Yea, his career was in the crapper and she had just won the Oscar. It'd be hard to believe it was his idea..
I mean, for Hitchens to suggest that being "the man to see" is suggestive of his "meanness" is typical lefty talk. On the one hand, he writes of Iraq and Clinton corruption with (what I see as ) rationality, and then its back to Mother Jones class warfare. Inscrutable.
Hitchens had a wife? ...I was almost certain that I heard him admit (on a PBS program about religion) that he was gay.