Lest we forget Reagan’s attempted assassin Hinckley wanted to impress.... Jody Foster (boy was he waaaay off, as she is a carpet cleaner so to speak). Course Hinckley was after Jimmah Cahtah at first— all thoughts aside of that favor.
This great need of the untalented unremarkable to be... noticed.
I didn’t think she went to rug doctoring until later, after her career got going again. Hinckley and that press didn’t really help her out any. IIRC she went off the radar for a while.