Manchurian Candidate evil mom modeled after Hughes and Noonan-Streep

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Hah - Sludge suggested it was Hillary! From the good folks at Buzzflash. And this is a great article - suggest reading it all

http://www.buzzflash.com/farrell/04/07/far04024.html

Of course, it is quite possibly true that Paramount is worried that Meryl Streep modeled her performance after Hillary Clinton. Yet, in April, the actress told Entertainment Weekly that to prepare for her role as Raymond Shaw's cold and manipulative mother, Mrs. Iselin (the role Angela Lansbury made unforgettable in the original), she watched a string of political talk shows. ''Anything with Peggy Noonan, Karen Hughes," she said. "It's hard to get more hyperbolic than that." Adding that "there are lots of little subtleties in how people spin and push their point of view," Streep also noted, ala Mr. Fly on the Wall, that "jewelry is very important as well."