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Faye Dunaway fired
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true you are right i was just being lazy that's all
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It´s not the first time she´s kicked out: the "Sunset Boulevard" producers fired her decades ago because she "didn´t meet the vocal demands" or an euphemism like that...Go figure. Joannie Crawford´s shadow is looooong...
"Die, beech, die...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"Die, beech, die...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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She was the best "Milady De Winter"
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It's not dementia, I'd say it's mental illness and that's certainly what the source referenced to with the quote about her medication. She has a history of similar bad behaviours on-set but there are also some really lovely stories about her, too. Who's shocked that they don't receive as much media attention?
I really like Faye, I don't think I've seen a performance from her that didn't entertain me.
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A woman has mental illness. A man is just as bastard.
You're not being paid?
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Maybe in your opinion but, as someone who works in the mental health profession, I'm pretty confident it's across the board.
*Yes, I do realise your post was about stereotypes but I would have said the same about a male celebrity
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You don't need to be mentally ill to be a spoiled, bitchy diva.
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Miss Piggy agrees.
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I 100% agree with you but the behaviours mentioned in the article are beyond the "diva" label.
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I wish I were!!!!!!!
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The same was true for Joan Crawford. But for 50 years, only the lovely stories about her received media attention.
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Faye Dunaway's 'Tea at Five' firing comes after decades of allegedly bad behavior
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/ce...gedly-bad-behavior/ar-AAEY2fZ?ocid=spartanntp
New allegations suggest Faye Dunaway has a long and storied history of mistreating crew members, actors and others she's encountered over the course of decades.
Earlier this week, Page Six reported the 78-year-old silver screen icon was fired from her role in the play, "Tea at Five," after being accused of slapping and throwing things at members of the crew and demanding no one wear white on set as it might distract her.
On Saturday, July 27, the tab took the claims one step further, publishing a long and scathing report that details the actress' allegedly nasty behavior towards people she's worked with and simply encountered in everyday settings for many years.
Rutanya Alda, who played the assistant to Dunaway's character, Joan Crawford, in 1981's "Mommie Dearest," recalled being "slapped" by Dunaway her first day on set when, in the course of filming, "instead of doing a stage slap, she slapped me on the cheek, hard and for real."
While that instance might be chalked up to having been part of her performance, other allegations of nastiness and violence are more difficult to dismiss, like one from Broadway wig designer Paul Huntley, who claims that during a 1996 tour of "Master Class," Dunaway at one point, "didn't like how the hairpins were being presented and she slapped my assistant's hand," leaving the assistant, "horrified."
Citing an allegation that was first revealed in the book, "Easy Riders and Raging Bulls," Page Six also recounts a story in which Dunaway allegedly made Teamsters flush her toilet in the dressing room while filming 1974's "Chinatown." According to that claim, Dunaway also peed in trash cans regularly while at work and allegedly threw a cup of urine in director Roman Polanski's face when he would not let her take a bathroom break.
The actress told the author of the book she had "no recollection" of those things having happened and later, in an interview with the Guardian, refused to comment on it beyond saying it was "ridiculous."
Other stories Page Six dredged up include James Woods' claim Dunaway "threw something at me because I ad-libbed a line" in 1976's "The Disappearance of Aimee." Woods went on to say Dunaway was "so rude" and that if the notoriously ill-tempered Bette Davis, who also appeared in the TV movie, "can be nice to people, Faye Dunaway ought to be buying them limousines as presents."
For her part, Davis once told Johnny Carson Dunaway was among the "worst people in Hollywood," according to Page Six.
Another report from Page Six claimed Dunaway failed to learn her lines for "Tea at Five." Singer Jill Sobule says she witnessed something similar while filming "The Disappearance of Aimee" as an extra.
"Faye Dunaway was hours late and we were all waiting for her, sweating through our costumes on the hottest day of the summer in an un-air-conditioned church," she said. "[When she] finally arrived, she was in the foulest mood and didn't know her lines. She yelled at people and huffed off the set. ... It was like something out of 'Valley of the Dolls.'
The tab goes on to claim Dunaway's mistreatment of others extends to her daily interactions with everyone from her neighbors to servers who have had to deal with her.
Similar allegations were made about her behavior last year to the Post in a story that accused her of "diva behavior" at a hair salon.
Dunaway's publicist "had no comment" on the allegations, according to the Post.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/ce...gedly-bad-behavior/ar-AAEY2fZ?ocid=spartanntp
New allegations suggest Faye Dunaway has a long and storied history of mistreating crew members, actors and others she's encountered over the course of decades.
Earlier this week, Page Six reported the 78-year-old silver screen icon was fired from her role in the play, "Tea at Five," after being accused of slapping and throwing things at members of the crew and demanding no one wear white on set as it might distract her.
On Saturday, July 27, the tab took the claims one step further, publishing a long and scathing report that details the actress' allegedly nasty behavior towards people she's worked with and simply encountered in everyday settings for many years.
Rutanya Alda, who played the assistant to Dunaway's character, Joan Crawford, in 1981's "Mommie Dearest," recalled being "slapped" by Dunaway her first day on set when, in the course of filming, "instead of doing a stage slap, she slapped me on the cheek, hard and for real."
While that instance might be chalked up to having been part of her performance, other allegations of nastiness and violence are more difficult to dismiss, like one from Broadway wig designer Paul Huntley, who claims that during a 1996 tour of "Master Class," Dunaway at one point, "didn't like how the hairpins were being presented and she slapped my assistant's hand," leaving the assistant, "horrified."
Citing an allegation that was first revealed in the book, "Easy Riders and Raging Bulls," Page Six also recounts a story in which Dunaway allegedly made Teamsters flush her toilet in the dressing room while filming 1974's "Chinatown." According to that claim, Dunaway also peed in trash cans regularly while at work and allegedly threw a cup of urine in director Roman Polanski's face when he would not let her take a bathroom break.
The actress told the author of the book she had "no recollection" of those things having happened and later, in an interview with the Guardian, refused to comment on it beyond saying it was "ridiculous."
Other stories Page Six dredged up include James Woods' claim Dunaway "threw something at me because I ad-libbed a line" in 1976's "The Disappearance of Aimee." Woods went on to say Dunaway was "so rude" and that if the notoriously ill-tempered Bette Davis, who also appeared in the TV movie, "can be nice to people, Faye Dunaway ought to be buying them limousines as presents."
For her part, Davis once told Johnny Carson Dunaway was among the "worst people in Hollywood," according to Page Six.
Another report from Page Six claimed Dunaway failed to learn her lines for "Tea at Five." Singer Jill Sobule says she witnessed something similar while filming "The Disappearance of Aimee" as an extra.
"Faye Dunaway was hours late and we were all waiting for her, sweating through our costumes on the hottest day of the summer in an un-air-conditioned church," she said. "[When she] finally arrived, she was in the foulest mood and didn't know her lines. She yelled at people and huffed off the set. ... It was like something out of 'Valley of the Dolls.'
The tab goes on to claim Dunaway's mistreatment of others extends to her daily interactions with everyone from her neighbors to servers who have had to deal with her.
Similar allegations were made about her behavior last year to the Post in a story that accused her of "diva behavior" at a hair salon.
Dunaway's publicist "had no comment" on the allegations, according to the Post.
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Oh, I don't know. Dunaway is of the diva ilk, yes, but she does it pretty well.
Faye Dunaway, Judy Davis (shh! -- she'll sue you), Miriam Hopkins... All known to be insufferable livestock, yet all were good actresses, and therefore worth the trouble.
Crawford was known to slap actors for real, as well. Just ask Lucy Marlow who played Joan's young cousin in QUEEN BEE, the film role daughter Christina asserted was most like the real Crawford, and you can believe it (although I wish it was a little better directed).
Infamously, Crawford was mightily impressed by the youthful Dunaway, and saw a lot of herself in her, claiming Faye was the "only actress today with the guts it takes to be a star!" and even allegedly asserting that only Faye could ever play her in a movie (never imagining it would occur in such a love letter like MOMMIE DEAREST). One can see it, too, if you look at Crawford's early hit GRAND HOTEL (1932) where she indeed could pass for Dunaway's twin sister, nearly a decade before Faye was even born.
Amusingly, Dunaway went to the press after MOMMIE DEAREST was released in 1981 (the biggest September release Paramount ever had, according to the producers) and tried to disown the film, claiming Joan's soul was "restless" over the portrayal, having disapprovingly frozen out Christina during the production. Even in more recent years, she chides Christina ("a child of plenty") for being so harsh with Joan ("a child of want") as if child abuse is okay as long as it happens inside a Brentwood mansion.
Dunaway has tried to make it sound like the producers tricked her in some way, but given that the book had been infamous for two years before they started to shoot the picture, and that Dunaway showed up at the producer's house in full Crawford regalia after asking to meet with him to discuss the role (following Ann Bancroft exiting the picture once she realized they were aiming for full on camp) one has to assume Faye is just full of sh!t and wanted to binge on her cake and purge it, too. And, like Joan, she then just makes Christina clean it all up afterwards.
At least she was more convincing than Jessica Lange.
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Well to be fair, badly presented hairpins can be infuriating, white clothes can indeed be rather distracting, and who likes flushing their own toilet?? I know I don't.Faye Dunaway's 'Tea at Five' firing comes after decades of allegedly bad behavior
https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/ce...gedly-bad-behavior/ar-AAEY2fZ?ocid=spartanntp
New allegations suggest Faye Dunaway has a long and storied history of mistreating crew members, actors and others she's encountered over the course of decades.
Earlier this week, Page Six reported the 78-year-old silver screen icon was fired from her role in the play, "Tea at Five," after being accused of slapping and throwing things at members of the crew and demanding no one wear white on set as it might distract her.
On Saturday, July 27, the tab took the claims one step further, publishing a long and scathing report that details the actress' allegedly nasty behavior towards people she's worked with and simply encountered in everyday settings for many years.
Rutanya Alda, who played the assistant to Dunaway's character, Joan Crawford, in 1981's "Mommie Dearest," recalled being "slapped" by Dunaway her first day on set when, in the course of filming, "instead of doing a stage slap, she slapped me on the cheek, hard and for real."
While that instance might be chalked up to having been part of her performance, other allegations of nastiness and violence are more difficult to dismiss, like one from Broadway wig designer Paul Huntley, who claims that during a 1996 tour of "Master Class," Dunaway at one point, "didn't like how the hairpins were being presented and she slapped my assistant's hand," leaving the assistant, "horrified."
Citing an allegation that was first revealed in the book, "Easy Riders and Raging Bulls," Page Six also recounts a story in which Dunaway allegedly made Teamsters flush her toilet in the dressing room while filming 1974's "Chinatown." According to that claim, Dunaway also peed in trash cans regularly while at work and allegedly threw a cup of urine in director Roman Polanski's face when he would not let her take a bathroom break.
The actress told the author of the book she had "no recollection" of those things having happened and later, in an interview with the Guardian, refused to comment on it beyond saying it was "ridiculous."
Other stories Page Six dredged up include James Woods' claim Dunaway "threw something at me because I ad-libbed a line" in 1976's "The Disappearance of Aimee." Woods went on to say Dunaway was "so rude" and that if the notoriously ill-tempered Bette Davis, who also appeared in the TV movie, "can be nice to people, Faye Dunaway ought to be buying them limousines as presents."
For her part, Davis once told Johnny Carson Dunaway was among the "worst people in Hollywood," according to Page Six.
Another report from Page Six claimed Dunaway failed to learn her lines for "Tea at Five." Singer Jill Sobule says she witnessed something similar while filming "The Disappearance of Aimee" as an extra.
"Faye Dunaway was hours late and we were all waiting for her, sweating through our costumes on the hottest day of the summer in an un-air-conditioned church," she said. "[When she] finally arrived, she was in the foulest mood and didn't know her lines. She yelled at people and huffed off the set. ... It was like something out of 'Valley of the Dolls.'
The tab goes on to claim Dunaway's mistreatment of others extends to her daily interactions with everyone from her neighbors to servers who have had to deal with her.
Similar allegations were made about her behavior last year to the Post in a story that accused her of "diva behavior" at a hair salon.
Dunaway's publicist "had no comment" on the allegations, according to the Post.
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I can feel a MeToo spin-off coming up. Victims of the diva bitch-slaps & insults.
A little off-topic, but it's my topic so I can do whatever I want, yesterday I stumbled upon this video
At first I didn't realize that the other actress was Faye Dunaway, but the best part is Rue McClanahan's amazing performance.
Now I feel I need to check out all her movies and tv shows.
A little off-topic, but it's my topic so I can do whatever I want, yesterday I stumbled upon this video
Now I feel I need to check out all her movies and tv shows.