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.
calling out Weinstein during a stand-up comedy event that the now-imprisoned mogul attended at the Lower East side bar Downtime — an incident she reflects on in the new FX documentary “Hysterical.”Premiering April 2 (9 p.m.
on FX and hitting Hulu the next day), “Hysterical” explores the experiences of women in the comedy world, from superstars Kathy Griffin, Margaret Cho and Sherri Shepherd to relative newcomers like Bachman, who was 27 and unknown at the time that her call-out went viral. “It’s definitely one of those flashbulb memories,” Bachman, now 29, tells The Post. “When I think back to that night specifically, it felt like something that should be happening on a TV show, not in my life.
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