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THE REEL SKINNY ON ANNE HECHE
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Not everyone in Hollywood who's already seen Steve Martin's Bowfinger thinks Heather Graham
is playing Anne Heche. But preview audiences in New York are counting up the similarities.
Graham plays an eager starlet fresh off the bus from Ohio who gets a role in Chubby Rain,
Bowfinger's film-within-a-film that stars Eddie Murphy. The blonde tries to serial-date
her way to stardom, eventually ending up with the producer, who's played by Martin.
But by the time the film's over, she's already set her sights higher: Graham walks
into the Chubby Rain wrap party with a woman "who's introduced as one of the most
powerful lesbians in Hollywood," according to one filmgoer. Heche was herself an ambitious young actress from Ohio who once dated Steve Martin and eventually moved in with the woman who was about to come out on network TV, Ellen DeGeneres. Her split from Martin "marked the start of Martin's personal and professional crisis," the Washington Post reported last year. Has Martin finally had his revenge? A New Yorker who's seen the film insists that Graham's character is clearly "patterned" after Heche, while two Hollywood pros swear that the resemblance never occurred to them. "We have no idea as to whether it was based on anyone or not," insists Imagine president Michael Rosenberg. "You'd have to ask Steve Martin, who wrote the screenplay." Martin, through his spokeswoman Michelle Bega, is emphatic in his denial: "The character is not in any way based on Anne Heche. It would be extremely insulting to Ms. Heche to imply that she slept her way to the top, and it would be very wrong for anyone to suggest such a connection." Heche is too busy for questions right now: She's in postproduction on "Miss Conception," a segment of HBO's If These Walls Could Talk 2 that she wrote and directed, and that stars DeGeneres. |
Interview (Exerpt) : The Advocate, Nov 6, 2001, by Anne Stockwell |
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The Advocate : In Bowfinger, Steve Martin wrote the role of a blond actress who sleeps with every man
she thinks can help her career, then jilts them all for a Hollywood power lesbian. Anne : [Pauses] I think people express themselves and their pain in different ways, and I feel that that was Steve's expression of something that he needed. I mean, look at the way he portrayed himself. [Laughs] At least I was pretty. |
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