While blagging along in LA nearly ten years ago now, I managed to get a job as writer for an online black magazine based in Atlanta. My remit was their man in LA. Through the magazine I went to press screenings, press interviews, it was a crazy time.
The Weinstein Company cropped up more than once as I sat in Beverly Hills Hilton and watched the stars of whatever film I was sent to cover turn up like a wedding party. The man himself was never in front of the camera, not on press nights like this anyway. The question with hindsight, how did this man get away with it for so long?
The saddest part, its not too difficult to work out. The movie industry, from the outsider looking in, is no different to any puffing and huffing old American industry. Whatever Weinstein has been accused of, there are men who have done worse in every industry in America today - From Wall Street to the Space industry.
The only positive is we can longer ignore the stink that emits behind the sheen of success that everyone so desires...
