Harvey Weinstein CBE (born March 19, 1952) is an American former film producer. He and his brother Bob Weinstein co-founded the entertainment company Miramax, which produced several successful independent films, including Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989), The Crying Game (1992), Pulp Fiction (1994), Heavenly Creatures (1994), Flirting with Disaster (1996), and Shakespeare in Love (1998).
Weinstein won an Academy Award for producing Shakespeare in Love, and garnered seven Tony Awards for a variety of plays and musicals, including The Producers, Billy Elliot the Musical, and August: Osage County. After leaving Miramax, Weinstein and his brother Bob founded The Weinstein Company, a mini-major film studio. He was co-chairman, alongside Bob, from 2005 to 2017.
Alyssa Milano is marking the fifth anniversary of her tweet that helped spark the #MeToo movement. On October 15, 2017, Alyssa took to Twitter and wrote, “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.” The movement was originally started by activist Tarana Burke and it went viral in 2017 after Alyssa shared her tweet, days after the exposure of the Harvey Weinstein scandal.
Celebs such as Jennifer Lawrence, Ashley Judd, and Gwyneth Paltrow all shared their experiences, along with millions of other people. Click inside to read more… Alyssa also said in the tweet, “Me too.
Suggested by a friend: ‘If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me too.’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” On October 15, 2022, Alyssa went on Twitter and reshared the tweet with the hashtag, #MeToo.
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