Yesterday News International settled with a whopping 37 phone hacking victims, but only one of them — the dashing, scarf-wearing Jude Law — is causing them a big headache.

According to the Telegraph, Law said that News International admitted to hacking his voicemail for a story in 2003. The information contained in the article might have been accessed through conversations Law had with his assistant, who had recently landed at JFK airport. If Law’s phone was operating on a stateside network, the hacking could be punishable under U.S. law.

“We aware of the allegations surrounding this matter and are looking into it,” a FBI spokesperson told The Telegraph.

Over at Slate, Ron Rosenbaum went all medieval on a Tom Junod-penned profile of Angelina Jolie in Esquire and panned it as the worst celebrity profile ever written. Interestingly, Rosenbaum didn’t mention Junod’s name in the piece once. Junod is a respected writer whose profiles of Mr. Rogers and Mike Tyson have become standard fare for college journalism classes, and he’s written about everything from Ecuadorian kidnappings to iconic 9/11 photographs. Then again, he’s also responsible for a puff piece or two. But the challenging thing is that in Rosenbaum’s screed, he treats Junow’s article like something special. He namedrops Yale University in calling it a “fallacy of imitative form” and calls the Jolie profile the worst out of “a wasteland of celebrity profiles.”

The wasteland part we can see. But the worst?

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