Another intelligent network move
In related - and weird - news, ABC News has hired kidnap victim
Elizabeth Smart as a part-time pundit.
So, what's her field? Not politics, we imagine.
She'll be the network's "Abduction Correspondent," as Gawker puts it. No joke.
Smart, 23, was kidnapped at age 14 from her Salt Lake City bedroom. She was found nine months later. The couple who took her were later convicted.
ABC rep Julie Townsend tells the Daily Beast that Smart will appear "when there are missing children or missing-person cases in the news."
Adds Townsend, "She'll help our viewers better understand missing-person stories from someone with the perspective to know."
In an even stranger note, ABC says Smart will not participate in its two-hour Diane Sawyer-led Jaycee Dugard special.
She's on top of the world
Things are good in the Land of Anistonia.
Jennifer Aniston has a beau, Justin Theroux. She's getting a Hollywood Walk of Fame star.
What's more, she's taped a dialogic encounter with that most beautifully and boorishly pretentious film pundit James Lipton for an episode of Inside the Actors Studio - and only six years after her rival, Angelina Jolie, charmed the pants off Lipton on the show. (Jolie sent the always effusive Lipton into orbits of verbal ecstasy rarely beheld on TV.)
Jen tells Lipton she's way over that Brad Pitt person, who left her for that Jolie girl.
Jen says her role in 2006's The Break-Up, made while she was divorcing Brad, helped.
"I really enjoyed it," Jen says. "You would think otherwise, because even the producers were like, 'I don't know if we should ask you to do this,' but I was like, why not? Turn the page, let's move on."
