Hilary Swank To Play Thin French Woman

Hilary Swank will take a break from turning herself in to a man, and play a French Champagne executive in a film adaptation of French Women Don't Get Fat, the bestseller written by former Veuve Cliquot executive Mireille Guiliano.

Some wetblanket researchers found that  French women have gained, on average, one dress size since the 1970s and adult obesity in France could equal rates seen in America as soon as 2020. No movie in that!

Swank's been French before, odd as that seems. Starring in The Affair of the Necklace, she played a French aristocrat thrown into turmoil by the Revoltion and with a nod to her career-building transvestism, wore knee britches and a tricorn and looked more elegant than in the vast skirts and lavish jewels.

She's currently filming Amelia, playing aviatrix Amelia Earhart, with Richard Gere as her husband and promotor George Putnam. FOX has been stingy with production stills, but director Mira Nair is letting someone make Swank look suitably Mid-Western and drab.

Which is a pity, as Earhart and Putnam knew the value of image.