Nicole Kidman is Dusty Springfield?

Nicole Kidman's best performance of her career was her Oscar winning turn in The Hours six years ago and it's unsurprising to me that today the news has leaked of a possible reunion between Kidman and the film's writer Michael Cunningham. Cunningham has told the New York Mag that his Fox 2000 biopic of 60's British pop icon Dusty Springfield that he is currently writing will star Kidman in the lead role.

"She was a great artist who no one knew what to do with," Cunningham said. "She was coming into her full powers at the same time the Beatles were," he said, adding that she suddenly found herself the purveyor of a dying torchy genre. "But she is clearly going into history with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones."

Cunningham said the film would include the lonely years in exile from the U.K. in Hollywood, the drinking and the drugging, and the tortured bisexual/lesbian feelings that wove through her checkered career, which ended when she died of cancer in 1999.

Of course one could easily say OSCAR HUNT for Kidman because we all know biopics are the Academy's darling genre but to be fair she has very much chosen to do whatever projects she has wanted to do recently. Small movies like Birth, Margot at the Wedding and Fur, next to bigger pictures like The Golden Compass and Bewitched - not easily been pigeon-holed to a certain sized project.

Still, she ain't exactly the actress who would come to mind for a Dusty biopic is she, especially tonally?

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