Cheno as Dusty (Film)

From Todays Variety


Nicole Kidman is tuning up for a film based on the life of British pop singer Dusty Springfield for Fox 2000.
Kidman will produce and star in the project, which will reunite the actress with scribe Michael Cunningham, who penned the novel "The Hours." Cunningham is currently writing the Springfield screenplay.

And this bit here.....

Universal is developing its own Dusty Springfield biopic with Kristin Chenoweth attached to star. That project is being written and directed by Jessica Sharzer


http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117984969.html?categoryid=16&cs=1

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That was also in the variety story.

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It'll be like those competing Capotes. Who will come out on top? My money's on the Kid.

Speaking of botox, I had a dream last night that I got my face injected with botox. It was literally terrifying.

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Neithers of these "actresses" say Dusty to me but Kidman and Cunningham have the clout to get the green light on this bio=pic.

Welcome back Munky, where u been?

Dusty was a goddess, as simple as that!

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CurtainPullDowner & rosscoe(au) - I've now listened to MP3 tracks. - I knew the name before, but I guess I never heard her stuff. Quite a voice! Thanks for the intro.

My background is a lot different from yours

Too bad Jane Alexander is too old for the part.

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Let's see: Dusty was gay, was a cutter (she cut herself on her arms hence rarely were her arms bare), hated her legs (hence the long gowns and rarely performed in slacks), loved big stringy arrangements, died young and had troubles with substances shall we say?

Well, hell. Ho-hum. Who wasn't, didn't and hasn't?

What I would like to see is Dusty being accepted by the US Motown acts as an equal (she sometimes sang as a Vandella with 'Martha Reeves and the...' off-stage on a mike and the audience never knew) and promoting the groups like mad in the UK. So many of the early R+B-soul acts have praised Dusty for opening international frontiers for them. And she did this basically by herself at least until others caught on.

Can't you see a bottle-blonde English girl of Irish lineage singing back-up for Heat Wave and Quicksand wearing a gown at 10:00 a.m. in full drag make-up? That's entertainment!

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I remember when this was first announced and they had a pic of Chen as Dusty in a magazine and she looked almost identical. I think Chen will be way better as Dusty then Kidman, but kidman is and Oscar winning movie star so chen will probably get the shaft.