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STUDIO INSIDER WRITING TELL-ALL

http://www.nypost.com/seven/07032008/gossip/pagesix/studio_insider_writing_tell_all_118259
.htm

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.

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.

"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."

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.

AUDIO: Listen to the Recording
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07032008/gossip/pagesix/20080703_weinstein_audio_56.mp3

"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.

"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."

A rep for Weinstein had no comment.

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