Katie Holmes, With the Cruise Control Set

Holmes: Don't go there . . . or there. (Matt Sayles - AP)

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Sunday, January 20, 2008; Page M02

After weeks of back-and-forthing between our people and hers, the Style section regrets that we blew our chance to sit down with Katie Holmes in New York last week to talk about her new film, "Mad Money." (The one where she, Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah make like D.C. property tax office managers and steal piles and piles of cash -- but hilariously.)

The Post was not able to acquiesce to Holmes's publicist's requests -- especially that the celeb not be asked about a certain Los Angeles-based church. Several publications apparently agreed to this condition, but not us. Until it fell to pieces, we were prepared to go for broke with the following questions . . .

- We have a guest bedroom and bathroom in our apartment, almost zero neighborhood paparazzi, and the fridge is full of diet sodas and healthy snacks. You could stay as long as you like, and we promise not to tell a soul. Would you like to leave with us right now?

(Note: Ask again, offering her the option of just blinking twice if the answer is yes.)

- How much cash do you have on you, at this moment? Could you break a 50? (It's related to the movie!)

- You just told David Letterman that your 2-year-old daughter -- her name is Suri, right? -- always sleeps from 11 p.m. until 9 a.m., uninterrupted, every night. Other than a crack staff of nannies, we're sure our readers with young children want to know: What's your secret?

- Did you feel all totally Juno, getting pregnant and giving birth before you got married? When did you decide to keep your baby? When did you tell Dawson that it was (allegedly) Tom's?