“The attack went off in a big way, and yet we got no support from fellow movie studios, no support from the mayor of Los Angeles, no support from then attorney general Kamala Harris,” Michael Lynton, Sony’s former CEO and chairman, told me later. Five years after the event, he was still embittered, and it wasn’t hard to see why. “I realized Hollywood is a ‘community’ in name only. Nobody lent a helping hand. But in a funny way, I really don’t blame them, because from a distance, no one really understood how damaging or difficult the situation was.”
