I think hes a monster. Others who crossed his path. Speaking out for the first time on camera. What are you doing . No this is not okay. Parties, women say with a guest list of two. Where is everybody . Their fears of his retaliation. This is unfair. I will never do another thing to you, five minutes. Dont ruin your friendship with me. So why did the da do nothing as the settlements mounted. Tonight theyre silent no more. Men might think its a game theyre winning and we have let them win. For a long time. Im elizabeth vargas. And im david muir and this is 20 20. Fade in to a los angeles skyline. 1989 and our telling of the weinstein scandal saga begins with the premier of a film called sex, lies and video. Did you make one of these damn videotapes . It marks the arrival of hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein who heads up upstart studio called miramax. It trance forled the american film industry. Made them the player and harvey was the man at miramax. Cut to one year later. Sex lies an
I think hes a monster. Others who crossed his path. Speaking out for the first time on camera. What are you doing . No this is not okay. Parties, women say with a guest list of two. Where is everybody . Their fears of his retaliation. This is unfair. I will never do another thing to you, five minutes. Dont ruin your friendship with me. So why did the da do nothing as the settlements mounted. Tonight theyre silent no more. Men might think its a game theyre winning and we have let them win. For a long time. Im elizabeth vargas. And im david muir and this is 20 20. Fade in to a los angeles skyline. 1989 and our telling of the weinstein scandal saga begins with the premier of a film called sex, lies and video. Did you make one of these damn videotapes . It marks the arrival of hollywood executive Harvey Weinstein who heads up upstart studio called miramax. It trance forled the american film industry. Made them the player and harvey was the man at miramax. Cut to one year later. Sex lies an
Station. He got a job here at age 12. Here we have a vignette that shows edisons mother yelling at his teacher mr. Crawford for calling edison addled. I guess today we might say stupid, confused, mixed up. You can see here, it hurt his feelings, it angered her, and she said to mr. Crawford, look, he is a lot smarter than you are, mr. Crawford. If you cant teach him, i will. She took him home and homeschooled him. He always credited his mother for making him the vanity became, through her kindness and teaching, and a love of learning. He read and Read Everything that he could. Even in the evenings as a man, he would read the encyclopaedia britannica. If edison were in school today, he might have been on ritalin or other medicine for add or adhd. Hes had so much going on in his head that if you are particularly interested in the subject matter at hand, he did not want to pay attention. He would want to explore things in his own way. We are on a restored train from 1889, representing the
50 years ago, first as a Political Correspondent for the new york post, then a staff writer and weekly weekly columnist for the village voice, and a contributing editor at new York Magazine for a decade. And a half from the late 1970s to the early nineties. He wrote a weekly political column for the New York Daily News and he also, during that period, started writing for the new yorker. Then in 1992, he began doing the annals of communications profiles for the magazine. Over over the years, ken is profiled many of the leading figures of the information age, and hes reported on many important developments in the media business. Hes also authored a dozen previous books ranging in subjects from Network Television to the ad business, from microsoft to google. And five of those works reach that National Bestseller list in hollywood, ending a can chronicles. Harvey weinsteins volatile on and tragic career from his rise to becoming one of hollywoods biggest powerbrokers, the pioneering produc
He started in journalism nearly 50 years ago, first as a Political Correspondent for the new york post, then a staff writer and weekly weekly columnist for the village voice, and a contributing editor at new York Magazine for a decade. And a half from the late 1970s to the early nineties. He wrote a weekly political column for the New York Daily News and he also, during that period, started writing for the new yorker. Then in 1992, he began doing the annals of communications profiles for the magazine. Over over the years, ken is profiled many of the leading figures of the information age, and hes reported on many important developments in the media business. Hes also authored a dozen previous books ranging in subjects from Network Television to the ad business, from microsoft to google. And five of those works reach that National Bestseller list in hollywood, ending a can chronicles. Harvey weinsteins volatile on and tragic career from his rise to becoming one of hollywoods biggest pow