New York Daily News

Star recalls hairy dustup with creep

- BY JAMES FANELLI

BROADWAY funnyman Nathan Lane got the last laugh on Hollywood horndog Harvey Weinstein on Saturday night, when he told an audience of his own toxic encounter with the pervy producer at a Hillary Clinton birthday bash in 2000.

Weinstein, who has been accused of being a serial sexual harasser, once snapped at Lane for telling a combover joke about Rudy Giuliani during the party for Clinton.

The movie mogul thrown the soiree to celebrate Clinton’s 53rd birthday and as a fund-raiser for her inaugural run for the U.S. Senate.

Lane (photo inset) served as emcee, but Weinstein didn’t take the Giuliani jab in good humor.

New York magazine reported last week that Weinstein threw “The Producers” star against a wall and screamed, “This is my f---ing show, we don’t need you.”

What was left out of the magazine’s anecdote was Lane’s witty retort.

“You can’t hurt me. I don’t have a film career,” he recalled telling Weinstein.

Lane referred to the scuffle during an interview with writer Michael Schulman on Saturday night at The New Yorker Festival.

Weinstein became the pariah of Tinseltown on Thursday when The New York Times reported that he had been accused of sexually harassing young actresses — including Rose McGowan and Ashley Judd — and female staffers over three decades.

The accusation­s led to at least eight settlement­s with women.

The Weinstein Co., the film studio he founded with his brother, suspended him indefinite­ly after The Times’ story. On Sunday, the company fired him.

Several elected officials — including Sens. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) — have stated they plan on giving Weinstein’s political contributi­ons to women’s charities.

In a statement to The Times, Weinstein said he understood the pain his behavior had caused colleagues and was trying to become a better man. had

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