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.
Relive Paul Sorvino Trashing Harvey Weinstein: He ‘Should Be Publicly Strangled’
etcanada.comDo not mess with Paul Sorvino and his family. Fans were reminded of that after news of his passing on July 25. The “Goodfellas” actor did not censor his feelings about Harvey Weinstein following countless allegations of sexual misconduct levied against the Hollywood mogul. READ MORE: Mira Sorvino On How Woody Allen, Harvey Weinstein ‘Tainted’ Her Early Career “It is reprehensible beyond description that women have been treated in this manner,” Sorvino told KCAL9 in 2018, per TooFab. “When you’ve had a phenomenal mother like I had, you are automatically a feminist….
That’s why I have this wonderful wife. “The reality is, anyone who takes advantage of women should be publicly strangled, and I’ll volunteer.” Mira Sorvino, the actor’s daughter, was among Weinstein’s accusers who were allegedly blackballed from the industry. READ MORE: Mira Sorvino Teases A ‘Romy and Michele’ Sequel: ‘We’re Getting Closer’ “If I meet [Weinstein] on the street, he oughta hope that he goes to jail,” Sorvino said in a 2018 clip from TMZ. “Because if we come across [one another], I think he’ll be lying on the floor somehow, magically.” “He’s gonna go to jail.
That son of a bitch, good for him if he goes, because if not, then he has to meet me, and I’ll kill that motherf**ker.”Sorvino passed away at age 83.
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