NANNY DIARIES' Mrs. X? Try Times Select, Harvey
When THE NANNY DIARIES came out in 2002, authors Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus insisted that the icy Mrs. X -- the employer in their roman a clef wasn't based on any one of their several real-life past bosses.
Nevertheless, a Manhattan guessing game ensued -- and the acid-tinged gossip was captured thats pring by New York Times Styles section writer Alex Kucyzynksi.
Now that the movie's out, and Laura Linney embodies the icy socialite Mrs. X, NANNY DIARIES producer Harvey Weinstein (according to the New York Post) was overheard offering some "well connected socialites" $100,000 to unmask the "real Mrs. X." Has he and everyone else this thing called TimesSelect (or Google) to spark the memory? Suspect No. 1 was the author of THE PREPPY HANDBOOK.
(How nasty can Mrs. X be, anyway? If Laura Linney's playing her, I know I'm going to come away respecting that bitch.)