Wasn Tonya supposedly offered a part in a Woody Allen film some years back?
The June/July 1995 issue of “International Figure Skating” published an article in which it was claimed that Tonya had signed with an outfit called the Ruth Webb agency, a group of bottom-feeders who specialize in marketing tabloid-level sleaze. Sherri Spillane of the Webb agency claimed she had come up with over 30 projects for Tonya but that she had turned them all down for various reasons. Examples cited were a guest appearance on “Married With Children” and a role in a Woody Allen film (supposedly the Mira Sorvino part in “Mighty Aphrodite”), Tonya allegedly declining the latter because she “didn’t like his morals”. It was also claimed that Tonya pulled out of a personal appearance in Boston because of fears of retaliation from enraged Kerrigan fans. Merrill Eichenberger, who was Tonya’s agent at the time, tells it differently. He claims that although he had an agreement with the Webb agency to look out for work for Tonya, they were never her agents and that all they came up with w
