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.
Jamie Lee Curtis Says #MeToo Movement ‘Would Have Really Upset’ Mother Janet Leigh
etcanada.comJamie Lee Curtis speaks with fellow star Melanie Griffith in the latest edition of Interview magazine, with Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement part of the conversation.
The two actresses have much common ground to explore, given that both are the daughters of famous Hollywood stars who appeared in iconic Alfred Hitchcock films, with Curtis’ mom, Janet Leigh, famously murdered in the “Psycho” shower scene, while Griffith’s mom, Tippi Hedren, appearing in the director’s “Marnie” and “The Birds”.
According to Curtis, her mother — who died in 2004 — would likely not have seen the point of #MeToo, or why Weinstein should be held accountable.
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