Hollywood. The land of broken dreams and broken promises. Where you hold your friends close and your enemies closer. Where betrayal and backstabbing comes with the turf. Where..

You catch the drift. We're totally talking Noir City.

So now, add Kristen Lewandowski to the roster of the disenchanted. A case recently decided by a Department of Labor Administrative Review Board lays bare Lewandowski's sobering introduction to the ways of the entertainment world. Unfortunately for Lewandowski, she lost her whistleblowing complaint against Paramount Pictures. Fortunately for those who seek to understand how the real world works, her complaint sheds light on the business.

Paramount hired Lewandoswki in May 2005 as a story editor in its Literary Affairs Department in New York. She was responsible for reading books and attending theater productions, and then advising Paramount executives about which might be turned into motion pictures.

Sounds kind of fun, though it's probably a real grind.

Lewandoswki reported to then-vice president Patricia Burke. She subsequently claimed, though, that Burke was leaking the contents of the production memos to employees of other potential producers like Scott Rudin. Lewandowski complained and was subsequently fired; she says, for blowing the whistle.

Burke left Paramount in January 2008, after 17 years; she since joined a firm called InkWell.

The Administrative Review Board, though, determined that Lewandowski's complaints about alleged corporate disloyalty didn't really relate to defrauding shareholders. Hence, she wasn't covered by the federal whistleblowing statute.

Fine. All Suits & Sentences is saying is: Hollywood reporters and insiders might want to check out the complete case file on this baby.