Harvey Weinstein and His Publicist Duel Over NYT Piece

A good time was not had by all

Here’s a fascinating bit of insider Broadway gossip: on Friday, Patrick Healy of The New York Times reported that Harvey Weinstein, notorious producer currently pushing his first musical “Finding Neverland,” had unleashed a profanity-laced tirade at his publicist Rick Miramontez. The subject, it seems, was a lack of prominent placements for stories about the show and its stars, Matthew Morrison and Kelsey Grammer.

Miramontez resigned afterward and sent this email to Healy:

“If I were a headline writer, I’d go with this: BROADWAY TO HARVEY WEINSTEIN: DROP DEAD.”

He claimed

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