Harvey Weinstein

Reading Between the Lines in The Reader: When is Abuse Not Abuse?

Thelma Adams | Posted 12.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Miley Cyrus, Germany, Kate Winslet, Holocaust, Academy Award Nominees, Stephen Daldry, The Reader, Hugh Jackman, Film, Auschwitz, Sexual Abuse, Ralph Fiennes, Movies, David Hare, Oscar Nominees, Child Abuse, Statutory Rape, Harvey Weinstein, Nazis, Sexual Double Standard, Gender Issues, Literary Adaptation, Annie Liebowitz, Cougar Women, Bernard Schlink, Entertainment News
Thelma Adams

The Reader? It's goodish. And Kate Winslet is, as ever, brilliant. And it has Nazis, which elevates it on the Oscar nom scale. But it doesn't fully address the fact that Michael is a victim of abuse.

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Weinsteins Cutting 11% Of Workforce

NY Post | Posted 11.21.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Layoffs, Bob Weinstein, Unemployment, Job Cuts, Weinstein Co, Harvey Weinstein, Entertainment News

The Weinstein Co. is laying off about 11 percent of its workforce as the sickly economic environment further invades Tinseltown, The Post has learned...

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"Project Runway" Frozen On Catwalk Amid Legal Tangle

New York Times | Posted 11.19.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Heidi Klum, Bravo, Project Runway, Harvey Weinstein, Television, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES -- At a time when audiences are shrinking for almost every type of television program, it stands to reason that producers and network exec...

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Celebrities On Election Night (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Posted 11.05.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Slideshow, President Obama, Harvey Weinstein, Celebrities Talk Politics, Jessica Alba, Star Jones, Spike Lee, Ethan Hawke, James Franco, Barack Obama, Entertainment News

Bold-faced names gathered on election night at parties around the country. In Chicago Oprah joined in the celebration in Grant Park. Viewing parties i...

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Producer Scott Rudin Quits "The Reader"

LA Times | Posted 10.10.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Scott Rudin, The Reader, Kate Winslet, Harvey Weinstein, Ralph Fiennes, Entertainment News

The LA Times reports producer Scott Rudin is leaving "The Reader," a film with Kate Winslet and Ralph Fiennes: The Oscar winning producer, who has bee...

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NBC Wins "Project Runway" Lawsuit, Prevents Show's Move To Lifetime

AP | Posted 09.27.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Lifetime, Bravo, Project Runway, Harvey Weinstein, Jeff Zucker, Entertainment News

LOS ANGELES — The reality fashion show "Project Runway" will not be able to strut its stuff on the Lifetime TV channel, a judge ruled Friday. A...

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An Old Quentin Tarantino And Harvey Weinstein Phone Call About Robert De Niro's Ego Released

NY Post | Posted 09.26.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Quentin Tarantino, Film, Harvey Weinstein, Robert DeNiro, Entertainment News

ROBERT De Niro was such a big pain during the making of the 1997 movie "Jackie Brown" that then-Miramax chief Harvey Weinstein had to calm down direc...

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Harvey Weinstein Blogs! (Now Stop Seeing Those Superhero Movies)

Portfolio | Posted 07.24.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: The Dark Knight, Harvey Weinstein, Entertainment News

There have been a number of recent articles accusing me of not focusing on films like I did when I was running Miramax. It's simply not the case. Dur...

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Harvey Weinstein, Jeff Zucker Spar In Court Over "Project Runway"

AdWeek | Steve McClellan | Posted 07.18.2008 | Media

Read More: Lifetime, Project Runway, Harvey Weinstein, Jeff Zucker, Bravo, Project Runway Lifetime, Media News

NEW YORK Jeff Zucker, president and CEO of NBC Universal, and Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of The Weinstein Co. (TWC), offered colorful and conflicti...

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Harvey Weinstein Caught On Tape: Hear The Resentment

Gawker | Posted 07.03.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Disney, Harvey Weinstein, Michael Ovitz, Joe Roth, Entertainment News

CLICK THROUGH TO LISTEN Movie mogul Harvey Weinstein has always resented the fact that peers made more money than him with what he deemed to be infer...

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Weinstein Brothers Are Broadway Bound

Variety | Gordon Cox | Posted 06.20.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Broadway, Finding Neverland, Weinstein Company, Harvey Weinstein, Entertainment News

After years as a featured player on the legit scene, Harvey Weinstein is stepping into a leading role. The Weinstein Co. -- a minority co-producer on...

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The Other Hot Election News this Year...

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.23.2008 | Business

Read More: Henry Schleiff, Harvey Weinstein, Mob Behavior, Joe Armstrong, Barry Diller, Michael's, Corporate Culture, Stan O'Neal, Eliot Spitzer, Moguls, Ron Perelman, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

Boulevardiers and professional business diners throughout the New York City area have been chattering this week about a recent piece in the New York Times that announced, once and for all, who had been elected the Mayor of Michael's.

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Friday Talking Points [31] -- Time To Beat McCain

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.09.2008 | Politics

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Chris Weigant

Now that that's all over with, can we please focus on beating John McCain? Virtually everyone (with the possible exception of Hillary Clinton -- I gue...

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Clinton Backer Weinstein Threatens Pelosi Over Revote

CNN | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Michigan Revote, Harvey Weinstein Hillary Clinton, Florida Revote, Harvey Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein Nancy Pelosi, Weinstein Clinton, Weinstein Pelosi, Politics News

In a heated phone call with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi late last month, Hillary Clinton supporter Harvey Weinstein threatened to cut off campaign mone...

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Harvey Weinstein Remembers Teacher And Friend Anthony Minghella

The Times | Harvey Weinstein | Posted 04.11.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Harvey Weinstein Anthony Minghella, Anthony Minghella Dies, Harvey Weinstein, Anthony Minghella, History Channel, Entertainment News

The memories are so vivid; snatches of conversations like pieces of movies - instructive, adventurous and always humorous. "Opera? Me? Never happen,"...

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"Project Runway" Ditches Bravo For Lifetime, NBC Sues To Keep Hit Show

Huffington Post | Danny Shea | Posted 04.07.2008 | Media

Read More: Lifetime, Bravo, Bob Weinstein, Project Runway Lifetime, Project Runway, Harvey Weinstein, Media News

Reality hit "Project Runway," the foundation of Bravo's transformation into a reality-based power network, is jumping ship in favor of women's network...

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Weinsteins Start Upscale DVD Label

Hollywood Reporter | Thomas K. Arnold | Posted 02.28.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, The Miriam Collection, Entertainment News

Bob and Harvey Weinstein have already made their mark on Hollywood. Now, the former Miramax Films chiefs are bent on leaving their imprint on the DVD...

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Harvey Wants Another Rambo Flick

Deadline Hollywood Daily | Nikki Finke | Posted 01.29.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Rambo, Harvey Weinstein, Sylvester Stallone, Entertainment News

just got off the phone with Harvey Weinstein whose Weinstein Co is co-distributing Rambo with Lionsgate, and he's remarkably bullish on Sly Stallone's...

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Weinstein Strikes Deal With Guild Writers

New York Times | MICHAEL CIEPLY and BROOKS BARNES | Posted 01.11.2008 | Media

Read More: Writers Guild of America, Writers Strike, Writers Strike News, Weinstein Company, Harvey Weinstein, United Artists, Media News

The Weinstein Company, one of Hollywood's biggest independent film companies, has completed a separate agreement with striking writers, according to H...

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Weinsten Expected To Make Deal With WGA

AP | Posted 01.10.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Writers' Strike, Bob Weinstein, Weinstein Company, Harvey Weinstein, Writers' Strike News, Entertainment News

The Weinstein Co., one of Hollywood's largest independent film producers, says it expects to reach a deal with striking Hollywood writers that will al...

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Bon Jovi Entertains A-List Masses On St. Barts' Yacht

Fox News | Roger Friedman | Posted 01.02.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Denzel Washington, Lorne Michaels, Penny Marshall, Martha Stewart, George Soros, Paul Allen, Rebecca DeMornay, Robbie Robertson, Bon Jovi, Paul Allen Octopus, Billy Joel, Linda Evangelista, Ziyi Zhang, Brett Ratner, Harvey Weinstein, Steven Spielberg, Tom Freston, Vivi Nevo, Katie Lee, LeeLee Sobieski, Georgina Chapman, St. Barts, Charles Simonyi, Peter Morton, Entertainment News

The real party down in expensive, tony, and apparently cold St. Bart's this year was on December 30th. The location was Microsoft co founder Paul Alle...

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