Okay, now I know that Lifetime is the future home of “Project Runway” but I didn’t expect that to interfere in any way with movies of the A Dog Took My Face and Gave Me a Better Face to Change the World: The Celeste Cunningham Story genre. Well guess what? Lifetime is airing a biopic of Coco Chanel next month...starring Shirley MacLaine! What’s going on here?

“’Coco Chanel’ begins in 1954, as Gabrielle ’Coco’ Chanel (MacLaine) suffers a professional and personal crisis. After a 15-year absence, she has re-opened her famed couture house with a comeback collection. Unfortunately, she and her business partner Marc Bouchier (McDowell) are shocked when the critics and customers reject it. In reflection, Coco recounts her humble beginnings and how similar feelings of abandonment by her father inspired her lifelong series of doomed love relationships that fueled her fiery ambition to succeed.”

You know, when you look at Coco Chanel’s life in that light it totally sounds like a Lifetime movie. Abandonment by her father? Doomed relationships? Fiery ambition? I’m starting to think that pretty much anyone’s life could be turned into a Lifetime movie.(And, no, that is not a comforting thought.)

- Posted by Kate