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.
CNN Announces Series Of New Hires: Elizabeth Wagmeister Joins As Entertainment Correspondent, Elisa Raffa Returns To Network As Weather Anchor, Hanako Montgomery Tapped For Tokyo Post
deadline.comElizabeth Wagmeister is joining CNN as correspondent covering entertainment, based in Los Angeles. Wagmeister had been chief correspondent for Variety, leading coverage of the Harvey Weinstein trial and the Britney Spears conservation case.
Wagmeister also was senior entertainment editor at HollywoodLife.com, and from 2016 to 2019 was co-host of Page Six TV. She previously worked at TV Guide magazine.
CNN also announced a couple of more hires: Elisa Raffa is joining as weather anchor and correspondent, based in Atlanta, after serving as meteorologist and climate specialist for Queen City News in Charlotte, North Carolina.
The network noted that she has drawn attention for “using everything from beer, chocolate, snow shovels, and vultures to help the audience relate to the climate crisis.” She previously was an intern with the network’s national and international weather teams.
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