Hollywood ending Harvey Weinstein and the culture of silence

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Summary

A vivid biography of Harvey Weinstein{u2014}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{u2019}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{u2019}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{u2019}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{u2019}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{u2014}Harvey{u2019}s brother, Bob{u2014}all talked to Auletta at length. Weinstein himself also responded to Auletta{u2019}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.

Contents

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?

Published Reviews

Booklist Review: "The list of celebrated movies brought to the screen by Harvey Weinstein's Miramax Films is breathtaking: My Left Foot, Il Postino, The Cider House Rules, The Piano, The English Patient, Pulp Fiction, Shakespeare in Love, and No Country for Old Men among them. Even more breathtaking, though, was the appalling level of abuse--verbal, physical, sexual, and profoundly -emotional--that Weinstein brought for decades upon his staff, his investors, industry rivals, his own brother and partner, the media (including the author, by his account), and, most tragically, the more than 100 women who ultimately came forward with assault charges against him. Longtime New Yorker media reporter Auletta delivers a compelling, assiduously reported, full-formed biography of Weinstein, from his Queens youth all the way to his trial, conviction, and 2020 sentencing to 23 years in prison for criminal sexual assault and third-degree rape. Auletta is keenly sensitive here to the "long half-life of trauma" these many women experienced, yet also unsparingly graphic in detailing how Weinstein would entrap his victims, enabled by a host of individuals and forces that allowed such monstrous behavior to continue unchallenged for so long. A definitive, unblinking account of sexual abuse and violence in the American movie history."
From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.

Additional Information

Subjects	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 Biography & Autobiography True Crime Nonfiction Business 1952-
Publisher	[Place of publication not identified] :Penguin Publishing Group,2022 Penguin Publishing Group2022
Other Titles	Harvey Weinstein and the culture of silence
Contributors	OverDrive, Inc.
Language	English
System Details	Mode of access: World Wide Web. Format: Adobe EPUB eBook Format: Kindle Book Format: OverDrive Read Requires Adobe Digital Editions or Amazon Kindle
Description	1 online resource
Bibliography Notes	Includes bibliographic references (pages 423-452) and index.
ISBN	9781984878380 1984878387
Other	Classic View