No sooner has Jodie Foster finally laid to rest the tedious "are you gay?" interview question than another supersedes it.
Next time Jodie hits our screens - I'm guessing she'll be playing a harrassed, tightly-wound little battler, who will be denied a love interest - the question at promotional junkets around the globe will surely be "Why do people want to murder to impress you?"
Not only was Jodie the inspiration for John Hinckley's failed assassination of President Ronald Reagan in 1981, but she has now been cited in bomb threats sent by someone who pledged to blow up a Los Angeles airport. A man was arrested yesterday in connection with the case, in Massachusetts, from where many of the letters were mailed. His name is Michael Smegal, but right now we know preciousssssss little more.
So consider this one developing, but be mindful that post-Patriot Act, Jodie's corporeal form itself could easily be considered "material that may incite terrorism" - a reclassification that would see her labelled a security threat and dispatched straight to Guantanamo Bay, where she would no doubt take on the demeanour of a tightly-wound, harassed little battler, determined to beat both the odds and a pitiless system stacked against her.
