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Jennifer Aniston promoted to management


(E! Online)
Updated: 2007-08-06 16:04



Los Angeles - Jennifer Aniston is trading in her office space for the
open road.

The actress has signed on to star as a traveling saleswoman in the comedy
Management, which will mark the directing debut of The Laramie Project
scribe Stephen Belber, who also penned the film's screenplay.



According to Variety, Aniston's character sells cheap generic
art鈥攑ieces of flair, if you will鈥攖o nondescript businesses and
motels. Steve Zahn is set to play the slacker motel manager she has a
one-night stand with who ends up following her all over the country.

Although he was already an established playwright, things started falling
into place for Belber in Hollywood after he shopped his script for the
upcoming newscaster-talks-to-God flick The Power of Duff. Jamie Foxx is
attached to star. He has also collaborated on episodes of Rescue Me and
Law & Order:SVU.

In addition to The Laramie Project, which dealt with the aftermath of the
murder of University of Wyoming student Matthew Shepard and was later
made into an HBO film, Belber wrote the stage drama Tape, which
dialogue-happy Richard Linklater adapted for the big screen in 2001 with
a cast consisting entirely of Ethan Hawke, Robert Sean Leonard and Uma
Thurman.

Zahn can currently be seen in theaters costarring as an escaped POW in
the Werner Herzog nail-biter Rescue Dawn with Christian Bale. Up next for
the 39-year-old character actor is the comedy Strange Wilderness, in
theaters next January, about a few animal lovers who head to the Andes in
search of Bigfoot. Zahn will also appear in the CBS miniseries Comanche
Moon, based on the Larry McMurtry novel.

As for Aniston, her last cinematic romp, 2006's The Break-Up, was a big
hit at the box office but may have ended up hitting a little too close to
home. It's unlikely that the actress will find much art reflecting life
in the upcoming slate of projects she's reportedly attached to, however,
which includes the prison-break thriller Wanted, The Senator's Wife and
the Coen Brothers caper Gambit.

Earlier this year, Aniston returned to prime-time for the first time
since Friends ended in 2004, to play a rival editor to Courteney Cox's
tabloid-dish diva on FX's Dirt.

The 38-year-old Emmy winner will also executive-produce, and possibly
star in, the period musical Goree Girls, a true story about eight women
locked up in a Texas penitentiary in the 1940s who form one of the
first-ever all-female country-western groups.























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