Casey Affleck has a past, too: The Oscar contender's ***ual harassment case

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Casey Affleck has a past, too: The Oscar contender's ***ual harassment case
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LOS ANGELES — Casey Affleck's performance in Manchester by the Sea was one of two tickets to the Oscars Best Actor race stamped at Sundance (http://mashable.com/category/sundance-film-festival/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), the other being Nate Parker's for The Birth of a Nation. Surely poised to hit new career heights, the Park City breakouts harbored a**ther similarity: Each had past allegations of ***ual misconduct hiding in plain sight (http://mashable.com/2016/08/16/nate-parker-birth-nation-sundance-old-rape-allegations/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial).

Rape allegations have already bludgeoned the Oscar hopes of Parker, who's **w spoken at great length (http://mashable.com/2016/08/17/nate-parker-responds-accuser-death/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial) about the case. But Affleck has sailed through so far without mention of the two women, a producer and a cinematographer, who in separate 2010 lawsuits accused the him of boorish and harassing behavior — including unwelcome physical advances — while shooting the Joaquin Phoenix docu-farce I'm Still Here.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/09/07/casey-affleck-harassment-allegations/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)

More about Joaquin Phoenix (http://mashable.com/category/joaquin-phoenix/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Nate Parker (http://mashable.com/category/nate-parker/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Casey Affleck (http://mashable.com/category/casey-affleck/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), Oscars (http://mashable.com/category/oscars/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial), and ****** (http://mashable.com/category/******/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Mashable/~4/j0yFHqcAwBw