Here's a fix for Kate Winslet fans salivating for something new since the British thespian landed dual Golden Globes for her role in The Reader and Revolutionary Road and an Oscar for the former nearly two years ago. Winslet dons her best Joan Crawford drag for the Mildred Pierce remake!
Just as the original 1945 Joan Crawford starrer Mildred Pierce -- directed by Michael Curtiz of Casablanca fame -- was a perfect marriage of a domestic potboiler and film noir, HBO's five-part miniseries of Mildred Pierce is a pitch perfect union of the right network with gay wonder boy director Todd Haynes, Winslet and Evan Rachel Wood as Mildred's rotten-to-the-core daughter Veda. Guy Pearce and The L Word actress and Frozen River standout Melissa Leo costar.
The original film, based on James M. Cain's 1941 novel, is revered by gay audiences for its delectable over-the-top performances and camp appeal, and with Haynes at the helm -- his Far From Heaven, a re-imagining of Douglas Sirk's melodrama All that Heaven Allows, is a masterpiece of a remake -- rest assured this Mildred Pierce is bound to surprise even the most hardcore Crawford devotees.
Judging from the trailer, this Mildred looks like absolute catnip for Winslet and Wood fans (although Evan appears to be doing a cross between Lolita and True Blood's Queen Sophie Anne, she looks right for the part).
Mildred Pierce will air in 2011. Rumor has it in March, but it is not confirmed.
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