ellen harrington you spent twenty five years at the academy of motion picture arts and sciences in the middle of weinstein's world so to speak how did you experience the weinstein affair and the ensuing need to debate well what i think is so fascinating is that what the journalists who discovered this story and got the women to go on record with the new york times and the the new yorker magazine did. was they broke through a cartel of silence and an actual system of intimidation that was incredibly pervasive and ironically harvey weinstein's attorney last week stated that his defense was that he didn't invent the casting couch and it's true the entire history of the industry of the movie industry entertainment in general women are a product and generally men are the architects of what's being shouted and it's always unfortunately been this way ironically in the silent era there were more women directors and writers than there are now and so when you look at the statistics and who's going to tell the story is what i'm really helping us that the normalization of that kind of institutiona

ellen harrington you spent twenty five years at the academy of motion picture arts and sciences in themiddle of weinstein's world so to speak how did you experience the weinstein affair and the ensuing need to debate well what i think is so fascinating is that what the journalists who discovered this story and got the women to go on record with the new york times and the the new yorker magazine did. was they broke through a cartel of silence and an actual system of intimidation that was incredibly pervasive and ironically harvey weinstein's attorney last week stated that his defense was that he didn't invent the casting couch and it's true the entire history of the industry of the movie industry entertainment in general women are a product and generally men are the architects of what's being shouted and it's always unfortunately been this way ironically in the silent era there were more women directors and writers than there are now and so when you look at this since the statistics on who's going to tell the story is what i'm really helping us that the normalization of that kind of ins

ellen harrington you spent twenty five years at the academy of motion picture arts and sciences in themiddle of weinstein's world so to speak how did you experience the weinstein affair and the suing me to debate well what i think is so fascinating is that what the journalists who discovered this story and got the women to go on record with the new york times and the the new yorker magazine did. was they broke through a cartel of silence and an actual system of intimidation that was incredibly pervasive and ironically harvey weinstein's attorney last week stated that his defense was that he didn't invent the casting couch and it's true the entire history of the industry of the movie industry entertainment in general women are a product and generally men are the architects of what's being shouted and it's always unfortunately been this way ironically in the silent era there were more women directors and writers than there are now and so when you look at this sophistication who's going to tell the stories what i'm really helping us that the normalization of that kind of institutional sex

ellen harrington you spent twenty five years at the academy of motion picture arts and sciences in the middle of weinstein's world so to speak how did you experience the weinstein affair and the ensuing need to debate well what i think is so fascinating is that what the journalists who discovered this story and got the women to go on record with the new york times and the the new yorker magazine did. was the broke through a cartel of silence and an actual system of intimidation that was incredibly pervasive and ironically harvey weinstein's attorney last week stated that his defense was that he didn't invent the casting couch and it's true the entire history of the industry of the movie industry entertainment in general women are a product and generally men are the architects of what's being shouted and it's always unfortunately been this way ironically in the silent era there were more women directors and writers than there are now and so when you look at this as the statistics and who's going to tell the story is what i'm really hoping is that the normalization of that kind of instit