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[–] Factfinder2 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

Weinstein appears to be signaling that he's ready to out co-abusers as necessary to improve his situation and is giving them a heads-up on that and perhaps time to scatter:

https://www.thewrap.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/books.jpg

https://www.thewrap.com/harvey-weinstein-bizarre-arrest-day-reading-bio-hollywood-pariah-elia-kazan/

"When Harvey Weinstein entered Manhattan’s first precinct on Friday to surrender on three felony charges for sex-related crimes, he was seen clutching three books beneath his right arm — including a biography of another Hollywood legend turned pariah, Elia Kazan.

It’s a curious choice of accessory — did he really expect to have a lot of downtime while he was being fingerprinted and then brought before a judge for arraignment?

But at least two of the books could be identified as hardcover editions of entertainment biographies: Richard Schickel’s 2006 book “Eliz Kazan” and Todd S. Purdum’s “Something Wonderful,” a newly released biography of Broadway composer-lyricist team Rodgers and Hammerstein. (The third book, a paperback in a plain black cover, could not be readily identified.)

Kazan, a celebrated Broadway director who then won two Oscars for 1947’s “Gentleman’s Agreement” and 1954’s “On the Waterfront,” became a pariah in left-leaning Hollywood over his 1952 testimony before the House Un-American Activities Committee rooting out Communist Party members in positions of prominence.

Called before the committee at the height of the Red Scare, Kazan named eight Hollywood figures who, like him, had once been members of the Communist Party."