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"Trash-Talking With Harvey Weinstein"
Published 7/1/2008 by Nikki Finke at Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood Daily
[image] First, let me emphasize that this came about by accident the other evening when Harvey Weinstein's office refuse was dumped in a recycling bin in Tribeca. So Village Voice newspaper editor Tony Ortega seized it and then wrote an article about the garbage of a movie mogul. What a totally revolting but also utterly fascinating look at Weinstein, who fortunately had a sense of humor about it even though he wasn't happy about it. But don't worry: Ortega went to Staples and bought Harv a shredder.  See ...

What's in Harvey Weinstein's Recycling Bin?
Published 7/2/2008 by Eric D. Snider at Cinematical
... For everyone who's ever watched a bad movie and thought, "If this is what they produced, I wonder what they threw away?," the Village Voice has found an answer. In an amusing and fascinating article posted today, reporter Tony Ortega says he and a buddy accidentally stumbled across a recycling bin full of paper from ...

New Emails Show How Harvey Weinstein Squeezes Millions Out Of Project Runway [Moguls]
Published 7/2/2008 by Hamilton Nolan at Gawker
... does. But that's how much The Weinstein Company, run by entertainment mogul Harvey Weinstein, is trying to squeeze out of L'Oreal for three seasons of sponsorship of Project Runway. Of course, Weinstein has a long history of pimping out the fashion reality show to every company on earth willing to pay a dime to be on it, using it as a profit machine to support his company's less sure-thing ventures. And he's still squeezing it for every cent. How do we know? Because he left all the evidence in a public trash can: Project Runway was a big hit on ...

How Harvey Weinstein Squeezes Millions Out Of Project Runway [Reality Tv]
Published 7/2/2008 by Hamilton Nolan at Gawker
... does. But that's how much The Weinstein Company, run by entertainment mogul Harvey Weinstein, is trying to squeeze out of L'Oreal for three seasons of sponsorship of Project Runway. Of course, Weinstein has a long history of pimping out the fashion reality show to every company on earth willing to pay a dime to be on it, using it as a profit machine to support his company's less sure-thing ventures. And he's still milking it for every cent. How do we know? Because he left all the evidence in a public trash can: Project Runway was a big hit on ...

Voice Checks Weinstein's Trash
Published 7/2/2008 by Variety.com * at Thompson On Hollywood
... The truth is in the details, finds one intrepid Village Voice writer who digs into Harvey Weinstein's garbage. ...

‘The Village Voice’ Goes Through Harvey Weinstein’s Garbage
Published 7/2/2008 at Vulture
... for comment, fingers obviously crossed for a quotable verbal explosion from the famously sharp-tongued producer, Harvey managed to keep his cool, cracking jokes about sending Ortega his laundry for him to root through as well. But we can't even imagine how apocalyptic the scene was inside Weinstein's offices after that phone call. It's possible that the assistants weren't even fired — they simply exploded, and Weinstein had to call the Wolf in to clean things up. Trash Talking With Harvey Weinstein [VV] Note: "On the other hand, ...

What's In Harvey's Trash?
Published 7/2/2008 by Furious D (noreply@blogger.com) at The Fantastic Adventures of Furious D
... A tip of my Tyrolean hat to Nikki Finke for this Village Voice story about an intrepid reporter's dip into independent movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's office dumpster. You don't have to read the article, because it's mostly about how Harvey doesn't return phone calls, but I've done my own digging and found some other items in Harvey's trash. (Some I mentioned in a comment at Nikki Finke's blog, some are exclusive to this blog) * A copy of “Anger Management for Dummies” torn in half. ...

Probably Best to Gchat Harvey Weinstein
Published 7/2/2008 by Cord Jefferson, MollyGood at Mollygood
... A nosy Village Voice scribe stumbled across a large bundle of Miramax head Harvey Weinstein’s garbage whilst in Tribeca the other night, and then he wrote about it for his paper. Besides making it abundantly clear that few scripts pass muster with the notoriously prickly and prickish Weinstein, the refuse also revealed that the mogul is quite a difficult man to get on the phone. After the jump, Harv’s “need to call” list. ...

VV | Trash Talking With Harvey Weinstein
Published 7/2/2008 by eug (eugene@indiewire.com) at indieWIRE: Buzz / Rumors
... "Strictly by accident," Village Voice writer Tony Ortega stumbled across a pile of trash from Harvey Weinstein's Tribeca office and wrote all about it. Call sheets, printed email, and screenplays offer insight into Weinstein's business. ...

How can I go on without 'Twess-uh-may'?
Published 7/3/2008 by Annie Barrett at Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
... Horror alert: The Weinstein Company is reportedly trying to squeeze $8 million out of L'Oréal Cosmetics so that they'd take over makeup and hair promotional privileges for seasons 6 and beyond of Project Runway. That's disgusting, but so is the thought of TRESemé dropping out! This could SEVERELY cut into how "current" I will seem when I walk around the office chirping my favorite TV catchphrase from my hairstylin' role model Heidi Klum: "Fuh-nished by Twess-uh-may [pause] Pwo-fessional Haiw Cawe." Oh well, I'll just keep saying it ...

Weinstein e.mails ask L'Oreal for $6-8 million to sponsor Runway, say Tresemme is out
Published 7/3/2008 by Andy Dehnart at reality blurred
... One e.mail message "was sent May 26 to several people at by Lori Sale, a former Weinstein Company employee now at the Paradigm agency," the Village Voice reports. The message mentions "tresemme's feeling that they are being iced out of season 6," and essentially asks L'Oreal to make a decision to sponsor both hair and makeup, or be replaced. ...

Weinstein Expose Based on 9/11 Victim’s Records?
Published 7/3/2008 by Karina Longworth at SpoutBlog
... Maybe last week, this would have seemed like a big deal. But just a couple of days ago, the Village Voice published a long story by editor-in-chief Tony Ortega, based on his “accidental” scavenging of Weinstein’s trash. Page Six couldn’t get a comment from a Weinstein on their anonymously sourced story, but Ortega was able to put together a decent profile of the current state of TWC, and even got Harvey on the record to joke about it: “You want more of my garbage? How about a couple of shirts out of my laundry?” ...

Gwyneth Paltrow To Steal Role in Crappy Musical From Anne Hathaway [Casting]
Published 7/3/2008 by Richard at Gawker
... "re: Promises, Promises." The Village Voice claims that ol' Harve was due to call the pretend-British actress about playing the lead in a revival of the peculiar (if successful) 1968 Broadway musical. Funny thing though, ...

Tom Rothman Miraculously Avoids Humiliating Fox, Himself in TV Hosting Gig [Talent Show]
Published 7/7/2008 by STV at Defamer
... Indeed, we hope Rothman's triumph influences a new generation of front-office stars — say, Ben Silverman doing sideline reporting from women's swimming events at the upcoming Olympics or Jeff Robinov surveying the cutthroat reality environs of Survivor: Warner Bros. from afar. Or, in a perfect world, The Harvey Weinstein Garbage Hour, featuring an all-star line-up of contestants competing for one returned call from voicemails left for the mogul as far back as 2006. We'd watch it. ...

Old news: "Metropolis" found, Weinstein trash, "Ballast" solo.
Published 7/7/2008 by Alison Willmore at IFC: Indie Eye
... It's a bold new era of journalism: Village Voice editor-in-chief Tony Ortega digs through Harvey Weinstein's trash, and lo, a feature article is born. It's a rare day when I find myself wanting to come to Harv's defense. ...