A 10½ year prison sentence is not a one-week scandal. It is a length of time long enough for movie studios to re-shelve promotional plans, for actors to forget your face, for your book covers to disappear from shelves, and for a once-buzzing star to become a cautionary headline. That is the new reality for comedian and actor Russell Brand, whose conviction and sentencing in a London court for rape and sexual assaults have rippled across his entire filmography.
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