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Tuesday 1 November 2022
Cormac Roth, musician and actor Tim Roth’s son, dies at 25

(AP) — Cormac Roth, a mu- had been diagnosed with
sician and son of actor Tim stage 3 germ cell cancer in
Roth, has died at 25 after a November 2021.
battle with cancer, the fam-
ily announced Monday. “It has taken away half of
my hearing, 60 pounds of
Roth “died peacefully in weight, my confidence,
the arms of his family who and will continue its mur-
loved and adored him” on derous path until I can
Oct. 16, the family said in a manage to stop it some
statement, adding that “he how, and kill it,” he wrote.
maintained his wicked wit “But it hasn’t taken away
and humor” to the end. my will to survive, or my love
of making music. It hasn’t
“The grief comes in waves, taken me down yet.”
as do the tears and laugh- He urged everyone to see
ter, when we think of that their doctors.
beautiful boy across the 25 His father is the star of such
years and 10 months that films as “Reservoir Dogs,”
we knew him,” the family “Pulp Fiction” and “The In-
said. “An irrepressible and credible Hulk.”
joyful and wild and won-
derful child. Only recently a Cormac Roth is survived by
man. We love him. We will his parents, Tim and Nikki
carry him with us wherever College, Roth was a gui- ducer. He revealed on his Roth, and his brother, Hunt-
we go.” A graduate of Bennington tarist, composer and pro- Instagram account that he er Roth.q

Woman says 2 Weinstein sexual assaults came 17 years apart

very quickly,” she said. “I she did not see Weinstein happen again.
was in shock. It was so un- again until 2008, when she “I was in shock,” she said.
expected.” was 41 and temporarily liv- “So embarrassed, just so
She said he pulled her skirt ing at the Four Seasons with embarrassed.”
off, put the washcloth on her husband and children. She remained composed
her and told her “my wife She ran into Weinstein in and unrattled through her
loves this.” the lobby during that year’s testimony, but began cry-
She testified that she felt festival. ing when asked what ef-
“nauseous, scared, terri- “My blood kind of stopped,” fect the two assaults had
fied” and repeatedly told she said. “I was very angry.” on her, replying “there are
him “no” and asked “what When Weinstein’s assistant so many layers to that.”
are you doing?” came to her room to say he
She said he held her down wanted to meet with her, The first, she said, drove her
and sexually assaulted she agreed. from acting.
her with his mouth and his “I wanted to confront him,” “I never wanted to go
hand. He then climbed on she said. “I felt like I was through anything like that
top of her and started to ready to give it to him.” again,” she said.
(AP) — A woman testified rape her but she was able Once in his room, she re- The second had major per-
Monday that Harvey Wein- She said she was charmed to slip away and leave the membered asking, “How sonal effects.
stein sexually assaulted her by Weinstein at first as they room. does it feel to be in front of “It hurt my marriage be-
in a hotel room during the discussed books and films. Already serving a 23-year the one woman who said cause I didn’t tell him,” she
Toronto Film Festival in 1991, “We got along very well,” sentence in New York, no to you.” said. “It’s been really hard.”
then did it again when she she said. “He was very intel- Weinstein, 70, has pleaded Her testimony appears to
went to confront him in ligent. We had a wonderful not guilty to 11 counts of Weinstein then dismissed be the first time she has told
the same hotel during the conversation.” rape and sexual assault in- his assistant from the room, her story in a public setting.
same festival 17 years later. She said the two of them volving five women in Los and quickly guided her to-
left the party for a glass Angeles and has denied ward a door. She said be- Like similar witnesses in this
On the witness stand at of wine at a nearby cafe, engaging in any non-con- fore she realized it she was and other trials, she at first
Weinstein’s Los Angeles then she went with him to sensual sex. in a closed bathroom with told her story quickly and
trial, she said she was a his room at the Four Sea- Weinstein, where he was in plain language, but was
24-year-old aspiring ac- sons Hotel because he said He is not charged with the blocking her way out. asked to double back and
tor at the 1991 festival and he had a script for a film alleged assaults described She said Weinstein grabbed provide more graphic, and
didn’t know who Weinstein with a role that would be in Monday’s testimony. The her breasts and masturbat- more difficult, details.
was before she met him at perfect for him. woman, along with three ed in front of her before let- Weinstein’s attorneys were
a party. She said her friends others, is being allowed to ting her leave the room. set to cross-examine her on
there were abuzz about Once there, she said he testify so prosecutors can Tuesday afternoon.
the man whose company went into the bathroom attempt to show Wein- The woman said she didn’t
Miramax had surged to the and emerged wearing only stein’s propensity for the tell anyone about the sec- The Associated Press does
forefront of independent an open shirt and holding a crimes he’s charged with. ond assault for years be- not typically name people
film and was making its hot washcloth. cause of the “sheer em- who say they have been
mark at the Oscars. “It all happened very, very The woman testified that barrassment” of having it sexually abused. q