Sony Execs Made Actors Tell Them If They Had Oral Herpes

In news that surely has Sony executives ‘round the globe popping sedatives, WikiLeaks has released a second batch of stolen documents from Sony Pictures Entertainment. Most of the 276,000 documents involve sensitive legal matters, but several, Radar Online reports, concern an issue that we can all relate to: herpes!
This Is the Interview About His Ancestor Ben Affleck Tried to Suppress
Ben Affleck really didn’t want people to know that one of his distant ancestors owned slaves—going so far as to lobby celebrity genealogy TV show Finding Your Roots to suppress the segment in which that ancestor is discussed. But we got our hands on a copy of the script—and now you can read the mild interview that…
How to Decorously Buy Your Daughter's Way into Harvard
At the London Review of Books blog, Deborah Friedell brings our attention to the genteel, transactional correspondence between a senior executive and member of an Ivy League college’s development staff, as made public in the Sony hacks:
Amy Pascal's Girl Power Platitudes About Women in Movies Fall Flat
In an interview with veteran magazine editor Tina Brown at a conference in San Francisco this week, fired ex-Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal talked for the first time about the impact of the Sony hacks on her career (bad). She also talked about the need for more women in movies, and, in virtually the same breath,…
NYTers in Leaked Emails: 'Bullshit' To Call Abramson's Firing Sexist
It was "a week of tumult" and "invective" at the New York Times, the former Timeser felt, gazing over all the shattered dishware left in the wake of publisher Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger's abrupt and controversial ouster of executive editor Jill Abramson. But there were also lessons to be learned, and hugs and pats on…
Beyoncé's Estranged Dad Tried to Shop a Destiny's Child Biopic
Mathew Knowles, father of Beyoncé, was reportedly shopping around a Destiny's Child biopic to Sony last year, according to the latest hacked emails. Just like Mathew, that movie would've disappointed us all.
