Word: weinstein
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years ago, Miramax made the brilliantly subversive decision to release Scream on Dec. 12. While analysts proclaimed the move "ignorant," good ol' Harvey Weinstein knew exactly what he was doing. Good cheer at Christmas masks the craving for blood, guts and sex-anything, anything to get us away from the umpteenth group singing of "Silent Night." Scream rocked the box office and Scream 2 opened in the same slot the next year to $39 million. Should have been a trend-o-rama, right? Nope. We're back to "Good for You" fare. Just look at this year's slate...
...tabloids, the video stores, fashion magazines. I mean she seems nice enough. But I mean, come on! Am I the only one who saw Hush! As far as I'm concerned, that girl needs a hamburger and a vacation. I half expected her to walk in with Harvey Weinstein holding her train. Thank God I already ate. And then I remembered I am Gwyneth Paltrow." And a bit later in the presentation, she confirmed my fears about her boy-mongering: "I would like to thank a friend who shall remain nameless who told me never to sleep with...
...onto the Internet www.leofest.com beginning in December. "This festival strives to offer a level field on which anyone who wishes may play," says DiCaprio. His populism is noble, but who wants to be part of a festival without parties, fine hotels or the chance to rub elbows with Harvey Weinstein...
...animaster's great coup may have been to impose his will--that the film not be cut--on Harvey Weinstein, co-chairman of Miramax. Weinstein is notorious for his itch to trim foreign films to suit the faster American pulse; he reads a sonnet and dreams of a couplet. Says Weinstein: "It's a genius movie. Could it be streamlined? Yeah, and it could be more accessible as a result of cutting. But Miyazaki is like Kurosawa or Sergio Leone--one of the greats of international cinema. The very idea of cutting is anathema to a director of this importance...
Anime may never saturate the U.S. market as it has the Japanese. But to brainwash kids into Pokemania, to get Cameron and Coppola looking eastward and to win a pledge of hands off from Harvey Weinstein...well, it's a start...