So, if you're looking at the news at all, you know that the NYT has done a big piece on Harvey Weinstein sexually harassing pretty young actors and assistants for (apparently) the past three decades. It's explosive, for sure, but not at all surprising.
I went on a movie-book bender last year, some of which were very detailed on Miramax, the Weinstein Company, and the brothers in general.
Harvey, without mincing words, is a monster. He's violent, abusive, has enormous anger issues and is tyrannical in almost all of his dealings. That said, I don't recall any reference to him sexually harassing young female actors.
Which is odd, sort of. When I read Going Clear, about Scientology, they were absolutely casual about John Travolta being gay. It was as if it was so well known that litigation would have been laughable. Yet there was absolutely zero reference to Tom Cruise being gay, when that's pretty much been the worst kept secret in Hollywood for two decades. So either Tom Cruise is really frightening and litigious, or everyone's had it all wrong for most of his adult life. Hmm.
To bring that back to HW, he's either kept this whole harassment / payoff / hide in plain sight doing Liberal causes thing going very well, or people were too frightened to write about it.
Given the depth of the Times piece, and the (reported) upcoming New Yorker piece on the same topic, I'd say it's the latter. HW is already talking big lawsuit against The Times. We'll see if that goes anywhere. But it could be the end of him in Hollywood, as Variety says.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/u...T.nav=top-news
I went on a movie-book bender last year, some of which were very detailed on Miramax, the Weinstein Company, and the brothers in general.
Harvey, without mincing words, is a monster. He's violent, abusive, has enormous anger issues and is tyrannical in almost all of his dealings. That said, I don't recall any reference to him sexually harassing young female actors.
Which is odd, sort of. When I read Going Clear, about Scientology, they were absolutely casual about John Travolta being gay. It was as if it was so well known that litigation would have been laughable. Yet there was absolutely zero reference to Tom Cruise being gay, when that's pretty much been the worst kept secret in Hollywood for two decades. So either Tom Cruise is really frightening and litigious, or everyone's had it all wrong for most of his adult life. Hmm.
To bring that back to HW, he's either kept this whole harassment / payoff / hide in plain sight doing Liberal causes thing going very well, or people were too frightened to write about it.
Given the depth of the Times piece, and the (reported) upcoming New Yorker piece on the same topic, I'd say it's the latter. HW is already talking big lawsuit against The Times. We'll see if that goes anywhere. But it could be the end of him in Hollywood, as Variety says.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/05/u...T.nav=top-news
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