Hollywood

Amy Pascal flying into LAX is now TMZ fodder (video)

amy-pascal-lax-tmz-grab.jpg
TMZ screen grab

Of all the ways that Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal's life is going to change because her studio emails were hacked and distributed around the internet, this might prove to be one of the more disturbing. When she arrived at LAX on Saturday night, TMZ and it looks like other celebrity paparazzi were there waiting. Pascal, wearing a backpack and looking more like a new LA tourist, turns back when she sees the cameras waiting, then walks this way and that way, obviously startled and unprepared to be photographed and peppered with questions. But she does not escape the video cameras' gaze, or the questions thrown from an off-screen pap. "Oh, you guys, I just got off a plane," she says at one point, as if asking for mercy. She did blurt enough mini-quips to keep TMZ fed, including her response when asked if last week's release of "The Interview" will save her job. "I hope so," she says, semi-smiling.

There may be a 15-second ad at the front of the video.


More by Kevin Roderick:
'In on merit' at USC
Read the memo: LA Times hires again
Read the memo: LA Times losing big on search traffic
Google taking over LA's deadest shopping mall
Gustavo Arellano, many others join LA Times staff
Recent Hollywood stories on LA Observed:
Racism on film, and in the street
A non-objective observer at the Olivia de Havilland v. FX trial
Charles Manson dies 48 years after the murders that changed LA
Disney cancels ban on working with LA Times
'Human Flow' is beautiful and devastating to watch
Why we never see a movie where the dog dies
LA Observed Notes: Arellano out, Weinstein expelled, Sarah Polley talks truth
Standing up to Harvey Weinstein