“Silver Linings Playbook” producer Harvey Weinstein made a behind-the-scenes Oscars deal with “Lincoln” producer Kathleen Kennedy during Golden Globes weekend. “Harvey said that if I cast him as a stormtrooper [in the planned ‘Star Wars: Episode VII’], that he would let us win,” Kennedy told us at the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) annual Globes tea before the awards. Kennedy — who’s up for her eighth Best Picture Oscar this year, and hasn’t won one yet — joked that she was taking the deal. (We’ll be keeping an eye out to see if Harvey winds up at the winner’s podium, or on the Death Star.) While actual tea was on offer at the jam-packed event at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, most opted for Champagne. Working the room were Daniel Day-Lewis, Ben Affleck, Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Jennifer Lawrence, Sally Field, Christoph Waltz, directors Ang Lee and Tom Hooper and of-the-moment Brit stars Michelle Dockery (“Downton Abbey”) and Benedict Cumberbatch (“Sherlock”). Just as the bash wound down and the room emptied, Tim Burton arrived with Helena Bonham Carter on his arm, who was ready to party in a racy, cleavage-baring black cocktail dress.
Harvey Weinstein (storm)trooper for Oscar
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PageSix.com Staff
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Jan. 14, 2013, 5:00 a.m. ET