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.
Emily Ratajkowski On Quitting Hollywood: ‘I Felt Like A Piece Of Meat Who People Were Judging’
etcanada.comEmily Ratajkowski revealed the reason why she decided to quit acting. Ratajkowski recently spoke to Los Angeles Times and disclosed why after appearing in a variety of roles, she thought back on her decision to leave acting. READ MORE: Emily Ratajkowski Appears To Confirm She’s Been Secretly Dating Harry Styles For 2 Months “I didn’t feel like, ‘Oh, I’m an artist performing and this is my outlet.’ I felt like a piece of meat who people were judging, saying, ‘Does she have anything else other than her [breasts]?’” Ratajkowski also revealed that she “didn’t trust” the men in her team and it was tiring for her to make herself “digestible to powerful men in Hollywood.” “I didn’t trust them,” she explained. “I was like, ‘I can handle receiving phone calls.
I’m gonna make these decisions. None of you have my best interest at heart. And you all hate women.’” In an essay she wrote for her best-selling book “My Body,” Ratajkowski expanded on her thoughts on how women are treated in Hollywood.
Ratajkowski describes attending a WME party with her ex-husband Sean Bear-McClard in the essay. She recalls his representative telling her she was so well-known she was “like Pamela Anderson before the hep C,” adding that he was “clearly drunk.” “I thought about the way that [Bear-McClard] had glided through the room, a room full of men who only two years before had been kissing Harvey Weinstein’s ring and encouraging their young female clients to take meetings with him in hotel rooms,” she wrote in her essay. “I hated that my husband was at all connected to these men.” “And maybe that’s why right now I’m not really interested in men’s POVs,” she told. “Because they were lies.
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