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CAA calls party foul on Tina and Amy’s Sony hack jokes


From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:31:08 +0000 (UTC)

http://pagesix.com/2015/01/15/caa-calls-party-foul-on-tina-and-amys-sony-hack-jokes/

By Emily Smith and Ian Mohr
PageSix.com
January 15, 2015

Hollywood drama followed the Golden Globes Sunday night when top agency CAA demanded its famous clients not attend Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s bash after the pair poked fun at the Sony hacking scandal.

Sources tell us CAA’s Bryan Lourd — whom the Hollywood Reporter says has been serving as “privy counselor” to Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chairman Amy Pascal — had asked Globes hosts Fey and Poehler to lay off the hack.

“CAA warned that they didn’t want jokes about the scandal,” a source told Page Six. “But Tina and Amy [who are not CAA clients] ignored their warning and made the jokes anyway, so CAA asked its own clients not to go to their after-party.”

CAA’s post-Globes bash at the Sunset Tower Hotel was attended by Sony Entertainment CEO Michael Lynton as well as Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Lorde, Richard Linklater, Ron Howard, Adam Levine, Julianna Margulies, Kate Beckinsale and Clive Owen, spies said. Pascal did not attend the Globes.

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