The Acolyte
2024
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Jun 3, 2024 · One of the main criticisms centers on Headland’s former employer Harvey Weinstein. The Hollywood mogul was an industry leader for decades, but evidence of rampant sexual assault landed the...
Upon graduating college, Headland spent six years working as an assistant at Miramax, four years of which was spent as Harvey Weinstein's personal assistant.
Feb 29, 2012 · Leslye Headland loves Harvey Weinstein—despite having worked as his personal assistant. And he most likely loves her back—even after she penned the play Assistance ,about ill-treated...
Fortunately, Leslye is a QuEeR so, in Disney and KK’s view, she is above reproach and deserves nothing but elevation to the highest platform to push their shared political agenda. Any past wrongdoings get swept under the rug- just as they did with Weinstein- and the cycle continues.
'Most of the jurors at Harvey Weinstein’s Los Angeles trial were ready to convict him of crimes related to three of the four women he was charged with raping or sexually assaulting. Yet after weeks of deliberation the 12 jurors voted unanimously to convict him of crimes against only one: a Russian-born model and actress known as Jane Doe 1.
Jan 11, 2024 · A former executive assistant for a top level Hollywood studio executive alleges that the showrunner of Lucasfilm's The Acolyte, Leslye Headland, was given the job in order to stay silent on Harvey Weinstein.
4 days ago · Leslye Headland, creator of The Acolyte, faces backlash on social media - some criticisms rooted in racism and misogyny, despite her lifelong love of Star Wars. Headland's connections to Harvey Weinstein spark concern, but her play "Assistance" serves as a critique of her time at Miramax.
Assistance (2008) is a play written by Leslye Headland which describes the workplace of the world-renowned Daniel Weisinger (likely based on Harvey Weinstein, for whom Headland worked as an assistant).
May 30, 2018 · Between 2007 and 2010, Headland managed to write six plays, covering a sin each (including Assistance, a thinly veiled memoir of her time working as an assistant to Harvey Weinstein, and the raucous Bachelorette). But she hit a snag with the final sin: pride.
Sep 4, 2012 · It’s no surprise that RADiUS, an arm of The Weinstein Company, snatched up the U.S. rights to Leslye Headland ’s Bachelorette — her filmmaking debut — as the playwright-turned-screenwriter and...
