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.
The Sopranos, once threatened to “beat the fuck out” of Harvey Weinstein, his co-stars remembered.Steve Schirripa (Bobby Baccalieri) and Michael Imperioli (Christopher Moltisanti) from the iconic HBO show appeared on the Joe Rogan Experience this week, discussing their time on the show with Gandolfini, who died in 2013 aged 51.The incident in question, the pair explained, came about when Weinstein was bugging Gandolfini to appear on The David Letterman Show to promote 2012 film Killing Them Softly, which was distributed by Weinstein’s company.Schirripa remembered: “He said, ‘Harvey Weinstein keeps calling, he wants me to do Letterman and I said no.'”“And he got fucking nasty with Jim.
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