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As he stands retrial on multiple charges of rape, stemming from accusations of misconduct from dozens of women<\/a>, Harvey Weinstein<\/strong> sat with right-wing provocateur Candace Owens<\/strong>, who has been a voice of unlikely sympathy for the convicted criminal. Weinstein engaged with her in a wide-ranging conversation released this week Owens\u2019 website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Amid other dubious Hollywood commentary and denials of wrongdoing, Weinstein repeatedly said he has spent his time in prison reading, mostly, claiming he is still somehow involved in Hollywood.<\/p>\n \u201cI have friends who are still in the industry who slip me, sometimes, their screenplays and, you ask me for notes, you know, can I do something for it? You know, can I help? Can I improve it?\u201d he told Owens. Obliging guy that he is, \u201cI just give them my honest thoughts. I’m not doing anything for me, but I\u2019m doing things for others.\u201d<\/p>\n He also shared his thoughts on his initial statement denying the accusations of sexual misconduct all those years ago, which he characterized as, \u201cEverything was consensual, blah, blah. Two lines. That was it.\u201d<\/p>\n Instead, Weinstein said, \u201cI should have just done a press conference and handled each situation and said, \u2018This girl is full of shit, and this one here and that, and this and that.\u2019 And I ran away from it.\u201d<\/p>\n Now, he sees himself as an arbiter of justice. Owens, as she has said many times on her platforms, again openly stated that she thought Weinstein was being punished by the woke masses.<\/p>\n \u201cIt definitely looked like the Me Too movement got so big, that they needed to sort of hang somebody, you know?\u201d she said. \u201cSomebody’s gotta die so that we can move on and think that we’ve achieved social justice. And I think that that’s somebody who is definitely you.\u201d<\/p>\n While incarcerated, Weinstein has \u201cdecided to do my high school curriculum over,\u201d including reading classics. \u201cCatcher in the Rye, Farewell to Arms, Great Gatsby<\/em>. And God, how in the world could I have understood those books the way I understand them now? You know, if I wasn’t in prison, I wouldn’t have read those books again,\u201d he marveled. \u201cFarewell to Arms<\/em>, believe me, they should let me out for a year immediately and let me remake that movie, because they’ve done two versions of them. One was okay, the first one with Gary Cooper and Helen Hayes, black and white, you know, Paramount. But it was all right. But the other one with Rock Hudson and Jennifer Jones, David Selznick’s one of my favorite producers. This one just sucks, you know what I mean? What I could do<\/em> with that material.\u201d<\/p>\n But one of the \u201cbest books of all time\u201d is more contemporary fare: When the Going Was Good<\/em>,<\/a> by former Vanity Fair<\/em> editor Graydon Carter<\/strong>, who made headlines<\/a> writing that he \u201cbanned<\/a>\u201d Weinstein<\/a> from the Oscar party.<\/p>\n \u201cI’m the villain in the piece, you know what I mean?\u201d Weinstein said of the recently published memoir. \u201cBecause I always used to try to sneak in more guests into the Vanity Fair<\/em> Party. They never told me that I was banned for life<\/a>, but apparently in the book, [Carter] said I was banned for life. I used to get, like, a guy would come to me and say, \u2018If you can get me into the Vanity Fair<\/em> Party, I’ll donate to any one of your charities.\u2019”<\/p>\n Weinstein last attended the Vanity Fair<\/em> Oscar Party in February of 2017<\/a>, Carter\u2019s final year hosting. Numerous women came forward with accusations of assault and misconduct in October of 2017.<\/p>\n In Weinstein’s retelling, he claims he negotiated a quarter-million dollar donation to amfAR in exchange for sneaking the guy into the party. \u201cI brought the extra person with me and Georgina [Chapman]<\/strong>, and they said, \u2018You only have two. You brought three.\u2019 You know, I argued a little bit, got him in and got that quarter of a million dollars for charity.\u201d (A representative for Carter did not respond to Vanity Fair<\/em>.)<\/p>\n In addition to Owens, Weinstein has Joe Rogan<\/strong> in his corner<\/a>. \u201cI can\u2019t believe I\u2019m on Harvey Weinstein\u2019s side,\u201d the podcaster said. Weinstein\u2019s retrial is ongoing<\/a> in New York.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n