Sometimes you can’t do better than an old-fashioned police blotter for Hollywood blather.
Under the headline “On the Police Logs 08.31.17,” the East Hampton Star reported how local police defused a physical altercation in the parking lot of the I.G.A. Saturday.
“One of the men involved, Ian Irving of Springs, told police that the other, Harvey Weinstein of Westport, Conn., had had a minor motor vehicle accident in the lot and begun to drive off.”
Weinstein isn’t just any old Westport gent. He’s the 65-year-old co-founder of Miramax Films and The Weinstein Company.
An executive producer of dozens of films, including Oscar-nominated “Django Unchained” and “Silver Linings Playbook,” he won “Best Picture” in 2011 for “The Artist.”
A major Democratic supporter of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, he is said to be active on issues such as poverty, AIDS, juvenile diabetes and multiple sclerosis research.
The paper covering a burg way out on Long Island, New York, said: “Mr. Irving said he confronted Mr. Weinstein … who got out of his vehicle. The disagreement quickly turned physical, witnesses said, and an employee of the supermarket phoned police, who upon arrival had to separate the two.
“Neither man wanted to press charges, and police directed them to go their separate ways. It appears from police records that no accident report was filed.”