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Why the Oscars won't be the same without their ringmaster, Harvey Weinstein
LA Times via MSN ^ | 03/02/2018 | Lorraine Ali

Posted on 03/04/2018 12:52:25 PM PST by Kid Shelleen

Even the customary Oscar gift bags given to top nominees before Sunday's Academy Awards ceremony indicated that this year's celebration would be anything but show business as usual. --snip-- "Harvey" was personally thanked or praised by award winners such as Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Renee Zellweger in at least 34 Oscar speeches from 1993 to 2016, and no last name was required. According to one analysis of nearly 1,400 Oscar speeches, the man behind films such as "Pulp Fiction" and "The King's Speech" was thanked more often than God. He'd sit up front, the camera seemingly always on him, a burly, unshaven king among his beautiful subjects, beaming at his winners, semi-abashedly shrugging off the accolades.

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KEYWORDS: hollywood; metoo; weinstein
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To: OttawaFreeper

[ Pic of Harvey & Michael Moore ]

Puh_lease, I was eating dinner. You owe me a new keyboaed~


21 posted on 03/04/2018 3:31:08 PM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: Kid Shelleen

It just isn’t Hollywood without a known rapist/pervs-perv slouching around. Fortunately there is no shortage among them.


22 posted on 03/04/2018 3:48:54 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: goldendelicious

You beat me. I willingly watched (versus being a childhood captive to parental control) only once, in 1982.


23 posted on 03/04/2018 3:50:05 PM PST by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: KC_Lion
what a fake... those people don't carry cash
24 posted on 03/04/2018 4:05:58 PM PST by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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