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“Do you know what’s going to happen”: Dennis Higgins, AI, 4/26/02.
“I remember waiting”: Kindlon, AI, 10/4/02.
“especially when you knew”: Hart, AI, 9/17/02.
“I literally went to my desk”: Kindlon, AI, 10/4/02.
“It was like factory labor” and following: Hart, AI, 9/17/02.
“It was a question”: Dinerstein, AI, 10/22/99.
“Don’t you know” and following: Confidential source.
“Harvey has this negativity”: Hart, AI, 9/17/02.
“There was a feeling” and following: Kindlon, AI, 10/4/02.
“They intimidated everybody” and following: Merri Lane, AI, 6/12/01.
“Fine Line was horrible”: Kindlon, AI, 10/4/02.
CHAPTER 11: THE BAD LIEUTENANT
Epilogue: Ray, AI, 3/19/01.
“Why did it ever”: Lechner, AI, 5/31/01.
“See, isn’t that great?”: Confidential source.
“I’m Steven Spielberg, and this”: Confidential source.
“They treated Shyamalan”: Confidential source.
“I don’t think this movie” and following: Webster, AI, 10/20/01.
“There was cut after cut”: Lechner, AI, 5/31/01.
“Harvey was recutting”: Roth, AI, 5/10/00.
“Listen, Harvey, you can’t” and following: Konrad, AI, 6/7/02.
“You’re some fucking artist!”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 11/18/02; Konrad, AI, 6/7/02; Confidential source.
“Rosie burst into tears”: Konrad, AI, 6/7/02.
“a big fat fucking cow”: Confidential source.
“I never used ‘cunt’ ”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 11/18/02.
“You don’t know who” and following: Konrad, AI, 6/7/02.
“You can’t let that guy”: Roth, AI, 5/1/00.
“I thought I had”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 10/3/02.
“The weirdness of being”: Lechner, AI, 5/31/01.
“Miramax will steamroller”: Anthony Kaufman, “The Six Million Dollar Man Strikes Back; Brad Anderson Survives with Two New Movies,” IndieWire, 8/10/01.
“Bob is no bullshit” and following: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“I told Michael Eisner”: Roth, AI, 5/1/00.
“If one person does not”: Confidential source.
“It became very clear”: Moore, AI, 5/1/00.
“Kevin said, ‘What’ ”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 7/18/02.
“Hispanic Coalition of Catholic Warriors”: Read by author.
“The Catholic League” and following: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“He thought he really”: Confidential source.
“The acting bug” and following: Tarantino, AI, 4/30/03.
“Quentin needs you”: Confidential source.
“It was tough”: Tarantino, AI, 4/30/03.
“Tell me the unvarnished truth”: Tarantino, AI, 4/30/03, and David Carradine, AI, 6/30/03.
“You must never”: Thurman, AI, 6/27/03.
“Part of him understood”: Confidential source.
“You wear a baseball cap” and following: Tarantino, AI, 4/30/03.
“I gotta movie heah”: Schmidt, AI, 6/9/00.
“Mom and Dad”: Glatzer, AI, 4/26/00.
“Fuck you, you shithead”: Ray, AI, 3/2/01.
“Bingham’s not a businessman.”: Confidential source.
“Bingham was the creative”: McGurk, AI, 5/1/01.
“It was one fucking disaster”: Rice, AI, 7/23/01.
“I don’t have time for this”: Confidential source.
“Chris acted like I was” and following: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
“There’s some things”: Confidential source.
“I have good news”: Schmidt, AI, 5/9/00.
“Whaddya mean I can’t” and following: Schmidt, AI, 7/31/03.
“McGurk hates him.”: Gigliotti, AI, 1/4/01.
“Hey, howya doin’ ”: Confidential source.
“I made a mistake.” and following: Schmidt, AI, 7/31/03.
“The right kind”: Schmidt, AI, 8/7/03.
“It may be a bit”: Barry Diller, AI, 10/28/03.
“When basically Scott”: Malin, AI, 8/6/02.
“We all came away”: Schmidt, AI, 7/31/03.
“Can’t we work something out?” and following: Ray, AI, 3/19/01.
“Miramax is brilliant”: Rice, AI, 7/16/01.
“I was on the bottom” and following: Sarah Kernochan, AI, 5/14/01.
“the incursion of the penis”: Pam Grossman, salon.com, 5/17/00.
“I was jumping up and down” and following: Kernochan, AI, 5/14/01.
“He’s passionate about films”: Ivory, AI, 7/9/01.
“That’s always his excuse”: Confidential source.
“Your movie has”: Kernochan, AI, 5/14/01.
“Virtually all of the films”: memo, Weinstein to Kernochan, 2/19/98.
“He told me himself”: Lee, AI, 11/8/02.
“I actually learned”: Kernochan, AI, 5/14/01.
“I’m a lot like”: memo, Kernochan to Weinstein, 4/7/98.
“felt very much like”: Kernochan, AI, 5/14/01.
“We release thirty”: memo, Lantos to Weinstein, 7/17/99.
“This whole thing”: Dolly Hall, 4/18/01.
“After 54, I was ready”: Lee Percy, AI, 5/12/01.
“I don’t know if Harvey” and following: John Dahl, AI, 5/6/99.
“At the end of the movie”: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“To me, Rounders”: Norton, AI, 8/8/02.
“Shakespeare in Love was”: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“They try to get” and following: Tom Tykwer, AI, 6/1/03.
“strangled the same market”: Tusk, AI, 2/3/00.
“the first feel-good”: Owen Gleiberman, review, Entertainment Weekly, 10/30/98.
“Sentimentality is a kind”: Richard Schickel, “Fascist Fable: A Farce Trivializes the Horror of the Holocaust,” Time, 11/9/98.
“It’s a piece of shit,” and following: Ray, AI, 3/19/01.
“I thought we were gonna” and following: Ray, AI, 9/29/01.
“The company is going” and following: McGurk, AI, 8/27/01.
“For a smart guy”: Gigliotti, AI, 1/4/01.
“No one was ever gonna walk”: Spikes, AI, 7/23/01.
“We had no protection”: Schmidt, AI, 7/31/03.
“October had a bunch”: Bowles, AI, 6/7/00.
“It’s a paradox”: Schmidt, AI, 5/9/00.
“If we hadn’t done”: Schmidt, AI, 7/31/03.
“We’re all in the” and following: Kevin Smith, AI, 8/19/03.
“Miramax tries to play this”: Lee, AI, 11/8/02.
“They fucked us”: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“The original business model”: McGurk, AI, 10/23/02.
“The level of creative interference” and following: Mangold, AI, 6/7/02.
“It used to be”: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“At that point they were”: Konrad, AI, 6/7/02.
“Michael Eisner can’t tell me”: Auletta, “Beauty and the Beast.”
“Harvey’s become” and following: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“We had had all these deals” and following: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“Harvey and Bob made out” and following: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“Dogma incurred $20 million”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 11/11/03.
“And how’s your kid”: Confidential source.
“He was giving us a break”: Mangold, AI, 6/7/02.
“Miramax pays a fleet” and following: Nikki Finke, New York, 3/15/99.
“It is complete bullshit” and following: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 10/3/02.
“Benigni moved into L.A.”: Urman, AI, 10/31/01.
“Everyone knows” and following: David Parfitt, 6/17/03.
“Harvey came on”: Norman, AI, 8/13/03.
“Never again!”: Confidential source.
“suspend and extend”: Mechanic, AI, 5/2/01.
“Sony didn’t want Harvey” and following: John Horn, “Signed, Sealed, and Delivered,” Premiere, 1/00.
“They gave up half”: Mechanic, AI, 5/2/01.
“It’s a wonderful opportunity”: Horn, “Signed, Sealed, and Delivered.”
“Miramax spent a lot”: Norman, AI, 8/13/03.
“I made a small”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 10/3/02.
“I was the one who met” and following: Ray, AI, 3/8/01.
CHAPTER 12: THE KING OF NEW YORK
Epigraph: Lee, AI, 11/8/02.
“They’re not in contact”: Gilmore, AI, 3/9/01.
“When Harvey became largely”: Lechner, AI, 5/31/01.
“Production is a trap”: Lichter, AI, 10/2/98.
“The game of making”: Schmidt, AI, 5/9/00.
“Miramax was delivering”: Moore, AI, 5/1/00.
“Hey, do you want me” and following: McGurk, AI, 5/1/01.
“We were in Harvey’s office”: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“The success of Dimension”: Elwes, AI, 5/1/03.
“We were telling Harvey”: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“You’ve got somebody”: Scott Rudin, AI, 6/7/02.
“He tried to position himself”: Lee, AI, 11/8/02.
“The Tina Brown hiring” and following: Joe Roth, AI, 5/1/00.
“This one’s for Harvey”: Judy Bachrach, Tina and Harry Come to America (New York: Free Press, 2001), 315.
“Coen brothers movies”: Confidential source.
“four hundred people scratching”: Soderbergh, AI, 5/2/02.
“probably crossed the line”: Dennis Lim, “Having Your Way With Hollywood.”
“My idea with Schizopolis was”: Soderbergh, AI, 5/2/02.
“Quentin doesn’t play any ball.”: Hawke, AI, 10/28/02.
“I knew I had to pull my head” and following: Soderbergh, AI, 5/2/02.
“There was no list”: Confidential source.
“Everything Scott ever did”: Confidential source.
“weird love/hate”: Confidential source.
“There was never”: Diller, AI, 10/28/03.
“People said to me” and following: Gigliotti, AI, 1/4/01.
“They threw everything”: Confidential source.
“Say this number” and following: Gigliotti, AI, 1/4/01.
“By small company”: Diller, AI, 10/28/03.
“Every deal had to be approved”: Confidential source.
“Scott was terrified of Diller” and following: Gigliotti, AI, 1/4/01.
“Soderbergh’s a smart guy”: Gigliotti, AI, 1/4/01.
“No. I don’t work”: Soderbergh, AI, 8/31/01.
“Harvey wants you over” and following: Confidential source.
“I am Ariel Sharon!” and following: Confidential source.
“paternalistic, puffed-up”: Amy Taubin, Village Voice, 12/8–14/99.
“they beat the shit out” and following: Confidential source.
“The current crop of people”: Hope, AI, 7/19/02.
“I think something has changed”: Russell, AI, 2/24/00.
“David O. Russell is” and following: Pierson, AI, nd.
“Let’s not take any chances”: Confidential source.
“To say Sundance”: Geffner, “Surviving Park City.”
“He was massively competitive” and following: Confidential source.
“Now you’re in the theater”: Pollack, AI, 6/10/02.
“Do you think I should make”: Confidential sources.
“Bob’s ambivalent, says”: Pollack, AI, 6/10/02.
“Bob falls out of love” and following: Confidential source.
“mysterious Kremlin leader illness”: Patrick Goldstein, “Scrappy Miramax Disappears on ‘Yards’ Marketing,” Los Angeles Times, 11/28/00.
“The films weren’t working”: Confidential source.
“People talked themselves into saying” and following: Confidential source.
“Harvey’s willling” and following: Kernochan, AI, 5/14/01.
“Years passed and years passed” and following: Merchant, AI, 7/9/01.
“He said the usual kinds”: Ivory, AI, 7/9/01.
“Don’t put the film”: Confidential source.
“It was an awful thing”: Ivory, AI, 7/9/01.
“I’ve heard that so much.”: Hawke, AI, 10/28/02.
“Harvey is notorious”: Thurman, AI, 6/27/03.
“They chose the mall”: Merchant, AI, 7/9/01.
“Miramax took twenty-one minutes”: Gill, AI, 2/11/03.
“Then they just went nuts”: Merchant, AI, 7/9/01.
“doesn’t know what”: Ivory, AI, 7/9/01.
“I don’t think so”: Merchant, AI, 7/9/01.
“Never!”: Ivory, AI, 7/9/01.
“I told Jim and Ismail” and following: Hawke, AI, 10/28/02.
“every major decision” and following: Goldstein, “Scrappy Miramax Disappears on ‘Yards’ Marketing.”
“It’s very difficult with Miramax”: Webster, AI, 10/20/01.
“Look at the story!”: Rice, AI, 7/23/01.
“the so-called premiere” and following: Goldstein, “Scrappy Miramax Disappears on ‘Yards’ Marketing.”
“Miramax kept the film”: Webster, AI, 10/20/01.
“Both of those films”: Goldstein, “Scrappy Miramax Disappears on ‘Yards’ Marketing.”
“Harvey took a very ruthless” and following: Webster, AI, 10/20/01.
“Believe it or not”: Goldstein, “Scrappy Miramax Disappears on ‘Yards’ Marketing.”
“If you could do anything” and following: Schulman, AI, 4/25/02.
“What he doesn’t understand”: Biskind, Premiere, 11/02.
“I’m going to have Marty”: David Rooney, “Harvey Set to Helm Again,” Variety, 5/1/03.
“Marty is only interested”: Laura Holson, “Two Hollywood Titans Brawl Over Gang Epic,” New York Times, 4/7/02.
“Harvey finally got”: Kim Masters, “Harvey, Marty, and a Jar Full of Ears,” Esquire, 7/02.
“While I grant the ’70s”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 10/30/02.
“I’m sick of my image”: Masters, “Harvey, Marty, and a Jar Full of Ears.”
“He was playing a really”: Schulman, AI, 4/25/02.
“Marty’s in control”: Parfitt, AI, 6/17/03.
“Marty feels that”: Confidential source.
“Marty’s as mean and difficult” and following: Masters, “Harvey, Marty, and a Jar Full of Ears.”
“That was the big fight” and following: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 4/11/03. According to Parfitt, Weinstein was not involved in this incident. Scorsese was angry with him and overturned his assistant’s desk by mistake.
“When we finished”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 4/11/02.
“She’s too old”: Confidential source.
“This is how I”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 4/11/03.
“She’s a prim-lookin’ stargazer” and following: Masters, “Harvey, Marty, and a Jar Full of Ears.”
“Harvey put all the resources”: Elwes, AI, 5/1/03.
CHAPTER 13: ALL THAT JAZZ IS GONE
Epigraph: Hawke, AI, 10/28/02.
“We’re the kings of marketing” and following: Tim Blake Nelson, AI, 10/4/01.
“My husband is” and following: Confidential source.
“that no decision would be made” and following: Rebecca Traister, “The Story of O, Weinstein Style: High-School Othello Is Held Up,” New York Observer, 11/13/00.
“I have nothing to do” and following: Confidential source.
“Dead Man was Jarmusch’s best movie” and following: J. Hoberman, AI, 3/12/02.
“One of the things”: Hoberman, AI, 3/12/02.
“Harvey is obsessed” and following: Dennis Higgins, AI, 4/26/02.
“Roger Friedman is making”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 10/3/02.
“The idea was”: Richard Johnson, AI, 11/13/03.
“a book on”: Paula Froelich, AI, 11/14/03.
“They were always thrusting”: Confidential source.
“You’re not gonna use that stuff” and following: Confidential source.
“A couple of pushy reporters”: “Page Six,” New York Post, 11/08/00.
“Does Harvey intimidate”: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“Generally you walk into movies”: Konrad, AI, 6/10/02.
“He asked us if”: Mangold, AI, 6/7/02.
“The competition is so destructive”: Foley, AI, 7/13/01.
“I spent a lot of time”: Anthony Kaufman, “Man of the Year, Steven Soderbergh Traffics in Success,” Indiewire, 1/3/01.
“Part of what we’re trying”: Bill Desowitz, “Puzzling Filmgoers, with Serious Intent: The Coolly Received Drama ‘Solaris’ Aims to Challenge Audiences with Tough Questions, Say Its Star and Director,” Los Angeles Times, 12/3/02.
“Do you want to stay” and following: Soderbergh, AI, 8/31/01.
“It makes sense”: Soderbergh, AI, nd.
“For me, Ocean’s” and following: Soderbergh, AI, 8/31/01.
“They’d just gotten through”: Hawke, AI, 10/28/02.
“I was on a panel with him”: Russell, AI, 10/25/02.
“You can’t piss upwind”: Hawke, AI, 10/28/02.
“Three Kings was”: Russell, AI, 10/25/02.
“You have to direct” and following: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“Billy didn’t ask me”: Epperson, AI, 8/29/01.
“Ah’ve had this talk” and following: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“It was the most self-indulgent”: Rice, AI, 7/24/01.
“I thought it was brilliant”: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“We’re not going to be”: Harvey Weinstein, AI, 11/18/02.
“You can understand them”: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“If you reduce this thing”: Affleck, AI, 2/21/02.
“Amy Pascal is just bustin’ ”: Kevin Smith, AI, 12/18/01.
“Harvey, you handle it”: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“I know exactly what to do”: Confidential source.
“Harvey’s making me cut” and following: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“Contractually there was”: Confidential source.
“The cut I saw”: Epperson, AI, 8/29/01.
“It was like”: Damon, AI, 9/26/01.
“Harvey has a great gift”: Confidential source.
“I flew to New York”: Jeanette Walls, AI, 2/26/01.
“We want actresses”: “Gwyn and Bear It,” Toronto Sun, 2/3/02.
“He looks out”: Auletta, “Beauty and the Beast.”
