defamer.com - 4/1/2008
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Harvey Weinstein's tough week didn't get any easier today, with his Marley family squabbles and Star Wars -geek travails cycling back around this morning to the Anthony Minghella tragedy that started it all. Except that film critic David Edelstein had more than what you might call a moment of clarity in his New York Magazine blog entry slamming Harvey for the filmmaker's artistic demise:
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Film Critic Scared of His Own Bad Review [Apologies]
Gawker —
... It was all terribly tacky timing! Minghella had total control! Harvey would never recut one of his films, because that just wasn't done. After all, Weinstein and Minghella were close friends, how dare Edelstein imply that there was any bullying or railroading. (Our sister site Defamer even started feeling bad for the notoriously difficult exec.) But don't worry! Edelstein insists that his apology was not forced, that he has truly realized that Minghella worked on his own steam, bringing projects to Weinstein, not the other way around. He even spoke to Harvey and ...
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