Emails between New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd and Sony Pictures co-chair Amy Pascal show Dowd promising that a column to be written about Pascal “would make sure you look great.”

Buzzfeed reported that the emails, released after a hacker group broke in to Sony's computer systems, detailed a series of exchanges between Dowd, Pascal, and Pascal's husband Bernard Weinraub, a former Times reporter, for a March 2014 column Dowd was writing about the declining percentage of women in the film industry.

The emails show Dowd promising Pascal she “would make sure you look great” and Weinraub warning Pascal not to tell anyone that he was “seeing the column before its printed.” From Buzzfeed:

But the leaked documents show that when Dowd emailed Pascal on March 3 for the column -- which would run online the next night and in print on March 5 -- Dowd told Pascal “i would make sure you look great and we'd check it all and do it properly.”

Before Pascal actually interviewed with Dowd for the column, she talked to Weinraub.

“I said the rap that you jus like to make womens films is unfair amnd sexist,” Weinraub said in an email to Pascal on March 4. “You made all these ”women's movies ===league of their own, 28 days,,,the nora Ephron films...zero dark.... but you also do spifderman... denzel....Jonah hill.....bad teacher etc etc."

Pascal responded, “IM NOT TALKING TO HER IF SHE IS GONNA SLAM ME. PLEASE FIND OUT.”

Weinraub assured her, “you cant tell single person that I'm seeing the column before its printed...its not done...no p.r. people or Lynton or anyone should know.”

After the column was published later that night, Pascal emailed Dowd, saying “I THOUGHT THE STORY WAS GREAT I HOPE YOUR HAPPY ”

Dowd responded: “I hope you're happy! Thanks for helping. Let's do another.” Pascal replied, “Your my favorite person so yes” and Dowd finished the conversation with “you're mine! you're amazing”

Dowd denied that she had given anyone an advance look at her column in a statement released to several reporters, as Politico reported:

In an email though, Dowd says she “never showed Bernie the column in advance or promised to show it.”

“Bernie is an old friend and the Times' former Hollywood reporter, and he sometimes gives me ideas for entertainment columns. In January, he suggested a column, inspired by a study cited in the L.A. Times, about the state of women in Hollywood. Amy is a friend and I reassured her before our interview that it wasn't an antagonistic piece. She wasn't the focus of the story, nor was Sony,” Dowd said. “I emailed with Bernie and talked to him before I wrote the column in March, getting his perspective on the Hollywood old boys' club and the progress of women. But I didn't send him the column beforehand.”