Last night was slightly better, but again, I woke up on the hour, moved my sleeping arrangements to the living room, moved back into the bedroom, and yes, I did have a nightmare, a pretty common one: that I could not find my car.
It is all probably tied into the anxiety I am feeling at my job situation, so I just have to open my eyes and weather these things as best I can.
A different kind of nightmare is continuing to cause plenty of commotion in the Hollywood community, and once again, it involves one of the high and mighty people in show business, who is accused of sexual harassment, and it this time it just happens to be the chief executive officer of CBS, Leslie Moonves.
Six woman have come forward--or been exhumed--claiming that Moonves acted inappropriately with them, including throwing himself at them in a sexual way, trying to cajole them into sexual encounters ... you know, the usual stuff we have heard that had been done by so many people, such as Harvey Weinstein and Bill Cosby.
The problem, once again, is that these allegations took place more than 30 years ago, in the 1980s, so the credibility of these stories--and the witnesses themselves--have to be thrown into question.
Those defending the ladies state that the 1980s wasn't the right time to have complained about such activity, and it took until now for people to believe what they said.
This is, of course, balderdash, part of the continued witch hunt that is going on in Hollywood and elsewhere to "get back" at powerful men, and it is really getting tired.
Look, I don't know about you, but if I were female, and guys like Moonves and Weinstein and Cosby did what they were supposed to have done to me, I would have reported these guys to the authorities right away, and I don't care what decade it would have happened in.
With these women only coming out now, you really have to question what really happened in these encounters--and whether they were as complicit as the men were for letting them fester all these years later.
Look, if we didn't know this already--and I am sure we did--there were certainly different rules for Hollywood in the past, and what went for abnormal and horrible in the real world was almost considered an everyday occurrence in Tinseltown.
And both men and women acknowledged it. It didn't make it right, but don't tell me that a lot of these encounters weren't of the consensual nature. Both the men and the women knew exactly what was happening and what they were getting into.
Now, some are looking at this as payback time, and it has turned into a witch hunt, with women accusing men of such abuse 20, 30, 40 and 50 years after the fact.
In the Moonves situation, he remains in his current position, although CBS said it will be doing a thorough investigation of the charges. Moonves has apologized for anything he might have done, even though he admits he doesn't recall much of what was said against him.
His wife, CBS mega-personality Julie Chen, says she backs her husband, and will stand by him. Chen and Moonves have been married 14 years, have known each other for several years beyond that, and Chen has had nothing but good things to say about her husband.
Did Moonves have encounters with these women who, in normal parlance, might have a case against him?
Who knows, but I think we are all tiring of these "gotcha" moments, decades after the fact.
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