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>>http://www.nypost.com/seven/07032008/gossip/pagesix/studio_insider_writing_tell_all_118259.htm
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>>AN ex-employee of Harvey and Bob Weinstein is writing an "explosive"
>>book about their management of Miramax, based on files and tapes
>>compiled over a period of 15 years, a source claims.
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>>The so-far-anonymous author - who signed off an e-mail to Page Six as
>>"The Final Nail" - claims, "The book, which is told from a deep
>>insider's [point of view], will detail the day-to-day . . .
>>manipulation of the Disney company by the Weinstein Bros." Disney owns
>>Miramax, with which the Weinsteins are no longer involved.
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>>"Our database of Miramax files is huge ... This former employee did
>>not sign a nondisclosure agreement. Many of the files and tapes we are
>>working from were given to us by the late Stuart Meltzer, who worked
>>directly for Bob as his assistant before he was killed in the World
>>Trade Center attack in 2001. Stuart was extremely paranoid and saved
>>and recorded everything."
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>>The author attached a seven-minute audio file "just to prove to you
>>this is not some kook writing you." The recording is of a Dec. 12,
>>1996, phone call between Harvey and Joe Roth, then president of Walt
>>Disney Studios, in which the two complain about the $138 million
>>severance deal that Mike Ovitz negotiated to leave Disney after 16
>>months.
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>>AUDIO: Listen to the Recording
>>http://www.nypost.com/seven/07032008/gossip/pagesix/20080703_weinstein_audio_56.mp3
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>>"Please fire me," Weinstein facetiously tells Roth. "I'll split
>>whatever I get . . . I'll meet you in St. Barts. We'll buy both halves
>>of the island . . . If you don't fire me, then I think we should make
>>bad movies next year. Let's make a series of [bleep]y movies."
>>
>>Roth replies: "I obviously made a mistake. I made good movies." Harvey
>>says, "Joe, you are a success, so therefore you are a failure in this
>>town." The two then name Peter Guber, Michael Fuchs and Jon Peters as
>>having won huge golden parachutes.
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>>"Everybody got wealthy on failure," Weinstein says. Roth replies: "You
>>know what the problem is with you and me? We care about the movies."
>>Weinstein laughs: "We have character flaws that must be overcome."
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>>A rep for Weinstein had no comment.