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PEOPLE & ARTS Monday 11 noveMber 2019
Ginsburg, in book, questions confidential #MeToo agreements

By MARYCLAIRE DALE Blasey Ford in her Senate
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A testimony against Supreme
new book on Ruth Bad- Court Justice Brett Kavana-
er Ginsburg explores the ugh.
Supreme Court justice's Katz also fears the disclo-
thoughts on the #MeToo sures would make it hard
movement and her hope for her clients to find work
that non-disclosure agree- again.
ments, which have come For Carlson, the secrecy has
under fire in sexual miscon- left her unable to take part
duct cases, "will not be en- in media coverage of her
forced by the courts." lawsuit against Fox News.
Several women have spo- She received a reported
ken out about their en- $20 million settlement in
counters with disgraced 2016 after claiming late Fox
movie mogul Harvey Wein- News chief Roger Ailes fired
stein and other high-profile her after she rejected his
men despite the financial sexual advances.
and legal risk of violating "It's really through NDAs
the agreements. Others, (non-disclosure agree-
including former Fox news ments) and through other
anchor Gretchen Carlson, means of settling these
want to be released from kinds of cases of sexual
the confidentiality clauses, In this Monday, Oct. 21, 2019, file photo, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg speaks harassment that we keep
during the inaugural Herma Hill Kay Memorial Lecture at the University of California at Berkeley,
concluding they only serve in Berkeley, Calif. women silent," Carlson told
to cover up abuse and Associated Press The Associated Press on
keep victims silent. Saturday.
In "Conversations with would never disclose what ter President Jeffrey Rosen Gloria Allred, pushed back Until that changes, she
RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg they had complained and released Tuesday. on Ginsburg's view of the said, "we're not going to
on Life, Love, Liberty, and about," Ginsburg said at a "I hope those agreements non-disclosure agree- eradicate this problem."
Law," the 86-year-old femi- February 2018 event at the will not be enforced by ments, known as "NDAs." Katz, though, insists it's not
nist icon questions whether National Constitution Cen- courts," Ginsburg added. They called them essential up to victims to change the
the #MeToo movement will ter in Philadelphia that's in- Ginsburg had champi- to securing settlements and culture. "The onus should
render the secrecy clause cluded in the book. oned equal protection for protecting their clients' pri- be not on the person who's
obsolete in such cases. "I suspect we will not see women in the 1970s as co- vacy. brought a claim to . pro-
"One interesting thing is those agreements any- founder of the Women's "Employers would not be tect women in the future
whether it will be an end to more," she said at the time. Rights Projects at the Amer- willing to pay the kind of from sexual harassment.
the confidentiality pledge. Ginsburg revised her ican Civil Liberties Union. settlement that they pay That's the job of the em-
Women who complained thoughts in edits made Some lawyers who rep- now if they believe that ployer," Katz said. Fox did
and brought suit were of- this year, according to the resent women today in all other employees would not respond to requests for
fered settlements in which book, which was written by sexual misconduct cases, know about (it)," said Katz, comment on the issue this
they would agree that they National Constitution Cen- including Debra Katz and who represented Christine week.q

Jeff Lynne does it nearly all himself on new album

By PABLO GORONDI of night." The song briefly have been welcome.
Jeff Lynne's ELO, "From Out quotes ELO classic "Tele- Keeping with Lynne's usual
of Nowhere" (Columbia Re- phone Line" and there's melancholy, the lovely sec-
cords) even a snippet of the ond track "Help Yourself,"
Jeff Lynne's ELO is an elas- crowd's cheers, but don't launches a four-tune sec-
tic band that alternates count on performing roy- tion, also including rhyth-
between being a one-man alties even if you think you mically free-spirited "All My
studio outfit and, nowa- hear your voice. Love," jingle-jangly "Down
days, a 13-member tour- "From Out of Nowhere," Came the Rain" and weepy
ing ensemble with several both the album and its ballad "Losing You," where
guitarists, keyboard play- eponymous opening track, any optimism comes right
ers, three string players contain Lynne's trademarks after the rose-tinted glasses
and others. "Time of Our — the layered voices, the have been crushed — "I still
Life," from the band's new high-pitched harmonies, remember how you smiled
album, symbolically brings sheets of keyboards and and waved your last good-
the two versions together. guitars and Beatles-esque bye/But somehow you will
Lynne plays practically ev- melodies. It's all expertly always live with me."
erything on the track (there played, as usual, though Among the rest of the
may be some percussion the drums often sound tracks, "Goin' Out on Me"
from album engineer Steve rather mechanical. With evokes Little Anthony and
Jay) while paying tribute to ELO stalwart Richard Tandy the Imperials' "Tears on My
the full lineup's June 2017 playing a piano solo on the Pillow" and closer "Song-
show at Wembley Stadium rocking "One More Time," bird" includes the record's This cover image released by Columbia Records shows "From
— "60,000 mobile phones/ a reunion with ELO original most uplifting lyrics over its Out Of Nowhere" by Jeff Lynne.
Were shining in the dark drummer Bev Bevan would slowest beat.q Associated Press