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Million Dollar Madam?

Oscar Winner Hilary Swank is reportedly in line to play pro-to-the-stars Heidi Fleiss in a new biopic, reports MSNBC.

Initially, Nicole Kidman was keen on playing the trouble-making bed squeaker, says the site.

“It had something to do with age,” Fleiss tells the site. “She’d have to play a 22-year-old, and she’s nearly forty. I think she’s amazing and could play a 22-year-old or whatever she wanted, but they said ‘How about Hilary Swank?’ and I said, great, fine, whoever. I would have said great, fine, whoever, if they had said Roseanne Barr. I stopped paying attention because I’m focusing on my future, not my past.”

Kidman’s rep tells a different story. “At some point a long time ago Nicole had expressed some interest in it,” she says. “But [she] was never attached to it and is no longer even considering it.”

The film would no doubt tell the scraps to sex yarn of Fleiss – who grabbed headlines in the 1990s after she was arrested for running a high-priced prostitution ring serving Tinseltown’s rich and famous.

Tom Sizemore might be in work again.

NBC/Universal pass on American Gothic movie

Moviehole MailBag – 21/7/05