Geoffrey Gilmore, then the festival’s director, introduced me to Weinstein. We had the minimum required amount of small talk between a Hollywood power player and a newspaper reporter not employed by the Times (New York’s or L.A.’s). He pointed to my Wallace & Gromit necktie and commented that his producer friend Jake Eberts was working with W&G’s creators, Aardman Animation, on their first feature film (“Chicken Run”). We shook hands and that was that.
Since The New York Times’ first story broke on Oct. 5, more than 50 women (as compiled by Slate) have gone public with their stories.