Article: `Smoking' hot; Eckhart, Holmes' sex scene fires up buzz for flick.(Arts and Lifestyle)

Byline: STEPHEN SCHAEFER

"Thank You for Smoking" pokes vicious fun at Big Tobacco, Washington lobbyists and the media - but all anyone wants to ask star Aaron Eckhart about is a minor character played by actress Katie Holmes.

Adapted from Christopher Buckley's best-selling satire,"Thank You for Smoking" stars Eckhart ("Erin Brockovich") as a smooth-talking tobacco lobbyist. Despite an impressive cast and a first-time director, it's Eckhart's sex scene with Tom Cruise's pregnant fiancee, as Washington Probe reporter Heather Holloway, that has tongues wagging.

"The sex scene with Katie Holmes is hardly a sex scene," said Eckhart. "It's a comedy. ...

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