Flashback 2012 .
The Hollywood Reporter reports:
A month after comparing the president to "The King's Speech" and Mitt Romney to "Our Idiot Brother," Weinstein will host 50 people at his beachfront home.
In the wake of another month of fundraising defeat, President Obama is turning to one of his top big money champions.
Producer Harvey Weinstein is scheduled to hold a 50 person, $38,500-a-head event for Obama at his Westport, Connecticut home on Monday, with The Dark Knight Rises star Anne Hathaway and Newsroom creator Aaron Sorkin serving as co-hosts.
Weinstein has held several fundraisers for the president, and attended a State Dinner for UK Prime Minister David Cameron in March. Vocal in his support of Obama, he said on The Rachel Maddow Show in July that if movies were presidential candidates, Obama would be The King's Speech, while Mitt Romney would be Our Idiot Brother. While the titles provide an obvious metaphor, he was also speaking of fundraising: while Romney has raised more money and had more Super Pac expenditure, he didn't expect that to equal great success.
There's more:
Weinstein may be planning on helping Obama in other ways, too. He bought the rights to The Oath of Tobruk, a documentary about the fall of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi at Cannes, saying that the film "highlights the invaluable leadership from President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. American audiences will get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of how our government and the French government worked together to stop the slaughter of innocent civilians and brilliantly handled the overthrow of a government.”
Obama has increasingly counted on Hollywood for a large chunk of his fundraising; a celebrity-sweepstakes fundraiser held at the home of George Clooney raised $15 million for the campaign, while many young Hollywood stars came together on an event in his honor, as well.
If Obama and Aaron Sorkin where wrong about Harvey Weinstein couldn't they be wrong about climate change?
