put a tail on

“I put a tail on my rear end and went out in the parking lot and they filmed me,” she laughingly recalled.

Dionne a quote worthy of the Hubris Hall of Fame: “Follow me around. . . . If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They’d be very bored.’

The film stars Hugh Jackman in the main role, Sara Paxton as Donna Rice, Vera Farmiga as Hart's proud and righteously furious wife Lee Hart, J. K. Simmons as political adviser Bill Dixon, Alfred Molina as legendary Washington Post executive editor Ben Bradlee and Steve Zissis and Bill Burr as the pair of Miami Herald reporters who took Hart up on his infamous challenge that reporters put a tail on him if they thought he was a womanizer and wound up confirming the suspicions of his detractors.

“If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead,” he told a New York Times reporter who’d inquired about rumors of womanizing and infidelity.

Dionne Jr., a political reporter at The New York Times, in an article published around the same time as the Herald story: “Follow me around. I don’t care. I’m serious. If anybody wants to put a tail on me, go ahead. They’d be very bored.”