"Men who do this sort of thing think they are just being friendly. They are just asking the girl out who — so what? — happens to work for them.Miramax, of course, distributed the Wurtzel disavowed adaptation of Prozac Nation, which I can barely bring myself to watch. Maybe some day.
Asking again and again and again.
Cornering her.
Pushing her against the wall.
Threatening her — of course not meaning it, because that would be totally wrong.
Over and over again. But, no, not seriously, of course.
We’re all grown-ups.
But asking again and again. And again.
Until it is unbearable and someone has to leave, usually her. No: always her.
She has to go."
Although that's not mentioned, Richard Brody has piece about how Weinstein was bad for films too especially his treatment of auteurs.
Molly Ringwald also mentions the treatment a British film which she was appearing in received, in a longer column about her treatment at the hands of various men on set:
"Thankfully, I wasn’t cajoled into a taxi, nor did I have to turn down giving or getting a massage. I was lucky. Or perhaps it was because, at that moment in time, I was the one with more power. “The English Patient,” Weinstein’s first Best Picture winner, was still a few years away. The worst I had to contend with was performing new pages that Harvey had someone else write, which were not in the script; my co-star, Robert Lindsay, and I had signed off to do a film adapted and directed by one person, and then were essentially asked to turn our backs on him and film scenes that were not what we had agreed to. We hadn’t even finished filming, and the movie was already being taken away from the director."
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