Episode 5: The Hunt

The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow

Pineapple Street Studios

News, Society & Culture, True Crime

4.8 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Harvey Weinstein’s criminal trial is underway in New York City. While the allegations against him were finally made public in October 2017, whispers of Weinstein’s alleged abuse go back decades. And so does the reporting on it. In this episode, we look at the small but dogged community of journalists who spent years trying to break the story open, including two who got tantalizingly close, The New Yorker's Ken Auletta and The Hollywood Reporter's Kim Masters. Taken together, their stories represent a decades-long, cross-country hunt for the hardest truth in Hollywood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, we're gonna be talking a lot about sexual violence in this series.
0:05.0	There's also some language.
0:07.0	If either of those things are upsetting for you, please take care while you're listening.
0:12.5	I am Kim Masters.
0:13.5	I am editor at large at the Hollywood Reporter and host of KCRW's The Business.
0:19.2	And a veteran investigative reporter in the industry.
0:22.9	As we send him for not young.
0:25.0	She hates it when I call her veteran.
0:26.9	He does that to annoy me, but yes.
0:31.1	Kim Masters has been reporting on Hollywood since the 90s, which means she's also been
0:35.8	reporting on Harvey Weinstein since the 90s.
0:38.8	I mean, the last time I saw him face to face was the reception for Lyon.
0:43.7	In November 2016, she was at a reception with Weinstein.
0:47.4	The film Lyon, starring Dev Patel and Nicole Kidman, had just premiered.
0:51.8	And it was the Weinstein company's Oscar contender.
0:54.2	And there was a thing at the four seasons of Beverly Hills.
0:56.5	It was like a Sunday afternoon I decided to go.
0:59.7	But I've also decided if I happen to see Harvey, there can't be small talk.
1:04.3	Because we were definitely thinking about how can we get at the story.
1:08.4	This story being rumors that Weinstein sexually harassed or assaulted women.
1:13.5	The actress Rose McGowan had recently tweeted about her own sexual assault.
1:18.1	Tweets lots of people assumed were about Weinstein.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Pineapple Street Studios, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Pineapple Street Studios and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.