There's this extremely weird, slightly

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There's this extremely weird, slightly satiric, observational fly-on-the-wall piece by Christian Moerk in Sunday's New York Times about the first meeting between Paramount Pictures' recently hired film division chairman and chief executive Brad Grey and the studio's "entire senior-executive phalanx" in an executive boardroom last January 6th. There's no angle or point to it -- it's not some thoughtfully considered New Yorker or New York Observer-type thing. It just says to the reader, "Our guy was told about this big meeting, and here are the details he was given...ten days after the fact." The three funniest bits are (a) Moerk's stating for the record that Grey "declined to comment for this article," (b) reporting that Grey is "likely to focus on completing titles like Charlotte's Web" -- a big family-friendly animated thing, I gather -- for which he'd like to snag the voice-acting talents of Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts, and (c) Moerk's passing along the view that "nobody [expects] the new boss to replace senior staff or production deals immediately." Hah!