amy pascal, studio chairman/chicken eater

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Insider's City Guide: Sony Pictures's Amy Pascal on L.A.

The chairman of Sony Pictures Entertainment's Motion Picture Group has lived in L.A. all her life.

"The best roast chicken is at Zankou Chicken [5065 West Sunset Boulevard, 323-665-7842]. It's a little Armenian place in a strip mall in a really funky part of town—in deep, dark Hollywood, the part where most people don't roam. But it has the greatest chicken ever. And I've had roast chicken everywhere, including restaurants all over Paris. It's so spicy. Make sure you order it with extra garlic sauce—whipped sauce in those little paper cups. The chicken comes in a plastic basket with pita bread and the best hummus.'

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okay. where to start with this. first of all, i have to say that i do agree with our good friend amy pascal about zankou. it's great. and, for the record, i have a lot of respect for the career she's managed to build for herself in hollywood.

that said, could this asshole be any more ridiculous?!?! (to give you a visual, here's a photo of her looking drunk and clinging to drew barrymore... a photo deserving of a whole separate entry, but right now we're talking about her "review" of zankou.)

i love how she so clearly believes that a trip to sunset & normandie equals "slummin' it." madame aimee pascal belongs in the great cities of the world: London! Paris! Milan! the thought of her soiling her manolo blahniks on the seamy streets of hollywood -- [quick, someone pass me a tissue!!]. i can barely type right now i hate her so much. "deep, dark Hollywood" -- what does that mean?!?! "the part where most people don't roam" -- "most people"?!?! what about the people who fucking LIVE in hollywood, madame pascal?!?! clearly she means "most rich westsiders like me," but i just LOVE that she neglects to make that qualification. come on... who out there honestly thinks this woman doesn't dispatch the maid to get the fucking chicken? and i also love how quaint she finds "those little paper cups." go back to campanile, beeyatch.

i really do honestly hate her right now. the second part of the review was for urth [barf] caffe. i couldn't even read that one, although i noticed that she managed to name-drop "jake gyllenhaal and kirsten dunst" in there somewhere. CLASSY!!

 

posted Monday, August 30, 2004

1 Comments:

Blogger G said...

oh sweet jesus.

"Deep, dark Hollywood"? Are you kidding me with that?

"And I've had roast chicken everywhere, including restaurants all over Paris." Oh, truly you are an expert then.

It's roast chicken. Christ.

1:07 PM  

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