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.
John Malkovich claims he was sexually harassed by university professor
torontosun.comJohn Malkovich was sexually harassed by one of his professors while studying theatre at university.The 66-year-old actor, who attended Eastern Illinois University and Illinois State University, recently played a character loosely based on disgraced movie mogul and convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein in David Mamet’s play Bitter Wheat.And in an interview with British newspaper The Guardian, he shared that he was a victim of harassment when a teenage student.“When I was young, I had a professor in the theatre department who made some advances that were unwanted,” the Dangerous Liaisons star explained. “I was 19, he was in his 50s.
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