Woman reporter portrayed as tired trope in new Eastwood film “Richard Jewell”
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In the new film “Richard Jewell,” reporter Kathy Scruggs (played by Olivia Wilde) meets an FBI source (played by Jon Hamm) in a bar. She presses him for information on a suspect in the Atlanta Olympics bombing. The FBI agent gets annoyed with her persistence. She puts her hand on his upper thigh, leans in,