UPDATE: Rudin Admits ‘HW’ Email Is His

COMMENTS (21)

• Grown men acting like children. Harvey – donate the $1 million to one of Paul Newman’s charities. He had class, unlike most of what’s left in Hollywood.

  Comment by Pathetic — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 2:36am PDT  Reply to this post

• I absolutely agree with Pathetic.

  Comment by Gentle Eye — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 2:55am PDT  Reply to this post

• I’m sorry to say, Nikki, that offering a million bucks to charity to make good some bad behavior is a regular ploy by Harvey. I know personally two people whom he has promised that to. He never paid. Classy guy.

  Comment by Scotsman — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 3:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• When you are bad in one lifetime, you don’t die and go to hell…you come back as Harvey Weinstein.

  Comment by btl teamster — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 6:19am PDT  Reply to this post

• Does he need finishing school or anger management? Harvey Weinstein gets away with this shit because he is consistently rewarded with accolades for his work, but not shown up for the disgusting excesses he indulges in to get the job done. Badgering Sydney Pollack on his cancer deathbed is beyind the pale, even for someone with his volcanic persuasiveness. Please keep on this story, Nikki.

  Comment by Ron Mwangaguhunga — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 6:31am PDT  Reply to this post

• Nikki Finke you da man yo! Seriously, perhaps with the publicity of PageSix, that fat bastard will actually have to make good on a “promise”

  Comment by STYLE — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 7:16am PDT  Reply to this post

• True words indeed, Pathetic.

  Hell maybe we should be glad IGOR flopped.

  Comment by spacesheik — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 7:19am PDT  Reply to this post

• MAN-BOYS GONE WILD!!!

  Comment by UGLY PUNK GURL! — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 8:03am PDT  Reply to this post

• I am stunned by this article and these accusations!! “Callous treatment”? In Hollywood??? What is becoming of our precious little business? I am not dissing Nikki here AT ALL but reporting that people in Hollywood are assholes is like reporting that attorneys lack heart. Of course they do, they can’t change and who cares?

  I was at WMA during 9 freakin’ 11. Morning of. During the most horrific attack/tragedy on American soil I was busy calming an Endeavor agent who was pissed the Madonna concert was cancelled and the HUGE concern was how the Hell we were going to FedEx scripts is those damn airplanes were grounded?!?! For the record…I will NEVER forget an email Steve Dontanville sent out company-wide. To paraphrase, he was not working this day and he was disgusted by anyone attempting to do so during this tragedy. That sent QUITE a message. We closed 45 minutes after Steve’s email was sent. A very rare act of TRUE CLASS in Hollywood…

  Comment by Are we serious here?? — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 8:34am PDT  Reply to this post

• How does admitting that the email was true “keep the peace” exactly?

  Comment by J — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 8:49am PDT  Reply to this post

• I wonder if Weinstein is having that Mr. Burns moment when it sinks in that people aren’t afraid of him anymore. I mean there was a time when he could bully his way in and out of any situation and let his company’s commercial and critical success be his deodorant.

  Well, the deodorant stick’s all used up, he’s pissed off too many people, and the chickens have not only come home to roost, but to drop a few rotten eggs as well.

  Comment by Furious D — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 9:15am PDT  Reply to this post

• Grown men acting like children?

  That’s a great description of the entertainment industry.

  High school with money is another one.

  Comment by chris — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 9:29am PDT  Reply to this post

• It’s a forgone conclusion, there’s some jerks in this business, but Pathetic and Gentle Eye… what makes you think it’s any BETTER in any other business? Or have you not been watching CNN lately?

  It irritates me to no end that whenever there’s an instance of douchedom, those who haven’t waded very far into the hollywood community immediately damn them everyone in L.A. as “classless”.

  I’ve met a lot of fantastic people in this industry, but they don’t need to advertise their compassion and decency… aka, class.

  Comment by j.r. — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 9:40am PDT  Reply to this post

• hw and sr deserve each other. . . both disgusting and not to be trusted, it would seem – indiscreet, injudicious and inhotwater. . .hey, harv, how’s that project runway move to lifetime going?

  Comment by nolatte — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 10:15am PDT  Reply to this post

• Nikki –

  What can I say? You are the shit! Bravo!

  Comment by WGA Writer — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 10:38am PDT  Reply to this post

• I am completely taken by surprise by the greedy, petulant, and childish behavior in this business.

  Comment by shocked — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 11:48am PDT  Reply to this post

• J.R. — touche.

  Comment by Pathetic — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 1:53pm PDT  Reply to this post

• I really hate Harvey Weinstein. Ever since he forced Paltow on us, and used coersion and graft to get her that Oscar he’s been on my person s**tlist.

  His fall is spectacular. Oh and that new Tarantino movie that he’s doing with *snicker* box office winner *guffaw* Brad Pitt? That will bomb spectacularly as well, and then it will be…sayonara Harvey.

  Comment by Movie Going Public — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 3:26pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Well, as an observer of the film business, it’s been my “observation” that Mr. Weinstein will salvage (not savage) his reputation by pulling yet another Oscar caliber film out of his hat(e).

  The business rewards talent + results. It doesn’t really care if you mangle people to get there.

  Next year, H’wood will have forgiven Mr. Weinstein if he delivers another critically acclaimed film that gets Oscar attention.

  Comment by helenofpeel — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 7:21pm PDT  Reply to this post

• Badgering Sydney Pollack on his deathbed is scummy, even for Harvey. I hope when he is reincarnated he comes back as an anal cyst.

  Comment by Tom — Tuesday September 30, 2008 @ 10:36pm PDT  Reply to this post

• gooooooooooooood

  Comment by Anonymous — Wednesday October 1, 2008 @ 4:40am PDT  Reply to this post