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.
Late ‘Sopranos’ Star James Gandolfini Once Said He Would ‘Beat The F**k Out Of Harvey Weinstein’
etcanada.comDo not mess with James Gandolfini. Gandolfini famously played Italian-American crime boss Tony Soprano on HBO’s “The Sopranos”.
It turns out the man was just as imposing in real life, according to co-stars Steve Schirripa (Bobby) and Michael Imperioli (Christopher).
RELATED: ‘Sopranos’ Star Joe Pantoliano Shares Health Update Schirripa and Imperioli appeared on a recent episode of “The Joe Rogan Experience” podcast.
They told the story of how Gandolfini once told them he was going to beat up now-disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein for pestering him. “He said, ‘Harvey Weinstein keeps calling, he wants me to do “Letterman” and I said no.’ And he got f**king nasty with Jim,” Schirripa shared. “Jim said, ‘I will beat the f**k out of
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