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.
Andre Braugher’s cause of death has been revealed
nme.comsuccumbed to a “brief illness” earlier this week.Braugher’s death on Monday (December 11) was confirmed by his longtime rep Jennifer Allen.
Braugher was best known for playing Captain Raymond Holt in the hit NBC comedy Brooklyn Nine-Nine among other roles. He was 61.Now, it has been revealed that Braugher died of lung cancer, per his publicist’s confirmation to Variety.
While his publicist did not share when Braugher was diagnosed with the illness, it is reported that it was “recent”.Following the news of Braugher’s death, several of his castmates and other industry personalities paid tribute to the late actor, including Terry Crews, who played Terry Jeffords in Brooklyn Nine-Nine. “Can’t believe you’re gone so soon,” he wrote. “I’m honored to have known you, laughed with you, worked with you and shared 8 glorious years watching your irreplaceable talent.
This hurts. You left us too soon.”Braugher made his acting debut in the 1989 film, Glory, in which he played a black man who joins the first black regiment in the Union Army, playing alongside Matthew Broaderick and Denzel Washington.Braugher’s breakout role was as Detective Frank Pembleton in the NBC police procedural, Homicide: Life On The Street, which ran from 1993 to 1999.
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