People

By Guy D. Garcia

When it comes to good sex, no one has explored the subject more exhaustively than Dr. Ruth Westheimer. But even the tirelessly cheerful radio and television talk-show sexpert gets worn down by the grind of filmmaking. "It's much harder than being a psychosexual counselor," she says. Dr. Ruth went to Paris to make her film debut opposite Gerard Depardieu and Sigourney Weaver in a French farce, One Woman or Two. Westheimer plays a rich American who bankrolls Depardieu's research into the 2,000-yearold remains of the first Frenchwoman. When Depardieu shows up at the airport looking for Westheimer, he meets Weaver instead, and the pair fall madly in love. "It's very difficult to confuse Sigourney with Dr. Ruth," shrugs the French leading man. "But I manage to do it." There, there, Gerard; of all people, Dr. Ruth would understand the urge behind such an error.