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 Responds To Resurfaced Comments About Harvey Weinstein From 2018 Q&A
etcanada.comEllen Pompeo found herself under fire on Thursday when a one-minute clip from an hour-long Oxford Union Q&A from July 2018 was unearthed and sparked a backlash on social media.
In the brief clip, Pompeo is discussing the victims of Harvey Weinstein when she remarks, “I think we bear some responsibility, not all, but it takes two to tango for sure.” She continued: “That’s not to blame the victim, that’s just to say — I did go into a room with Harvey Weinstein, I sat at a table with him, I had a probably two and a half hours with him.
He never said anything inappropriate to me, he never made any sort of physical advance to me.” RELATED: Ellen Pompeo Opens Up About Racism: ‘White People Have Made Being Black A Thing’ As she detailed, she had
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