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.
George Clooney Talks Accountability In Hollywood and Why People 'Can't Get Away With Being a D**k Anymore'
etonline.comGeorge Clooney is opening up about the massive shifts in accountability and culture in Hollywood.The movie star recently opened up in an interview with, and reflected on how the bad behavior of years past is not something that bosses and execs can get away with as easily as they had before.“Just because you’re a boss, it doesn’t mean you get to s**t on people," Clooney said, adding that he's «been the boss and the guy being s**t on» at different points throughout his career.«You can’t get away with being a d**k anymore,» Clooney continued. «You’d get ratted out.»The remarks appear to be in reference to the industry-wide reckoning that largely began with the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the rise of the Me Too Movement, and has continued with.
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