“One of the sadder lessons here is that Harvey Weinstein transgressed so successfully and for so long because he had lots of help,' writes mwjonesjr
real accomplishments are twofold. First, it is nuanced in ways missing from the screaming-headline revelations of the story as it unfolded. Auletta bends over backward to give Harvey his due as a visionary and inventive movie producer and a skillful promoter. No other single individual did more to remake the Hollywood landscape than he did. He found big, multiplex audiences for indie films and foreign films that no other producer had ever found a way to tap.
Harvey, of course, exploited this “everybody does it and blame the victim” mentality like no else ever has. In an author’s note, Auletta recounts Harvey’s attempts from prison to dictate terms when the two men were negotiating the parameters of interviews. In one instance Harvey resisted cooperating altogether because he somehow got the idea that Auletta was including the word “monster” in his book’s title.
meant to be ironic, i.e., this is absolutely not the kind of story where anyone rides off happily into the sunset? Or is it to be taken at face value? A bad man got caught, justice was served, goodness triumphed? Or is it implying the end of old Hollywood and its casting-couch mores? Not the latter, surely.
This is a hard book to read, more than 400 pages about a disgusting man who did disgusting things. But it is—and as someone who wanted to disinfect himself at the end of every chapter, I say this through gritted teeth—worth the trouble. The Weinstein transgressions that Auletta enumerates may be mostly known, but the indictment of the enabling culture that functioned as a petri dish in which this creature flourished has not gotten its due.
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