Harvey Weinstein's Go-To Anecdote

How it all started in Flushing, Queens.

When the origin story is this good, it gets repeated. A lot.

Harvey Weinstein’s cinematic tastes were famously broadened when, at age 14, he and younger brother Bob went to Queens’ Mayfair Theater in 1966 thinking that Francois Truffaut’s 400 Blows was a “sex movie.” Once the subtitles and black and white started, the pair’s friends left, but he and Bob stayed.

Over the years, Weinstein has told this story often. By his own admission in the 30th-year anniversary issue of New York magazine, a “thousand times.”

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