


Haynes has even arm-twisted present-day Long Island into doing a reasonable impression of Pasadena, Calif., in the 1930s. Whatever filmmaker Todd Haynes is serving, it must be a pretty powerful potion, able to bend top producers, actors, set decorators and the people who run HBO to his will in order to create a luxuriously new “Mildred Pierce” mini-series that clocks in at nearly six hours in length and squeezes every last ounce of disciplined energy from its star, Kate Winslet - to say nothing of the energy it will require of its audience.
