Harvey Weinstein's Freaky Stylee

Via Gawker we learn that Harvey Weinstein traffics in weopons of mass distraction when journos appraoch him with exposees on Miramax.

Jacob Bernstein writes for WWD:

"According to the forward of (Peter) Biskind�s book, Weinstein asked him, 'Don�t you have a book idea that�s really close to your heart?' When Biskind innocently responded that he�d always wanted to write a book about the science of politics, Weinstein told him, 'Great. We could sell a million copies! Forget about that other book.'�

Berstein then goes on to recount similar ploys used against Ken Auletta and Kevin Kelly of the Post.

That would explain Miraxax's quixotic publication of punk AJ Benza's Fame Aint it a Bitch