MoDo: Will Trade Sex For Stories?
Lloyd Grove reports today that Maureen Dowd was apparently the inspiration for Katie Holmes‘ character–“Washington Probe” reporter Heather Holloway–in the forthcoming (and excellent) movie “Thank You For Smoking” (based on Christopher Buckley’s novel).
In the movie, Holloway sleeps with tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor–many times–in order to gain more information for her profile of him. Dowd denies the claim, telling Lloyd Grove “It’s well known that I never do that, so that must be the product of Chris’ novelistic imagination.”
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