Kim Masters and the Zen of the "DaVinci" koan


“If the potato isn’t rotten, people might ask, why hide the potato?”

So asks NPR and Slate contributor, Kim Masters, in a look at why it is that Sony Pictures has yet to screen the Ron Howard film for critics.

Writes Masters:

“I’ve never been this close to a release without having someone tell me what they thought,” acknowledges a key player in the making of the film.”

Here’s why: Privately, a Sony insider tells me that the real reason the film hasn’t been screened is the very medium you’re reading Slate and FishbowlLA on: The web.

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