Are there skeletons in Steven Spielberg's closet too?

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Three hours after The New York Times published its investigation into Harvey Weinstein’s alleged pattern of sexual misconduct, another of Hollywood’s most powerful producers, Steven Spielberg, demurred when asked to comment. “I think that is a subject that is not on keynote for what we’re talking about here tonight,” he told the Associated Press Oct. 5 while standing next to “Spielberg” director Susan Lacy on the red carpet of that documentary’s New York Film Festival world premiere. “It’s a subject I don’t shy from, but it’s not relevant to what we’re discussing about Susan’s movie today. I have a lot of opinions about that, but not for this event tonight.”

Spielberg and Weinstein have known each other for decades. Last year, news broke that they were preparing competing films about Edgardo Mortara, a Jewish child who grew up to be a Catholic priest after the Papal States took him from his family in 1858. As a producer of “Shakespeare in Love,” Weinstein notoriously beat Spielberg’s “Saving Private Ryan” for the best picture Oscar in 1998. Nonetheless, they seem to be on fairly cordial terms; this April, Weinstein told The Hollywood Reporter that he and Spielberg “once talked about producing [the Academy Awards] together. If we could survive each other, we’d do a great job.”

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