Faye Dunaway Documentary Heads to Cannes

Does this cover Faye and the little homosexual boy?

[quote]Produced by her son

He’s very good looking.

I wonder what it would be like to have La Dunaway as a mother in law.

I can’t wait to see Sharon Stone in this documentary.

It’ll be the hit of all of Europe and Cannes but probably will NOT be well sold in this country!

Is that really Kermit in the OP? I love him so much.

Bless her heart.

r4 The Americas never understood The Craft, and certainly never appreciated The Method.

The truth is Faye, you are getting old. You are not the hot sexy bitch that throws out video tapes in Blockbuster parking lots anymore. That’s the truth, to face, if you want to survive.

How honest will this doc be about her being one of the most difficult actors to work with? Her reputation is horrendous.

I hope she comes clean about her anorexia.

I am not one of her faaaaaans

Can’t wait for insights into her marriage to Peter Wolf! On the playground, kids used to think Faye was so rad to be married to a rock star!

I’ll hazard a guess that Rutanya Alda was NOT interviewed for this.

More interested in Kermit. 🐸

Will it include footage from her Callas?

Let's put that BITCH back in theatres where she ought to be.

CANNES??? Is that a film festival or a BROTHEL?

Movie star manages to have it all: Career, Home and Famileeee!

I wish her well.

Did Miss Dunaway choose a gay director, Laurent Bouzereau, to atone for her past sins?

*I* wasn't interviewed!

Did Kursturica direct this? I only work with him!

Laurent used to work for Bette Midler so he knows diva.

I finally got around to viewing "The Eyes Of Laura Mars" and realized how limited an actress she is. When reigned-in by a good director and editing, she can seem A-list. But basically the same mannerisms and voice in every film. When she hollers in terror it's comical; just Joan out of makeup .

Will they cover her year on the reality series The Starlet?

R25 Don’t call us…we’ll call you.

If Faye were smart, shed cash in on the gay obsession with Mommie Dearest in her dotage.

Faye is only ever interested in a very talky, intellectual examination of her work. So this will be flat out boring.

Dorothy Faye Dunaway, the grandest thing to ever come out of Bascom, Fla. (pop. 87)

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R30 Ooh, video evidence of the “clear away club”!

“I love playing women who left their mark. Like Joan did on Christina’s throat.”

The offical synopsis makes a point of emphasising she will be discussing Mommie Dearest:

Synopsis: In FAYE, the first feature documentary of the Hollywood legend, Academy Award®-winning actress Faye Dunaway candidly discusses the triumphs and challenges of her illustrious career, with breakthrough, Academy Award®-nominated roles in “Bonnie & Clyde,” “Chinatown,” and “Network” – for which she won Best Actress in 1977 – while also reflecting on the film “Mommie Dearest,” which she views as a critical career misstep. Through those reflections, she courageously explores personal discoveries including her struggles with mental health issues and bipolar disorder, her family history growing up in a small town in Florida, and how the intensity of the characters she played still impacts who she is today. In addition to Faye, the film features interviews with her son Liam Dunaway O’Neill, as well as her colleagues and friends including Sharon Stone, Mickey Rourke, and James Gray.

So it's a two hour sympathy ploy. Got it.

This is a good time to remind everyone that you can be mentally ill and an asshole at the same time.

^with friends like those, no wonder she is an old twat of a women

Tennessee Williams on Fayes process preparing for Blanche DuBois:

[quote] Dunaway's approach to Blanche perplexed Tenn, and he compared it to a paint-by-numbers canvas that might have been designed by a mentally challenged, color-blind child. "The blocks of space--numbered and waiting for paint--that she placed on her idea of Blanche were many," Tenn told me. "The colors did not match. There were too many colors, and the colors were techniques. One scene was redolent of Michael Chekhov; another pure Stanislavsky; another Method acting by way of the Comèdie Française. So many methods, procedures, and my Blanche was extruded through all of this, painted on this wild canvas." Tenn wanted nothing more than to throw turpentine on the canvas and clean it up. "My turpentine," he explained to me, "would have been reason and human understanding. I would have liked for Faye to try to understand the woman, the human, that was Blanche, but I felt that everything was a career move, a stunt." [quote]

What about Kermit?

Genital warts have more celebrity friends than this bitch.

[quote]You are not the hot sexy bitch that throws out video tapes in Blockbuster parking lots anymore.

It was Video West in WeHo, the little homosexual enclave in Los Angeles.

Travilla's recollections of working with Faye on the non-musical television mini-series "Evita" in a 1986 Interview Magazine article when asked who was the worst experience in his long career, his reply was.

“I admire her, but the most difficult lady to work with was Faye Dunaway. Exhausting. She would fit the dimple in a beret for a full hour until the milliner couldn't find out where the fucking dimple belonged. In Mexico, we would start at nine in the morning with one fitter, and he’d die out around noon. Then we’d bring in the milliner for two hats, and he’d die out after an hour and a half. We’d spend the rest of the day with the tailor, and then I’d die out. Fay Dunaway’s a perfectionist – difficult and demanding.”

Tennessee Williams, in the imaginary world of James Grissom, talks about Faye Dunaway...

Those James Grissom groups on Facebook are NUTS.

The only way this documentary works is if they play this voicemail for Faye in full and gives her reaction.

R9- She’s an actress not an actor.

And they also need to show this video to her and get her reaction.

Faye is a one note actress but that’s what makes her Faye Dunaway. It’s interesting because it’s something movie stars do but she’s gone for roles that are more character so it’s a fascinating combo.

She’s old school but went for new school roles.

Trying the link again.

GETTING, R8?

If Faye and her son are involved with production and plan to attend screenings, it won’t cast shade on Faye or feature her difficult relationship with others in the entertainment industry

[quote]She’s an actress not an actor.

And yet, they don't call it Inside the Actress' Studio when the guests aren't men. Hmmm.

[quote] Joining Faye are her son Liam, colleagues and friends such as Sharon Stone, Mickey Rourke

I take it that this documentary was filmed in a padded room at the Park Hill Mental Hospital.

"I might as well have Mommie Dearest tattooed on my backside!"

Kermit:(singing)”Why are there so many/documentaries about bitches?…”

R49 actress is still used but actor is properly used to describe both male and female in the profession.. Actor isn’t gender specific and is used interchangeably. Faye Dunaway is an actor.

Liam, your mother's been practising and practising. You know how perfect she always wants to be. Well, this time she must be perfect. Do you understand? This time it's even more important. They're making your mother do a documentary. Do you know what that is? How shameful that is for her?

Will the documentary cover BEVERLY HILLS MADAM?

I offered to do an interview about the delights of working with Miss Dunaway, but Liam never returned my calls.

Liam, your mother's been practicing and practicing. You know how perfect she always wants to be. Well, this time she must be perfect. Do you understand? This time it's even more important. They're making your mother do a cheap-jack documentary. Do you know what that is? Do you know how shameful that is for her?

Where's the R30 video from?

The audience in the theatre is so close I feel I can touch them. Our eyes meet and I say, Can you leave please? You're right in my eyeline.

Do you think the documentary will focus on her attempts to produce a senior citizen’s version of Planet of the Apes?

[quote] How honest will this doc be about her being one of the most difficult actors to work with? Her reputation is horrendous.

Honey, we have over 400 filled threads documenting Faye’s insanity.

R24 I actually liked The Eyes of Laura Mars. I'm a huge fan of the Giallo genre.

I was NOT one of her fans!!!!

If the documentary includes those two clips about Master Class as reported it wont be a total whitewash.

Is Faye still claiming she gave birth to Liam?

[Quote] When reigned-in by a good director

Oh dear.

[Quote] What about Kermit?

The only thing Faye ever “birthed” was a string of several turkeys, also known as her “movie career”.

Looking back on her career, the Roman Catholic convert says that she had a God-given gift to make the right career choices. “That is where I was lucky. My instinct doesn't fail me. Sharon Stone is brilliant and, somehow, after her breakthrough role she made the wrong choices. She's a good friend of mine. I made the right choices.”

[quote] If the documentary includes those two clips about Master Class as reported it wont be a total whitewash.

What two clips? I haven’t seen anything about “Master Class” being included.

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Dammit, Cannes is MY festival!

I had a front row seat ticket to see Faye in Tea at Five when it was here in Boston.

A week before the show, I had developed a bad cold with a persistent cough. I felt much better the day before the performance, but the cough was still there.

After reading about Faye stopping the play and asking a guy in the front row to remove his red baseball cap because it was distracting her, I placed my ticket online and sold it to someone else.

Were you planning to wear a red baseball cap too?

Imagine her reaction if you cut a fart in her presence.

I've seen it firsthand.

R69 I love that Faye never takes a moment to not cunt out on someone and in this case, Sharon Stone.

How is “making all the right choices” include Dunston Checks In?

To be fair to Faye she made a lot of good and intresting choices from her breakthrough (Bonnie and Clide) onwards up to Network.

I´m too lazy now to type a list, but besides the two highligths of Chinatown and Network she worked in europe with the nouvelle vague crowd and made sure her stock was secured in commercial crowd pleasers ( Musketeer and Towering Inferno) .She did theater ( Blanche -of course) and the occasional tv production.

There are countless memorable and entertaining moments from that area.

"The looong entrance and the chess game in Thomas Crown Affair"

"The Bonni Parker barrett fashion influence"

"She´s my sister-she´s my daugther"

Bitchfighting it out with Raquel Welch in The Three Musketeers (in heavy corsetet period costumes not Nolan Miller frocks)

Her ratings orgasm on top of Peter Finch in Network

Just gliding through The Towering Inferno in that chiffon dress

Stonie uncrossing her legs and walking charity red carpets can´t compete!

So there Miss Dunaway something POSTIV for you!

Faye in action!

“I’m not mad at YOU, I’m mad at the EDIT!”

You STILL haven't mentioned Marlon Brando r78!

Make the scary lady go away, r79!

OMG - just like with the old phone message, someone must really hate Miss Dorothy Faye to release that footage!

R78 her orgasm scene in Network was with William Holden.

R78, It was William Holden she was on top of in “Network”, not Peter Finch.

R79 - if she enters and takes off her throw, why not just have her enter without it?

Holden almost knocked her on her ass on the set of TOWERING INFERNO for keeping him waiting for hours as she dithered around in her dressing room…

Have to say...they had faces then.

[quote]R86 if she enters and takes off her throw, why not just have her enter without it?

Because actors taking off garments is subliminally sexy.

The doors have to open at the same time. Everyone knows that!

Well, she’s not wrong. But it wasn’t really her place to BARK it like that [bold]: o

Is that someone behind her in the take she stuffs up at the end?

R84 R85

If i can´t to anything right, i should´t do it at all-i guess!

R84 R85

If i can´t to anything right, i should´t do it at all-i guess!

Damm, now i double posted and have a spelling error!

Soory about that!

Yoor forgiven, R95.

And I'll bet it's a stinker!

That clip at R79 is hilarious and perfectly illustrates why A-List directors had stopped working with Faye. As the STAR, she has no qualms about overstepping her boundaries and calling the shots. The director calls "Action!" and what is her response? "No, you can't do that! You have to wait and let me give you a sign!" Unbelievable.

I found this post from years ago, which partly explains why Dunaway actions can seem “off.” For whatever reason, whether it’s from past substance abuse or just her own brain chemistry, her communication skills aren’t like yours or mine.

[quote]My (female) friend was gym buddies with her for a year or so, and found her fascinating...but kept her distance and wouldn’t work for her because the actress was obviously unstable.

[quote]My friend insists Dunaway must have some mild form of autism or SOMETHING, because she simply cannot relate to people in a normal way. She said it was like Dunaway was the type who needed to be shown those clinical drawings of emotions, like, [italic]“This is what a sad face looks like, this is an angry face...this face is not being threatening when it looks at you, it is just SMILING.”[/italic]

[quote]Dunaway just doesn’t “get” other people, or what they’re doing. In a sense, she’s clueless.

R5 No, it’s not really him.

What kind of stupid question is that?

It could be his twin and not quite as famous brother Dermot.

I don’t why she’s in the wrong at R79. If anything it’s the crew that looks incompetent. They were even out of focus on her first try!

Other actresses would have been much nastier. Patti alone would have torn them a new one.

[quote] 'He’s very good looking. I wonder what it would be like to have La Dunaway as a mother in law."

If it's true that he was adopted, then La Faye had nothing to do with it. And I wouldn't want her as a mother-in-law. I cut that stuff out of my life, and guard against it.

And I'm not anticipating anything exciting with this project. Despite the fact that she's so tightly wound, yet so unhinged simultaneously...I can't imagine this will reveal anything we don't already know. But...time will tell. I'm sure DL will report once they've seen it.

R103, Terry O’Neill has said that Liam was adopted and there is no photographic proof that Faye was ever pregnant.

“O’Neill had a long-term relationship with Faye Dunaway; they were married for four years in the 1980s and had a son, Liam. In 2003, he was quoted in the U.S. tabloid magazine Star as saying Liam was adopted and not their biological son, contrary to Dunaway's public assertions.”

Faye goes public with her bipolar disorder and mental health struggles in her new documentary. So there you have it.