Crazy Nikki, not to be trifled with, gets slipped a remarkably embarrassing email from fellow-breathless-Tinseltown-tattler Jeffrey Wells, of Hollywood Elsewhere, and publishes it, to general merriment.

Here’s an interesting issue. The email in question was sent Aug. 9; one doubts that “3:10 to Yuma” director James Mangold accommodated Wells’ slightly pervy request.

To Wells’ credit, one must note, he told Mangold he didn’t like the movie and that he would ding it close to the film’s release, which is this Friday. Wells’ eventual post on it, which is a little overdone but well within the bounds of fair comment and far above the level of most internet film commentary, was published midday Wednesday. Sometime after that, it seems, someone in Mangold’s camp leaked the email.

Wells’ request is unforgivable, but you get the feeling he had reason to believe he would have gotten what he asked for.