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Hollywood ending : Harvey Weinstein and the culture of silence / Ken Auletta.

by Auletta, Ken, author.

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New York : Penguin Press, 2022.

Weinstein, Harvey, 1952-

Sex offenders -- United States -- Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Biography.

Sexual harassment of women.

Motion picture industry -- Corrupt practices.

9781984878373 (hardcover) :

1984878379 (hardcover)

466 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Prologue: The gray concrete carpet -- Young Weinstein (1952-1969) -- Becoming Harvey (1969-1978) -- The bottom-feeders (1979-1988) -- The Barnum and Bailey of the movie business (1989-1993) -- The culture of silence (1993-1997) -- The mogul (1997-1998) -- The art of the NDA (1998) -- "I'm the fucking sheriff of this fucking lawless piece-of-shit town" (1999-2002) -- Two divorces (2002-2005) -- "We can talk anybody into anything" (2005-2010) -- Blood, brothers (2011-2015) -- "I'm the chairman of this company!" (2015) -- No more "Bobby" Weinstein (2015-2016) -- The dam of silence collapses (2016-2017) -- The victim (2017) -- The sound is turned off (2018-2019) -- The long march to trial (2019) -- Courtroom 1530 (January 6-30, 2020) -- Jessica Mann (January 31-February 4, 2020) -- The defense speaks, and closing arguments (February 6-14, 2020) -- The verdict (February 18-24, 2020) -- The convict (February 24, 2020, to 2021) -- Rosebud?

"A vivid biography of Harvey Weinstein--how he rose to become a dominant figure in the film world, how he used that position to feed his monstrous sexual appetites, and how it all came crashing down, from the author who has covered the Hollywood and media power game for The New Yorker for three decades. Twenty years ago, Ken Auletta wrote an iconic New Yorker profile of the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, who was then at the height of his powers. The profile made waves for exposing how volatile, even violent, Weinstein was to his employees and collaborators. But there was a much darker story that was just out of reach: rumors had long swirled that Weinstein was a sexual predator. Auletta confronted Weinstein, who denied the claims. Since no one was willing to go on the record, Auletta and the magazine concluded they couldn't close the case. Years later, he was able to share his reporting notes and knowledge with Ronan Farrow; he cheered as Farrow, and Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, finally revealed the truth. Still, the story continued to nag him. The trail of assaults and cover-ups had been exposed, but the larger questions remained: What was at the root of Weinstein's monstrousness? How, and why, was it never checked? Why the silence? How does a man run the day-to-day operations of a company with hundreds of employees and revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and at the same time live a shadow life of sexual predation without ever being caught? How much is this a story about Harvey Weinstein, and how much is this a story about Hollywood and power? In pursuit of the answers, Auletta digs into Weinstein's life, searching for the mysteries beneath a film career unparalleled for its extraordinary talent and creative success, which combined with a personal brutality and viciousness to leave a trail of ruined lives in its wake. Hollywood Ending is more than a prosecutor's litany; it is an unflinching examination of Weinstein's life and career, embedding his crimes in the context of the movie business, in his failures and the successes that led to enormous power. Film stars, Miramax employees and board members, old friends and family, and even the person who knew him best--Harvey's brother, Bob--all talked to Auletta at length. Weinstein himself also responded to Auletta's questions from prison. The result is not simply the portrait of a predator but of the power that allowed Weinstein to operate with such impunity for so many years, the spiderweb in which his victims found themselves trapped.

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