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When it comes to knowing the right people in Hollywood, it would appear that Penelope Cruz has her bases covered. And last night she was spotted having dinner with bigwig producer Harvey Weinstein.
The “Vanilla Sky” beauty looked cute in a low-cut black-with-colorful-accents blouse and a pair of vintage wash jeans as she schmoozed with the studio exec on their way to the swanky Cipriani restaurant.
Today's story about Harvey Weinstein's financial bind—which would explain why the film producer is even more obnoxious than usual—reminded a Gawker commenter of a story. An acquaintance of Cajunboy took an internship at Miramax when the Disney mini-studio was still run by the Weinstein brothers. The intern managed to avoid the legendarily monstrous boss—until one fateful day.
When he noticed who the passenger was that was exiting the car, [redacted] said that he became nervous and turned his head and eyes to the ground as Weinstein approached the entrance to the building. Suddenly he noticed that weinstein's steps had ceased. he looked up to find Weinstein standing there just staring at him.
"Who the fuck are you?"
"I work for you. I'm an intern."
"Oh yeah. Well what's your name?"
"My name is [redacted] sir."
"Really? Well guess what [redacted]? from now on I'm going to call you Fuckface."
And with that, weinstein turned and walked into the building. But throughout the course of [redacted]'s remaining time interning at Miramax, Weinstein was true to his word.
"For the rest of the time that I was there, Harvey called me Fuckface. I would pass him in the hall and he'd say 'what's going on Fuckface?' Once I was in the elevator and he stepped on with other people and he introduced me to everyone with him as Fuckface."
[Cajun Boy In The City]
It emerged in court papers that movie mogul Harvey Weinstein once said to NBC CEO Jeff Zucker, "You can only have in your life five true friends and I consider you one of my five friends. And I'm telling you, I will not embarrass you." Weinstein, of course, did go on to embarass Zucker by selling his show to another network, according to NBC's suit. But what's with this "five true friends" thing?
Weinstein's media buddies Graydon Carter, Rupert Murdoch, Anna Wintour, Mort Zuckerman, Michael Bloomberg, Les Moonves and Lorne Michaels would never have fit in the inner circle with Zucker, to say nothing of the other 300 media elite at Weinstein's December wedding. Presumably, those are friends of a sort other than "true." Good luck getting your wedding gifts back, pawns. [WSJ]
Radar's "Harvey Weinstein judges your worst possible movie pitch" feature is actually pretty funny! But guys, this thing looks suspiciously like that notoriously terrible thing. [Radar]
You’d think that with all the crazy behavior and lack of common sense displayed by Lindsay Lohan over the past six months, no movie production studio would touch her. But you’d be wrong.
Harvey Weinstein, the consummate Hollywood movie tycoon, said that LiLo is only going through a phase of her life, and that he’d be more than happy to hire her once she has her life under control.