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.
Woody Allen’s memoir, “Apropos of Nothing,” dropped on Monday with little notice from a new publisher, Arcade Publishing. In early March, Grand Central Publishing announced that they would be releasing the book on April 7, and after widespread criticism for printing the moviemaker and alleged sexual abuser’s story, over 70 employees staged a walkout at the company’s imprint, Hachette Book Group.
The publishing company had worked with journalist and Allen’s son Ronan Farrow on his investigative book “Catch and Kill,” a look at his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into Harvey Weinstein and other alleged abusers.
When Allen’s book became public, Farrow took to Twitter. He was infuriated by the decision to publish the work, because Allen
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