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...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
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http://www.nypost.com/seven/07032008/gossip/pagesix/studio_insider_wr... >AN ex-employee of Harvey and Bob Weinstein is writing an "explosive"
>book about their management of Miramax, based on files and tapes
>compiled over a period of 15 years, a source claims.
>The so-far-anonymous author - who signed off an e-mail to Page Six as
>"The Final Nail" - claims, "The book, which is told from a deep
>insider's [point of view], will detail the day-to-day . . .
>manipulation of the Disney company by the Weinstein Bros." Disney owns
>Miramax, with which the Weinsteins are no longer involved.
>"Our database of Miramax files is huge ... This former employee did
>not sign a nondisclosure agreement. Many of the files and tapes we are
>working from were given to us by the late Stuart Meltzer, who worked
>directly for Bob as his assistant before he was killed in the World
>Trade Center attack in 2001. Stuart was extremely paranoid and saved
>and recorded everything."
>The author attached a seven-minute audio file "just to prove to you
>this is not some kook writing you." The recording is of a Dec. 12,
>1996, phone call between Harvey and Joe Roth, then president of Walt
>Disney Studios, in which the two complain about the $138 million
>severance deal that Mike Ovitz negotiated to leave Disney after 16
>months.
>AUDIO: Listen to the Recording
>http://www.nypost.com/seven/07032008/gossip/pagesix/20080703_weinstei...
>"Please fire me," Weinstein facetiously tells Roth. "I'll split
>whatever I get . . . I'll meet you in St. Barts. We'll buy both halves
>of the island . . . If you don't fire me, then I think we should make
>bad movies next year. Let's make a series of [bleep]y movies."
>Roth replies: "I obviously made a mistake. I made good movies." Harvey
>says, "Joe, you are a success, so therefore you are a failure in this
>town." The two then name Peter Guber, Michael Fuchs and Jon Peters as
>having won huge golden parachutes.
>"Everybody got wealthy on failure," Weinstein says. Roth replies: "You
>know what the problem is with you and me? We care about the movies."
>Weinstein laughs: "We have character flaws that must be overcome."
>A rep for Weinstein had no comment.
THEY DON'T WANT YOU TO HEAR IT...
