Senator Ashley Judd? Maybe in 2017

April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Wiser Democratic heads prevailedlast week as actress Ashley Judd was nudged out of the race tounseat Mitch McConnell, Kentucky’s senior Republican senator.Did the eyes in those heads ever see Judd in “Double Jeopardy,”one of the great damsel-in-distress movies of all time?

The movie takes its title from the legal rule, guaranteedin the Constitution, that a person can’t be tried twice for thesame crime. In the movie -- which takes a jailhouseinterpretation of the rule -- Judd plays a woman whose husbandhas faked his own murder, for which she is then tried andconvicted. In prison, she plots her revenge, and once free, shetracks her former spouse to New Orleans, where he’s living thehigh life. She finally confronts him at a charity ball, whereshe shocks him in all his pillar-of-the-community splendor.Don’t worry, she tells him: She’s there not to kill him, just tomake him suffer.