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.
Diane Kruger “Felt Like Meat” In ‘Troy’ Audition With WB Studio Head
theplaylist.netHollywood can be a living nightmare for young actresses trying to make their mark in the studio system. Some of that has improved in the age of #MeToo and accountability; however, only a few short years ago, actresses were still having encounters with predatory monsters like Harvey Weinstein.
It’s not an industry with a tremendous amount of empathy and human understanding, as German actress Diane Kruger (“Inglorious Basterds”) recently explained.
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