A ROMANTIC GRUDGE MATCH:
When Rick, a writer with a million-dollar advance on his novel The Understated Stud, tries to pick up a woman at the Park Plaza bar, she pretends to be brain-damaged and puts him on.
Upstairs at the book launch she turns out to be a journalist. They trade insults on camera, he wins, and she's fired.
Vanity Fair hires her to sleep with the "Stud" and write an article on it, and the two begin a contest...