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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; JesseShurun; drstevej
My "rant" as you call it was against that brutal, uncaring and hateful creation that you call "god." Not against the REAL God. ~ Illbay
It must be nice being the FR pet where you can insult us and attack the Lord all day long without any worry that we will respond.
Woody.
401
posted on
04/07/2003 2:31:01 PM PDT
by
CCWoody
To: Utah Girl
You deserve all the accolades bestowed on you. With all the interminable bickering you always were a calming influence. I always looked forward to your posts.
402
posted on
04/07/2003 2:32:49 PM PDT
by
hergus
To: Illbay
An opinion is an opinion is an opinion. That was all it was. I gave it and I am sticking with it. You act like you are the only human who knows everything about the Smart case. How could you be?
Your opinion may be more informed than mine, but I never said what I thought of the Smart's was more than an opinion.
By the way, your method of attacking anyone who dares to differ with your beliefs is narrow at best. However, I can assure you it will not deter me from stating an opinion.
403
posted on
04/07/2003 2:33:36 PM PDT
by
LaGrone
To: LaGrone
Back up your opinion. If you want to consider that an attack, then so be it.
If you can't understand that upright people abhor gossip and slander, then you have much to learn.
I hope you are very young.
404
posted on
04/07/2003 2:35:09 PM PDT
by
Illbay
(Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
To: Illbay
You...(holding my sides, laughing too hard)...you speak of "in the secret know!"
Oh, joy. Laughter's a tonic, alright.
405
posted on
04/07/2003 2:35:41 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
(There are very few shades of gray.)
To: Illbay; Corin Stormhands
Oh, isn't "hardened heart" insulting me?Merely fact-based opinion LOL
Bill, you live in a small town - yet hold the anger of a man who lives in NYC
Is there anything us protestants can pray for - what exactly is troubling your heart ?
To: CCWoody
I don't believe in this heartless, cruel being that you worship as God, that's all.
That's not an attack, nor is it considered an "attack" when you tell me that you disagree with OUR beliefs.
It is an "attack" when you start in with the lies about the "evil things" that my Church does, etc. That's poppycock, you know it, but you say it anyway.
Yeah, that's pretty despicable, but par for your course.
407
posted on
04/07/2003 2:38:34 PM PDT
by
Illbay
(Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
I'm sure that I am not as "in the know" as you are, but then again, my knowledge is my own.
Unlike you, I don't assert to have "secret knowledge" about things that are none of my business.
408
posted on
04/07/2003 2:39:44 PM PDT
by
Illbay
(Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
To: Revelation 911
Nothing troubles me. I refuse to back down when you and your "friends" start in with lies about my religious faith.
That's all.
409
posted on
04/07/2003 2:40:30 PM PDT
by
Illbay
(Don't believe every tagline you read - including this one)
To: Hillary's Lovely Legs
The dad is a dope and the mom is stupid for hiring that transient!
To: Illbay
"Sorry, but you seem to have jumped on me earlier for scorning your "conspiracy theory" mentality, but you keep it up. What else am I supposed to think?"
You must be confusing me with someone else. I haven't posted on the ES thread's since before she was found. The reason being that posters of your ilk were successful in running off most of the intelligent people discussing Elizabeth's disappearance.
/ignore
411
posted on
04/07/2003 2:41:12 PM PDT
by
hergus
To: Illbay; Dr. Eckleburg
I hope you are very young. youre sick
To: Illbay; LaGrone
413
posted on
04/07/2003 2:42:42 PM PDT
by
Alex Murphy
(Athanasius contra mundum!)
To: CCWoody
bump
To: bonfire
What will the movie be rated? That's another thing that may turn your stomach.......
To: Doctor Don
The dad is a dope and the mom is stupid for hiring that transient! a million dollar home and the guy is doing his own roofing with a transient his wife found- theres a plan (sarcasm)
To: stands2reason
So, are you already considering that (report published in the Globe supermarket tabloid) a fact?
No, as is noted in previous posts. Please note, however, that libel laws apply to supermarket tabloids as well as the mainstream media. I give the reportage some credance, therefore, but await corroboration.
To: Alex Murphy
And I'm not that young, but I wish I was.LOL
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posted on
04/07/2003 2:49:26 PM PDT
by
LaGrone
To: Hildy
" These are good, religious people, why do you guys always have to think the worst of everyone?"
Many are willing to believe what you have proposed.
The test of this has yet to be passed. The results will appear in due time.
To: Doctor Don
http://www.slweekly.com/editorial/2003/mdia_2003-04-03.cfm "Ever since Elizabeth Smart was found kickin it on State Street, some local news reporters have been obsessed with whats appropriate. Transformed into Monday morning ethicists, they have stroked chins and scratched heads and pondered which facts are appropriate to report and which arent. And the difficulties that arise from reporting details about a 15-year-old girl have sparked newsroom discussions about the philosophy and the aims of journalism. Real heady stuff.
Unfortunately, the desire to do the right thing increasingly means not criticizing the Smart family. And in the quest to be appropriate, some Salt Lake Tribune reporters have done inappropriate thingslike circulating a petition around the newsroom in an attempt to kill a nationally syndicated column critical of Ed Smart. Some Trib staffers felt the petition clearly breached firewalls that divide editorial and newsroom operationsand expressing opinion from reportingat the paper.
The column in question belongs to Kathleen Parker, whose byline runs in over 300 papers across the country, including the Tribune. But her column was conspicuously absent on March 23, when Time for Ed Smart to Step Off Stage appeared in just about every U.S. market but the Smarts hometown.
Not every paper runs every column I write, Parker tells City Weekly. Sure, I felt it might be upsetting to the community and thats OK if they dont want to run itthats their prerogative. Am I surprised? No.
She isnt surprised because the column dared to express what many people have thought for the past few weeksthat Ed Smart seems kinda weird. Parker was more eloquent, accusing Smart of auditioning for Phil Donahues empty chair, and of seeming abnormal, a lousy actor and creepy when he goes on those tirades about the Amber Alert or tells stories about his daughters impromptu harp recitals. She also says Smarts TV appearances make some people feel like reaching for a shotgun.
Parkers portrayal of Smart didnt fly with Trib reporter Linda Fantin. She got a peek at the column, which ran on March 19 in Parkers home newspaper The Orlando Sentinel, and decided to do something about it. So she wrote a letter to Vern Anderson, the papers editorial page editor, and circulated it around the newsroom.
We find the following column by Kathleen Parker offensive, mean-spirited and completely inappropriate for publication in The Salt Lake Tribune, read the letter, which was signed by eight newsroom staffers. While we are sensitive to the issue of censorship, we believe The Tribune also has a duty to minimize harm. After what the Smart family has gone through, theyand the community that rallied around themshould not be subjected to the unlovely comments of a half-cocked columnist. Not in their hometown newspaper.
Anderson says the letter had no bearing on the ed boards decision to spike the column. In fact, he says he had already made a decision not to run it before he talked to Fantin, a decision prompted by the thin, tasteless and mean-spirited nature of Parkers piece. He adds that hes not offended or put off at all by the circulation of Fantins letter.
But Anderson may be in the minority on that last point, since several staffers wondered what in the hell Fantin and the co-signers were doing.
Greg Burton, a Trib news editor, was one of those who greeted the petition with raised eyebrows. Burton doesnt like Parkers columns, but he says since the paper has made a commitment to run Parkers stuff, it shouldnt censor her.
Would I do it [circulate a petition]? No. Does it demonstrate that they care an awful lot? Yes. Does it blur the lines that supposedly have been drawn that sharply divides the editorial department and the newsroom? Potentially, Burton says. Im uncomfortable about it a little bit.
Kevin Cantera, a lead reporter on the Smart case, also felt uneasy by it all. He says the column was pretty rude and, quite frankly, out of date, but he didnt sign the petition because spiking the column raises questions about the papers motives. Asking the ed board to chuck the column in the trash might arise from a concern for the family, but Cantera says it creates the appearance that reporters are protecting their sources. Besides, he says, the whole point of the opinion page is to air opinions.
The papers that did air Parkers got an amazing amount of feedback. She personally received more than 2,000 e-mails and phone calls.
Ive got more response to that column than anything Ive ever written, she says, adding that 95 to 98 percent of them thanked her for saying what theyd been thinking.
Of course, very few of the comments were from Utahns, who had to go to orlandosentinel.com to find out what was being said about one of their neighbors.
Fantin doesnt care how many people respondedshe felt like it was within her duty as a journalist to protect the Smarts from an egregious attack.
I have an obligation to minimize his harm. We should be doing it, and good journalists do it, she says. Were constantly asking, Is this necessary, what good does this do? We do that all the time.
But what news reporters rarely do is circulate petitions around the newsroom. Perhaps its the beginning of a brave new world of inappropriateness, or just a momentary lapse of judgment caused by covering an emotionally charged story.
Its sort of a strange thing to do, to ask the editorial board to do something, Fantin says. I dont remember this ever happening at the Tribune before. "
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