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The collapse of one tycoon
Why Harvey Weinstein managed to get out of the water for so long and why this time failed
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A month ago, Harvey Weinstein was an uncorgected king of Hollywood, his most successful producer, whose favor was sought not only by young actresses and venerable fiction, but also politicians, including presidents and candidates. Today he has turned into an outcast. Colleagues turned away from him, he was excluded from the film academy, a company bearing his name, sells assets.
The troubles that happened to Weinstein are quite banal: he is not the first, he is not the last. But the swiftness and irreversibility of the fall of the giant, which the giant himself clearly did not expect, is striking.
Snow lump of accusations
For many years, Harvey Weinstein abused his official position and forced young actresses to sexual acts in exchange for the role, The New York Times published on October 5. Already on the 8th, The Weinstein Company said that she was dismissing her founding father.
On October 10, the issue of The New Yorker was released with an even more detailed investigation. On the same day, Winstein’s wife, designer Georgina Chapman, said she would get divorced with him. And then the snowball rolled uncontrollably.
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Politicians who received money from Weinsten for elections, starting with Hillary Clinton, are now sacrificing them to charity. France President Emmanuel Macron wants to deprive the former movie Magnate of the Order of the Legion of Honor, and from the British Prime Minister Teresa May demand to take the Order of the British Empire from Weinstein.
The list of victims of Weinstein's sexual enthusiasm is already more than 50 names. In almost all cases, we are talking about harassment, which are far from always ending in sexual intercourse. Four victims claim that sex was violent. Winstein categorically denies the last accusation, as well as the fact that he took revenge on the women who refused him.
Lisa Bloom, a lawyer who made a name at the representative office of women who underwent sexual harassment, and knowing the methods of evidence from the nasty, took to defend Vainestein's interests. She invited the company's management to publish photos of ladies accusing Weinstein “in friendly poses with Harvey” - in these photos they pose after Winstein seemed to be harassed. But the bosses chose to make a sacred sacrifice.
Lawyer Lisa Bloom. Photo: aol.com
They knew, but silent
Today in Hollywood they say that Weinstein’s behavior was no secret to anyone. But some stars, including actress Maryl Streep, claim that they did not know anything about the tricks of the film machine. Winstein’s employees who published a revealing statement have no idea about them. “We came to work in the company,” they write, “because we love the movie ... We knew that we were working with a person with a bad character. We did not know that we were working with a serial sexual maniac. We knew that our boss could manipulate people. We did not know that he uses his power for the systematic persecution of women and in order to force them to be silent. We knew that he was a voluptuous, having illegitimate connections. We did not know that he was capable of aggressive violence ... "
They knew, but they were silent because Weinstein knew how to shut his mouth and spoil his career to anyone.
Back in 2004, the young journalist The New York Times, Sharon Voksman, received good from the authorities to investigate rumors about Weinstein. However, her material in the newspaper did not appear then. Voksman claims that she was called the movie stars Matt Damon and Russell Crowe, and Vainstin came to the editorial office with his own person, and the newspaper gave way to pressure.
Back in 2004, the young journalist The New York Times, Sharon Voksman, received good from the authorities to investigate rumors about Weinstein. However, her material in the newspaper did not appear then
Actually, Nyt never misses such blows. She conducted an official investigation. The current editor -in -chief Dean Back says that he did not work in the newspaper then, and those who headed it in 2004, Bill Keller and Jill Abramson, do not remember any pressure. In any case, according to Back, it is incredible that Nyt succumbs to pressure, even from the side of an important advertiser. The then direct chief of the Voxman, Jonathan Landman, suggests that the article was unconvincing, she lacked evidence. Voksman, however, herself admits that the only woman with whom she met then refused to speak, because she received compensation for silence.
It is noteworthy that if Landman talked about the “unconvincing” investigation of Voksman, the president of the NBC NOA Oppenheim TV channel now talks about “lack of integrity” in the plot about Vainstein’s tricks, which journalist Ronan Farrow, the son of the director Woody Allen and actress Mia Ferroou, prepared for the channel. In addition, the NBC leadership allegedly had doubts about the reliability of the Farrow investigation about Weinstein. As a result, the journalist gave the assembled material in The New Yorker. Now Farrow says that Weinstein was trying to put pressure on him in the process of work and threatened him with a judicial lawsuit. But the NBC management categorically denies the fact of some pressure, considering such suspicions “insulting”, especially since the many-month investigation was financed by the channel itself.
Why was there no pressure this time? Apparently, the moment comes when your resource is exhausted. Weinstein realized this when he asked for the support of other gates of show business-he was a grave silence by the answer
As a result, The New York Times and The New Yorker published their investigations - the result of the painstaking, in several months, labor - almost simultaneously. Certificates were collected carefully and legally correctly.
Why was there no pressure this time? Apparently, the moment comes when your resource is exhausted. Weinstein realized this when he asked for the support of show business to other gatefuls-he was a grave silence by the answer.
Hais Code
Today, many recall the loud Hollywood scandals of the 1920s. The flowering of the newspaper genre of Hollywood gossip, in which the famous actress and the observer of the secular chronicle of Hedd Hopper, came so on the 1930s, so succeeded. Hedda was afraid as plague: after all, in those years, the Hais Code acted, not only prescribing the rules of decrease on the screen, but also charged with studios in the obligation to observe the “appearance of morality” of actors and directors. But the flesh took its own, and even the threat of losing the contract did not stop loving men and women.
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In the 1950s, the Hais Code collapsed, and the next decade the sexual revolution broke out. Harvey Weinstein recalls this in his statement: “I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, when all the rules of conduct were different. Then there was another culture. Since then, I realized that this is not an excuse ... ”Not an excuse. But the explanation.
Recently, America has learned another secret of the postgraduate, and also thanks to NYT-about the systematic molestation of students of privileged private boarding schools. However, the students too. Today you read stories about how young concubines helped teachers seduce classmates, and you think: here you have the 57th Moscow special school! And then all this was, no matter how wildly it sounds, in the order of things.
“I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s, when all the rules of behavior were different. Then there was another culture. Since then, I realized that this is not an excuse ... "
The son of a New York jeweler Harvey Weinstein studied at a regular public school in Queens, but there the orders were still cleaner. The current US President Donald Trump is six years older than Weinstein. He also grew up in Queens. Until 13 years old, Donnie went to a private school of Ki-Forest, but in the seventh grade he had problems. Odnoklassniki is somehow dull that these were for problems, but they recall that Trump often became an object of ridicule, because he categorically did not know how to recognize his obvious mistakes. At the same time, it is called “thrilfish” and “scumbag” - those who do not mind mocking the weaker (its nature itself did not offend). He was stubborn and uncontrollable, and his father gave his son to the cadet school-the New York Military Academy to accustom him to discipline. They accustomed to discipline there, including with the help of bodily punishments, and grandfather flourished.
Weinstein told the ladies on whom he put his eyes that “he was so used to” and that he would not lose “because of five minutes” of intimacy
So, maybe Trump and Weinstein take revenge, compensate for their children's insults? And if you leave the conspiracy and the usual ridicule of the ostentatious American puritanism alone, then what will turn out to be in the remainder as not the self -confidence of Major, a status man who is convinced that he is in his right - otherwise why both power and wealth?
Donald Trump, while still a presidential candidate, became an object of scandal due to a monologue secretly recorded back in 2005, which he himself called “awe in a male locker room”: “When you are a star, they ( women. -NT) allow you anything. Poppy them for pussy. Do what you want. " This is a philosophy and Weinstein, who told the ladies on whom he put his eyes that “he was so used to” and that he would not lose “because of five minutes” of intimacy.
But it turned out that in America no one has yet canceled the decency.