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There's something about women who join their Real Housewives cities in the third season: New York's Sonja Morgan, Orange County's Tamra Judge and Atlanta's Phaedra Parks -- they all added a little spark to their respective series. For The Real Housewives of Potomac, that spark (or, maybe powder keg?) was Candiace Dillard Bassett. Now in her fifth season as a full-time 'Wife, Candiace delivers what might be her most-iconic season yet. It's also the most difficult for...

Such imaginative casting has long been the hallmark of dramas involving senior British politicians.    Who will ever forget Rock Hudson playing Harold Macmillan, opposite Elizabeth Taylor as his wife Dorothy, or the glamour the young Clint Eastwood brought to playing the maverick, gun-toting loner Edward Heath in the Common Market blockbuster Busting Down the Doors (1973)? More recently, Gillian Anderson won awards for playing Margaret Thatcher in The Crown. But people forget that an equally...