Hollywood Ending Audiobook Libro.fm

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A vivid biography of Harvey Weinsteinhow he rose to become a dominant figure in the film world how he used that position to feed his monstrous sexual appetites and how it all came crashing down from the author who has covered the Hollywood and media power game for The New Yorker for three decades

Twenty years ago Ken Auletta wrote an iconic New Yorker profile of the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein who was then at the height of his powers The profile made waves for exposing how volatile even violent Weinstein was to his employees and collaborators But there was a much darker story that was just out of reach rumors had long swirled that Weinstein was a sexual predator Auletta confronted Weinstein who denied the claims Since no one was willing to go on the record Auletta and the magazine concluded they couldnt close the case Years later he was able to share his reporting notes and knowledge with Ronan Farrow he cheered as Farrow and Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey finally revealed the truth

Still the story continued to nag him The trail of assaults and coverups had been exposed but the larger questions remained What was at the root of Weinsteins monstrousness How and why was it never checked Why the silence How does a man run the daytoday operations of a company with hundreds of employees and revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars and at the same time live a shadow life of sexual predation without ever being caught How much is this a story about Harvey Weinstein and how much is this a story about Hollywood and power

In pursuit of the answers Auletta digs into Weinsteins life searching for the mysteries beneath a film career unparalleled for its extraordinary talent and creative success which combined with a personal brutality and viciousness to leave a trail of ruined lives in its wake Hollywood Ending is more than a prosecutors litany it is an unflinching examination of Weinsteins life and career embedding his crimes in the context of the movie business in his failures and the successes that led to enormous power Film stars Miramax employees and board members old friends and family and even the person who knew him bestHarveys brother Boball talked to Auletta at length Weinstein himself also responded to Aulettas questions from prison The result is not simply the portrait of a predator but of the power that allowed Weinstein to operate with such impunity for so many years the spiderweb in which his victims found themselves trapped