
Politics is supposed to be Hollywood for ugly people, but in Los Angeles, we can't even let them have that. Here, Heather Thomas the Fall Guy actress who was a leader in bikini-poster sales in the sad, dark days before we could see famous people naked all the time is the city's most important connector in Democratic politics. She's been able to do this partly because she's smart, partly because she's a terrific networker and mostly because she married one of L.A.'s richest lawyers. Thomas has held fund raisers for John Edwards, Barbara Boxer and Al Franken, but she's...