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.
Jerrod Carmichael Slams The Idea Of Cancel Culture, Insists It’s ‘Not Real’: ‘We Got To Get Over That’
etcanada.comJerrod Carmichael isn’t a fan of cancel culture. The comedian spoke out alongside fellow comics Michael Che, Bowen Yang, Will Forte, and Jake Johnson for a new Hollywood Reporter roundtable interview.
He insisted, “Cancellation, that’s not real. The boogeyman doesn’t exist. “We got to get over that. Like, if you do something wrong in your personal life, you should go to jail.
Like, actual jail. And then everything else is like, ‘What are we talking about?’” READ MORE: Jerrod Carmichael Tells Ellen DeGeneres What Her Role Was In His Personal Coming-Out Journey Carmichael went on, “If you make art and it causes some contention or it causes some whatever, I mean, that’s part of it.
But the cancellation thing, I think that’s just to give boring people something interesting to talk about, like a ghost villain.” Carmichael, who recently came out as gay in his HBO special, “Rothaniel”, also discussed cancel culture during an appearance on Hot 97’s “Ebro in the Morning” talk show this week. “The comedians that are forging this self-created war, I get it.
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