The actress's next role was a hostile, chain-smoking, sex-addicted woman who was trying to have an afternoon affair with Alan Arkin's character in Gene Saks's film adaptation of Neil Simon's comedy "Last of the Red Hot Lovers". In Manhattan after the film, Kellerman declined an offer for a ten-page spread in "Vogue" by former editor-in-chief Grace Mirabella. When she turned down the part of Linda Rogo in "The Poseidon Adventure" (1972), Stella Stevens got the role. Shortly afterwards she recorded her first demo with Lou Adler, and "Roll with the Feelin" for Decca Records with producer-arranger Gene Paige. After filming "Last of the Red Hot Lovers", Kellerman passed up a role in another Altman film: