![]() Not to the side of, not under, not coddled by, but over. How can it miss? Nobody out-Sirks Douglas Sirk like Haynes, whose fastidious attention to detail in Carol extended to Cate Blanchett’s California Coral nail polish (and perfectly matching lipstick) and the precise manner in which Blanchett ordered her creamed spinach over poached eggs. And here, she reunites with Haynes (Williams played a character that was more or less a dippy Edie Sedgwick cipher in Haynes’ experimental Dylan biopic I’m Not There ), who himself is considered to be the director when it comes to exploring the plight of the repressed post-war bottle blonde. ![]() There’s Michelle Williams, our leading laureate of sensitive-yet-heightened biographical portrayals of midcentury women on the brink ( the GIF of her wiping away a single tear as Gwen Verdon continues to squat inside my head rent-free and always will). I get it - even if you aren’t all too familiar with Lee (born Norma Dolores Egstrom in Stutsman County, North Dakota in 1920), the project simply sounds good in a headline. GIVE! ME! IT! And then they simply closed the tab, or perhaps scurried off to open a new tab in which to Google just who, exactly, Peggy Lee is. The Internet’s reaction was swift and emphatic. ![]() ![]() I promise.Ī week or so ago (what is time anymore?) the Hollywood trades broke the news that Michelle Williams will play the late crooner Peggy Lee in an upcoming biopic directed by Todd Haynes. ![]()
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