I'm Alan Olga and this is Clear and Vivid. Conversations about connecting and communicating.

Part of what my book is about is not just the sexual abuse that Harvey committed. It's

also about the enablers who enabled him to commit it, who knew and should have done

something about it and didn't, but it's also about power. He had enormous power and

these women were sitting there and saying, oh my God Harvey Weinstein can destroy not

just my career but my life. I'm in the movie business. I want to be in the movie business.

He dominates in that world and he knew how to abuse his power and abuse his power to

frighten people.

That's my friend, the journalist Ken O'Leta. Ken has written a book that gets to the heart

of a case that got a lot of attention, partly because it happened in the movie business.

And the title reflects that. It's called Hollywood ending, Harvey Weinstein and the Culture

of Silence. But it's the last part of that subtitle that points to a broader question,

extending perhaps far beyond Hollywood, the Culture of Silence. This is really fascinating

and a little scary because you document the life, not of a great man falling, but a sleazy

man rising. And it's amazing how long he was able to practice his sleaze before being

stopped.

Over four decades.

Was the first time he was actually threatened with it becoming public? Was that with the

two women in Cannes at the Cannes Film Festival?

Yes, which is a story that I was reporting at the time. I did a profile of Harvey Weinstein

for the New York Magazine in 2002. And in the profile, I described his abusive verbal

behavior and the fist fights, etc. he would get in. And what a kind of a thug he was,

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