It turns out the Aaron Sorkin Facebook movie is also the Ben Mezrich Facebook movie.

It turns out the Aaron Sorkin Facebook movie is also the Ben Mezrich Facebook movie.

The Sorkin project (with producer Scott Rudin and Sony Pictures Entertainment) has created a media buzz since its recent disclosure on Facebook. What hasn’t been reported is that Sony and Rudin also optioned Mezrich’s forthcoming book about the birth of Facebook, a source close to the deal has told 02138.

In the Facebook post that first attracted attention to the movie project, Sorkin made no mention of the fact that he was adapting Mezrich’s book. “I’ve just agreed to write a movie…about how Facebook was invented,” Sorkin wrote. “I figured a good first step in my preparation would be finding out what Facebook is, so I’ve started this page.”

Mezrich, the author of Bringing Down the House and several other bestsellers, reportedly sold Face Off, a book on the origins of Facebook, to Doubleday this summer for $1.9 million. That sale, which Doubleday declined to confirm, closely followed allegations in the Boston Globe that Mezrich had exaggerated elements of his previous nonfiction narratives.

This spring, leaks from Mezrich’s proposal suggested his theory that Mark Zuckerberg—the founder and CEO of Facebook—had launched the social-networking site at Harvard as a way to meet women.

It seems likely that Mezrich’s book also planned to parse the complex dispute over Facebook’s origins; to date, there have been several claims that Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook. Launched in 2004, Facebook has been valued at as much as $15 billion.

Name: Steven Ballmer Age: 52 Hometown: Detroit, Michigan CEO Microsoft Corporation

Precis: Steve Ballmer dropped out of Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1980. Eighteen years later, he is fifteen billion dollars wealthier and he is now the brains and the brawn behind the Microsoft corporation.

Work in Progress: Although Ballmer has been CEO of the Microsoft corporation for nearly seven years, it was Bill Gates who stood as the number one man. Last week, Bill Gates announced his almost-retirement as he further separates himself from the company he built thirty years ago. Ballmer wished Gates farewell through tears and now he can turn all of his focus on the long awaited conglomeration of Yahoo and Microsoft. His takeover of Microsoft and foreseeable takeover of Yahoo, and one source reveals possibly taking over AOL, renders him less of a CEO and more of a Napoleon Bonaparte of the internet.

Name: Rajat Gupta Age: 59 Born: Calcutta, India Homebase: Westport, Connecticut Former Managing Director McKinsey & Co., Goldman Sachs, United Nations Advisor to Secretary General, American-Indian Foundation.

Precis: The closest living non-related descendent of Andrew Carnegie, Rajat, Gupta, current independent director for Goldman Sachs, former managing director for McKinsey and Company, and Harvard MBA started some 8,000 miles east, graduating from Indian Institute of Technology only to go back as the bearer of change.

Work in Progress: Rajat Gupta seems to fly around the corporate world, doing everything from managing worldwide financial and business operations to sitting on the boards of the top business schools in the nation: Harvard, Wharton, Northwestern, but it is his philanthropic undertakings that have jetted him into the spotlight. As chairman of the Global Fund, he recently announced that the fund has raised 3 billion to fight the diseases that plague the third world. Gupta also raised nearly $11 billion dollars to fight AIDS/HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in over 130 countries.

Name: Lloyd Blankfein, CEO, Chairman, Goldman-Sachs Group Age: 53 Homebase: New York City
Precis: The president of arguably the biggest bank on Wall Street, Lloyd Blankfein commands a tight ship, keeping Goldman-Sachs more than just afloat in a time of rescission.
Work in Progress: Despite the un-Bear-able credit crunch that has many CEOs, bankers, and investors, dreading that at any moment they might have to trade in their Beemers and Benzs for Hyundais and Hondas, Lloyd Blankfein and the Goldman Sachs crew have mystified market players once again. When their quarterly report was released this past week, analysts gave Goldman an estimated earning per share (EPS = profit / number of shares outstanding) of just 3.42, an estimated $8.74 billion in profit. Goldman reported an EPS of almost five, a quarterly profit $9.42 billion. It's accepted that all banks are and will be effected by the credit crisis, but the graphs show Goldman trouncing its struggling competitors.
Like father like son?: Wouldn’t you know it, his two sons also bleed crimson; his oldest graduated this past May, and his second oldest will be a junior in the fall.

Name: Joe Medioli Homebase: Teaneck, NJ
Precise: Joe Medioli and the 2008 Men’s Varsity Heavyweight Crew team have brought the Sexton Cup back to Cambridge, as they beat the Yale Bulldogs by a cool 7 seconds.
Work in Progress: Last year, the Crimson’s seven year winning streak was shattered by in the blink of an eye when Yale pulled in front by a half second and claimed the Sexton Cup at the Harvard-Yale Regatta. Now that the Harvard Crimson has reclaimed the cup, senior captain Joe Medioli ’08 can retire his oar on a winning note. Despite Harvard's 20 Sexton Cup holdings in the 23 years, this win, for Captain Medioli, is “probably the best-feeling race we had in four years. It feels so sweet.” Yale Captain Jack Vogelsang commented that the near lack of seniors on the Bulldog team this year left them lacking leaders; However, Medioli and his crew thought that, “Going in, we felt like the two crews were very even.”
Better Luck Next Year: Joe leaves next years squad big boatshoes to fill, and of the eight Crimson rowers, four are graduating this year and four are rising seniors.

John Roberts: Chief Justice, US Supreme Court Age: 53 Homebase: Born in Buffalo, N.Y., now lives in Bethesda, M.D.

Precis: Appointed Chief Justice in 2005 after establishing himself as associate counsel to Reagan, an appointee to the D.C. court of appeals, and a private practicing lawyer, John Robert's opinions have included restrictive new abortion policies.

Work in Progress: In a June 2008 ruling, the Supreme Court upheld the rights of terrorism suspects held in prisons such as Guantanamo Bay to petition for a writ of habeas corpus, or in English, the right to request to be released from potentially unlawful detention. Chief Justice Roberts, one of the four justices who opposed the final decision of the court viewed the ruling as a step backwards and could jeopardize national security. Roberts argues that these detainees are not law abiding citizens, but rather enemy combatants, and are therefore not protected by the constitution.

Tom Morello: Guitarist, actor, and anarchist
Age: 44
Homebase: Born in New York City, moved to Libertyville Illinois, and later to Los Angeles.
Precise: Morello is best known for his tenure with bands Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave.
Work in Progress: Tom Morello's guitar was screaming for the destruction of governments long before he established himself as a prominent lead guitarist for Rage Against the Machine. Morello is now pursue his solo career as “The Nightwatchman.” Even with his new acoustic sound, Morello’s message has remained the same: revolution and anti-establishment outrage.
Rock ‘n Royalty: O.K., his family is not exactly royalty, but Tom’s political influences include his Father, the former Kenyan delegate to the UK, and his uncle, the first president of Kenya.

Inspector General, Justice Department
Age: 52
Homebase: Washington, D.C.

Precis: Glenn A. Fine was named Inspector General, and since has been clearing off the Justice's Department's full plate, dealing with illegal immigrants, smoking out the source of drugs in prisons, and conducting 9/11 and antiterrorism investigations.

Work In Progress: He spent his most recent years flushing out the insecurities in that plague national security. As the questionable or “harsh” interrogation tactics conducted in dark military prisons come into light, Glenn Fine is sitting first row and the Senate Judiciary Committee which is now reviewing the protocols for anti-terrorism, the questionable treatment of prisoners during interrogations, and the boundaries between legal methods of extracting information and torture.

Fallback: As he co-captain of the Harvard varsity basketball team, he could take up his offer to play in the NBA, although it may be 30 years expired.