Whistling in the Dark

Heather Parry and I hang out on the Sony lot, where we reminisce about our days as MTV executives, an experience she describes as a cross between Almost Famous and Bridget Jones Diary. She tells me how her stint at the Viacom behemoth helped her overcome shyness and the long, weird road she took to convince a reclusive Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam to give her a post-Kurt Cobain suicide interview.  Parry recounts her inability to get the Twilight books made during her stint at MTV Films and how a casting decision involving 50 Cent and Nelly inadvertently played a role in landing her the Head of Film job at Adam Sandler’s Happy Madison. Heather talks at length about the importance of loyalty and why friend Demi Moore and Sandler epitomize it in every aspect of their lives.  Courtney Love, former MTV chief Tom Freston, Matthew Broderick, the imposter syndrome, vulnerability, why it’s important to ask for help, as well as why she thinks she’ll be the first her friends would eat if they survived a plane crash in the