T.rex: Dr Jack Badofsky: T.rex: If you're a fan of the biz, i highly recommend Down and Dirty Pictures, by Peter Biskind, who also wrote Easy Rider, Raging Bulls.   The book revolves around the rise of independant film, but it 75% about Weinstein.     I tell you, the rapey stuff that came to public knowledge decades later pales in comparison to how he ruined lives in other ways.    Just a diabolically evil, larger than life man in every facet of his conduct.

Jesus, I remember back in the day when he was just a concert promoter in WNY (Harvey, Corky, & Tice).  They ran all the shows it seemed.

The book mentions those days!  It was in that industry that he honed the skills that made him a successful producer/distributor in film.   Basically learning how to leech off other people's art, bastardize it to his own liking, then packaging into a new thing that was more marketable.   He was good at it... i won't deny that.