Project Runway Deal Signed, Weinstein Returns To Bashing NBC
Harvey Weinstein’s gracious-in-defeat couldn’t last long. After paying off NBC to take his Project Runway to Lifetime, the mogul had “personally” congratulated the network. Now, he’s calling NBC chairman Ben Silverman a big naked-arm-wrestling homo.
Or at least that’s the joke he made! The entertainment mogul was on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show yesterday and yukked that that’s how they resolved the Project Runway dispute between his company and Silverman’s NBC/Universal.
“This is a bombshell,” Weinstein growled. “Ben Silverman said, ‘Why don’t Harvey and I arm-wrestle this? Naked!’” And Seacrest, of course, giggled that way he loves to giggle when anything gay comes up. Seacrest added that it must have been a first in conflict resolution, but Weinstein, delighting in seeing the sprightly little frosted pixie in stitches so, decided to press on with the joke.
“I’ve spoken to some of his dates, and apparently it’s not a first,” he said as Seacrest went bright red and peed himself a little, out of a heady mixture of hysteria and awkwardness. I mean, really, when Harvey Weinstein makes a joke, you’d better goddamned laugh.
Nice, if not surprising, to see that Weinstein is treating this like a victory. Though we assume that Bravo will have the last laugh (or giggle!) when no one tunes in to watch PR on the damn Lifetime network.
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Hey, I'll be watching it, even if it were on ESPN.
Rumpelstilskin
@Rumpelstilskin: Agreed. When does it start?
The big question is, will Gawker live blog PR or the new Kelly Rowland/Issac Mizrachi Bravo show... or both??
jbwan
Wow, that picture of Nicole Kidman clinging to Harvey like a lost child clinging to a life raft in a sea frothy with megalomania really needs a caption...something along the lines of "No, you can't have the big ugly teddy bear--he's MINE!"
@Rumpelstilskin: Although I'm sure I'll still tune in, I was *so* depressed after seeing the runway pics from the final contestants. Hideous. Just hideous.
MissPeacock
@Rumpelstilskin: I suspect ESPN would have a much better understanding of "tranny fierceness" than the Lifetime set.
People will watch Project Runway on Lifetime and it will be GREAT.
Especially if we all live-blog it. If it sucks, we will lift it up on our shoulders and carry it into the promised land of non-suckiness.
YOU GOTTA BELIEVE.
@jbwan: If it's a live-blog I have anything to do with, the answer is PROJECT RUNWAY.
As for that other show ... meh. It's gotta prove it can be a hit first. Who wants to live-blog something nobody's watching?
That should be "the damned Lifetime network". Until it goes through a rebranding and some heavy therapy for its low self-esteem and penchant for annihilation fantasies, it's damned indeed.