And that he’ll most likely expire in jail. But he doesn’t want to perish on godforsaken Riker’s Island. He’d like to live in some kind of decent facility, maybe savor some fraternal comfort with other inmates, be offered a better selection of films, etc.
The Rikers Island-residing Harvey Weinstein to THR‘s Maer Roishan (posted on 3.10): “When I got sick last year, I was freezing to death in my cell. For days, I couldn’t move. There’s no doctor here. We’re on Rikers Island — all these prisoners and no doctor.
“Finally, I called Craig Rothfeld and begged him, ‘Please help me…I’m sick…I don’t know what to do.’ He got on the phone and they shipped me to Bellevue. I had a heart operation the next day. A day later and I would have been gone. I have bone marrow cancer. I’m dying here. And the DA’s idea is probably to have me die in prison. But I am dying.”
Roshan: “Do you worry about the possibility that you may die here?”
Weinstein: “It scares the shit out of me. Cold and heartless. It’s incredible to have the life that I had and the things that I did for society and not have the leniency to deal with me in a kinder way. Whatever they think I did bad in my life, I didn’t get the death penalty. I’m going to be 74 in March. I don’t want to die in here.”
Elliott Gould‘s Philip Marlowe to the encarcerated David Carrdine in The Long Goodbye (’73): “Listen Dave, remember…you’re not in here, it’s just your body.”
