DOWN AND DIRTY PICTURES: MIRAMAX, SUNDANCE, AND THE RISE OF INDEPENDENT FILM by Peter Biskind (writer of EASY RIDERS, RAGING BULLS). Of his first and only meeting with the Weinstein brothers he writes: "I couldn't help noticing the baseball bat in the corner, leaning against the wall. Reading my mind he (Harvey) quickly moved to disarm with the self-deprecating humor that's become his trademark, shouting, 'Matthew, get in here! It's time for your flogging!' Bob, dark and brooding, sat slumped in a chair to the left in front of the desk, playing Caliban to Harvey's Prospero, while I sank into a bottomless black leather couch so low it had me staring up at him, all too aware of the mini-Mussolini-ness of it all. The odor of menace hung in the air like the smell of burning tires. I felt like the guy from one of those bomb-in-the-building pictures, Bruce Willis in DIE HARD, perhaps, careful not to cut the wrong wire, the red one instead of the yellow, for fear of setting them off."