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A holiday musical ode to Sony and ‘The Interview’

By Steven Zeitchikwriter 
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On Wednesday, Sony announced it would release the embattled comedy “The Interview” on a host of digital platforms--including Google Play, Microsoft Xbox and YouTube--and make it available for rental or purchase from Christmas Eve through the holiday weekend. The timing had us feeling musical.

My Favorite Pings

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Light Rogen movies and Worldwide Web hittin’s
Digital downloads tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite pings

Bold-colored Sonys and big-theater toodles
Day and date releases and openings that are futile
Flag-wavers that make silly movies right wing
These are a few of my favorite pings

Execs in slight messes with blue tinted hashtags
Sorkin emails that leak and quickly form rashes
Rudin insults that soon make Angie go zing
These are a few of my favorite pings

When the Kim bites, when the GOP stings
When I’m feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite pings
Like Kim Jong Un’s face that melts into rings
And then I don’t feel so bad

@ZeitchikLAT

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Steven Zeitchik

Steven Zeitchik is a former Los Angeles Times staff writer who covered film and the larger world of Hollywood for the paper from 2009 to 2017, exploring the personalities, issues, content and consequences of both the creative and business (and, increasingly, digital) aspects of our screen entertainment. He previously covered entertainment beats at Variety and the Hollywood Reporter, has contributed arts and culture pieces to the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post and the New York Times and has done journalistic tours of duty in Jerusalem and Berlin. While at The Times he has also reported stories in cities ranging from Cairo to Krakow, though Hollywood can still seem like the most exotic destination of all.

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