50:48,290 --> 00:50:50,406
At a SAG meeting
966
00:50:50,408 --> 00:50:53,130
we also served on the
Young Performers committee
967
00:50:53,131 --> 00:50:55,589
which is the national committee of SAG.
968
00:50:55,590 --> 00:50:58,866
And a father took an
article from L.A. Teams
969
00:50:58,868 --> 00:51:01,175
that described the arrest of Bob
970
00:51:01,196 --> 00:51:03,453
Villard and that the Los Angeles police
971
00:51:03,455 --> 00:51:06,454
was looking for more
of Villard's victims.
972
00:51:08,441 --> 00:51:10,994
Because of this, I asked SAG
973
00:51:11,311 --> 00:51:14,533
to think about the
idea of distributing this
974
00:51:14,534 --> 00:51:17,904
article, spreading an alert
or something to the members
975
00:51:17,970 --> 00:51:20,970
which seemed to be a security thing and
976
00:51:20,972 --> 00:51:23,872
maybe we should let everyone know, and...
977
00:51:23,941 --> 00:51:27,152
Michael Harrah had a very
strange reaction that day.
978
00:51:27,153 --> 00:51:29,728
He strongly opposed
979
00:51:29,769 --> 00:51:31,646
SAG getting involved in this.
980
00:51:31,647 --> 00:51:35,328
Harrah didn't think SAG
should step forward, even
981
00:51:35,329 --> 00:51:38,859
though the Los Angeles
police asked for more victims.
982
00:51:38,860 --> 00:51:40,726
So, SAG didn't come forward
983
00:51:40,727 --> 00:51:43,223
and didn't spread the news that day.
984
00:51:43,567 --> 00:51:46,491
I don't think we hide them.
985
00:51:47,176 --> 00:51:49,993
I would think that we wanted,
986
00:51:50,337 --> 00:51:53,498
not to hide, but one would
want to protect the child
987
00:51:53,499 --> 00:51:57,168
whose identity would be
revealed the more it was said.
988
00:51:57,651 --> 00:51:59,813
A situation like this...
989
00:51:59,887 --> 00:52:02,042
never helps anyone.
990
00:52:02,390 --> 00:52:06,317
And the sooner we get
this under control, the better.
991
00:52:06,602 --> 00:52:10,306
But the less the child
needs to live with...
992
00:52:10,801 --> 00:52:14,461
the stigma of this having
happened, I think it's better for them.
993
00:52:14,463 --> 00:52:17,442
Not only in terms of
career, but personally.
994
00:52:17,443 --> 00:52:19,834
This is why people don't report it.
995
00:52:19,836 --> 00:52:23,086
Because they know that
even if they believe in them
996
00:52:23,529 --> 00:52:27,189
they fear something will
happen to their children's careers.
997
00:52:27,903 --> 00:52:30,860
There are people who don't
want this to come to light.
998
00:52:30,893 --> 00:52:34,730
The studios work to ensure that
this is not publicized too much.
999
00:52:35,310 --> 00:52:37,891
Brian Peck went to Nickelodeon
1000
00:52:38,095 --> 00:52:41,388
and prepared in almost all programs.
1001
00:52:41,389 --> 00:52:44,723
It was on one of these
shows where he became
1002
00:52:44,724 --> 00:52:47,292
friends with a very
well-known child actor.
1003
00:52:47,344 --> 00:52:49,502
This child was...
1004
00:52:49,767 --> 00:52:51,726
abused by Brian Peck.
1005
00:52:51,728 --> 00:52:55,327
She filed criminal
charges against Brian Peck
1006
00:52:55,721 --> 00:52:58,806
and Brian Peck, almost
1007
00:52:58,807 --> 00:53:00,473
immediately, admitted guilt.
1008
00:53:00,475 --> 00:53:03,285
Clearly he didn't want the
investigation to continue or
1009
00:53:03,286 --> 00:53:06,603
clearly the studio didn't want
the investigation to continue.
1010
00:53:06,605 --> 00:53:10,415
The victim chose to remain
anonymous throughout the process
1011
00:53:10,837 --> 00:53:13,928
to be able to continue working.
1012
00:53:14,862 --> 00:53:16,593
No one has ever heard of a child
1013
00:53:16,594 --> 00:53:20,789
making a report at the time of the abuse,
1014
00:53:20,790 --> 00:53:23,916
when you are still a minor,
and continue working.
1015
00:53:23,917 --> 00:53:27,320
I don't know of a single
example where this happened.
1016
00:53:27,383 --> 00:53:30,155
So, a child who wants to
speak out and talk about what
1017
00:53:30,156 --> 00:53:33,175
happened to him, in
addition to telling his family,
1018
00:53:33,176 --> 00:53:35,925
I would definitely have
to give up my career.
1019
00:53:36,245 --> 00:53:39,594
It's very sad that this is the
case, but that's the reality.
1020
00:53:40,583 --> 00:53:42,186
This is the worst part of all:
1021
00:53:42,187 --> 00:53:44,097
He still works on a children's program,
1022
00:53:44,099 --> 00:53:47,306
he's still here and he was convicted.
1023
00:53:47,356 --> 00:53:50,717
He is not someone to have
rumors or complaints about.
1024
00:53:50,719 --> 00:53:52,962
There are, in fact, convictions...
1025
00:53:53,081 --> 00:53:55,098
and he's still here.
1026
00:53:56,841 --> 00:53:58,535
I feel safe saying that every
1027
00:53:58,537 --> 00:54:01,547
convicted predator I know of
1028
00:54:01,549 --> 00:54:05,368
He had many more victims
than the one who condemned him.
1029
00:54:05,369 --> 00:54:08,416
We are definitely talking
about the tip of the iceberg.
1030
00:54:08,417 --> 00:54:11,576
I'm not sure that we
will ever see the iceberg
1031
00:54:11,577 --> 00:54:14,695
in full because I think
there are so many factors
1032
00:54:14,815 --> 00:54:17,651
pushing this iceberg
deeper into the water.
1033
00:54:21,721 --> 00:54:24,672
I think sexual abuse
doesn't get more attention
1034
00:54:24,673 --> 00:54:26,673
because it's an uncomfortable subject.
1035
00:54:26,674 --> 00:54:29,317
We don't want to talk about it.
Its ugly.
1036
00:54:29,556 --> 00:54:32,482
It reveals things about our
culture that we don't want to know.
1037
00:54:32,483 --> 00:54:34,420
But, not talking about him,
1038
00:54:34,421 --> 00:54:38,243
let's not identify it as
the big problem that it is.
1039
00:54:38,244 --> 00:54:40,441
Many child molesters
1040
00:54:40,550 --> 00:54:42,449
have defensive arguments
1041
00:54:42,451 --> 00:54:45,684
that it was neither painful nor
harmful and the child liked it.
1042
00:54:45,685 --> 00:54:48,173
Many of them use this language.
1043
00:54:48,175 --> 00:54:50,219
But the problem with that is...
1044
00:54:50,220 --> 00:54:52,439
many of the children grow up
1045
00:54:52,694 --> 00:54:55,131
and interpret that experience of
1046
00:54:55,132 --> 00:54:57,581
manipulation, exploitation and abuse
1047
00:54:57,582 --> 00:54:59,556
by a trusted authority figure.
1048
00:54:59,557 --> 00:55:03,030
And that's when the
psychological time bomb explodes.
1049
00:55:08,615 --> 00:55:11,317
I ended up in the hospital for a while
1050
00:55:11,532 --> 00:55:15,243
starting to go crazy and thinking
people were going to come get me.
1051
00:55:15,244 --> 00:55:17,313
And I was very...
1052
00:55:18,365 --> 00:55:19,971
suicidal.
1053
00:55:19,973 --> 00:55:23,219
I fantasized about suicide quite often.
1054
00:55:23,448 --> 00:55:28,019
I had a BB gun that I fantasized about
1055
00:55:28,100 --> 00:55:30,024
using it to kill me.
1056
00:55:30,025 --> 00:55:33,049
I remember sitting in my
room crying my eyes out
1057
00:55:33,050 --> 00:55:35,533
sitting in the corner with the gun
1058
00:55:35,903 --> 00:55:38,944
and saying, "why is
this happening to me?"
1059
00:55:39,046 --> 00:55:41,688
You could say I threw it all away
1060
00:55:41,689 --> 00:55:43,522
and I let Los Angeles suck me in.
1061
00:55:43,523 --> 00:55:45,509
I started using drugs and got involved
1062
00:55:45,510 --> 00:55:48,729
with a lot of people I shouldn't have.
1063
00:55:48,730 --> 00:55:51,009
When I suffered, I drank.
1064
00:55:51,010 --> 00:55:53,150
Drink, drink, drink.
1065
00:55:53,151 --> 00:55:55,439
I didn't know who to blame, what to blame
1066
00:55:55,440 --> 00:55:58,604
and completely hated
everything about anyone.
1067
00:55:59,157 --> 00:56:02,449
I tried to put what happened to me
1068
00:56:02,451 --> 00:56:04,799
when I was 12 as far away as I could.
1069
00:56:05,105 --> 00:56:07,454
I needed to use more and
more because I didn't want
1070
00:56:07,455 --> 00:56:10,751
to feel anymore, I wanted
to be completely numb
1071
00:56:10,752 --> 00:56:12,612
of everything I was feeling.
1072
00:56:12,613 --> 00:56:14,882
And that was cocaine!
1073
00:56:15,180 --> 00:56:17,274
And he used it more and more.
1074
00:56:17,275 --> 00:56:21,804
I just used more, more and more.
1075
00:56:22,139 --> 00:56:24,284
And one day, when it all came
1076
00:56:24,285 --> 00:56:26,295
back, I was already a complete addict.
1077
00:56:26,296 --> 00:56:29,713
I thought that was the only
case there, but it seems not.
1078
00:56:29,714 --> 00:56:32,492
I don't know if this makes
me feel better or worse.
1079
00:56:32,493 --> 00:56:36,162
So many people went
through the same thing as me.
1080
00:56:38,287 --> 00:56:39,803
He came home and was a
1081
00:56:39,804 --> 00:56:42,307
completely different person.
1082
00:56:42,367 --> 00:56:44,593
He never talked about
going back there again.
1083
00:56:44,594 --> 00:56:46,749
After that, he never talked about returning.
1084
00:56:46,750 --> 00:56:49,732
He became very introverted.
1085
00:56:50,237 --> 00:56:52,078
He didn't trust
1086
00:56:52,311 --> 00:56:54,068
where before...
1087
00:56:54,759 --> 00:56:57,090
he had no problem trusting people.
1088
00:56:57,091 --> 00:56:59,349
He started drinking.
1089
00:56:59,605 --> 00:57:01,673
He started drinking more
1090
00:57:01,674 --> 00:57:03,928
frequently and hid it from us.
1091
00:57:04,348 --> 00:57:07,751
After returning home, he said, "I
have to tell you something, Mom."
1092
00:57:07,752 --> 00:57:09,751
And I said, "What? What's going on?"
1093
00:57:09,752 --> 00:57:12,875
He said, "You know Mike, right?"
I said yes".
1094
00:57:13,095 --> 00:57:15,110
He said, "He was...
1095
00:57:16,165 --> 00:57:18,030
molested."
1096
00:57:19,058 --> 00:57:21,038
I said, "Mike what?"
1097
00:57:21,168 --> 00:57:25,155
And he said, "What would
you do if that happened to me?
1098
00:57:26,127 --> 00:57:29,660
What would you do, as a mother?
What would you do?"
1099
00:57:33,398 --> 00:57:36,806
His drinking problem
got so out of control
1100
00:57:36,891 --> 00:57:38,922
that even he knew about it. He knew.
1101
00:57:38,924 --> 00:57:42,754
He couldn't work.
It affected his whole life.
1102
00:57:43,217 --> 00:57:46,013
So we need to give him an ultimatum.
1103
00:57:46,169 --> 00:57:48,988
We sat with him on the
1104
00:57:49,086 --> 00:57:51,055
back porch and said, "Mark...
1105
00:57:51,376 --> 00:57:54,728
You need to get help
or you’ll need to leave.”
1106
00:57:55,098 --> 00:57:56,498
And he admitted:
1107
00:57:56,500 --> 00:57:59,923
"I know I'm an alcoholic, I know I need
1108
00:57:59,924 --> 00:58:02,240
to stop, but I can't. I don't know how."
1109
00:58:03,041 --> 00:58:06,381
I called a hospital and spoke to a nurse
1110
00:58:06,478 --> 00:58:08,679
and asked about detoxing him.
1111
00:58:08,680 --> 00:58:11,402
What would be needed and how we would do it.
1112
00:58:11,774 --> 00:58:13,306
She said:
1113
00:58:13,308 --> 00:58:16,282
"No way, let him stop drinking
1114
00:58:16,283 --> 00:58:17,938
at once.
1115
00:58:17,939 --> 00:58:21,950
It can cause stroke,
seizure and heart failure."
1116
00:58:22,393 --> 00:58:24,400
But it looks like Mark...
1117
00:58:24,650 --> 00:58:26,822
I wanted to do it alone.
1118
00:58:26,931 --> 00:58:29,514
He tried to stop drinking altogether.
1119
00:58:30,190 --> 00:58:32,806
One day, Fred woke me up and said:
1120
00:58:32,807 --> 00:58:35,232
"There's something wrong with Mark."
1121
00:58:36,982 --> 00:58:39,142
So, I jumped out of bed...
1122
00:58:39,366 --> 00:58:41,996
I went downstairs, and
Mark was on the floor.
1123
00:58:42,078 --> 00:58:44,841
It was as if he had
a cloth, and he said...
1124
00:58:44,928 --> 00:58:47,167
that he was cleaning
something off the floor and said:
1125
00:58:47,168 --> 00:58:49,460
"Dad, I swear to God I'm not drinking.
1126
00:58:49,461 --> 00:58:51,112
I swear I'm not."
1127
00:58:51,113 --> 00:58:53,083
But there was nothing on the floor.
1128
00:58:53,084 --> 00:58:56,729
Fred helped him get up, carried
him and sat him on the sofa:
1129
00:58:56,730 --> 00:58:59,989
"Buddy, are you okay? What are you..."
1130
00:58:59,990 --> 00:59:01,772
- He said...
- "I'm not drunk."
1131
00:59:01,774 --> 00:59:04,258
"I'm not! I swear to God! I'm not drunk!
1132
00:59:04,259 --> 00:59:07,396
I wasn't drinking, Dad.
I promise. I swear."
1133
00:59:07,914 --> 00:59:11,233
We didn't know what was going on.
We simply didn't know.
1134
00:59:11,234 --> 00:59:15,036
Half of his body was on the sofa
and his head was leaning in the corner.
1135
00:59:15,037 --> 00:59:17,909
When he looked at Fred, he said:
1136
00:59:17,910 --> 00:59:20,056
"I love you dad".
1137
00:59:20,509 --> 00:59:23,457
And Fred replied, "I love you too, man."
1138
00:59:23,459 --> 00:59:25,552
He said, "Lean back a little.
1139
00:59:25,553 --> 00:59:29,189
When he leaned in, he started...
His tongue...
1140
00:59:29,424 --> 00:59:32,011
- and he was shaking like that.
- Crossed arms.
1141
00:59:32,013 --> 00:59:36,061
Squeezing like that and I
ran and called emergency.
1142
00:59:36,481 --> 00:59:39,425
And Fred was holding his arms
1143
00:59:39,426 --> 00:59:42,322
down so he wouldn't get hurt.
1144
00:59:42,470 --> 00:59:44,726
And I was on the phone and I said:
1145
00:59:44,780 --> 00:59:47,737
"I think he's detoxing from alcohol.
1146
00:59:47,738 --> 00:59:50,179
I think he's having withdrawal
1147
00:59:50,180 --> 00:59:52,664
and I need an ambulance now.
1148
00:59:52,665 --> 00:59:55,591
Right now. He's having convulsions."
1149
00:59:58,575 --> 01:00:01,909
The ambulance arrived and
Fred sat him down for a bit.
1150
01:00:02,173 --> 01:00:05,735
They left, I went into the house,
went upstairs and got dressed.
1151
01:00:05,799 --> 01:00:08,332
Arriving at the hospital, we entered...
1152
01:00:08,568 --> 01:00:11,864
and said, "Mrs. and Mr. Ryan?"
And we answered "yes".
1153
01:00:11,866 --> 01:00:14,135
"Is Mark Ryan your son?" We said "yes".
1154
01:00:14,136 --> 01:00:16,769
"The doctor wants to talk to you."
1155
01:00:19,610 --> 01:00:22,846
They took us down the
hall to an empty room,
1156
01:00:22,893 --> 01:00:25,765
They put us in that
room and closed the door.
1157
01:00:25,916 --> 01:00:28,517
Then the doctor came in and...
1158
01:00:29,385 --> 01:00:32,403
He said, "I have bad news.
1159
01:00:33,607 --> 01:00:37,027
"Your son's heart stopped
on the way to the hospital."
1160
01:00:51,980 --> 01:00:53,730
We go back a decade to try
1161
01:00:53,731 --> 01:00:56,101
to find events from that time
1162
01:00:56,103 --> 01:00:59,596
and we found twelve
separate lawsuits from people
1163
01:00:59,597 --> 01:01:02,882
who used the Hollywood
dream to prey on children
1164
01:01:02,884 --> 01:01:06,509
and they were, basically,
in all areas in between.
1165
01:01:08,386 --> 01:01:09,997
There is this phenomenon of
1166
01:01:09,998 --> 01:01:13,299
crimes potentially being underreported.
1167
01:01:13,377 --> 01:01:16,641
Additionally, some of
the victims I spoke to
1168
01:01:16,858 --> 01:01:18,798
felt stigmatized
1169
01:01:18,799 --> 01:01:21,793
felt guilty for the
crimes that had occurred
1170
01:01:21,906 --> 01:01:24,975
and felt they could not
speak about them publicly.
1171
01:01:34,968 --> 01:01:38,066
We thought everything was
happy, that everything was great.
1172
01:01:38,162 --> 01:01:40,942
And then, out of nowhere, one day,
1173
01:01:41,004 --> 01:01:44,614
Evan said he wasn't practicing anymore.
1174
01:01:45,468 --> 01:01:47,657
And I said, "What? You're kidding me!"
1175
01:01:47,659 --> 01:01:51,231
- After everything he's been through.
- It was a shock.
1176
01:01:51,632 --> 01:01:53,524
I said: "I don't like music anymore.
1177
01:01:53,525 --> 01:01:57,717
I don't want to be linked
to the industry or anything."
1178
01:01:58,028 --> 01:02:01,128
I thought he was in his teenage years...
1179
01:02:01,130 --> 01:02:03,768
and puberty.
1180
01:02:04,141 --> 01:02:07,892
So I thought maybe that would be normal.
1181
01:02:07,893 --> 01:02:10,732
I thought, "I'm not going
to live a life like that.
1182
01:02:10,847 --> 01:02:13,232
I won't be stuck in life because
1183
01:02:13,233 --> 01:02:15,163
of this guy for the rest of my life."
1184
01:02:15,164 --> 01:02:17,577
And I needed...
1185
01:02:18,189 --> 01:02:21,064
find a way for people to believe in me.
1186
01:02:21,066 --> 01:02:24,092
I needed to find a way
for my family to believe.
1187
01:02:24,093 --> 01:02:26,622
- Hi, Anita! How are you?
- I am fine!
1188
01:02:26,623 --> 01:02:28,408
Happy birthday, Evan!
1189
01:02:28,495 --> 01:02:30,578
I'm getting a massage and it's great!
1190
01:02:30,580 --> 01:02:33,511
And I don't care if
it looks weird or not!
1191
01:02:35,193 --> 01:02:37,018
Right!
1192
01:02:37,020 --> 01:02:39,593
{\an8}It's above the waist! Is not strange!
1193
01:02:46,353 --> 01:02:48,901
I had to find an excuse to have him alone
1194
01:02:48,902 --> 01:02:51,133
where I could talk to him.
1195
01:02:51,318 --> 01:02:54,265
So I thought, "Why don't we...
1196
01:02:54,830 --> 01:02:56,673
to McDonald's...
1197
01:02:56,734 --> 01:02:59,755
so we can talk in the car?"
1198
01:03:02,677 --> 01:03:05,115
{\an8}I want a snack for children,
1199
01:03:05,116 --> 01:03:07,644
{\an8}Chicken McNuggets with barbecue sauce.
1200
01:03:07,646 --> 01:03:10,905
{\an8}To drink, Diet Coca-Cola with little ice.
1201
01:03:11,039 --> 01:03:13,308
{\an8}- Do you want a milkshake?
- Yes. Medium.
1202
01:03:13,309 --> 01:03:15,513
{\an8}- Medium chocolate shake.
- No whipped cream.
1203
01:03:15,514 --> 01:03:17,634
{\an8}No whipped cream and no cherry.
1204
01:03:17,742 --> 01:03:20,739
I expected us to talk for a long time in
1205
01:03:20,740 --> 01:03:22,465
the car, when he stopped somewhere.
1206
01:03:22,466 --> 01:03:25,173
{\an8}When was the first time we met?
1207
01:03:25,175 --> 01:03:29,239
{\an8}The first time we met was
when we went to the park.
1208
01:03:29,241 --> 01:03:32,605
{\an8}You were going to the
park to play basketball.
1209
01:03:32,814 --> 01:03:36,744
And then it became quieter in the
car and I was able to record everything.
1210
01:03:36,896 --> 01:03:39,034
{\an8}I remember you asking me
1211
01:03:39,035 --> 01:03:42,259
{\an8}if I had ever done
anything with another guy.
1212
01:03:42,454 --> 01:03:44,831
{\an8}Yes. A long time ago.
1213
01:03:45,236 --> 01:03:48,596
I was afraid my recorder
would make noise or
1214
01:03:48,680 --> 01:03:52,120
something would go
wrong and he would find out.
1215
01:03:52,322 --> 01:03:55,829
{\an8}And that's when you
asked me if I wanted to try it.
1216
01:03:55,918 --> 01:03:58,376
{\an8}- Yes.
- And that was when you...
1217
01:03:58,378 --> 01:04:01,768
{\an8}That's when you gave
me my first blowjob, right?
1218
01:04:06,310 --> 01:04:08,069
{\an8}You're not recording this, are you?
1219
01:04:08,070 --> 01:04:10,408
{\an8}- No, I'm not. - Thanks!
1220
01:04:10,445 --> 01:04:12,495
{\an8}Look at it this way, Evan:
1221
01:04:15,222 --> 01:04:17,943
{\an8}I would never have done anything to you
1222
01:04:17,965 --> 01:04:20,956
{\an8}if you hadn't shown interest.
1223
01:04:25,643 --> 01:04:28,375
{\an8}Do you know what happened
at Penn State University?
1224
01:04:28,376 --> 01:04:29,776
{\an8}Yes.
1225
01:04:31,489 --> 01:04:33,562
{\an8}Those kids didn't want it.
1226
01:04:34,379 --> 01:04:37,115
{\an8}But I didn't want to, at 12 years old.
1227
01:04:37,718 --> 01:04:40,242
{\an8}I wasn't interested. I was so...
1228
01:04:40,244 --> 01:04:42,833
{\an8}I remember that night, you were...
1229
01:04:42,834 --> 01:04:45,892
{\an8}You put your penis out in
the car and I was scared.
1230
01:04:45,894 --> 01:04:47,625
{\an8}I did not know what to do
1231
01:04:47,626 --> 01:04:50,494
{\an8}because you asked
me if I wanted to touch it.
1232
01:04:50,495 --> 01:04:52,427
{\an8}This was in the car. In the van.
1233
01:04:52,429 --> 01:04:55,164
{\an8}I'm trying to remember. I am trying.
1234
01:04:56,197 --> 01:04:58,723
{\an8}Because that sounds familiar to me.
1235
01:04:58,774 --> 01:05:01,844
{\an8}I just remember being in the
car and you asking me questions.
1236
01:05:01,846 --> 01:05:03,491
{\an8}See that was it.
1237
01:05:03,492 --> 01:05:07,362
{\an8}The questions were to determine
whether or not it was something you
1238
01:05:07,363 --> 01:05:10,292
{\an8}I really wanted to do it or not.
I was...
1239
01:05:10,486 --> 01:05:13,452
{\an8}If I didn't, I wouldn't...
1240
01:05:14,675 --> 01:05:16,700
{\an8}would go far in his career as a musician
1241
01:05:16,701 --> 01:05:19,310
{\an8}like I thought everyone did that.
1242
01:05:19,558 --> 01:05:21,625
{\an8}You told me everyone did
1243
01:05:21,626 --> 01:05:23,963
{\an8}and that it was normal and natural.
1244
01:05:24,283 --> 01:05:26,876
{\an8}"It's the normal thing to do
when you're in the middle."
1245
01:05:26,877 --> 01:05:29,249
{\an8}Let's put it like this: That was...
1246
01:05:29,778 --> 01:05:31,268
{\an8}He knows...
1247
01:05:32,158 --> 01:05:35,250
{\an8}I'm sure I said that.
1248
01:05:37,003 --> 01:05:39,956
{\an8}You know, this is a natural function.
1249
01:05:39,957 --> 01:05:43,355
{\an8}The only difference between us
and the animals in the animal kingdom
1250
01:05:43,357 --> 01:05:45,715
{\an8}It’s just that we socialize it.
1251
01:05:46,697 --> 01:05:49,234
{\an8}See the animals. The way they do it.
1252
01:05:49,235 --> 01:05:51,364
{\an8}They don't care about anything.
1253
01:05:51,366 --> 01:05:53,945
{\an8}They don't care about
age, they don't care...
1254
01:05:53,946 --> 01:05:56,196
{\an8}with sex, sexuality or something else.
1255
01:05:56,198 --> 01:05:59,067
{\an8}If they like it, they go and do it.
1256
01:05:59,453 --> 01:06:02,009
{\an8}And, as human beings,
1257
01:06:02,762 --> 01:06:06,332
{\an8}we put laws, regulations
and restrictions on it.
1258
01:06:07,332 --> 01:06:10,781
{\an8}If we were any other
animal, it wouldn't matter.
1259
01:06:15,133 --> 01:06:16,963
That was...
1260
01:06:17,654 --> 01:06:19,817
I froze when he told me.
1261
01:06:19,819 --> 01:06:23,069
I wondered how this
could happen, you know?
1262
01:06:23,071 --> 01:06:24,626
AND...
1263
01:06:24,628 --> 01:06:28,113
How could I not realize
1264
01:06:28,115 --> 01:06:30,868
this was happening to Evan.
1265
01:06:31,424 --> 01:06:33,512
AND...
1266
01:06:34,814 --> 01:06:37,689
I don't know. It was so painful.
1267
01:06:37,984 --> 01:06:39,855
Very painful.
1268
01:06:40,094 --> 01:06:44,036
And of course my first
1269
01:06:44,234 --> 01:06:46,412
question to Evan was:
1270
01:06:46,813 --> 01:06:50,625
"Did it happen once or how often?"
1271
01:06:50,626 --> 01:06:54,180
Hopefully it only
happened once and that's it.
1272
01:06:54,348 --> 01:06:56,353
But Evan told me...
1273
01:06:56,355 --> 01:06:58,923
which happened
1274
01:06:58,924 --> 01:07:00,689
several times and during...
1275
01:07:00,997 --> 01:07:03,063
many years.
1276
01:07:04,108 --> 01:07:07,292
And when I thought, I fainted.
1277
01:07:11,490 --> 01:07:13,572
It's so hard.
1278
01:07:17,993 --> 01:07:20,326
He seemed like a great guy.
1279
01:07:20,448 --> 01:07:22,633
I'm not a violent person, but
1280
01:07:22,634 --> 01:07:25,535
I wanted to beat this guy up.
1281
01:07:25,536 --> 01:07:27,489
I'am dreaming
1282
01:07:27,490 --> 01:07:30,617
with a white Christmas
1283
01:07:30,869 --> 01:07:34,198
with Jack and Dixie running.
1284
01:07:46,500 --> 01:07:48,918
The first thing that led to DEN's death
1285
01:07:48,919 --> 01:07:52,914
was a lawsuit in New Jersey
against Marc Collins-Rector,
1286
01:07:52,944 --> 01:07:55,565
Chad Shackley and Brock Pierce.
1287
01:07:57,005 --> 01:07:59,392
There was a lawsuit filed by a boy
1288
01:07:59,393 --> 01:08:02,061
who worked for Marc Collins-Rector.
1289
01:08:04,499 --> 01:08:06,763
This was the first
allegation of sexual abuse
1290
01:08:06,765 --> 01:08:08,605
which became public.
1291
01:08:09,030 --> 01:08:11,141
At the time, DEN was going for
1292
01:08:11,142 --> 01:08:14,096
a $75 million initial public offering.
1293
01:08:14,097 --> 01:08:16,879
Something that made them all very rich.
1294
01:08:16,880 --> 01:08:19,455
When things started
to leak more and more...
1295
01:08:19,457 --> 01:08:22,016
{\an5}Hidden recording in Marc
Collins-Rector's house
1296
01:08:22,018 --> 01:08:25,880
{\an8}Two boys who were
victims, Mike E. and Alex B,
1297
01:08:26,001 --> 01:08:29,314
{\an8}entered the house with a
camera to collect evidence.
1298
01:08:29,830 --> 01:08:31,575
One of the images was the
1299
01:08:31,576 --> 01:08:34,683
large amount of prescription bottles
1300
01:08:34,684 --> 01:08:36,917
on behalf of Marc Collins-Rector.
1301
01:08:36,982 --> 01:08:41,283
Oxycodone was one of them.
There was Vicodin, Percocet, Xanax.
1302
01:08:41,810 --> 01:08:44,431
And there were many bottles.
1303
01:08:44,730 --> 01:08:46,666
Hollywood is a company town.
1304
01:08:46,667 --> 01:08:49,094
Marc Collins joined the company in
1305
01:08:49,185 --> 01:08:50,905
the city and they got
away with the crime.
1306
01:08:50,906 --> 01:08:53,068
In this case, of being
caught as pedophiles.
1307
01:08:53,069 --> 01:08:54,749
And this is what happened.
1308
01:08:54,751 --> 01:08:56,526
These guys are very smart.
1309
01:08:56,527 --> 01:08:59,586
They were experienced
and very successful guys.
1310
01:08:59,587 --> 01:09:01,522
I didn't see anyone there who
1311
01:09:01,523 --> 01:09:04,235
wasn't worth millions of dollars.
1312
01:09:07,338 --> 01:09:10,240
Investigations of the
processes began to leak
1313
01:09:10,242 --> 01:09:12,995
and Marc Collins-Rector began to panic.
1314
01:09:12,996 --> 01:09:14,898
He had a collection of weapons.
1315
01:09:14,899 --> 01:09:16,577
Boys told me he would
1316
01:09:16,579 --> 01:09:19,474
point guns at them like this.
1317
01:09:19,475 --> 01:09:21,415
A shotgun or pistol and said,
1318
01:09:21,416 --> 01:09:23,511
"Do you know what I can do?"
1319
01:09:23,512 --> 01:09:25,724
And he was serious,
according to the young people.
1320
01:09:25,725 --> 01:09:28,123
It's terrifying to have
someone point a gun at you.
1321
01:09:28,125 --> 01:09:29,989
Even more so if you're a kid
1322
01:09:29,990 --> 01:09:32,553
and your boss points a gun at you.
1323
01:09:33,022 --> 01:09:34,519
It would be scary.
1324
01:09:34,521 --> 01:09:37,531
He came home, explained what happened...
1325
01:09:37,819 --> 01:09:40,090
I started crying and said:
1326
01:09:40,091 --> 01:09:43,652
"That didn't happen to
you, did it, Mike? Did it?"
1327
01:09:44,260 --> 01:09:46,552
And my son was...
1328
01:09:46,553 --> 01:09:48,933
curled up on the floor in the corner,
1329
01:09:48,934 --> 01:09:51,982
he started to get agitated and said:
1330
01:09:51,983 --> 01:09:55,428
"Mom, I was just a boy.
I was just a boy and they threatened me.
1331
01:09:55,429 --> 01:09:57,719
I was just a boy."
1332
01:09:58,405 --> 01:10:01,905
I knew right away that I needed
to involve someone in this.
1333
01:10:01,907 --> 01:10:03,699
Police, FBI.
1334
01:10:03,700 --> 01:10:06,106
Anyone I needed to
1335
01:10:06,108 --> 01:10:07,661
expose these criminals.
1336
01:10:07,663 --> 01:10:09,437
They worried about being arrested.
1337
01:10:09,438 --> 01:10:12,096
There was an FBI investigation.
They knew.
1338
01:10:12,097 --> 01:10:14,367
Someone told them they
would be interrogated.
1339
01:10:14,368 --> 01:10:18,295
And when they found out, they ran away.
1340
01:10:18,297 --> 01:10:20,168
I spoke to Scott one day
1341
01:10:20,169 --> 01:10:22,530
and I couldn't contact him for a few days
1342
01:10:22,532 --> 01:10:25,337
and days later there was
nothing there anymore.
1343
01:10:25,338 --> 01:10:27,388
Literally, nothing. All empty.
1344
01:10:27,389 --> 01:10:31,152
All the way to the source.
There was one in the front yard.
1345
01:10:31,153 --> 01:10:33,108
Even the font is gone.
1346
01:10:33,109 --> 01:10:35,860
They went to different places
1347
01:10:35,928 --> 01:10:38,475
in Europe, hoping to avoid arrest.
1348
01:10:39,540 --> 01:10:42,920
And then someone reported them in Spain.
1349
01:10:48,212 --> 01:10:50,403
Chad and Brock were quickly released, but
1350
01:10:50,405 --> 01:10:52,603
Marc was imprisoned for a year and a half
1351
01:10:52,605 --> 01:10:55,209
waiting to be extradited to the US.
1352
01:10:55,994 --> 01:10:58,369
At one point, he was
sent to the US and pleaded
1353
01:10:58,370 --> 01:11:02,182
guilty to nine counts
of child molestation.
1354
01:11:02,837 --> 01:11:05,429
Marc got out of jail relatively quickly,
1355
01:11:05,430 --> 01:11:08,119
but was listed as a sex offender.
1356
01:11:08,121 --> 01:11:11,473
And, after being released,
he made a request that would
1357
01:11:11,474 --> 01:11:14,164
allow him to travel to
England for medical reasons.
1358
01:11:14,211 --> 01:11:16,819
He went and never came back.
1359
01:11:17,437 --> 01:11:18,967
In 2007, he applied for a civil
1360
01:11:18,968 --> 01:11:21,665
union in the United Kingdom
1361
01:11:21,667 --> 01:11:23,960
with an 18 year old boy.
1362
01:11:25,271 --> 01:11:26,739
I saw him with the boy.
1363
01:11:26,740 --> 01:11:29,482
Him getting in the car
with the kid or something.
1364
01:11:29,484 --> 01:11:33,086
And it was obvious, looking at the
boy, that Marc was harassing him.
1365
01:11:33,087 --> 01:11:34,680
This was pretty obvious to me.
1366
01:11:34,682 --> 01:11:37,682
In 2011, he renounces his citizenship...
1367
01:11:37,684 --> 01:11:40,269
and has been untraceable ever since.
1368
01:11:41,083 --> 01:11:44,236
Certainly, those who invested
money did not want to sue them.
1369
01:11:44,240 --> 01:11:46,315
They just wanted to disappear.
1370
01:11:46,538 --> 01:11:48,851
Of course, small
investors sued, but those
1371
01:11:48,853 --> 01:11:52,439
like Michael Huffington
didn't want to sue.
1372
01:11:52,467 --> 01:11:55,579
So, I went to the executive editor...
1373
01:11:56,102 --> 01:11:58,900
from Details magazine.
She loved the story...
1374
01:11:59,340 --> 01:12:01,894
She gave her approval and said to do it.
1375
01:12:01,943 --> 01:12:03,931
The story was a scandal.
1376
01:12:03,932 --> 01:12:06,152
I submitted the story
1377
01:12:06,199 --> 01:12:07,934
to my editor and loved it.
1378
01:12:08,016 --> 01:12:10,492
It was quickly discovered,
1379
01:12:11,031 --> 01:12:12,566
but then...
1380
01:12:12,567 --> 01:12:14,247
days later, I receive a call from an
1381
01:12:14,249 --> 01:12:17,053
assistant's assistant's
assistant, and she said:
1382
01:12:17,054 --> 01:12:20,088
"We won't publish it.
We'll pay you 25% of
1383
01:12:20,089 --> 01:12:22,666
the total and give you
half of your expenses."
1384
01:12:22,778 --> 01:12:24,350
And I accepted.
1385
01:12:24,351 --> 01:12:27,712
But I was so disgusted that I
didn't want to write anything else.
1386
01:12:27,955 --> 01:12:29,597
It's Hollywood!
1387
01:12:29,599 --> 01:12:31,420
People do what they want there!
1388
01:12:31,421 --> 01:12:34,103
If you are a big star, a big
1389
01:12:34,104 --> 01:12:36,198
director and make a lot of money,
1390
01:12:36,366 --> 01:12:38,358
you can do what you want!
1391
01:12:55,082 --> 01:12:57,448
Martin Weiss was sued...
1392
01:12:57,450 --> 01:13:00,612
on several charges of
lewd acts with a child.
1393
01:13:00,676 --> 01:13:03,482
He was charged with one count of forced
1394
01:13:03,483 --> 01:13:05,987
intercourse with a child
under the age of 14.
1395
01:13:06,041 --> 01:13:09,085
Two counts of continuous
sexual abuse of a minor.
1396
01:13:09,086 --> 01:13:12,616
Three counts of sodomy
with a minor under 16.
1397
01:13:13,812 --> 01:13:16,529
You see Martin entering the courtroom.
1398
01:13:17,218 --> 01:13:19,706
He was chained, with shackles...
1399
01:13:19,836 --> 01:13:22,164
and with much grayer hair.
1400
01:13:24,126 --> 01:13:27,941
It was time for me to go
up there and tell people
1401
01:13:28,227 --> 01:13:32,379
as Marty looked at me, what happened.
1402
01:13:33,075 --> 01:13:35,473
He insisted he wanted to testify.
1403
01:13:35,622 --> 01:13:37,603
That was very...
1404
01:13:39,222 --> 01:13:41,859
I was very proud of what he did.
1405
01:13:43,084 --> 01:13:45,101
I do not need...
1406
01:13:45,595 --> 01:13:47,731
of this pain in my heart, being
1407
01:13:47,732 --> 01:13:50,669
mad at someone my whole life.
1408
01:13:50,749 --> 01:13:53,532
That's another question...
1409
01:13:53,612 --> 01:13:56,291
to tell the truth to me,
1410
01:13:56,902 --> 01:13:58,336
It is...
1411
01:13:59,136 --> 01:14:01,064
say, "Okay.
1412
01:14:01,239 --> 01:14:02,989
What you did was horrible."
1413
01:14:02,991 --> 01:14:04,591
I don't know.
1414
01:14:04,592 --> 01:14:07,485
I just felt like I needed to go beyond that,
1415
01:14:08,621 --> 01:14:10,963
I don't need to feel this pain...
1416
01:14:11,179 --> 01:14:12,664
is that...
1417
01:14:13,253 --> 01:14:15,373
If he can accept...
1418
01:14:15,859 --> 01:14:19,442
that what he did was horrible
and that it could go beyond that,
1419
01:14:21,150 --> 01:14:23,081
I could forgive.
1420
01:14:24,666 --> 01:14:28,388
The maximum sentence for the charges
1421
01:14:28,389 --> 01:14:30,969
that were brought was
around 14 to 16 years.
1422
01:14:31,750 --> 01:14:35,339
It is generally uncommon
to get a maximum sentence.
1423
01:14:38,368 --> 01:14:41,564
He confessed to two
counts of lewd acts with a
1424
01:14:41,565 --> 01:14:44,467
child and confessed to
two counts of sexual abuse.
1425
01:14:44,469 --> 01:14:46,402
Then...
1426
01:14:48,190 --> 01:14:51,225
It was clear that it
didn't just happen once.
1427
01:14:51,226 --> 01:14:53,857
And in exchange for confessing to
1428
01:14:53,858 --> 01:14:55,910
two charges, which is much more severe,
1429
01:14:55,912 --> 01:14:59,653
he was sentenced to five years probation,
1430
01:15:00,269 --> 01:15:02,697
365 days in county jail, he needed
1431
01:15:02,778 --> 01:15:06,205
to go to sexual abuse therapy,
1432
01:15:06,396 --> 01:15:08,349
I needed to stay away from Evan, I
1433
01:15:08,350 --> 01:15:11,311
needed to stay away from children
1434
01:15:11,407 --> 01:15:13,585
and was registered as a sex
1435
01:15:13,587 --> 01:15:15,233
offender for the rest of his life.
1436
01:15:15,234 --> 01:15:18,298
He was arrested in December or late
1437
01:15:18,300 --> 01:15:19,949
November and was released in June.
1438
01:15:19,950 --> 01:15:21,736
6 months.
1439
01:15:21,968 --> 01:15:24,666
They almost never comply...
1440
01:15:24,997 --> 01:15:27,833
full sentence in county jail.
1441
01:15:28,648 --> 01:15:30,847
6 months is a joke.
1442
01:15:31,318 --> 01:15:33,679
It's a joke, because of what happened.
1443
01:15:35,969 --> 01:15:38,040
In any case, ask a promoter whether or
1444
01:15:38,042 --> 01:15:40,385
not he thinks he is completely successful
1445
01:15:40,386 --> 01:15:43,497
in protecting the
community from any future
1446
01:15:43,498 --> 01:15:45,753
crime, it is impossible
for us to respond.
1447
01:15:45,840 --> 01:15:48,208
I can't say, precisely,
1448
01:15:49,436 --> 01:15:51,603
or honestly say...
1449
01:15:51,821 --> 01:15:53,961
that I prevented any future crimes.
1450
01:15:53,962 --> 01:15:57,110
I wish so. I wish I
1451
01:15:57,111 --> 01:15:58,512
could in any case, but...
1452
01:15:58,853 --> 01:16:00,933
I can only do...
1453
01:16:02,765 --> 01:16:05,406
what the law allows us to do.
1454
01:16:06,185 --> 01:16:08,540
Unfortunately, to get bad people
1455
01:16:08,541 --> 01:16:10,325
off the streets we need to do better.
1456
01:16:10,831 --> 01:16:12,763
It could have been much better.
1457
01:16:12,765 --> 01:16:15,841
He could have served
a much longer sentence.
1458
01:16:16,532 --> 01:16:19,279
On that side, it leaves me disappointed
1459
01:16:19,455 --> 01:16:21,372
and it leaves other people disappointed.
1460
01:16:21,374 --> 01:16:24,145
He told me that there were other
1461
01:16:24,229 --> 01:16:26,102
people he did those things with.
1462
01:16:26,104 --> 01:16:28,549
But like I said, I think it's more
1463
01:16:28,551 --> 01:16:30,576
important to be able to talk about it
1464
01:16:30,577 --> 01:16:32,550
and be free...
1465
01:16:33,020 --> 01:16:34,636
of this secret,
1466
01:16:35,228 --> 01:16:38,963
than getting justice
in the judicial system.
1467
01:16:40,749 --> 01:16:43,169
There is a passage in the book where you
1468
01:16:43,330 --> 01:16:46,598
introduced Corey to one of his abusers.
1469
01:16:46,599 --> 01:16:49,048
- Do you take responsibility?
- For sure! Yes!
1470
01:16:49,049 --> 01:16:52,798
And he asked me to do
it on the show and I did!
1471
01:16:52,800 --> 01:16:54,726
This will be a painful process.
1472
01:16:54,728 --> 01:16:57,757
The dust settles, the web unravels
1473
01:16:57,758 --> 01:16:59,859
and people will know
1474
01:16:59,904 --> 01:17:02,837
that we all played
our part in this story.
1475
01:17:02,838 --> 01:17:06,187
And for which part will
you take responsibility?
1476
01:17:07,060 --> 01:17:10,247
Last year, we presented
and passed a law called
1477
01:17:10,248 --> 01:17:12,163
"Child Artist Protection Law".
1478
01:17:12,164 --> 01:17:13,910
The law will do two things:
1479
01:17:13,911 --> 01:17:15,779
First is to stop abusers from
1480
01:17:15,780 --> 01:17:18,300
working with children in Hollywood.
1481
01:17:18,507 --> 01:17:20,773
Because, at the moment, that doesn't exist.
1482
01:17:20,774 --> 01:17:23,376
Second, it is to require
a license for those
1483
01:17:23,377 --> 01:17:26,649
who work, with
relevance, with child actors,
1484
01:17:26,650 --> 01:17:30,178
such as businesspeople,
publicists and photographers.
1485
01:17:30,378 --> 01:17:32,332
All people we see convicted would need
1486
01:17:32,333 --> 01:17:34,960
to have fingerprints, release and license
1487
01:17:34,961 --> 01:17:36,770
so the State can track them
1488
01:17:36,771 --> 01:17:39,090
and prevent them from
continuing to work in the
1489
01:17:39,091 --> 01:17:41,719
field if they were caught
doing something bad.
1490
01:17:42,848 --> 01:17:46,778
I have to confess that I
haven't signed this yet...
1491
01:17:46,783 --> 01:17:48,767
and I don't know if I should.
1492
01:17:49,228 --> 01:17:52,375
I don't know. Will this be effective?
1493
01:17:52,376 --> 01:17:54,183
We still need to see.
1494
01:17:54,184 --> 01:17:56,695
No one came to tell me:
1495
01:17:56,696 --> 01:17:59,338
"Have you signed yet? Why not?"
1496
01:17:59,542 --> 01:18:03,080
I think that, in many
cases, it is a situation
1497
01:18:03,354 --> 01:18:05,615
where someone is not reasoning.
1498
01:18:05,616 --> 01:18:10,002
The father trusts when he shouldn't.
1499
01:18:10,136 --> 01:18:12,641
No matter how good the occasion
1500
01:18:12,642 --> 01:18:15,138
seems, your job is to protect your child.
1501
01:18:15,139 --> 01:18:17,329
But I still think...
1502
01:18:17,657 --> 01:18:21,187
which is the duty of the agent,
1503
01:18:21,188 --> 01:18:22,796
businessman, publicist, whoever,
1504
01:18:22,797 --> 01:18:25,547
know what the limit is and not cross it.
1505
01:18:30,446 --> 01:18:32,970
- Yes?
- Hello! Michael?
1506
01:18:33,533 --> 01:18:36,759
- Yes!
- Hello! This is Joey!
1507
01:18:39,557 --> 01:18:42,341
- Hello, Joey!
- How are you?
1508
01:18:42,473 --> 01:18:44,103
You what?
1509
01:18:44,104 --> 01:18:46,733
- I was thinking about you.
- Was I?
1510
01:18:46,735 --> 01:18:48,282
Yes, it was.
1511
01:18:48,289 --> 01:18:51,101
I was reading an old Hawaiian magazine...
1512
01:18:51,102 --> 01:18:53,049
and I was thinking about you.
1513
01:18:53,051 --> 01:18:55,159
It's been a while, huh?
1514
01:18:55,399 --> 01:18:57,638
Yes. We haven't spoken in a while.
1515
01:18:57,639 --> 01:18:59,373
I lost your trail.
1516
01:18:59,374 --> 01:19:02,512
Yes and you? What have you done?
1517
01:19:03,152 --> 01:19:04,802
I retired.
1518
01:19:04,803 --> 01:19:06,989
- And even? - Yes!
1519
01:19:06,991 --> 01:19:10,138
I still have some customers who show up,
1520
01:19:10,139 --> 01:19:12,513
But it's not what it used to be.
1521
01:19:12,514 --> 01:19:14,565
I'm not taking on anyone new.
1522
01:19:14,566 --> 01:19:17,998
I say this and then I can
accept someone, but...
1523
01:19:17,999 --> 01:19:20,767
Have you heard from Bob?
1524
01:19:22,325 --> 01:19:24,266
- Bob?
- Bob Villard.
1525
01:19:24,267 --> 01:19:25,667
Bob Villard!
1526
01:19:25,669 --> 01:19:28,479
Last I heard, he was in jail, Joey.
1527
01:19:28,480 --> 01:19:30,699
And even? Whereby?
1528
01:19:31,422 --> 01:19:34,795
I suppose it's because of
some problem with children.
1529
01:19:35,179 --> 01:19:38,839
They said they tried to catch
him several times and succeeded.
1530
01:19:38,840 --> 01:19:41,517
Last I heard, he was caught.
1531
01:19:41,518 --> 01:19:45,703
I don't know anything about it.
I don't know for how long or anything.
1532
01:19:45,704 --> 01:19:49,555
Then no. I haven't heard
from him in a long, long time.
1533
01:19:49,631 --> 01:19:52,001
I almost forgot about him, actually.
1534
01:19:52,002 --> 01:19:56,013
That's the reason I left the industry.
1535
01:19:56,014 --> 01:19:58,155
I don't know if you remember that
1536
01:19:58,156 --> 01:20:00,784
I cut his lip when I threw an object
1537
01:20:00,785 --> 01:20:04,381
and took my way home never to return.
1538
01:20:05,974 --> 01:20:09,780
I went through a lot of therapy and...
1539
01:20:10,388 --> 01:20:13,030
I don't accept this...
1540
01:20:13,032 --> 01:20:14,924
and everything he tried to do.
1541
01:20:14,925 --> 01:20:17,312
And only God knows
what he did to anyone else.
1542
01:20:17,313 --> 01:20:19,081
I don't know and...
1543
01:20:19,082 --> 01:20:21,067
I don't know, Joey.
1544
01:20:21,130 --> 01:20:23,486
I don't fully believe in these things.
1545
01:20:23,487 --> 01:20:26,470
I don't know how
horrible they really are.
1546
01:20:29,312 --> 01:20:30,903
I just...
1547
01:20:30,904 --> 01:20:33,753
I know I will never know the
whole story about something.
1548
01:20:33,754 --> 01:20:37,585
When I had the chance to talk
to someone about this, I said:
1549
01:20:37,586 --> 01:20:41,729
“See, this isn’t a terrible
thing, unless you think it is.
1550
01:20:41,730 --> 01:20:45,061
It's just something that
happened to you in your life."
1551
01:20:46,283 --> 01:20:49,114
I don't think it's right that someone...
1552
01:20:49,209 --> 01:20:52,300
take advantage of someone and I think...
1553
01:20:52,302 --> 01:20:56,028
the whole thing is rotten, but
1554
01:20:56,145 --> 01:20:58,410
he tried to do it to me and I...
1555
01:20:58,693 --> 01:21:01,403
To be honest, I didn't like it...
1556
01:21:01,405 --> 01:21:04,557
when you tried to make me
sleep in your bed and touch me.
1557
01:21:04,559 --> 01:21:06,841
I hated that too.
1558
01:21:07,230 --> 01:21:10,807
That was something I wanted
and shouldn't have done.
1559
01:21:11,469 --> 01:21:14,546
There's no way to undo this, but...
1560
01:21:18,163 --> 01:21:21,283
Certainly, it was something
I shouldn't have done.
1561
01:21:24,007 --> 01:21:26,561
I don't know what Joey
1562
01:21:26,677 --> 01:21:28,210
is remembering, but...
1563
01:21:28,351 --> 01:21:30,001
I don't remember anything
1564
01:21:30,002 --> 01:21:32,382
that made him feel that way.
1565
01:21:32,383 --> 01:21:34,256
All I can say is that as a
1566
01:21:34,258 --> 01:21:36,736
result of the situation he was in,
1567
01:21:36,737 --> 01:21:39,284
not just with me, but with others,
1568
01:21:39,410 --> 01:21:42,714
if that was how he saw something,
1569
01:21:42,750 --> 01:21:45,347
It certainly wasn't something I intended.
1570
01:21:45,348 --> 01:21:48,002
And that's my answer to that.
1571
01:21:48,004 --> 01:21:50,601
Are you attracted to young boys?
1572
01:21:51,158 --> 01:21:53,461
No. Not particularly.
1573
01:21:54,682 --> 01:21:58,342
Much of what happens in this
1574
01:21:58,343 --> 01:22:01,084
situation happens almost by accident.
1575
01:22:01,085 --> 01:22:02,884
Put it on your head
1576
01:22:02,885 --> 01:22:05,142
that someone out there
was a child predator,
1577
01:22:05,143 --> 01:22:08,070
attacked children,
and everything he did...
1578
01:22:08,208 --> 01:22:10,912
it was taking the kids to it.
1579
01:22:11,251 --> 01:22:13,733
Many of those I was
1580
01:22:13,734 --> 01:22:16,109
aware of just fell into it.
1581
01:22:16,174 --> 01:22:19,644
Did anyone try anything on
you when you were a child actor?
1582
01:22:20,025 --> 01:22:21,900
I think so. I am not...
1583
01:22:21,901 --> 01:22:25,142
My approach to all this was not...
1584
01:22:25,802 --> 01:22:27,661
sexual. She went...
1585
01:22:28,417 --> 01:22:30,220
Yes, I think someone did that.
1586
01:22:30,221 --> 01:22:33,881
I would have a lot of trouble remembering
1587
01:22:33,983 --> 01:22:36,604
anything specific, but
it wasn't uncommon,
1588
01:22:36,605 --> 01:22:38,533
let's say so.
1589
01:22:39,301 --> 01:22:42,391
It's difficult, when
you live in a situation,
1590
01:22:42,844 --> 01:22:46,288
for the reason that there
must be adult supervision,
1591
01:22:49,932 --> 01:22:53,272
understand how things will be seen.
1592
01:22:54,963 --> 01:22:57,602
And I don't know what else to say about it.
1593
01:23:01,021 --> 01:23:04,501
If you are a thief, you
are a thief; a lie is a lie.
1594
01:23:04,539 --> 01:23:06,477
But, in Hollywood, it is the exception:
1595
01:23:06,478 --> 01:23:09,761
"Fine! Whatever!
He's a good businessman!"
1596
01:23:10,734 --> 01:23:12,683
I'm sure he knew the
1597
01:23:12,684 --> 01:23:15,523
whole Bob Villard story.
1598
01:23:15,525 --> 01:23:17,364
Hear how much...
1599
01:23:17,576 --> 01:23:21,026
he's good at sketching...
1600
01:23:22,498 --> 01:23:24,341
the coldness of Hollywood.
1601
01:23:24,561 --> 01:23:27,627
"Great to hear from you!
I was thinking about Hawaii!
1602
01:23:28,379 --> 01:23:30,923
You are calling from Zimbabwe!
1603
01:23:30,924 --> 01:23:33,439
Hello! I was thinking of you!"
1604
01:23:33,634 --> 01:23:35,035
Serious?
1605
01:23:35,037 --> 01:23:37,288
Yes! I saw a magazine in
1606
01:23:37,289 --> 01:23:39,132
Zimbabwe and was thinking of you!
1607
01:23:39,133 --> 01:23:42,241
Do you really think he saw that?
This is false!
1608
01:23:43,011 --> 01:23:45,472
Excellent! Lying with every word.
1609
01:23:45,474 --> 01:23:46,890
Why...
1610
01:23:46,892 --> 01:23:48,638
Whatever, because...
1611
01:23:49,859 --> 01:23:52,575
these people from
Hollywood, these scoundrels.
1612
01:23:52,703 --> 01:23:54,791
Don't even get me started.
1613
01:24:20,083 --> 01:24:23,900
Finally, they let us go
back to the emergency room
1614
01:24:24,174 --> 01:24:26,733
and the doctor said...
1615
01:24:26,780 --> 01:24:29,605
he wasn't responding to anything.
1616
01:24:31,931 --> 01:24:35,363
They worked on it for
about 8 to 10 minutes...
1617
01:24:35,496 --> 01:24:38,660
trying to start his heart and keep it...
1618
01:24:38,732 --> 01:24:40,407
working.
1619
01:24:41,269 --> 01:24:45,162
Being without oxygen for that long is...
1620
01:24:47,281 --> 01:24:49,879
probably the worst case scenario.
1621
01:24:51,465 --> 01:24:54,705
The doctor said if he
didn't respond within 72
1622
01:24:54,707 --> 01:24:57,163
hours, he probably
wouldn't respond anymore.
1623
01:25:01,185 --> 01:25:03,005
My wife and I...
1624
01:25:05,240 --> 01:25:08,893
we took it one day at a
time and so much happened
1625
01:25:09,219 --> 01:25:11,268
since we were boys.
1626
01:25:11,604 --> 01:25:14,932
We got married, had kids and...
1627
01:25:15,962 --> 01:25:18,829
We just take life one day at a time.
1628
01:25:21,174 --> 01:25:24,991
I sat on one side of the
bed, Jan sat on the other
1629
01:25:24,992 --> 01:25:26,983
and we held his hands.
1630
01:25:26,985 --> 01:25:28,847
And it was like...
1631
01:25:29,739 --> 01:25:31,386
just hold on...
1632
01:25:31,952 --> 01:25:33,793
a piece of me.
1633
01:25:36,247 --> 01:25:38,413
In the second day,
1634
01:25:39,012 --> 01:25:40,714
a doctor...
1635
01:25:40,715 --> 01:25:42,521
practically gave up on him.
1636
01:25:42,523 --> 01:25:44,957
"You need to make a decision."
1637
01:25:45,317 --> 01:25:48,129
He came up with the
1638
01:25:48,131 --> 01:25:49,693
subject of 72 hours and I said:
1639
01:25:49,694 --> 01:25:53,062
"72 hours don't mean a damn thing to me."
1640
01:26:00,662 --> 01:26:02,747
And after 68 hours and 45 minutes,
1641
01:26:02,748 --> 01:26:05,948
Mark's eyes finally
responded to the light.
1642
01:26:07,588 --> 01:26:09,594
Yes. And he opened his eyes.
1643
01:26:09,596 --> 01:26:11,175
- He opened it.
- Yes.
1644
01:26:11,176 --> 01:26:13,755
There was no chance...
1645
01:26:13,826 --> 01:26:16,511
for someone to turn off the machines.
1646
01:26:17,151 --> 01:26:19,470
Hello, friend! How is it going?
1647
01:26:20,655 --> 01:26:22,282
Yes! Tap here!
1648
01:26:22,283 --> 01:26:24,029
Using the other arm, huh!
1649
01:26:24,031 --> 01:26:25,953
Fred is my hero...
1650
01:26:26,390 --> 01:26:28,545
because he never gives up.
1651
01:26:28,947 --> 01:26:31,184
And he drilled that into Mark
1652
01:26:31,335 --> 01:26:33,228
and Mark will never give up.
1653
01:26:33,229 --> 01:26:36,363
He is the bravest person...
1654
01:26:36,493 --> 01:26:38,741
that I have ever met in my life.
1655
01:26:40,718 --> 01:26:43,042
Nice to see you!
1656
01:26:43,043 --> 01:26:45,741
It's great to see you too!
Are you hungry?
1657
01:26:47,311 --> 01:26:49,769
- I love you!
- I love you too!
1658
01:26:50,579 --> 01:26:52,575
Do you want to give me another hug?
1659
01:26:52,577 --> 01:26:55,079
He is already a miracle
just for being alive!
1660
01:26:55,080 --> 01:26:57,751
From the beginning, they told his family:
1661
01:26:57,897 --> 01:26:59,772
"He won't make it."
1662
01:26:59,774 --> 01:27:03,129
Everyone gave up: "He
will never move or eat."
1663
01:27:03,131 --> 01:27:05,260
All of it. And look at him now.
1664
01:27:06,876 --> 01:27:09,047
I want to cut my hair!
1665
01:27:09,713 --> 01:27:11,466
You want?
1666
01:27:13,052 --> 01:27:15,008
The colors of the Bengals!
1667
01:27:15,318 --> 01:27:17,204
Is not cool?
1668
01:27:17,720 --> 01:27:19,415
For the Bengals!
1669
01:27:19,661 --> 01:27:23,060
Fred is my hero because
he never gives up.
1670
01:27:23,178 --> 01:27:25,504
And he inserted that into Mark
1671
01:27:25,553 --> 01:27:28,082
and Mark will never give up either.
1672
01:27:28,253 --> 01:27:30,935
And through them, I will never give up!
1673
01:27:31,039 --> 01:27:34,139
But this is where it comes from.
From this guy right here.
1674
01:27:34,140 --> 01:27:35,634
Here on the side.
1675
01:27:35,636 --> 01:27:38,878
He is the bravest person...
1676
01:27:38,909 --> 01:27:41,008
that I have ever met in my life.
1677
01:27:41,029 --> 01:27:42,781
You trained him, didn't you?
1678
01:27:42,782 --> 01:27:44,707
Yes. It's Ryan Foster.
1679
01:27:44,709 --> 01:27:46,415
Did you train him?
1680
01:27:46,417 --> 01:27:49,174
He is graduating this
year from Charleston.
1681
01:27:49,660 --> 01:27:51,855
It says, "Thank you, Coach Mark."
1682
01:27:51,907 --> 01:27:54,063
Will you be training next year?
1683
01:27:56,133 --> 01:27:59,070
I would like to see
Mark back on this field.
1684
01:28:00,358 --> 01:28:02,417
Training the boys.
1685
01:28:02,612 --> 01:28:04,910
Doing what you know best.
1686
01:28:05,386 --> 01:28:07,557
He is a great coach.
1687
01:28:07,998 --> 01:28:10,783
I know Mark makes his own decisions
1688
01:28:11,256 --> 01:28:14,477
and he made bad choices,
he made good choices.
1689
01:28:14,811 --> 01:28:17,193
But I know that, as a human being,
1690
01:28:17,194 --> 01:28:19,261
Mark is a good person.
1691
01:28:22,477 --> 01:28:24,441
When Mark comes out of this...
1692
01:28:24,442 --> 01:28:26,803
he will return to this football field
1693
01:28:27,579 --> 01:28:30,076
and he will be there with me, training.
1694
01:28:37,164 --> 01:28:39,527
After that, God can take me.
1695
01:28:40,271 --> 01:28:42,104
But not until then.
1696
01:28:46,240 --> 01:28:48,277
This is what I want.
1697
01:28:52,489 --> 01:28:55,128
So much damage has already been done.
1698
01:28:55,592 --> 01:28:58,272
And now, I think, at the
end of the day, I look at
1699
01:28:58,273 --> 01:29:01,935
this and realize that I've
been trying really hard
1700
01:29:02,275 --> 01:29:05,160
keep moving forward, despite everything...
1701
01:29:05,553 --> 01:29:07,909
I don't know. I have yet to see
1702
01:29:07,910 --> 01:29:09,937
any retribution for these scoundrels.
1703
01:29:09,939 --> 01:29:13,664
I never saw anything.
See them still on the
1704
01:29:13,666 --> 01:29:16,590
pedestals and the same
things probably happening.
1705
01:29:16,813 --> 01:29:20,293
It could have happened to
someone last night. Who knows?
1706
01:29:21,300 --> 01:29:23,137
I'm saying there are people
1707
01:29:23,139 --> 01:29:25,993
who did this to me and Cory,
1708
01:29:25,994 --> 01:29:28,224
who are still working, are still there
1709
01:29:28,225 --> 01:29:31,437
and they are the richest and most
powerful people in the business
1710
01:29:31,438 --> 01:29:34,441
and they don't want me
to say what I'm saying now.
1711
01:29:34,443 --> 01:29:37,051
What would you say to parents
who have the best of intentions
1712
01:29:37,053 --> 01:29:38,725
accompanying the children?
1713
01:29:38,727 --> 01:29:40,857
Don't think that everything is roses...
1714
01:29:40,859 --> 01:29:43,081
You are hurting the entire industry!
1715
01:29:43,083 --> 01:29:45,361
I am really sorry! I'm not trying that!
1716
01:29:45,362 --> 01:29:47,604
Ultimately, I think the bystanders are
1717
01:29:47,606 --> 01:29:50,984
the only group with
power in this situation,
1718
01:29:51,158 --> 01:29:53,579
because I think there will always be a
1719
01:29:53,714 --> 01:29:56,922
steady stream of kids
wanting to be famous
1720
01:29:56,924 --> 01:30:00,005
and parents pushing
their children into this field.
1721
01:30:00,006 --> 01:30:02,995
If we don't talk about it, then
we are part of the problem
1722
01:30:02,996 --> 01:30:06,300
because we are contributing
to a culture that normalizes it.
1723
01:30:06,302 --> 01:30:10,041
And, by normalizing something,
it becomes invisible as a problem.
1724
01:30:10,043 --> 01:30:13,437
So, we show these
repercussion cases to say:
1725
01:30:13,438 --> 01:30:17,028
"These are villains
and we are good guys."
1726
01:30:17,229 --> 01:30:20,753
And really, I think we're all a little
1727
01:30:20,754 --> 01:30:23,209
bad when we don't talk about it.
1728
01:30:27,981 --> 01:30:31,300
After all that happened
to Marc Collins-Rector,
1729
01:30:31,344 --> 01:30:33,816
my life became very dark.
1730
01:30:34,092 --> 01:30:36,352
I was never able to have...
1731
01:30:36,907 --> 01:30:39,142
a girlfriend or anything.
1732
01:30:39,798 --> 01:30:43,174
Right now, I'm still
recovering from all that.
1733
01:30:43,175 --> 01:30:46,767
I feel like now I've
reached a point in my life...
1734
01:30:47,227 --> 01:30:49,725
where I am slowly improving.
1735
01:30:51,373 --> 01:30:53,881
I moved to Florida about a year ago and I
1736
01:30:53,883 --> 01:30:57,385
moved there because of my grandmother.
1737
01:30:58,141 --> 01:31:00,577
I want to be there and take care of her.
1738
01:31:00,669 --> 01:31:02,369
AND...
1739
01:31:02,575 --> 01:31:04,809
I ended up meeting a girl there.
1740
01:31:04,811 --> 01:31:07,689
She is my first girlfriend in my life.
1741
01:31:07,740 --> 01:31:11,807
So now, my life is my
grandmother and my girlfriend.
1742
01:31:15,698 --> 01:31:18,861
I'm just trying to get
myself back on track,
1743
01:31:20,307 --> 01:31:23,286
I'm trying to enjoy life and...
1744
01:31:36,150 --> 01:31:37,550
I like.
1745
01:31:37,552 --> 01:31:40,009
Finally, I found a
place I like, you know?
1746
01:31:40,010 --> 01:31:42,396
Dreaming is so important.
Do you know why?
1747
01:31:42,397 --> 01:31:45,165
Because, if you live on
this Earth, you need to
1748
01:31:45,166 --> 01:31:47,374
feel something and your
dream makes you feel things.
1749
01:31:47,375 --> 01:31:49,659
That's the power of dreams, you know?
1750
01:31:49,660 --> 01:31:51,584
Dreaming is life.
1751
01:31:55,241 --> 01:31:57,227
It's a difficult process...
1752
01:31:57,229 --> 01:32:01,167
going through court, the police and so
1753
01:32:01,169 --> 01:32:04,231
on, but in the long
run, it's all worth it.
1754
01:32:04,386 --> 01:32:07,699
Because in the long
run, it's not about how
1755
01:32:07,700 --> 01:32:10,244
long such a person will
be sentenced to prison
1756
01:32:10,542 --> 01:32:14,828
or get justice, revenge and all that.
1757
01:32:14,930 --> 01:32:17,828
It's more about being able to express
1758
01:32:17,896 --> 01:32:19,869
yourself and say:
1759
01:32:19,870 --> 01:32:22,009
"This happened to me,
1760
01:32:22,231 --> 01:32:27,025
I will move on and not hide it in my mind
1761
01:32:27,139 --> 01:32:29,132
for the rest of my life...
1762
01:32:29,324 --> 01:32:32,049
and I will possibly one day make a
1763
01:32:32,051 --> 01:32:35,212
difference to someone
by talking about it."
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