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Lindsay to Play Liz on Lifetime — Who Should Be Next?

Now that scandalous starlet has signed on to play Elizabeth Taylor in a television movie, TIME picks other young actresses who should play Hollywood legends.

Meryl as Maggie in The Iron Lady: A Stunt of Genius

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With the help of some great makeup, Streep slips into Thatcher’s skin and finds the British PM’s mettle as well as her metal

A Dangerous Method: Freud Had the Theories, But Jung Had the Sex

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Michael Fassbender and Keira Knightley fall into a mad passion in David Cronenberg’s what-if film about the first analyst to have an affair with his patient

Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar: Yanking the FBI Chief Out of the Closet

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Leonardo DiCaprio plays Hoover as a man of many innovations, animosities, fears and secrets—but not much dramatic interest

Top 10 Biopics

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As Clint Eastwood’s new film on the life of J. Edgar Hoover hits movie screens, TIME looks back at 80-plus years of films “based on the life of…”