From: "BW" <b@b.com>

Subject: FW: Quentin & Uma

Date: Friday, April 09, 2004 12:04 PM

Dear Erik:

I am sorry to say I absolutely hated your story and I've attached an email I just sent to Peter Travers. I didn't want to be underhanded and so I'm letting you know that I'm clearly not very happy girl.

I don't really know what to say. I think you're a good writer. This one, however, made me deeply depressed, just because of the incredible waste -- wasn't there a better story there?

I wish I were writing a different email.

Best,

B.W.

-----Original Message-----

From: B.W.

Sent: Fri 4/9/2004 08:52

To: pt@rollingstone.com

Cc:

Subject: Quentin & Uma

Dear Peter:

Very rarely have I felt so strongly that a client's time, goodwill and trust was completely squandered by a writer. Erik Hedegaard's story on Quentin and Uma, is trashy, tabloid-style journalism and I'm absolutely amazed that a magazine with such a history of groundbreaking journalism would allow such a piece. Look at it this way -- Erik spent at least four hours, if not more, with one of the most unique, creative and precedent setting voices in cinema and what he reported, after his time spent with Quentin, was that he was a long chinned, motormouthed dork with a big fat unrequited crush on Viking goddess Uma Thurman. The films were hardly mentioned. What an opportunity Erik wasted! He could've written the definitive piece -- a cover story in Rolling Stone for God's sake -- about a unique collaboration.... but he chose to fall glibly for the caricature of QT and chose to ask Uma whether she named penises. Brilliant indeed. I wasn't looking for pandering. Quentin is way more complex and interesting than that. I was merely looking to see a story with some kind of unique insight instead of a story that hashed up every trashy tabloid story that we've seen about the two of them. I find it deeply depressing.

Had it not been for the beautiful cover shot and your brilliant review, I think I may have shot myself yesterday.

I would love to hear your thoughts.

Very best wishes,

B.W.