STUDIO INSIDER WRITING TELL-ALL

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The Weinstein Bros. Tell-All Book That May Never Be
Published 7/3/2008 by Jossip at Jossip
... The scribe, a former Weinstein employee using the pseudonym “The Final Nail,” wrote Page Six insisting “our database of Miramax files is huge” and that there was no nondisclosure agreement even signed, and even included a phone call recording, from 1996, between Harvey and Joe Roth, then president of Walt Disney Studios, where they’re caught complaining about Michael Ovitz’s $138 million severance package from Disney. ...

Weinstein Expose Based on 9/11 Victim’s Records?
Published 7/3/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
... So Page Six has published an email from a character identified only as “The Final Nail,” claiming that a Weinstein-era Miramax tell-all book is in the works, based on records and audio recordings kept by Stuart Meltzer, an assistant to Bob Weinstein who died in the World Trade Center on September 11. Mr. Nail says his book “will detail the day-to-day . . . manipulation of the Disney company by the Weinstein Bros.” ...

Harvey Weinstein Has a Bigger Problem Than Someone Going Through His Trash
Published 7/3/2008 at Vulture -- Entertainment, Music, Culture, Theater, Movies, Art -- New York Magazine Blog
... yesterday, of a not-as-exciting-as-we'd-hoped 1996 Harvey Weinstein phone call with Joe Roth, was just the tip of the iceberg. The Post reports that the recording came from a former Miramax staffer who has fifteen years of tapes and files, supposedly, and is writing a tell-all memoir. "This former employee did not sign a nondisclosure agreement," says the tell-aller, who goes by the name "The Final Nail" and also claims to have access to the files and tapes of a former Miramax assistant who was later killed on 9/11. ...

Sugar Bits — After Madonna Rumors, A Rod's Wife Moves On
Published 7/3/2008 by PopSugar at POPSUGAR -- Insanely addictive.
... An ex-Miramax employee is writing a tell all book exposing the practices of Harvey and Bob Weinstein using documents compiled over the last 15 years. — Page Six ...

Is This Anything Close To Journalism?
Published 7/4/2008 at The Hot Blog
... . Then, someone claims to be writing a Weinstein tell-all from the inside, apparently from the assistant's desk. And though Page Six parrots the claim that the author did not sign a non-disclosure, he or she also says, "Our database of Miramax files is huge...," which quite assuredly means those files were illegally obtained, including the "proof" tape sent to Page Six... a tape which actually puts Harvey in a very positive light, unless you think he is shy about being seen as brash. ...

Tell-Alls: Weinsteins and 48 HRS.
Published 7/4/2008 by Variety.com * at Thompson On Hollywood
... Just because the New York Post reports that someone who used to work at Miramax is writing a Weinstein tell-all does not mean it will ever see the light of day. ...

Film Junk Weekend Wrap-Up: July 7, 2008
Published 7/7/2008 by Sean at Film Junk
... Frank Miller Writing 300 Sequel Eddie Murphy To Retire From Film? Eddie Murphy Not Retiring New Trailers The Day The Earth Stood Still Roadside Romeo Knowing Hell Ride Some Stories We Didn’t Cover David Fincher to Produce CG Adaptation of The Goon Rodriguez and McGowan Not Actually Broken Up? Spaced Cast to Embark on Four City Tour to Promote North American DVD Release Repo Man Sequel Called Repo Girl? Weinsteins Get Exposed in New Book The RZA and Eli Roth Team Up for Kung Fu Flick Lost ...