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Faye Dunaway fired
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I do think she's a pretty great actress. I just don't like most of the roles she has chosen. And of course you have to ask yourself why someone that talented just doesn't seem to get the great parts? Because nobody in their right mind wants to work with her.
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The important thing about being a diva is one's willingness to place job, career, income and even personal safety on the altar of one's divadom. Where being labeled "difficult" is the ultimate status symbol, and all things can and must be sacrificed just to "have your way" regardless of how the criteria may change from minute to minute.
The deeper and more recklessly all-encompassing the narcissism, the closer to Sappho. And Faye has always been very ambitious.
Or maybe Hera? Didn't she play Hera in a movie someplace? On the Greco-Roman godly throne with, say, Frank Langella as Zeus at her side? Did I imagine it??
The deeper and more recklessly all-encompassing the narcissism, the closer to Sappho. And Faye has always been very ambitious.
Or maybe Hera? Didn't she play Hera in a movie someplace? On the Greco-Roman godly throne with, say, Frank Langella as Zeus at her side? Did I imagine it??
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There are divas and then there are über-divas, and Faye is an über-diva. As was Joan Crawford. As all true divas are indeed über-divas. You have to live your greatest role -- the role of You -- 24/7, all day long, even when you're asleep and even when you're on the toilet. Perhaps especially when you're on the toilet. Where the sheer fabulosity of You and Your Ego are at full staff at all times, publicly and privately, and if a camera happens to catch it -- let alone a movie camera -- then all the better. But it's not, by any means, a requirement.
I recall Marlene Dietrich's daughter describing her mother's final decade of life, an alcoholic on painkillers, withdrawing to her Parisian apartment at 12 Avenue Montaigne, mostly bedridden, allowing only a select few to enter her suite, Marlene in a constant and self-conscious state of delicious decay, as if a largely non-existent audience were observing unflinchingly, becoming a prolific letter-writer and phone-caller, endlessly transcribing a revisionist version of her life to be consumed upon her death.
That's an über-diva. A level of bottomless, vulgarly poetic self-absorption even the most-shameless Instagram model today cannot possibly fathom or be expected to.
I recall Marlene Dietrich's daughter describing her mother's final decade of life, an alcoholic on painkillers, withdrawing to her Parisian apartment at 12 Avenue Montaigne, mostly bedridden, allowing only a select few to enter her suite, Marlene in a constant and self-conscious state of delicious decay, as if a largely non-existent audience were observing unflinchingly, becoming a prolific letter-writer and phone-caller, endlessly transcribing a revisionist version of her life to be consumed upon her death.
That's an über-diva. A level of bottomless, vulgarly poetic self-absorption even the most-shameless Instagram model today cannot possibly fathom or be expected to.
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She complained that it was distracting, I think that's because the people off-stage are more visible if they wear lighter colors. I guess if Dunaway had her way all theater staff and patrons would be required to dress in black.
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That doesn't explain why she wouldn't travel in a white limo?
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Alexis, darling, nobody wants to travel in a white limo.
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I want this to happen, mid-Season 7, after the Black and White Ball and Alexis is thrown out of the mansion:
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Faye prefers you pull up to her bumper in your long black limousine.
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She's very talented. She portrays unlikeable characters' vulnerabilities so well that they become loveable.
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Last night I watched MOMMIE DEAREST, and even listened to John Waters' silly DVD commentary.
Tonight, I think I'll re-watch QUEEN BEE, since Christina says it's the role closest to Joan's real personality. (I wonder which film role is closest to Faye's...)
Tonight, I think I'll re-watch QUEEN BEE, since Christina says it's the role closest to Joan's real personality. (I wonder which film role is closest to Faye's...)
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Faye is the Ultimate Missing 80s Prime Time Soap Star.
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Sinatra worked with her in his last full film. He only agreed to her casting when he was reassured her character would be confined to a bed the entire shoot - and there would be less opportunity for her to “bust his balls.” Shirley MacLaine had confided to Sinatra that FD was a ‘prize bitch.’
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MacLaine would certainly be qualified to present that award.
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Dunaway's former personal assistant is suing her for demeaning and humiliating him; she called him "a little homosexual boy".
https://www.towleroad.com/2019/08/faye-dunaway-homosexual/
https://www.towleroad.com/2019/08/faye-dunaway-homosexual/