There’s a cute story making the rounds. Village Voice reporter Tony Ortega was walking around Tribeca drunk (some class A reporting already, huh?) and accidentally “stumbled upon,” irascible movie mogul Harvey Weinstein’s trash and proceeded to rifle through and ranksack it for all it was worth (We assume Ortega is a freegan and was trying to liberate and emancipate the potential news).
Ortega wrote up five online pages worth of story and the biggest news he can get from this is shit about Project Runaway? C’mon dude, when we rape and pillage Harvey Weinstein’s trash— detritus that included emails and scripts — we’re going to have movie news for a month, at least! Weak sauce.
The best he gets? As Vulture parses for us (cause it was rather uneventful to read in full): “[Ortega] suggests that Anne Hathaway’s role in “Promises, Promises” could’ve gone to Gwyneth Paltrow, hints that “Bullets Over Broadway” on Broadway is proceeding apace, and puts a number on the salary Nicole Kidman would’ve gotten for The Reader if she hadn’t had to drop out owing to pregnancy: a mere $100,000, plus a $450,000 break-even bonus.”
Coulda, woulda, shoulda. So what, tell it to US Weekly.
Having had a rather turbulent history with the press though, the formerly hot-tempered movie producer is taking it all in stride and not having the Voice writer’s legs broken in six places. Ortega should be thankful Weinstein switched back from Sanka, months ago.