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.
‘God sketch’ deleted from RTÉ Player as investigation finds regulation breaches
evoke.ieAn investigation into a sketch about God on the New Year’s Eve Countdown Show by RTÉ’s Editorial Standard Board found that it did breach the station’s broadcasting standards and broader regulations.
The sketch was penned by the satire site Waterford Whispers News and featured an elderly man playing God being dragged off in handcuffs as the latest high profile ‘sexual assault arrest.’ It was then reported by Aengus MacGriana that ‘God’ had been sentenced to 24 months in prison with the final 24 months suspended while a follow-up line stated that notorious sexual predator Harvey Weinstein had requested a retrial in Ireland.
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