A woman drives into a wooded area with a knife in her hand, only to find a gun under the seat to fight off her kidnapper. What would you do if you found yourself in a similar situation? Would you be brave enough to pull the trigger? Or would you be a coward?
00:01:04.300But at the same time, there was no place she'd rather be at this moment than driving her own vehicle, because she knew her salvation was there, hidden under the seat.
00:05:49.860They loved me, these two brothers, who had reinvented the cinema and who were fun and tough and didn't give an East Coast F about all the slick ones out in L.A.
00:06:03.140The glory days in Tribeca, the old cramped offices, the wonderful gang of executives and assistants, and the filmmakers who were doing repeat business, the brothers wanted to create a family of film, and they did just that.
00:06:16.040We looked forward to having our meetings there, meetings that would turn into plans, that would turn into raucous nights out on the town.
00:06:41.860But we were certainly aware of a certain pattern of overly aggressive behavior that was rather dreadful.
00:06:47.980We knew about the man's hunger, his fervor, his appetite.
00:06:51.700There was nothing secret about his voracious rapacity.
00:06:54.860Like a gluttonous ogre out of the Brothers Grimm.
00:06:59.800All couched in vague promises of potential movie roles.
00:07:03.960And it should be noted that there were many who actually succumbed to his bulky charms, willingly, which surely must have only impelled him to cast his fetid net even wider.
00:07:14.500But like I said, everyone effing knew.
00:07:18.060And to me, if Harvey's behavior was the most reprehensible thing that one could imagine, a not so distant second is the current flood of sanctimonious denial and condemnation that now crashes upon those shores in gloppy tides of BS righteousness.
00:09:10.740Not to mention, most of the victims chose not to speak out.
00:09:14.600Aside from sharing the grimy details with a close girlfriend or confidant.
00:09:19.260And if they discussed it with their representatives, agents, managers, who themselves feared the wrath of the big man, the agents and managers would tell them to keep it to themselves.
00:09:36.820That old saw, you'll never work in this town again, came crawling back to putrid life like a reanimated cadaver in the late night zombie flick.
00:09:45.580But yes, everyone knew someone who had been on the receiving end of lewd advances of him.
00:09:55.760A few actress friends of mine told me stories of a ghastly hotel meeting, repugnant bathrobe shucking, of a loathsome massage request.
00:10:07.680And though, although they were rattled, they sort of laughed at his arrogance.
00:10:13.400How he actually believed that he could, the simple sight of his naked body, the doughy, carbungled flesh, was going to get them in the mood.
00:10:23.540So I just believed it to be a grotesque display of power.
00:10:27.800A dude misreading the room and making a lame, if vile pass.
00:10:33.060It was all much easier to believe that.
00:10:37.040It was much easier for all of us to believe that.
00:10:42.660Because here's where the slither meets the slime.
00:10:48.100Harvey was showing us the best of times.