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 Thinks the #MeToo Movement 'Would Have Really Upset' Her Mom Janet Leigh
justjared.comJamie Lee Curtis is talking about Harvey Weinstein and the #MeToo movement. In a new interview, the 62-year-old Halloween Kills actress shared her thoughts on how she thinks her late mom Janet Leigh would have reacted to the movement, saying that she thinks the whole situation “would have really upset” her mom. Click inside to read more… “I don’t think Janet would have ever acknowledged if there was any bad behavior,” Jamie said while speaking to Melanie Griffith in the latest edition of Interview magazine. “She was, it’s a bad term, but kind of Pollyannaish about the industry.
I think the #MeToo movement would have really upset her, Jamie continued. “It’s not fair to unpack that, because she’s dead and I’m going to put words in her mouth,
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