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On Harvey Weinstein

*One hero of “She Said” is Ashley Judd. When Harvey Weinstein tried to assault Judd, Judd used her wits. She joked. She made light (well, artfully *seemed* to make light) of the situation. As a final kiss-off, she said, “Win me an Oscar in a Miramax film, Harvey, and then I’ll give you a blow job.” Judd left Hollywood to attend graduate school at Harvard; she became a Harvard professor. When basically no one in Hollywood was willing to speak against Weinstein--not Paltrow, not Jolie, not Hayek--Judd was willing to speak on the record. *One amazing aspect of this book: People return to acting even after they have been treated so terribly. Both Paltrow and Judd have dipped their toes back into the acting waters, in recent years. The creative drive is strong. *”She Said” closely resembles “Spotlight,” in the sense that there is the crime, and then there is the large web of presumably healthy people willing to aid in the cover-up of the crime. Power is just that immovable. An unfor...