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.
Alyssa Milano Reposts #MeToo Message On Fifth Anniversary Of Her Viral Tweet
deadline.comAlyssa Milano has marked the five-year anniversary of her #MeToo tweet with a screenshot on Instagram, a reminder of one of the first strikes back against abusers in society.
The Charmed actress saw her tweet go viral in 2017. It said, “If you’ve been sexually harassed or assaulted, write ‘me too’ as a reply to this tweet.” Below those words, she quoted, “Me too.
Suggested by a friend: ‘If all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote ‘Me, too’ as a status, we might give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem.” The message ignited a firestorm, arriving shortly after publications began writing about the sexual misconduct of film producer Harvey Weinstein.
Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Messing and Anna Paquin were among those who commented on Milano’s original postA post shared by Alyssa Milano (@milano_alyssa)
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