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.
Anne Heche’s Memoir She Wrote Before She Died Will Be Released Next Year
etonline.comAnne Heche's first book now has a release date, and fans of the late actress can find it on bookshelves on Jan. 24, 2023.The 140-page memoir is dubbed, and the book's publisher and distributor, Viva Editions and Simon & Schuster, promises the book is as personal as it gets while «offering a peek inside the mind of the late Emmy-award winning actress.» The memoir will consist of «personal anecdotes of her rise to fame: how Harrison Ford became her on-set mentor, her relationship with Ellen DeGeneres, her encounter with Harvey Weinstein, her history of childhood sexual abuse, her relationship with God, her journey to love herself, and more.»The memoir is also being described as «part self-acceptance workbook» consisting of «personal stories [that] are interwoven with poems, prompts, and exercises that got Anne through tough times.»In an except obtained by The Associated Press, Heche recalls the label she was anointed with amid her relationship with DeGeneres.«I was labeled 'outrageous' because I fell in love with a woman.
I had never ben with a woman before I dated Ellen,» she writes in the book.«I did not, personally, identify as a lesbian. I simply fell in love!
It was, to be clear, as odd to me as anyone else. There were no words to describe how I felt,» she continues. «Gay didn’t feel right, and neither did straight.
Alien might be the best fit, I sometimes thought. What, why, and how I fell in love with a person instead of their gender, I would have loved to have answered if anyone had asked, but as I said earlier, no one ever did.
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