Post by The Ultimate Nullifier on Dec 16, 2014 21:56:21 GMT -6
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Apparently, Sony co-chair Amy Pascal likes to make racial cracks.
More of the embattled exec’s emails were uncovered Monday, showing that her comments made about President Obama’s taste in movies wasn’t the only time she brought race into the conversation.
Pascal’s trouble started when she asked one of Sony’s head honchos, Steve Mosko, to take a look at a news release about a big TV deal the company was planning to announce in July.
Mosko said he was upset about being left out of the loop.
“Once again, this will cause major confusion in the television group because he has never talked to me or anyone else in our group and I will have to be on the defensive with my own team and not sure what to say to outside world …” Mosko wrote in an email to Pascal released by Radar Online.
But Pascal lamented that “everyone with half a brain these days” is searching for a role on a TV.
She added that Mosko was just “not used to TV being the new black baby” — referencing a recent trend among A-list celebrities like Madonna, Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron to adopt black children.
But a source close to the studio said Pascal just made a typing error.
“This is ridiculous,” the source said. “She was making an ‘Orange is The New Black’ reference and like anybody else could have, left out the comma in the middle of writing a quick email filled with shorthand and abbreviations.”
This is the second time Angelina Jolie, who is among the celebs taking part in the “black baby” fad, has been the target of Pascal’s self-proclaimed “callous” remarks. Producer Scott Rudin called Mrs. Pitt a “minimally talented, spoiled brat” during an email exchange about an argument over the director for “Jobs.”
Just last week, Pascal apologized for another set of emails between her and Rudin that showed the two joking about what she should ask President Barack Obama at a fundraising event in 2013.
“Should I ask him if he liked DJANGO?” Pascal quipped.
Rudin fired back another slavery-themed film — “12 Years A Slave.”
Pascal, who is at the center of a massive cyber attack against Sony that started three weeks ago, later apologized for her “thoughtless and insensitive” remarks.
Apparently, Sony co-chair Amy Pascal likes to make racial cracks.
More of the embattled exec’s emails were uncovered Monday, showing that her comments made about President Obama’s taste in movies wasn’t the only time she brought race into the conversation.
Pascal’s trouble started when she asked one of Sony’s head honchos, Steve Mosko, to take a look at a news release about a big TV deal the company was planning to announce in July.
Mosko said he was upset about being left out of the loop.
“Once again, this will cause major confusion in the television group because he has never talked to me or anyone else in our group and I will have to be on the defensive with my own team and not sure what to say to outside world …” Mosko wrote in an email to Pascal released by Radar Online.
But Pascal lamented that “everyone with half a brain these days” is searching for a role on a TV.
She added that Mosko was just “not used to TV being the new black baby” — referencing a recent trend among A-list celebrities like Madonna, Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman and Charlize Theron to adopt black children.
But a source close to the studio said Pascal just made a typing error.
“This is ridiculous,” the source said. “She was making an ‘Orange is The New Black’ reference and like anybody else could have, left out the comma in the middle of writing a quick email filled with shorthand and abbreviations.”
This is the second time Angelina Jolie, who is among the celebs taking part in the “black baby” fad, has been the target of Pascal’s self-proclaimed “callous” remarks. Producer Scott Rudin called Mrs. Pitt a “minimally talented, spoiled brat” during an email exchange about an argument over the director for “Jobs.”
Just last week, Pascal apologized for another set of emails between her and Rudin that showed the two joking about what she should ask President Barack Obama at a fundraising event in 2013.
“Should I ask him if he liked DJANGO?” Pascal quipped.
Rudin fired back another slavery-themed film — “12 Years A Slave.”
Pascal, who is at the center of a massive cyber attack against Sony that started three weeks ago, later apologized for her “thoughtless and insensitive” remarks.