HARVEY Weinstein is a movie mogul straight from central casting: a bombastic, abrasive marketing genius, constantly alive to the possibility of garnering a little extra publicity. So when he was ordered to change the name of his next film because its title, The Butler, had already been used for a long-forgotten black-and-white comedy from 1916, Weinstein's reaction was predictably explosive. This week he hired David Boies, the uber-lawyer who represented Al Gore when he was fighting George W. Bush for the presidency in 2000, to pursue his case. Also in this story Login to...
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