HOLLYWOOD ENDING: Harvey Weinstein and the Culture of Silence
Author: Ken Auletta
Publisher: Penguin
Price: $30
Pages: 466
As you might expect, there aren’t a whole lot of laughs in Hollywood Ending, Ken Auletta’s cradle-to-jail new biography of Harvey Weinstein, the movie mogul convicted of third-degree rape and another sex felony in New York and awaiting trial on further charges in California. When Auletta calls Weinstein’s relationship with his brother Bob “Shakespeare-worthy,” he is placing the story squarely in the tragedy column of the ledger.
But then the Broadway star Nathan Lane makes a brief appearance, like Puck cartwheeling onto the set of Coriolanus.
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