Imelda Marcos, the former first lady of the Philippines who became notorious for the way she used her position to fund a lavish lifestyle, will be at the center of a new limited series that is bein…
. “Chasing Imelda” is inspired by journalist Katherine Ellison’s biography, “Imelda: Steel Butterfly of the Philippines.” The announcement comes in a moment of, I guess, rediscovery for Imelda. After all, Marcos is the central figure in a new Broadway musical “Here Lies Love” from David Byrne and Fatboy Slim .
Ellison is a journalist, strategist and writer, whose examinations of the corruption of Imelda and her husband Ferdinand Marcos for The San Jose Mercury News won her a Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1986. This limited series reveals the dark side of one of history’s most notorious figures and showcases the personal struggles and risks that come with exposing corruption.
Ultimately, Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos fell from power in 1986 and briefly went into exile in the United States. The family has since mounted a political comeback. Marcos’ son, Bongbong Marcos, is the current president of the Philippines. “Imelda Marcos has fascinated Americans for decades,” Saltzman said. “The new David Byrne show on Broadway is just the latest indication of that. She’s known to many as the Philippines First Lady with hundreds of pairs of shoes, our limited series will show that she was surprisingly also a shrewdly calculating politician who many experts believe was the real and deadly power behind the Marcos dictatorship.
“I became obsessed with Imelda Marcos after learning how she had seduced a parade of US presidents, diplomats, journalists and celebrities while she was working behind the scenes to grab power over the Philippines,” Ellison added. “Gloria Steinem once referred to Marilyn Monroe as a ‘female impersonator’ — a quote that has always stuck with me in relation to Imelda.
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