http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,159758,00.htmlATLANTA — Runaway bride Jennifer Wilbanks (search) has made a deal with a media company that is now pitching a movie to networks.
ReganMedia, a New York multimedia company, has "acquired all media rights to the life stories" of Wilbanks and her fiancé, John Mason (search).
The company did not say whether any money had changed hands.
"I am looking forward to developing the scripted project with Wilbanks and Mason," President Judith Regan (search) said in a statement. "Theirs is an unexpected and compelling story of love and forgiveness that has certainly taught me a thing or two."
MEANWHILE:
http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/publishing/default.aspMorning coffee makes me sick, and I can't read this paragraph (cribbed from the LA Times) without imagining a giant swinging boat ride:
Publishing experts believe it is too soon to guess whose stories will be the most compelling, but the fact that Jackson was found not guilty swings the spotlight toward the defense (wheee!, goes the vomit -ed.)-- Jackson's own story, should he want to tell it, and perhaps a book from lead defense attorney Thomas A. Mesereau Jr.
As for the slave-wage-earning jurors: they'll quickly learn to avoid pitching ReganBooks. "Jurors always seem to think they're going to cash in. I find that repulsive," Judith Regan told the Times.
In keeping with the values of our judicial system, the publisher continued: "Jurors have a completely distorted view of their own value."
JUDY'S STERLING CREDENTIALS:
http://atrios.blogspot.com/2004_12_12_atrios_archive.htmlAn apartment in Battery Park City that former Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik secured for his personal use after Sept. 11 was originally donated for the use of weary police and rescue workers who were helping at ground zero, according to a real estate executive who has been briefed about the apartment.
After the cleanup had settled into a routine that fall, the executive said, Mr. Kerik, who was still police commissioner, asked to rent the two-bedroom apartment for his own use. During his use of the apartment, Mr. Kerik and Judith Regan engaged in an extramarital affair there, according to someone who spoke to Mr. Kerik about the relationship. Ms. Regan published his best-selling autobiography in 2001.