Word: harvey
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Your basic movie-mogul breakfast menu would include strawberries, decaf, a splash of Evian, maybe a Diet Coke. But Harvey Weinstein has never got with fit-for-life cuisine. One morning at the recent Sundance Film Festival, the co-chairman of Miramax Films eagerly devoured a greasy omelette (the secret ingredient: cholesterol) while schmoozing with a reporter about art, movies and life in general. It's been said that a family of four could subsist for a month on the crumbs that stick to Weinstein's shirt. That family may soon need to find other means of dietary support...
...time of triumph, Harvey Weinstein grandly spreads the glory around. "This is a great moment for independent films," he says. "It shows that risk has its rewards." The risks are mostly of finance, not of film form. The big winners among little movies didn't dabble in delirious innovation (the hallucinogenic Trainspotting got only a screenplay nod). The primary appeal of their stories is not to the young mass audience, which prefers spectacular fantasy and broad comedy, but to older viewers, more sophisticated and more sentimental, liberal in their politics and conservative in their desire for humanist affirmation--folks very...
...Harvey Weinstein has his own definition of independence. "It has always meant independent of the seven major studios," says Harvey, "and that's how we operate. Disney is our big daddy or rich uncle. Basically, they're our bank. You can say Disney or you can say Chase Manhattan." Miramax has the freedom to run its business so long as it works within budget guidelines and doesn't buy movies rated NC-17. "A hundred-percent freedom," says Disney CEO Michael Eisner. "They're completely autonomous. And they should be. They keep their costs down and their ideas up. They...
...Gordon Harvey, the assistant director of Expos, organized the band, which has been practicing four to five hours a night for the last two weeks...
...many respects our best teacher," said Assistant Director of Expository Writing Gordon C. Harvey. "He is a wonderful poet, a superb teacher and a brilliant administrator...