7. Racially Insensitive Jokes About Obama's Favourite Movies
Embarrassing e-mails between Amy Pascal and Scott Rudin have also been unearthed, in which the pair joke about which sort of movies U.S. President Barrack Obama would like to watch. In one e-mail, Pascal asks Rudin, "Should I ask him if he liked DJANGO?", and the pair go on to reference other black-themed movies such as 12 Years A Slave, The Butler, Think Like A Man and Ride Along. Though some quarters of the online press irresponsibly and misguidedly labelled the e-mails as racist, they can at best be seen as racially insensitive, a flippant series of jibes between friends that the rest of the world had no business seeing. Facing building public pressure, the pair nevertheless apologised profusely for the comments. Things got worse when Kevin Hart asked for a pay bonus on top of his $3 million movie salary to Tweet publicity about his films, to which studio exec Clint Culpepper referred to him as a "whore". Naturally, a number of websites tied the Obama e-mails to the Hart e-mails and made these execs out to be a shower of racists, which while not the case, nevertheless shines an unfavourable light on their less-than-professional attitudes.
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