Michael Chabon, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, screenwriter, and Star Trek: Picard showrunner, has published a 1,400 word mea culpaon Medium called "Apology of a Rudin Apologist." It sheds light on what an "open secret" in Hollywood looks like. Chabon says he collaborated with Rudin for 20 years, and while he never saw any of the "smashed hands" or people getting "pushed out of cars" as detailed in THR's report, he "knew enough." He describes the EGOT-winner's treatment of his staff as "a careful, even surgical contempt, like a torturer trained to cause injuries that leave no visible marks." With a novelist's eye he describes Rudin hurling a pencil at an assistant's head "eraser end first."