Iron Lady Falls to the Anna Quindlen Doctrine
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Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) -- “The Iron Lady,” the new biopicstarring Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher, was controversialbefore audiences even saw it, largely because of its portrayalof the aging former prime minister’s dementia.
The current U.K. prime minister, David Cameron, suggestedthe movie was premature and shouldn’t have been made whileThatcher was alive. Her former public-relations adviser, TimBell, called it “rubbish,” while her former Tory rival MichaelHeseltine dubbed it “distasteful.”