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ASolo ago

"For older known networks that also connect to Weinstein cronys in NY days 70s up the music concert promotion stuff, the Father and Son and family from Don Kirshner's rock concert (notice son's name scrubbed from the net. Recall in old days before internet huge sex scandals). Viacom, Columbia Records those companies were hard core a part of all of this."

Harvey Weinstein's Buffalo years: Celebs, pols and a punch in the nose http://buffalonews.com/2017/10/15/harvey-weinstein-buffalo-years/

It all began in Buffalo.

The brashness, the swagger, the overwhelming drive to make something of himself.

Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood film mogul now cast as a sexual predator, traces the roots of his show business dominance to his arrival at the University of Buffalo campus in the fall of 1969.

It didn’t take long for the kid from Flushing, Queens, to make his mark. He sold ads for an alternative student newspaper. He got his first booking at the old Century Theatre for a Bonnie Raitt/Jackson Browne double bill. And with Corky Burger and $2,500 in borrowed money, they formed Harvey and Corky Productions.

Harvey and Corky brought some of the biggest names in show business to Buffalo: Frank Sinatra, the Rolling Stones, Stephen Stills.

Corky Berger, left, and Harvey Weinstein in the office of Harvey and Corky Productions in Memorial Auditorium. (Photo by Mickey H. Osterreicher) ](http://s3.amazonaws.com/bncore/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/harvey-and-corky-Production-1260x800.jpg))

Frank Sinatra, center, with Harvey Weinstein, right, and Weinstein business partner Corky in Buffalo on Oct. 4, 1974

Patrick Nehin, a North Buffalo guy with diplomas from St. Mark School and Canisius High School, was starting his video production career back in the early 1980s. He had spent months preparing for an early morning shoot in the lobby of the Buffalo Hilton Hotel – now the Adam’s Mark. His ad agency was promoting the hotel’s “Runaway Weekend” package with a TV spot featuring footage of the upscale hotel and its luxurious restaurant fare... Buffalo native Patrick Nehin punched Harvey Weinstein in the nose in 1984 at the then-Hilton (now Adam's Mark). Nehin arrived around 6 a.m. and found his girlfriend at the time sitting in the coffee shop with Weinstein.

“I asked her ‘What the hell are you doing with this guy?’ ” he recalled.

That’s when the girlfriend recounted what now sounds like a familiar story.

“She told me he tricked her into going to his apartment to watch 'Casablanca,' ” he said.

A confrontation ensued. Nehin said Weinstein followed him through the lobby toward LeClub, the Hilton’s popular night spot.

“He came at me,” Nehin said. “That’s when I closed my eyes and hit him as hard as I could. His nose exploded.” http://buffalonews.com/2017/10/15/harvey-weinstein-buffalo-years/

ASolo ago

Donald Clark Kirshner (April 17, 1934 – January 17, 2011),[1] known as The Man With the Golden Ear, was an American music publisher, rock music producer, talent manager, and songwriter. He was best known for managing songwriting talent as well as successful pop groups, such as the Monkees, Kansas, and the Archies.

Don Kirshner was born to a Jewish family[3] in The Bronx, New York.

Kirshner achieved his first major success in the late 1950s and early 1960s as co-owner of the influential New York-based publishing company Aldon Music with partner Al Nevins, which had under contract at various times several of the most important songwriters of the so-called "Brill Building" school, including Carole King, Gerry Goffin, Neil Sedaka, Neil Diamond, Paul Simon, Phil Spector, Howard Greenfield, Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil and Jack Keller.