Harvey Weinstein was unquestioned and unquestionable.
The Weinstein Company did "The Artist," "The King's Speech," back in the day "Chocolat", "Pulp Fiction," whole bunch of movies over the years.
Harvey Weinstein bought it.
And then the Weinstein story broke, and when that broke, she was like we're moving this up, because originally it wasn't going to come out until Thanksgiving.
after the Weinstein story broke.
And Harvey Weinstein gave it a read, and ultimately turned it down-- and a series of turndowns.
It's probably Harvey Weinstein saying, you can't do that.
the Harvey Weinstein who had just done the English Patient Shakespeare in Love you know my beautiful laundrette all of these wonderful movies where he had done
York Times" for breaking the Harvey Weinstein story that actually is the one that kicked off this huge explosion in Me Too coverage and really changing how society
I'm pleased to introduce Alexander Weinstein he's the director of Martha's Vineyard Institute of creative writing
So it wouldn't be a Weinstein movie.
It was written by Josh Weinstein and Bill Oakley.
We leave that to the Weinstein Company.
honestly to work for Harvey Weinstein not that I didn't learn things cuz I did because he is the master promoter and I saw how good he was at that but it was
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Just this week we had more revelations about Harvey Weinstein , other prominent members in Hollywood, and your former colleague, Bill O'Reilly.
So for example, the Weinstein Company has some boundary rules for movie picking.
One, a Weinstein movie is always about a flawed but sympathetic main character.
It's amazing that we sold it to the Weinstein company, and even from the sale to the finish, it was almost exactly the same.
could I have chosen a worse partner than Harvey Weinstein but what one forgets it's easy to forget is that the Harvey Weinstein I went to work work with was
In 2017, you had Harvey Weinstein . Harvey Weinstein was arrested.
And then a month later, the Harvey Weinstein Me Too thing happened, which again changed the dialogue forever,
In 2017, the MeToo movement brought down Harvey Weinstein , and reverberated across the country and around the world,
So think about what Harvey Weinstein .
In the Roman world, Harvey Weinstein would've been completely unremarkable.
In the Roman world, Harvey Weinstein would've been completely unremarkable.
well in 1998 I left the New Yorker to go and work with Harvey Weinstein as a partner to launch a new magazine called Talk magazine of course looking back
And my editor at "The Times"-- I have a lot of editors at "The Times," but Emily Weinstein , she studied-- I don't think she'll mind me saying this,
So for example, how did Charlie Rose, Harvey Weinstein -- recently, we've been reading about Jeffrey Epstein, Matt
And people's careers really were derailed if he didn't do what-- if they didn't do what the god king Harvey Weinstein wanted.
It was interesting when we were shooting it, because all the Harvey Weinstein and Kevin Spacey, all those things were breaking literally around.
But we're doing a project with Stanford University that I think you would be interested in with Jeremy Weinstein and his team there.
Children, if they were brought up with lots of fairy tales about Harvey Weinstein in disguise as a king, they would have been more of an understanding,
And you're never going to get rid-- I mean, this whole Harvey Weinstein thing in Hollywood right now is all about power.
Very quickly, even in Argentina a few days after the Weinstein case in the US, we had a case for a journalist as well.
In fact, in Weinstein 's contract, allegedly the board allowed him to go on harassing.
As far as NDAs, there's now a national call for the Weinstein Company and for other companies to release women from them.
I'm thinking about this because of the Harvey Weinstein stuff today.
know because in the end publishing is quite a gentlemanly profession compared to what I was seeing with Harvey Weinstein I mean new you
And that gets back to the micro examples I talked about, the Harvey Weinsteins and the Charlie Roses of the world.
So obviously, the presence of idolatry-- and you know, you've talked about Harvey Weinstein and a lot of the unfortunate-- the Holocaust, et cetera.
And so, of course, we were having these scenes read during auditions at the time that the Harvey Weinstein scandal broke, and I just
And so to get started, we're going to talk about two very different-- I love how you got stuck right next to Harvey Weinstein .
There was a researcher who looked back over who had been thanked the most times from the stage at the Oscars, and there was a tie for first place between Harvey Weinstein
Went We did Miramax.com, when Harvey Weinstein was running it.
But sadly, here we are in 2017, and we realize that someone like Harvey Weinstein , who was exposed to be a serial predator, quote,
We've seen, obviously, the swiftness of the downfall of, say, a Harvey Weinstein .
And I just want to jump in on that, because I notice in a lot of the news accounts of the Weinstein and these other scandals,
And he's screaming at James Ivory, who was the other part of Merchant Ivory, about how Harvey Weinstein is an uncouth pig.
One of the interesting things we found about when people had power in their roles was that we assumed we would find the Harvey Weinsteins of the world.