Let’s be Faye Dunaway

My last significant role was in Super Girl, nearly 40 years ago. If it weren’t for royalties from films I did in the 70’s, I’d be surviving on dog food and the generosity of strangers.

I am the baked potato Faye refuses to eat because it wasn’t dropped onto the counter and therefore isn’t soft and fluffy.

I’m the plastic surgery she definitely has never had.

The response to this topic speaks volumes.

I just toss my videos out the car window if the lackeys at the video store don't pick them up quickly enough.

I'm not a fan.

Maybe she is surviving on dog food and the generosity of strangers, R1.

I’m her white trash Florida roots. She’ll never get away from me!

I'm the Kusturica film that was a hit in all of Europe and Cannes but not well sold in this country.

I’m the Lloyd Webber stupidity!

I’m a big, big liar.

I'm what's of the scenery in Supergirl after after I got through chewing it. I also gnawed on costars Brenda Vacarro and Helen Slater.

I order a million changes to menu items in a Beverly Hills restaurant. Then I later say I hate the food and insult the waiter.

Too bad we don't have recordings of Faye's worst antics because she can always deny them. Too bad many of them happened before cell phone cameras.

I would have enjoyed a secret recording of Faye being a real witch at the restaurant.

I’ve disappeared.

I'm Johnny Depp. Don't expect to get me for an interview.

I am ". Ah,Ah, A,A.... Let's all Chant". !!!!! Circa 1978

Oops Senior Moment! Forgot the video

I’m Frank Perry failing to modulate me directorially.

I'm the gray hair she removed with tweezers from her "Tea at Five" Katharine Hepburn wig.

R20 Bitch stole my play AND bombed it on Broadway.

I’m the uncanny resemblance to a juvenile orangutan.

Separated at birth?

I'm the "It's Let's be MISS Dunaway, bitches" cry let out when Miss Dunaway read the thread title and threw her salad at the laptop screen.

I’m the cup of piss she threw in Roman Polanski’s face on the set of CHINATOWN!!

I’m the broken fridge that was pummeled in the alley.

I'm a random witness to one of her melt-downs.

Really, the nerve of this bitch.

I’m Liam, the son Faye claims to have given birth to, but that’s not true.

I’m the assistant cringing when Faye yells “send me a copy!!!” after Faye took a photo with Meryl Streep.

I’m every single public interaction seemingly ending in an explosion.

I’m her sister AND her daughter!

I'm the one last great role she has left in her if the stars align to give this icon the respect she deserves!

I'm all the great movies she was within spitting distance of starring in

Look at how beautiful she is in r31. Why does she now look like a completely different person?

I was surprised how frumpy she became in the 70s and she looked like another person when she collected her Oscar.

I’m the respect she’s entitled to.

R32 Paging Ryan Murphy!

No R37 I was thinking of maybe some indie or character study like Nomadland, Far From Her, 45 Years. Does Faye speak French?

She would have been amazing in something like Tar it it was made 20 years ago.

She was beautiful in Bonnie & Clyde and the Thomas Crown Affair (1967-68). Like model-gorgeous. Not even recognizable as the Faye of today.

By Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970), she was on her way down. From Chinatown (1974) on, she looked like a frump.

Drugs are bad, kids.

(I know I'm not following thread rules here, but this is a funny interview with Brenda Vaccaro about working with her on Supergirl )

R39 which drugs?

I’m the Oscar for La La Land.

I’m the calming with old age.

I wonder what she does day-to-day.

Would love to take Brenda Vaccaro out for drinks. Sounds like she's got all her marbles and all the stories.

I mean though why does she have that football field between her nose and her upper lip? It’s not there in the 70s.

One doesn’t develop football fields on one’s face as one ages.

Faye needs a lip lift, for sure. She's positively simian now.

Faye, if you're in NYC and have enough left on your credit card, look up Gary Linkov.

[quote]Look at how beautiful she is in [R31].

I'm the "old world beauty" that is considered plain or ugly now because our standards are higher.

R45 Oh, Brenda Vaccaro is the true queen of DL. A lifetime of scrappy work on made-for-TV movies, soaps, and summer-stock plays in Milwaukee. She knows everyone, but remains invisible.

But she's never driven drunk or lost an Oscar to Hilary Swank, so the queens on this site never talk about her.

R49 Brenda is loved here, she played Sophia's hated daughter-in-law on Golden Girls!

[ R 40 ] Thank you for that video. Poor Faye. Vaccaro gives a good character assessment. Faye is (or was) a great actress but in her personal life she struggles. Sad. Mental illness is a tough cross to bear. She probably would have been incredible in "Klute"

I’m “accidentally” stabbing Mara Hobel with scissors and buying her a watch to make up for it.

R51 Jane was more believable as a tough NY call girl than Faye would have been IMHO

It's too bad Faye acted like an out-of-control lunatic on that Katharine Hepburn "Tea at Five" play a few years ago, ultimately getting fired (and sued?). She probably could have done well with it.

I'm the small tupperware-like container that Faye brings with her to a restaurant and tells the waiter that she wants filled with a certain food item/items. Strict instructions are given on what is to be done with me.

I’m looking for gatsby

R54 That's because Ms. Dunaway IS an "out-of-control lunatic."

I’m the guy who had the nerve to sit in the front row wearing a red baseball cap at Boston’s Huntington Theatre where Faye was appearing in Tea at Five.

Faye stopped the play and complained that my hat was distracting her and that I needed to remove it.

Im the Rutanya Alda voodoo doll.

R59 And unlike the Alan Alda voodoo doll, this one actually killed a career!

R60 Wait, Alan Alda - please explain!

R60 Nevermind, duh.

To be that beautiful , that talented & that mentally ill. Just sad really. She would’ve worked forever if not for that facework.

I'm James McCourt's gay-novel incarnation of Faye, "Kaye Wayfaring."

It’s Faye. ‘Nuff said. But can’t we all just acknowledge that she was a brilliant actress? Hypnotic in Bonnie & Clyde, Chinatown and - let’s face it - Mommie Dearest.

I am not one of her FANS.

No, r48, sashay away please. Faye would not be considered plain or ugly today.

More please

They were reading her the lines through an ear piece. I don’t think it would have been a very accomplished performance.

^^ in response to

[quote]r54 It's too bad Faye acted like an out-of-control lunatic on that Katharine Hepburn "Tea at Five" play a few years ago, ultimately getting fired (and sued?). She probably could have done well with it.

I'm the dress being accessorized and sent up to her house in the opening scene of BEVERLY HILLS MADAM.

[quote]r32 I'm the one last great role she has left in her if the stars align to give this icon the respect she deserves!

The respect she’d be given by any STRANGER on the STREET!

I’m the 4th Oscar nomination that never came. Because Hollywood doesn’t go for booze an’ dope.

I'm the "Faye" performance that I've portrayed in every major acting production in which I've participated ever, beginning from the time when I tore myself out of my mother's womb.

I’m the remake of THE WOMEN she was poised to do with Babs and Raquel Welch around 1980.

LAPD’s homicide division probably got wind of it and intervened.

But would Jason Gould or Liam Dunaway O'Neill have played Little Mary?

I’m The Fappening. I cut this crazy old chick a WIDE berth.

I’m Irene Sharaff throwing raw steaks into her dressing room as a diversion.

I'm Hilary Duff and Cathy Moriarty, playing the starlet and crone versions of Faye Dunaway in the indie biography that will blow the doors off Telluride in a few years.

I'm Kathie Lee Gifford, starring in the musical version. It was very much ill-advised, but I'll still get a Tony nomination out of it.

I’m Michael McDonald coaching her on comedy.

“DO THE LINES, MICHAEL! DO THE LINES!!!!”

I’m raging at the Guardian for asking about the Polanski piss incident.

I’m “It Had To Be You”, her flop sitcom

I’m her failed reality show “The Starlet” catchphrase from 2005.

“Don’t call us…we’ll call you.”

No one understands that Towering Inferno was a comedy. Who couldn't bust out laughing at the thought of Susan's stunt double being a man leaping out of window five feet off the ground...

I’m Hilary Duff throwing shade.

“I might be mad if I looked like that now, too.”

I'm the stack of Faye Dunaway VHS tapes she stole from the long-closed Video West.

I'd never work again with that unprofessional bitch. What -- a -- cunt!

A friend of mine (now long passed) had been a stage manager on Broadway in the late 60s/early 70s. She worked on a show that had a then-up and coming Faye Dunaway in it and told me Dunaway was like a robot. No humanity or even presence, but the moment she went on stage she would transform into something exciting and vibrant. She didn't say Dunaway was necessarily mean or unpleasant, but just remote to the extreme of near-parody.

I know it's not uncommon for actors to conserve their energy before a performance, but apparently this was Dunaway all the time. At least back then.

[quote]No humanity or even presence, but the moment she went on stage she would transform into something exciting and vibrant.

I don't see a problem with that.

I was looking at these photos of Andy Warhol screening his new Edie Sedgwick movie "Beauty no. 2" in what looks like a boardroom, and who should appear in the photos but Our Dorothy Faye.

We love Faye! Xoxo

Are the homosexuals still mocking me?

DON'T FUCK WITH ME, FELLAS!!!!!!

I’m the morning after.

R93, is that our Miss Faye impatiently waiting for the help to clean THIS FUCKING MESS up already?

Oh, R93, I read this whole thread in hopes of being the one to post that shot. What a moment that was for her.

I'm Roger Ebert's review of her film debut in The Happening 1(967)

"Faye Dunaway, in her first movie role, exhibits a real neat trick of resting her cheek on the back of her hand" 5-12-1967

I'm Masterclass, which was sadly meant to be Faye's big comeback!

R97, Is starring in a national tour considered a comeback?

R98 no Faye wanted her performance immortalised on celluloid too!

I’m the clear-away club (anyone in her eyesight when shooting).

Faye in Master Class. She has more clarity than Patti LuPone did.

I'm subtlety, Faye and I have never met.

I am Chinatown. I am one of the best if not THE best movie ever and Faye is INCREDIBLY GOOD in it.

I'm Faye's dried up stinky clam

When do we think was the last time Faye got laid?

I’m the fuckin’ Prius

She comes off well in this interview

I'm Liam her adopted son

I'm Bette Midler doing a one woman show as Faye's agent

I'm Clark Burckhalter in my only film

I’m the ONLY REAL bio flick of Evita. Fuck Madonna and the 3567890 others who have fucked her as well.

I’m comparing Leslie Jordan to Tennessee Williams. He is NOT allowed to call me “Dorothy Faye”, however.

I'm Bette Davis' eternally unraised glass.

I'm the fucked up bottom teeth that stayed fucked up long after she had her uppers replaced.

I'm the fucked up top teeth, fucked up in a totally different way than those on the bottom.

I’m the brief flashes of nipple in “Chinatown” and “Barfly”.

I'm Faye's response to Leslie Jordan "You know dear that was a long time ago"

I’m Mae West. Yes, Miss Dunaway played me.

I'm Terry O'Neill, Faye will never stop blaming me for lousing up her career

I'm Sally Kirkland's Oscar campaign, upending Faye's chances for 'Barfly'.

I’m another capricious act by a capricious man.

I'm La La Land and I'll never forgive her the mix up

I’m hard, jagged and tastes like alcohol. Just like kissing Faye Dunaway.

I’m every perplexed coworker, ever.

I'm the Oscar seat filler who laughed at her debacle at the 2017 Oscars.

I’m her knack of keeping composed whenever cameras are present. Leave no evidence.

She comes across as pretty likable in R122. What’s wrong with you bitches?

I'm the bra she didn't bother to wear in "Network"

I’m the hand my mother placed over my 13 year old eyes in the movie theater during the Faye Dunaway/William Holden sex scene.

I'm the cigarette Faye smokes

R129 did she cover your eyes when it became apparent Faye wasn't wearing a bra?

I'm the stains on the casting couch.

I'm Warren Beatty. Even I didn't want to fuck that cold fish. I took Estelle instead.

I'm her co-star, the chimp, from Dunston Checks In. That crazy bitch flung more feces at the wall than I ever dreamed of doing!

I’m Faye covered in cake after shooting the climax for Dunston Checks In, bellowing at her assistant to “clean up this MESSSSS!”

I'm the dirt at which Miss Dunaway is mad. Poor Helga, taking the brunt of it.

I’m the face

I'm three generations of homosexuals wanting to beat the shit out of that fraud Kate Hepburn. We all know who the 1981 Best Actress Oscar belonged to.

I’m presenting Patti LuPone her first Tony.

Two Evitas, and later two scorned Normas.

I’m managing to have it all. Career, home, and famileee!

I'm signed to star in the miniseries biopic of Faye's fabulous career: She's So Fey.

And from I know about Warren Beatty, he wasn't that particular. All you needed to qualify for being humped was to have a working snatch.

I’m the one last “beyond the grave” slap she’ll give the mortician applying her viewing makeup.

R142 - There's no harder working snatch in the business than me.

I'm Hilary Duff, for reasons well known to her.

I'm getting shit to death in a 1920's car with ' Mr. Clyde Barrow'.

I’m the cold, little blonde Scandinavian girl who wrote that mean book about Mommie, whose name Miss Dunaway can’t even bring herself to say most of the time.

R130- She was 26 years old in this interview.

She looked 36 years old there.

She was an OLD looking 26 year old. In The Thomas Crown Affair she looked mid to late 30’s but was only 26.

I'm this thread which should have been titled Miss Dunaway.

Miss Faye if you please

Miles O’Keeffe

I saw her in the 4 musketeers today. She looked so ethereal with the blonde wig and no eyebrows. Her British accent verged on Southern belle at times.

I'm her egregious yet campily fab overacting in "The Eyes of Laura Mars," and all its deeply nostalgia-inducing downtown-Manhattan scenery.

I'm the whip wielded by Faye in The Wicked Lady, the one that bares Marina Sirtis's breasts during a dramatic fight scene.

I’m the martini glass filled with Diana Scarwid’s tears.

R151 - I suspect you posted in the wrong thread, but thanks for that. I always called him Miles O'Beef.

Miles O’Keeffe

R156, JFC! I posted in the wrong thread twice!

R158 we aren't complaining!

I’m getting drunk with Swoozie Kurtz while our half-naked sons cavort upstairs to “Faith”.

I'm the movie everyone mercifully forgets about

I’m really upset now, because for two nights I’ve sifted through that stupid interview with a man I will not even waste my time discussing!

^^ and, suffice it to say, stopped WORKING when he married me, and PRETENDED to be my manager for a very long time, so let’s not even GO there!

OP - Can't we say we did, and not?

R25 I won’t respond to that. That doesn’t even deserve the dignity of a response.

I can’t go on with this! You know very well that I am a lady, and you have brought up something so distasteful! You don’t do that unless you had an agenda!!!!

This is the Datalounge!?!?!? I TURNED DOWN THE MAIL TO DO THIS!!!!!

R58 I don't blame her.

I’m pitching “Thrill Dishsoap” back in the ‘60s.

R167 - She's not mad at you. She's mad at the dirt!

I’m the bra I forgot in the department store that the salesgirl, who Faye made to walk into traffic to return it to her on the driver’s side of the car.

[quote] I’m the broken fridge that was pummeled in the alley.

What’s this in reference to?

I’m Faye’s food scale.

Miss Faye is still bullshit that Terry O outed her for not being her sons' birth mother.

She lied about it for years. That's a whole different level of nuts.

And she was a heroin enthusiast while married to Peter Wolf who is equally awful.

I'm eating a hard boiled egg

r170 Someone said they drove past her house and they saw her beating up a fridge in the alley way.

R174 That was me. I was wearing all white that day.

I’m negotiating everything like a goddamn Hollywood agent.

I think it's funny that there are rumors (and a photo) of William Holden berating Faye on the set of Towering Inferno for her alleged unprofessionalism (often extremely late to set), and yet he appears with her again as a love interest in Network just two years later. I guess they buried the hatchet? Poor Faye, she traded still-hot Paul Newman for that decrepit sot, Bill, as her leading man lover. Bill was only 57 in Network but looked a good ten years older.

R172

Liam: Why did you adopt me?

Faye: What!?

Liam: Why did you adopt me?

Faye: I didn’t! I gave birth to you!

Liam: Don’t you act for me. I wanna know…why did you adopt me!?

Faye: Maybe I did it for a little extra publicity!

R167 They’re claiming that’s Faye Dunaway?

^It is her.

[quote]Poor Faye, she traded still-hot Paul Newman for that decrepit sot, Bill, as her leading man lover

That decrepit sot was hot in his day...

Faye Dunaway couldn't have been more than 21 or 22 in that commercial (1963), playing the mother of a girl who seems 7 or 8.

R181 - True, but time machines didn't exist in 1975

I'm the mirror which each morning is asked "mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of us all?"

Nostalgia inducing, R153?

Ah ah ay ay, let's get AIDS!

I don’t know, r44, maybe she trolls old fashioned message forums? Some seem to find that fun.

I'm Faye's line about how exciting live theater is because she can see the audience's eyes and therein starts a spark, an energy, that drives the performance.

I will be interrupted by her snapping that someone has to leave because they are in her eyeline.

R187 It’s amazing she was able to do theatre at all without asking the entire audience to leave because they were looking at her.