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.
Ashley Judd Is Latest Celebrity With Joe Biden Ties To Call On Him To Step Aside
deadline.comIn an opinion piece for USA Today published on Friday, Ashley Judd called on Joe Biden to “voluntarily, gracefully step aside” so that a “talented, robust Democrat” can run for the presidency.
She wrote that Biden demonstrated during the debate he was “incapable of countering Trump, while he, unchecked, gushed a firehose of galling lies.” Judd visited the White House in April to help the Biden administration promote its new national strategy to prevent suicide.
She lost her mother, Naomi Judd, that way. Judd has been an outspoken supporter for Biden and other Democrats. Her allegations against Harvey Weinstein also helped at the start of the #MeToo movement.
Judd said that time is of the essence for Democrats to replace Biden with a candidate who can defeat him. “We do not have another day for distraction or division among ourselves,” she said.
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