The Greatest Spin Job Of All Time

Stephen Huvane has always been good. I mean you have to be with Jennifer Aniston as your client. Trying to show her off in a good light should get you the Academy Award for publicists. But, despite all that he has done for Jennifer, I still think that his greatest accomplishment has occurred within the past two weeks.

As you know, or as you may not know, especially if you skim right by certain portions of the blog, I talked about Anne Hathaway and her ex-boyfriend the criminal. When I spoke about them though I said they were still together and I say they are still together. The rest of the world though just bit down hard on the breakup story so this is what today's headlines say when the criminal was arrested.

Anne Hathaway's ex-boyfriend, or some formulation of that. Now, imagine if Stephen hadn't released that story what the headlines would look like today. The headlines wouldn't vary much, but do you think the cameras would be all over Anne as she tried to promote Get Smart? Do you think anyone in the world would care about the film or would they take her very public appearances for the film and just ask question after question about what she knew or didn't know and whether or not she supported her man and on and on and on.

Instead, she doesn't know anything and can just go on with her life. Uh huh. The ex has been getting arrested and facing pissed off investors since before they started dating and it has not let up. Has it bothered her before? Nope. But when you know you are going to get arrested by the feds, and believe me he would have known in advance, and your girlfriend is a lead in a popcorn flick and is going to be going all over the world doing publicity for it, you need to come up with a plan. Stephen Huvane came up with that plan.

In about a month or so it will be safe for Anne and the criminal to start right back up again.