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.
Alanis Morissette says NDAs stop women in music from outing sexual abusers
torontosun.comAlanis Morissette is angry women in music aren’t more able to speak out about their experiences of sexual abuse due to its alleged normalization within the industry.Sexual harassment and abuse have become a hot topic in Hollywood since scores of women went public with accusations against the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein in 2017 – but music is yet to have a similar reckoning.Alanis, who revealed she was sexually abused as a teenager, says that sexual misconduct of all kinds is arguably more prevalent in the rock and pop industry – but its structures prevent women coming forward.“Almost every woman in the music industry has been assaulted, harassed, raped.
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