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...And a disco musical about Imelda Marcos was born....
...So much so that it clearly can’t bring itself to say goodbye. ★★★☆☆ On Netflix now. Part two released on December 14...
...That doesn’t mean there weren’t voracious women collectors, of course....
...I had a dressing room with Dame Judi Dench and Petula Clark and Julia Mackenzie and Imelda Staunton and it was terrific, a real feeling of community....
...Why shouldn’t there just be pleasure?”...
...Here Lies Love takes place in the Philippines during the Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos dictatorship, mostly in the 1970s. The main character is Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines....
...But the public’s view seems to be just an external validation of what the Queen (now played by Imelda Staunton) already fears within herself....
...Speaking just before the tax case verdict, Marcos played down Ressa’s risk of imprisonment, saying: “I don’t think this is where it is headed.”...
...Granny’s been worrying that they won’t appreciate good farmhouse grub, but she needn’t have....
...It doesn’t quite work, because it’s easier to laugh than to cry over these thinly drawn characters....
...His mother, Imelda, notoriously left behind a collection of 2,700 pairs when the family fled the Malacañang Palace in 1986, after the People Power revolution....
...You just can’t avoid the pressure of those moments.”...
...Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos presided over what has been called a conjugal dictatorship. It was also a world-class kleptocracy....
...But that line of attack doesn’t seem to have worked, and the policy has remained relatively uncontroversial....
...For me, in the twilight of my life, I don’t think there is any turning back any more.” Additional reporting by Guill Ramos in Manila...
...“I haven’t spoken to Imelda, and I wouldn’t dare offer her any advice,” Colman says. “She is extraordinary, and she’s going to do it all much better....
...A few alternatives there if you can’t quite manage another viewing of Home Alone . . ....
...And what will Imelda think, a woman who relies so thoroughly on her own image? Greenfield sighs as she replies. “I’ve given up on predicting how subjects will respond; I really don’t know.”...
...I chose a Pronovias Imelda gown with Tiffany earrings and blue Manolos....
...We don’t know — or I didn’t — that the Filipino people are still so Imelda-mad, or in enough numbers, that flamboyant power abuse remains a chart-topping commodity....
...“Charities don’t hit the wall as fast as companies do, because they don’t usually have much debt.”...
...And sometimes you don’t want to see the truth....
...In short, competition is brutally fierce, but Apple isn’t standing still....
...Away from this intense core work, in the high-energy musicals corner you’ll find Imelda Staunton in Hello, Dolly!...
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