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Smart Family Hires Entertainment Lawyer
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Posted on 04/07/2003 8:04:25 AM PDT by Hillary's Lovely Legs
Smart Family Hires Entertainment Lawyer
SALT LAKE CITY, April 5, 2003
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Elizabeth Smart with her father, Ed (AP/Deseret News, Tom Smart)
Elizabeth with her parents Lois and Ed (AP Photo/Deseret News, Tom Smart)
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(AP) Elizabeth Smart's family has hired a Los Angeles entertainment attorney to help them screen movie and book proposals about Elizabeth's abduction and remarkable return.
Kelly Crabb, who reportedly has negotiated contracts for Paul McCartney, Dave Matthews and Muhammad Ali, was hired a week ago, said Chris Thomas, the family's spokesman.
According to his firm's Web site, Crabb's areas of practice include motion picture, television and other programming production and financing; composer agreements, personal appearances and motion picture distribution.
"These kind of contracts are very specialized," Thomas said.
Crabb received bachelor's and master's degrees from Brigham Young University before earning a law degree from Columbia University in 1984. He also worked for the Salt Lake Organizing Committee.
Elizabeth, now 15, was abducted from her bedroom on the night of June 5. On March 12, she was found in a Salt Lake suburb with her alleged kidnappers.
TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: clowns; dummywood; elizabethsmart; entertainment; greed; hollyweird; usefulidiots
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To: Illbay
I believe they are creeps. You have a problem with that, fine.
361
posted on
04/07/2003 2:09:03 PM PDT
by
LaGrone
To: Illbay; Eva
now youre plainly frothing -
To: Queen Jadis
I can't believe there are pro-Ricci people on this board. They didn't pluck him out of the air...he was a criminal. Heck, he tried to kill a cop...he was a natural suspect.
363
posted on
04/07/2003 2:10:29 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: Dr. Eckleburg
How can you spin someone's criminal record?
364
posted on
04/07/2003 2:11:30 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
Must be for a remake of
Smart Family Robinson
365
posted on
04/07/2003 2:11:52 PM PDT
by
sonofatpatcher2
(Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
To: Illbay
I am but awed by your stamina.
To explain and defend the dumb-show that's been played out for public consumption is a daunting task.
But you never seem to tire.
I think your diet has something to do with it. I'll give you that much.
366
posted on
04/07/2003 2:12:07 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(There are very few shades of gray.)
To: hergus
""I believe that this person is not a bad person at all. "
If you thought your child was still alive, (assuming that the sick pedophile kidnapper cared about her, because he let her go back for her shoes--I suppose the profilers told the parents/family to not intimiate or infuriate the kidnappers cuz they could hurt the daughter...)...I'd venture to guess you'd say ANYTHING.
367
posted on
04/07/2003 2:12:08 PM PDT
by
Freedom2specul8
(Please pray for our troops.... http://anyservicemember.navy.mil/)
To: Illbay
What is the Dirty Dozen??? Sounds interesting!
368
posted on
04/07/2003 2:12:43 PM PDT
by
Hildy
To: Illbay
My suspicion is that Tom Smart may have at one time said it was a "beauiful story" the way everyone has been supported, and pitched in to help find Elizabeth. You have that precisely right, Illbay. The same distortion was going on when it happened, like it somehow proved she was sold into a polygamous cult or something.
There is always a lunatic fringe.
369
posted on
04/07/2003 2:12:44 PM PDT
by
Yeti
To: Dr. Eckleburg
But I note you are one of the "Dirty Dozen," kudos - pssst, tell him to "insert filename here" LOL
To: hergus; ~Kim4VRWC's~
Thanks to you both for your kind words.
To: Hildy
Doesn't matter. Westerfield had tons of evidence against him, he was on trial, and so he was somehow automatically being "framed."
372
posted on
04/07/2003 2:13:33 PM PDT
by
Illbay
(Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
To: LaGrone
What I have a problem with is that you have no basis, whatsoever, for your conclusion that they are "creeps."
None.
That's a sad commentary on our "Ricki Lake/Maury Povich/Jerry Springer" society.
373
posted on
04/07/2003 2:14:30 PM PDT
by
Illbay
(Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
To: spectre
I've really gone back and forth on this movie/book deal. Personally, I wouldn't do it, OTOH, a really bad movie could be made with wrong facts that might hurt Elizabeth even more. It's a decision I'm glad I didn't have to make.
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
I have not followed this real close but something is rotten in Denmark...something bother me about this family.....
375
posted on
04/07/2003 2:14:53 PM PDT
by
GregB
To: Revelation 911
"Frothing"? Hardly. I simply don't like to be lied against. One of the reasons I'm not real fond of you, either.
376
posted on
04/07/2003 2:15:23 PM PDT
by
Illbay
(Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
To: Hildy
statureNope. He said it. And "well-respected in the community."
I was watching it with a dozen other people and we were all shocked by his admission. It made no sense at all.
377
posted on
04/07/2003 2:15:25 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(There are very few shades of gray.)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
At least I have something to say.
You plainly have NOTHING to add, yet you continue to try.
Now THAT'S stamina.
378
posted on
04/07/2003 2:16:15 PM PDT
by
Illbay
(Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
To: Cincinatus
Thanks for the picture of Hillary and the first good laugh I've had in a while.
379
posted on
04/07/2003 2:16:37 PM PDT
by
Mears
To: Hildy
You have FReepmail.
380
posted on
04/07/2003 2:16:44 PM PDT
by
Illbay
(Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
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