It’s been a banner week for toxic men on the comeback trail. Former New York governor Andrew Cuomo continues to lead the polls in the city’s mayoral race. At Cannes, Kevin Spacey accepted a lifetime achievement award from Better World Foundation and compared his #MeToo fall from grace to screenwriter Dalton Trumbo’s decade-plus exile on the HUAC blacklist. (Trumbo landed there for his leftist politics, it should be noted, not via sexual assault accusations from multiple men.) Then Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire announced its latest move in its entertainment division; hiring the disgraced Mike Richards, the ex–Jeopardy producer and on-camera successor to the show’s late host Alex Trebek. He will join Shapiro’s company as his entertainment division president.
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