The verdict came in a second trial after a jury failed to reach verdicts on three counts of forcible rape in December and a mistrial was declared. The jury could not reach a unanimous verdict on a third count, an allegation that Masterson also raped a longtime girlfriend. Olmedo is set to sentence the 47-year-old actor after ruling on a defense motion for a new trial that she’s very likely to reject, and after hearing impact statements from the victims.Ī jury of seven women and five men found Masterson guilty of two counts on May 31 after seven days of deliberations.īoth attacks took place in Masterson’s Hollywood-area home in 2003, when he was at the height of his fame on the Fox network sitcom “That ’70s Show.” Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine F. “That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson could get as much as 30 years to life in prison at his sentencing Thursday for the rapes of two women two decades ago. The gut-wrenching victim statements read before Danny Masterson’s 30-year sentence in rape case: ‘Pathetic, disturbed and completely violent’ ’70s’ co-stars Ashton Kutcher, Mila Kunis praised convicted rapist Danny Masterson as ‘positive influence’ in pre-sentencing lettersĭanny Masterson under 24/7 mental health surveillance behind bars after sentencing for two rapes The vaudeville end of matters was only redeemed from absolute failure by some very clever dancing on the part of a boy and a girl.Bijou Phillips pleaded for leniency in Danny Masterson sentencing: ‘Life-saving partner’ And in order further to increase that chance, it must cut out the stupid vaudeville which we saw. We feel that if these little defects are seen to in future and greater care be taken to show the picture at its best, the Bijou Theater still has a chance of becoming a first-class picture house. Also the operator seemed to us to work too fast. Then again, a little to the right of the proscenium opening there was visible all through the piece the shadow of the revolving arm of the operator, who was working in the gallery. Pathe and Selig pictures were almost, nay, we might say absolutely, spoilt by too much light being thrown on the picture. The result was that on the occasion of our visit one afternoon last week some excellent Gaumont. “To begin with, it seems to be felt that at the Bijou there is no necessity for excluding superfluous and extraneous light from the screen. The Bijou has not risen to its opportunity, although it is a comfy little house, we might say an almost ideal house, for the purpose of studying the picture leisurely and amidst agreeable surroundings. We mean a house in which the picture is made the predominant feature, plus good music and the like. “We have noticed for some weeks past that the popular little Bijou Theater on Broadway at Thirtieth street has been converted into a picture house, and we have waited for a convenient opportunity to pay the theater a visit and see for ourselves whether those who are responsible for putting on the pictures have grasped the opportunities which Broadway offers, and which nobody, not a single soul, between Twenty-third and Sixtieth streets, seems to realize that is, of giving Broadway a real picture house. The Jissue of Moving Picture World had a few words to say about the Bijou, recently converted to a movie house, and they were not entirely complementary: “BROADWAY’S LATEST MISTAKE.
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