A reporter who was videoed swimming in a bikini at the home of missing mom Lisa Stebic (husband Craig Stebic, Chicago-area ex-cop with prior mysteriously dead wives) is suing a CBS affiliate for airing the video, causing her to lose her job at the local NBC affiliate. She’s also suing a Northwestern journalism prof who commented on the issue on CBS.
Hollywood Courts Freed Hostages
One week after 15 hostages were freed by Colombian commandos, Hollywood has come knocking, according to a report by Variety. Several potential projects are already taking shape, and producers have begun tracking down almost everyone involved to make rights deals.
Ingrid Betancourt, who was taken hostage in 2002 by FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) as she ran for president of Colombia, will sign with French literary agent Susannah Lea and seek a major book and movie deal. Meanwhile, Washington, D.C.-based McLarty Associates, the consulting powerhouse that helped broker the freedom of the three Americans liberated with Ms. Betancourt, has steered the former hostages to meet with United Talent Agency, which has worked with McLarty in the past.
Elsewhere, Scott Steindorff and Las Vegas-based Phil Maloof are negotiating the rights to the Colombian government’s story of how it pulled off the bloodless rescue operation, which included infiltrating FARC’s intelligence network and employing acting teachers and speech therapists to fool the kidnappers into releasing the hostages.
It’s so suspenseful! How will they blame it all on Bush?
Sounds like she *almost* won a Darwin award.
Does that link show her in a bikini ? ;-)
He was in a vulnerable place, and she was lonely. The kind of loneliness objective reporters know all too well. Always holding herself apart, observing, recording. Rigidly professional. They reached out to each other and found a fleeting comfort. And they punished her for it. Nancy McKeon, Corbin Bernsen. Lifetime 8:00 p.m.
Happy, that’s the funniest thing I’ve read in a long long time. Thanks!
You seem to have conflated the Craig Stebic and Drew Peterson stories. Drew is the ex-cop with the dead former wife. The stories are otherwise very similar.
Drew Peterson
Thanks, Jim. Peterson. How could I forget?
Hollywood Courts Freed Hostages
Is that anything like the Supreme Court freeing the Guantanamo detainees?
“McLarty Associates, the consulting powerhouse that helped broker the freedom of the three Americans liberated with Ms. Betancourt”
WTF?
Were the Columbian authorities holding them hostage after taking them from FARC, and McLarty “brokered” their freedom? I think McLarty didn’t actually do squat, other than insinuate themselves into the situation, play a lot of games that failed to help the hostages, and try to take whatever credit they can get away with.