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Shirley MacLaine Has Designs on Coco Chanel Mini

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Shirley MacLaine will play the latter-day Coco Chanel in a past Lifetime miniseries about the fashion icon, Variety reports. The two-parter opens with Chanel in her seventies struggling to reinvent herself. In flashbacks, Barbora Bobulova (In Love and War) will channel Chanel during her up-and-coming years, as a young woman who was raised in a Parisian orphanage.

Posted by TV Guide News
Dec 21, 2007 9:04 AM
First there was a flood of books about Coco Chanel surrounding a recent museum exhibition. Now comes the McLaine mini-series and these film projects in the works:

French actress Audrey Tautou (Amelie and The Da Vinci Code) will play Coco Chanel in a new French movie directed by French director Anne Fontaine. Shooting will start in 2008.

Two other CoCo Chanel projects are in the works. Director Daniele Thompson is in the early stages of a biopic, and William Friedkin is working on a film about Chanel’s relationship with composer Igor Stravinsky.
Posted by tvdiva
Dec 21, 2007 10:38 AM
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