Harvey Weinstein Loses Million-Dollar Bet With Nikki Finke

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Harvey Weinstein may have won in his battle with producer Scott Rudin to push up the release date of The Reader so that it is eligible for Oscar consideration, but he just lost big time in a bet with Deadline Hollywood blogger Nikki Finke. Weinstein reportedly told Page Six that he would give ... (link)

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Leaked: MGM Internal Memo About Valkyrie’s Breathtaking Buzz Surge
Published 10/1/2008 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
Not content with being owed one million dollars from Harvey Weinstein, vigilante blogger Nikki Finke has published an MGM internal memo that breaks down the online perception of Valkyrie 2.0 aka “Play down the eye patch and Valley Boy voice, win over graphic designers.” It makes for a pretty fascinating—if typical—look inside the Hollywood hype machine and how the Internet is a giant, throbbing Krang-like barometer. Make no mistake, all of those “awesome”s and ...

Idle Chatter: Glenn Beck, Harvey Weinstein, more
Published 12/2/2008 by Jeff Bercovici at Portfolio.com: Mixed Media
... -Harvey Weinstein makes really stupid wagers. He bet Cindy Adams $10,000 that Young Frankenstein would run five years on Broadway. And that's on top of the million bucks he had to give to charity after losing a challenge to Nikki Finke. [ ...

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NOTE to Harvey Weinstein - you owe some deserving charity a cool $1 million and you owe Page Six a big fat apology after being caught in a bald-faced lie. The Weinstein Company honcho swore up and down to us the other day that an e-mail written by...
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