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.
Anna Nicole Smith: Behind the punchline, a life of beauty and pain
msn.comAnna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, a new Netflix documentary about the late model, actor, and television personality, Smith is heard having a phone conversation with J Howard Marshall.
The billionaire, her then-boyfriend and eventual husband, was well into his late eighties at the time. “I love you, sweetheart,” Smith says on the audio tape. “I love you,” Marshall says back. “You’re the light of my life, now and always. ”“You’re the light of my life, now and always, too, honey bunny,” Smith replies.
Smith’s marriage to Marshall became the foundational myth of the persona others built for her. How could this stunningly beautiful, famous young woman – Smith was 27 years old when they married – possibly love a man old enough to be her grandfather?But You Don’t Know Me refuses to cast their union in an entirely cynical light.
Yes, the relationship was good to Smith, materially – but she remained determined to build her own wealth, we are told, and turned him down when he first proposed marriage. “He bought her a car, and he bought her a home, so that she could be stable, and she quit working in topless clubs,” Missy Byrum, a friend and former lover of Smith’s, says. “. . .
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