Harvey Weinstein and Scott Rudin kiss and tell

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Weinstein and Rudin Make Up
Published 9/29/2008 by Sasha Stone at Awards Daily 2008
... This story started and ended quicker than I expected and really is a sign of both the times and the state of movies.  Funnily enough, it started and ended with Patrick Goldstein of the LA Times who reported on the fight over The Reader.  It had to do with Harvey Weinstein, Scott Rudin and Stephen Daldry and whether The Reader had tested well enough to enter this year’s Oscar race or whether it would do better with some tinkering by Daldry who had said he needed more time.  Goldstein rooted around as the story began to swell here and there - well now it’s all over as ...

Bet-Losing Harvey Weinstein Spends First $1 Million on 'Reader' Oscar Campaign [Liar Liar]
Published 9/30/2008 by STV at Defamer
... into the '08 Oscar race, Harvey Weinstein lays million-dollar odds that his mortal enemy Scott Rudin could go another three or four months without publicly fucking him. (At least he didn't threaten to shoot himself this time, though he might be wishing he had.) Rudin, meanwhile, one of the most press-savvy moguls in town — with Harvey's own cutthroat Miramax publicity alums on retainer — lies to Page Six (and, by extension, Variety, the LA Times and everyone else for that matter) to protect... Harvey? Is this a ...

And So it Goes
Published 10/1/2008 by Sasha Stone at Awards Daily 2008
... It looked as though the Rudin/Weinstein thing had gone away after Patrick Goldstein reported that they had agreed to settle on a handshake for the sake of the film, The Reader.  After that, Harvey Weinstein wrote to the NY Post where he challenged Nikki Finke to produce the email that accused him of pressuring Sydney Pollack on his death bed and various other sorts of things.  He said he would give $1 million to charity if she could produce it.  One thing people should know about Nikki Finke, contrary to what I’ve read on lesser read sites about her: she doesn’t lie. ...