Posted by ms taryn at 149.31.67.169 on April 08, 2003 at 20:47:44:
23 Harvey Weinstein, Producer
A boorish film-industry mixture of Al Goldstein, Laurent Kabila and Adolf Hitler, the space-devouring Miramax creature has earned a reputation from Paris to the Punjab as perhaps the worst-behaved party guest in the history of the human race. The imposing 250-pound hulk of feverishly sweating dealmaker has a well-documented history of publicly confronting tiny female antagonists (screaming and thrusting a finger at Universal chairman Stacey Snider, tossing a handful of torn-up audience questionnaires at the feet of director Julie Taymor) and brittle literary figures like Graydon Carter. A new Miramax project called Jersey Girl—wedding the overrated Kevin Smith and revolting star couple Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck—says everything about where he has taken the indie film movement that he once got so much credit for building up.