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Updated, 2:15 Pm: A Manhattan judge today set a tentative start date of the rape retrial of convicted sex offender Harvey Weinstein. With the disgraced former movie mogul in the courtroom briefly, Judge Curtis Farber penciled in November 12 but said he was open to earlier trial date depending on how quickly prosecutors move through the grand jury.

Prosecutors told Farber that they still after going through allegations from women who have come forward since Weinstein’s conviction was overturned on appeal in April. Read details of the case below.

Previously, May 1: “We believe in this case, and we will be retrying this case,” prosecutors in Harvey Weinstein’s New York rape case told a judge today in the first hearing since the much-accused producer’s 2020 conviction was overturned last week. “It was a strong case in 2020 …and it remains a strong case in 2024,” added Assistant District Attorney Nicole Blumberg.

Henry Hill's testimonies against Jimmy Conway and Paul Cicero led to their arrests and convictions, with Paulie dying in prison and Jimmy serving a long sentence before his death in 1996. This differs from the events depicted in the movie. The character of Jimmy Conway, based on James Burke, was involved in the Lufthansa heist and other crimes, but was ultimately convicted for conspiracy and his involvement in a gambling scandal. Goodfellas changed some details about Jimmy Conway's life, such as the portrayal of the Air France robbery and the murder of Billy Batts. In real life, these events were different and more premeditated.

Jimmy Conway in Goodfellas was just one of several gangsters from the 1970s and 1980s who are at the center of Martin Scorsese's mob masterpiece. The story is told through the eyes of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), showing his life from his days as a...

Just as video went public today of Harvey Weinstein apparently sexual harassing a women in a business meeting, attempts by the once high-powered producer to close down a criminal case that could see him behind bars for life was called out by the New York County District Attorney’s Office as “meritless” and that it “should be denied.”

“Defendant moves to dismiss the indictment or counts thereof on various grounds of alleged defect or deficiency in the presentation of the matter to the grand jury,” said Cyrus Vance Jr’s office Wednesday in a response to a sprawling and politically charged August 3 motion to dismiss from Weinstein’s primary attorney Ben Brafman.

“Inspection will reveal that the evidence before the grand jury amply supported the offenses charged, that the grand jury was properly instructed on the law, and that the integrity of the proceedings was unimpaired, and the People deny all allegations to the contrary,...

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been a lover of science. Astronomy especially. I grew up watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, and James Burke’s great series Connections. Even today, I am indebted to writers like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stephen Hawking and Sean Carroll for writing about subjects like black holes and the nature of time in ways that a layman like me can understand. I think people like this are imperative to society because many of the subjects they study are critical to us as a race. Two of those subjects are NEOs (Near Earth Objects) and astrobiology. NEOs …...

There's a lot of argument these days over who did or didn't build this or that, but "Dirty Jobs" star Mike Rowe is sure of one thing -- regardless of who built America, there's a lot of alcohol mixed into the mortar of its foundation.

Tonight (Sept. 19) Discovery Channel premieres the first of three episodes (the next two air on consecutive Wednesdays) of "How Booze Built America," in which Rowe traces how beer, wine and spirits figured into the creation of the United States.

"The first episode is the American Revolution," Rowe tells Zap2it. "It's 1620 to 1812, and it's a measured look, from the molasses tax to the sugar tax ..."

Speaking of molasses and sugar, there was the infamous "triangle trade," one aspect of which saw sugar (often in the form of molasses) shipped from the Caribbean to New England to be distilled into rum. The rum was sent to...