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Jeff Zucker's Wife and Kids Nervous About Harvey Weinstein's 'Runway' Restitution

Some days we're so full of love for Harvey Weinstein that our weak, arrhythmic blogger hearts nearly explode. It was one thing last week when he brazenly moved Project Runway to Lifetime, pulling the rug out from a supposedly unwitting NBC. It was another thing entirely on Monday when Harvey rolled the rug up and started whacking NBC boss Jeff Zucker over the head with it: More »

12:20 PM on Tue Apr 15 2008
By STV
1,825 views, 2 comments

weinstein woes

More Fallout For Controversy Magnet Harvey Weinstein As 'Runway' Heads To Lifetime

Spring 2008 hasn't been kind to Harvey Weinstein and his little production company. First, his close friend Anthony Minghella passed away (prompting a highly critical piece penned by New York Magazine film critic David Edelstein), then he butted heads with the Marley family over his planned biopic on the reggae singer, and now the portly producer finds himself at the center of NBC and Lifetime's battle for Project Runway. Moments after Lifetime announced their five-year $150 million deal with the Weinstein Co. to take over the helm of Bravo's signature show, Jeff Zucker and his peacocked lawyers immediately responded by suing Harvey and his goons for breach-of-contract. And insiders at NBC aren't keeping mum about their feelings towards the money-hungry Weinstein:

"Harvey hates us passionately, always did...He despises Bravo because he thinks we didn't pay him enough."

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12:35 PM on Wed Apr 9 2008
By Molly Friedman
2,318 views, 18 comments

Latest by Sweet Panda Love: @Molly Friedman: I thought you meant "public relations," as if the entire Lifetime Network were playing the vulnerable teary female role. Even the dudes. I guess we're just entering the interesting overlap of the Venn diagram between gay Bravo programming and more »