Statutory: The 54-member board of the Motion Picture Academy, the unofficial governing body of Hollywood, voted “well in excess of the required two-thirds majority” yesterday to immediately eject producer Harvey Weinstein following multiple accusations of sexual harassment, assault, and rape.

Weinstein won a Best Picture Oscar for the 1999 “Shakespeare in Love,” and his movies have won about 80 of the iconic statuettes.

A statement from the Academy said, “We do so not simply to separate ourselves from someone who does not merit the respect of his colleagues, but also to send a message that the era of willful ignorance and shameful complicity in sexually predatory behavior and workplace harassment in our industry is over. What’s at issue here is a deeply troubling problem that has no place in our society.”

It was a stunning move on the part of an industry that not only tolerates but rewards its miscreants, and it opens the door for a potential demand for house cleaning. The Academy is not known to have done anything like this before. Director Roman Polanski, who committed a sex crime with a 13-year-old girl, accused rapist Bill Cosby, and “7^th Heaven” actor Stephen Collins, who admitted molesting teenage girls, have all gone without discipline by the Academy.

But the industry has turned on the man known to all as just “Harvey.” A movie producer told NY Times columnist Maureen Dowd, “If people could rip him apart, they would. Literally everyone in Hollywood is taking marshmallows to roast at his burning corpse.”

Puerto Rico: Our friend Christopher Young posted from San Juan, “Rosa scored three cases of water today! What a Star!!!” Rosa is his wife.

He’s an architect. Now, three weeks after Puerto Rico was crippled, we asked him to write a note and he says, “The haves are playing cat and mouse for drinking water and diesel for their generators. The have nots drink unsafe water and have lights out at 7pm.
We are sharing our generator and UV water supply with our neighbor and their son is using our WiFi to study for the MCAT, but you can drive around the neighborhood and it’s pitch black.
Yesterday I asked my brother in Denver to buy four 5gal diesel jugs at Home Depot. They are not available here. They cost $20 each and $60 each to mail. That’s what you do in a crisis.
Ice? Forget it.
The lack of power impacts potable water supplies, hospitals, police stations, etc. businesses/workers (we all need cash, more than ever).
My concern is how will this look a month from now. I don’t expect a return of power to the vast majority of towns across the island for months. What then? Does every home get a generator and supply of fuel or are we going back to the 19th century. The estimates of a year are not exaggerations. And the current gang running DC does not seem responsible.”

President Trump has tweeted, “Nobody could have done what I’ve done for #PuertoRico with so little appreciation.”

Tweeter-in-Chief:

-“Very proud of my Executive Order which will allow greatly expanded access and far lower costs for HealthCare. Millions of people benefit!”

-“Health Insurance stocks, which have gone through the roof during the ObamaCare years, plunged yesterday after I ended their Dems windfall!”

-“Trust in the media is at the lowest level in all of U.S. history. The American people see through the liberal media’s lies!”

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