[Only IN Hollywood] She sings, loves paintings of herself, and flees a palace – sound familiar?

LOS ANGELES, USA – Kate Winslet’s scenes in her limited series, The Regime, reminded me of former First Lady Imelda Marcos visiting the refrigerated crypt of her husband, ex-Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos, where his corpse lay in a glass coffin.

Like Imelda, Kate’s chancellor character, Elena Vernham, had her father’s body kept in a glass casket. Since the corpse is that of Elena’s father, she does not purse her lips and plant a kiss on the crystal coffin as Imelda did. Instead...