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.
Ellen Pompeo faced criticism online Wednesday as a July 2018 clip of her comments on Harvey Weinstein and his accusers - saying it 'two to tango' - came under scrutiny as the clip went viral.The 50-year-old Grey's Anatomy actress did a Q&A session at Oxford Union in which she spoke about the scandal surrounding the producer, who's currently serving 23 years in his rape conviction in New York, and how the women he preyed upon figured into it.'I think we bear some responsibility, not all, but it takes two to tango for sure,' said Pompeo, who plays Dr.
Meredith Grey on the ABC medical drama. 'That's not to blame the victims, that's just to say ... I did go into a room with Harvey Weinstein, I sat at a table with him, I had probably.
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