Faye Dunaway fired from Broadway-bound ‘Tea at Five’

Guard your rose bushes tonight ladies!

Oh, Faye!

Fired from a one-woman play?

Yikes.

I still get paid, right?

A capricious act by a capricious man!

R5 I have it on good authority that she actually owes the producers because she went nuts with hotel meals and services billed to them during the Boston run.

To be fair, Stevie Wonder saw this coming.

Final steps on Faye’s career?

It's over for Faye. She must be heartbroken.

[quote] Final steps on Faye’s career?

What career? She was doing a revival of a fucking Matthew Lombardo one person show in Boston of all places. And she got fired. It's been over already.

Why can't you be obsessed about positive things?

Maybe Ryan Murphy can toss her a bone? He should do a season a behind the scenes of The Women so Faye can reprise her Joan Crawford impression.

It would have been the hit if all Europe and Cannes!

It would have been the hit of all Europe and Cannes!

She's always been difficult and unprofessional.

Did it go something like this?

I dumped her in 1976!

Years ago, I worked with Elaine Stritch on a production. It's amazing the amount of conflict these old broads can cause.

Broadway Royalty

Tear down that bitch of an overbearing actress and put in the understudy where she ought to be!

Maybe they can cast MISS Helen Lawson in the role. I hear she's looking for a comeback, baby.

Broadway doesn't go for toxic Hollywood hags.

[quote]Maybe Ryan Murphy can toss her a bone?

TV productions can't afford the delays Faye would introduce into the process.

Do you think she has mental illness? I mean, she must right?

Get Jessica Lange to play Faye in a TV movie. Would love to see scenes of Mommie Dearest with Jessica playing Faye playing Joan.

Yesterday I was discussing going to New York to see this. What?

R25 the article did say they feared she went off her meds.

Only surprised she wasn't fired sooner.

I feel sorry for those that had to look at that puss up close and deal with her cunty behavior.

Her plastic surgery is dreadful.

Someone put wire hangers in her dressing room and the MD PTSD kicked in.

"And the Oscar goes to La La Land . . ."

Did her firing go something like this?

I feel bad for her. She's not THAT old. So talented, such a great actress, but so batshit crazy. I don't see how anyone couldn't have predicted this. Not just that Faye is impossible, but the playwright is no picnic either and has wound up in court with numerous divas. I wonder if this was all part of the plan.

Is she bipolar?

Variety is saying J Fred Muggs has been tapped to replace her. "No one will be able to tell the difference," one producer was quoted as saying.

Sounds like dementia mixed with her already ingrained cuntitude. People with dementia can get MEAN.

Maybe she just got angry because people kept asking her about Mommie Dearest... lol.

What's the "Lloyd-Webber stupidity?"

Mental illness is a bitch.

R34 Person who has mental problems and is not taking her meds probably shouldn’t sign a contract for a stage production with 8 perfs per week. It takes lots of stamina and mental stability to get through each week.

Did she get the last word? Did she?!

She’s been friends with the Sultan of Brunei and his son for a long time and I guess “tolerates” their policy of putting gays to death just like Barbara Thorndyke tolerates the anti Semitism at The Mortimer Club for the great breakfast and free parking.

She’s a straight up disgusting cunt and not deserving of anyone’s sympathy.

So wait, they’re admitting she has mental problems and is on medication for it???!

Would be sort of awesome if she spent her dementia years re-enacting and screaming her Mommie Dearest dialogue.

Her behaviour suggests substance abuse of some kind, no?

Give her a reality show.

Rumor has it the only “lines” she knew while performing TEA were that of the coke she was snorting in her dressing room.

I am not sure that Faye Dunaway is as famous as she thinks she is. I would say her fame peaked more than forty years ago actually.

she is her own worse enemy. Has an extremely attractive son, however.............

R39 he fired her from the original production of Sunset Boulevard

Barbara, please!

[quote]She's not THAT old.

She's 78, pushing 80. She's THAT old.

Shall I step in?

She’ll sue. Maybe that’s her schtick now, get fired from plays and sue for a settlement. Like how people purposely slip and fall in stores so they can sue.

The details are even nuttier than I thought. At one point, she made production assistants get down on their hands and knees to scrub her dressing room floor! Is she possessed by Joan Crawford?

This is so SAD! She was a shoe in for the Tony Award for Best Performance by an Earpiece!

To be fair, I heard the whole entire cast was fired.

Get Catherine O'Hara!

R51 Excuse me? I was the original musical Norma and he fired me, ME! I can both sing and act! A real Broadway treasure and belter

R60 Patti you are correct! I’m truly sorry I got that wrong. He fired Faye second.

How nice for Faye. How nice for Matthew Lombardo. How nice for EVERYONE!

I’m available!

Her son Liam is hot.

He’s adopted, right? Seriously.

I just can’t believe this. I just can’t! How could anyone fire Faye?

R61 Thank you Doll!

They should get Parker Posey, whom I have wanted to play Kate Hepburn since forever!

Did they try to placate her? Tell her how great an actress she is, or how gorgeous she is? Sometimes that smooths things over. And it can create a more relaxing atmosphere.

"Her plastic surgery is dreadful."

What were they even thinking in the first place, hiring someone whose face is so plasticized to portray a woman who wouldn't DREAM of going under the knife for something so silly? Preppy, WASP-y women like Hepburn don't give a flying fuck if they look old.

They could revive AGED IN WOOD for her!

[quote]Her son Liam is hot.

Damn well better be. You don't wanna know what happened to the ugly ones.

Glad they done away with her.

[quote]She was a shoe in for the Tony

Oh Dear! I doubt there is a horn big enough

The article that explains all her horrific behavior behind the scenes is more damning than I could even imagine.

LOL R74 oh my god that’s the funniest oh dear ever and I deserved it! SHOO IN

Supposedly she would purposely not take her meds as a ploy to gain sympathy for the rest of her shit. And then brag to people about it like “look at me, aren’t I a brilliant and clever person? HA!”

Others thought she actually was taking them and lying, again as a ploy to get away with other crap. She’s a fucked up lady...

It sounds like she enjoys being a cunt.

Dear God she's had bad work.

[quote] She also insisted that no one wear white to rehearsals because it “distracts me,” she said.

[quote] Once, a theater in St. Louis sent her a white limousine, and she reportedly had a fit because she hates white. She demanded a rental car from the hotel to get to the theater. The limo company sent a black car instead, but it was too late — Dunaway was racing to the theater, trailed by both the white limo and the black one.

And they think [italic]I'm[/italic] strange for having a thing about the color red!

It just goes to show that all the rumors that have gone back decades about what an asshole she is were all true. She just put the final nail in the coffin.

Fade Donaway

I agree that they had no business casting her when her face is so bizarre looking as to be distracting (through her own bad choices) and when she's so infamously crazy. She needs to retire.

Why can’t DL give Faye the respect she’s entitled to?

R84 Because in order to get respect you have to give it - and Faye doesn't give people respect.

She can't afford to retire on $1.9 million. She'd have to move to Connecticut.

Dun Fadedaway

R65, Their child, Liam Dunaway O'Neill, was born in 1980. In 2003, despite Dunaway's earlier indications that she had given birth to Liam, Terry O'Neill revealed that their son was adopted.

She is batshit. I wonder if her mental problems have been there all through her life? There's so many stories if similar behavior from 40 years ago. I reckon she's got some personality disorder. My god she had literally become Joan Crawford.

At least I had talent.

Just wait until you see the article Faye has Barbara Bennett of REDBOOK working on to refute this vicious hit piece by the NY POST.

Faye quit, she is never fired ever!

I think she was always like this to a degree. During the making of Bonnie & Clyde, her first starring role and third film, she would mope around and be passive-aggressive.

and I'm REALLY upset now!

I'm a huge fan of Faye. This is all fake news. She would never act untoward. So she slapped a crew member. Silly misunderstanding, and it may have been deserved. Firing her is rather extreme.

[bold]WHAT IS THE FISH OF THE DAY?[/bold]

She need ta kwit!

Oh wait, she got shitcanned! Ha, ha, ha!

[quote]He should do a season a behind the scenes of The Women so Faye can reprise her Joan Crawford impression.

Faye at 80 playing Joan at 31? That doesn’t sound like a very good idea.

The story of Faye throwing her return videotapes out the window of her car in the Blockbuster parking lot still makes me smile.

Why are we talking about this? I did a movie with Brando! Ask me about my fucking movie with Brando!

[Quote] They should get Parker Posey, whom I have wanted to play Kate Hepburn since forever!

They'll probably get Ruthie Henshall. Cheaper.

Joan Crawford slapped her family, not the crew.

Joan Crawford slapped her family, not the crew.

The problem with this play, as is the problem with so many theatrical and film projects these days, is that, despite being the hit of all Europe and Cannes, it was not well sold in this country.

How could she go nuts on hotel meals if she was losing weight? Is the food still sitting in her hotel room?

[quote]R25 Do you think she has mental illness? I mean, she must right?

From OP's article:

[italic]She was frequently late for rehearsals, sometimes up to two hours, sources say. She refused to allow anyone to look at her during rehearsals, including the director and the playwright.

While in rehearsal she left what one production source called “troubling, rambling, angry” voicemails to the creative team during the middle of the night. She also insisted that no one wear white to rehearsals because it “distracts me,” she said. When she was rehearsing on stage at the Huntington no one was allowed to move in the theater because that also distracted her.

As she was rehearsing, she began to lose weight. She looked so emaciated that a production member called Dunaway’s former assistant for advice.

The assistant said, “It sounds like she’s not complying with her medication.”

Probably a coke thing R104. Ordering lots of expensive things like caviar and truffles on impulse and not even eating it.

In her 80s and still doing coke? That’s one steal magnolia!

Let’s use some better grammar!

Probably a coke thing R104. Ordering lots of expensive items like caviar and truffles on impulse and then not even eating them.

OP's article reads like a Datalounger wrote it:

[quote] Someone gave her a salad for lunch and she threw it on the floor.

[quote] She refused to allow anyone to look at her during rehearsals, including the director and the playwright

[quote] She also insisted that no one wear white to rehearsals because it “distracts me"

[quote] she had a full on “Mommie Dearest” meltdown and demanded that staffers at the Huntington Theater get down on their hands and knees and scrub the floor of her dressing room

[quote] She allegedly threw mirrors, combs and boxes of hairpins at the staff of the theater. She also pulled gray hairs out of her wig because she wanted to play a younger version of Hepburn than the playwright had written.

Even if the coke rumors aren’t true, the overspending would make perfect sense if she’s manic.

Faye quite due to artistic differences. She did not get fired. It was perhaps slightly less than an amicable parting, but it certainly was not violent. Don't be ridiculous. Faye is a legend and a professional.

She slapped a crew member?

Only one?

Amateur

She is one CRAZY BITCH!

I’d still do her.

She needs to be in a mental health facility. She has totally lost it. She is always been mean. But this is going way beyond that.

R94. In what bizarre universe do you imagine a crew member might deserve to be slapped--short of an unwanted physical interaction initiated by the crew member. You are crazy as Faye!

r116 Remember, that crew member LOOKED at her.

Don’t fuck with me, fellas!

She should be overjoyed that someone looked at her ... and didn't turn to stone.

Stupid move to fire her. After this, people will flock to see her.

I'm confused when the article says

[quote]The July 10 performance was canceled moments before curtain because Dunaway slapped and threw things at crew members who were trying to put on her wig.

How many people does it take to put a wig on her? Just HOW big is it???

(An alternate reading would imply she walked into her dressing room, and crew members were taking turns trying to put her wig on ... themselves?)

R120 Yes. Young men adore me!

I’d rather go on stage bald than look like a tramp!

That story was one of the juiciest things I have read in a LONG time.

Its actually pretty horrible and sad.

Faye definitely has serious mental illness. This goes far beyond her being a cunt. She is seriously a sick woman.

This is why you have no employers, Misdunaway!

"GIVE ME THAT GODDAMN WIG!!!"

Dementia/Alzheimers was my first thought. People with those illnesses get mean and violent.

R104, I can't picture Faye with an entourage.

[quote]OP's article reads like a Datalounger wrote it:

Michael Riedel, like James Wolcott, is one of the rarest of breeds these days: the heterosexual male bitch.

Boy, did he deliver on this one.

Remember when Jane Fonda was asked in 2012 to give one word descriptions of stars she knew?

For Dunaway she said "sad."

I feel badly for her.

Riedel's NYP article states Faye hates the color white, yet she wore white at the Oscars.

They also state she was pulling grey hairs out of her wig though she wore a reddish brown wig onstage. I guess there could be two wigs - the original choice and what Faye finally to wear but... pulling hairs seems way too small a gesture for Miss Faye. She threw the salad on the floor...

I saw Faye in the national Broadway touring production of Master Class. She was brilliant. Beyond brilliant. Seriously, it was the most brilliant performance I have ever seen, and I see a lot of shows.

[quote]she had a full on “Mommie Dearest” meltdown and demanded that staffers at the Huntington Theater get down on their hands and knees and scrub the floor of her dressing room

That’s my favorite part.

[quote] OP's article reads like a Datalounger wrote it:

the New York Post? That bastion of literacy? Impossible!

[quote]Riedel's NYP article states Faye hates the color white, yet she wore white at the Oscars.

Maybe that’s why she hates it. She associates it with her Oscar humiliation.

Huntington Theatre Company in Boston sends Faye all good wishes. Come back and see us soon.

[quote]Faye at 80 playing Joan at 31? That doesn’t sound like a very good idea.

Or the best idea ever...

LEAVE The Huntington?

It's a shame Liam hasn't got a soap role that Faye could take over while he's convalescing.

Found this on Twitter. Seems like just about everyone has a weird story about her.

[quote]She used to come into the Starbucks that I worked at in my early 20s. She... was nuts. My lasting memory of her was the one time she showed up and tried to pay with foreign coins kept in a cigar box (or similar), then looked at the large line forming behind her and giggled about having caused it. I can’t recall exactly what she said to everyone...

I recall one newspaper outlet in L.A. had a hazing ceremony where they sent their newbies to her house to ask for an interview. Of course they all came back crying because she was so vicious over the intercom.

She's almost 79 years old and "emaciated" (says the article), how hard could she slap? haha

So when she demands staff scrub her dressing room floor, why don't the producers just say "No, Faye. That's ludicrous and they aren't going to do it"

Are they really scared of a frail little old lady?

DiCaprio had a "no eye contact" clause in his Once Upon a Time contract. He might be the next Faye decades down the line!

I wonder a lot what her day to day life is like. She's single right? Is she close with her son? Does she maintain staff?

For example what is she doing in Europe right now? She rarely works. I think the last thing she did was a scene in a Christian movie.

None of this sounds like she's beginning dementia. These stories have always plagued her. I also would find it very hard to believe she's doing coke at 79. I mean maybe, but that seems like a surefire way to be dead.

Not that Faye isn't crazy but didn't Lombardo wind up in court with Valerie Harper after she did his one woman show about someone else?

[quote] For example what is she doing in Europe right now? She rarely works.

Maybe she's in Serbia filming a sequel to that Kusturica movie she was so BRILLIANT in!

Tallu was NOT a someone else, r146!

I want to see the footage from MASTER CLASS.

We’ll say we had creative differences; parted on good terms...

IMO, Jessica Lange has also had too much obvious plastic surgery. Parker Posey (as mentioned upthread) might work as Katharine Hepburn. I'm also thinking Jodie Foster with dark hair. The voice would be hard to pull off.

Faye Dunaway is reminding me of Brenda Dickson now.

[quote]The story of Faye throwing her return videotapes out the window of her car in the Blockbuster parking lot still makes me smile.

That was Video West in West Hollywood.

This is the best DL thread in ages! Bravo, Faye!

Faye's Interview goes to HOWARD STERN, please!

I like Parker Posey but she's more of a "turn" than an actress.

She has a movie in pre production that is to be filmed in Europe. Is that why she's on the continent as we speak? Pre-Production Visceral Drama, Thriller Movie A young surgeon is kidnapped while while preparing to perform a heart transplant that will save a boy's life. Director: Frédéric Jardin Writers: Frédéric Jardin, Stephen Prentice Stars: Faye Dunaway, Georgina Campbell

Faye needs a Mamacita to keep her grounded.

Who can ever forget this?

But R89, Joan was always the consummate professional on the set. Even her swordn enemy Bette Davis admired her professionalism. Crawford reserved her crazy for her personal life.

I had a friend who worked at a NY publishing house when they filmed a Sharon Stone movie there. Her boss told them they were not supposed to stare at Stone, but of course she and the other assistant editors knew they were not going to get fired because it would look ridiculous for their boss to fire them for that. So they stared and stared at her just to annoy the shit out of her (which they never would have done otherwise).

Slapped a crew member.....

A CREW MEMBER!

That movie announcement says nothing about Dunaway's role. Topline my ass.

1.9 million. Poor thing. That's just so very sad. I almost wanna give her a bit my fortune.

R149 here. I prefer Caldvell and LuPone to her.

r164

Thanks, but I meant the film footage. Dunaway bought the rights. She apparently shot some of the movie on location. I don't know how much.

Dixie Carter was supposed to have been great, r164.

R162 She plays the grandmother

"Visceral” stars Campbell as Julie, a young cardiac surgeon who is trying to save a boy waiting for a heart transplant. When a compatible and available organ is finally assigned to him, Julie picks it up but is kidnapped by a Russian mafia family who also wants the heart at any cost in order to save their grandmother.

She was, R166. Dixie Carter in Master Class was a stunning performance and one of my fondest Broadway memories.

Diamonds, Not Hearts!

If she slapped someone, can't she be brought up on charges via Actor's Equity or something. Aren't there union or guild rules that protect staff from assault?

Elder gays will remember when Nicol Williamson slapped a fellow cast member and the furor it caused.

Dixie

That footage of Dunnaway as Callas is awful.

I thought Tyne Daly was the best.

This is so sad. I saw her in Master Class about twenty years ago and she was really good. But recently, I've seen her walking around West Hollywood, looking unwell and homeless. Very much like a bag lady. I was surprised and happy to see she was headed to Broadway. I feel bad for the crew, the writer and the producers. Hopefully they can find a suitable replacement and get the show to NYC. And hopefully someone is looking after Faye- I'm sure she's devastated.

She's under-reacting

This is, of course, as deliciously trashy and campy a story as one would hope for from Faye. But, it also makes me a little sad. To think what great work she was doing in the 70s -- that high-wire act of hers in Network remains one of my favorite screen performances ever. I thought, perhaps, after her re-emergence at the Oscars she might have a second shot at getting her late career right. Perhaps a small, but pivotal role on a prestige cable or streaming series. But, now, who's going to want to work with her -- in any medium.

You fucked up, Faye.

Laurence Olivier said something like genius in the theater is too much trouble. Let’s embroider a pillow for Miss Faye.

Here’s a clip from several years ago when Jane Fonda said the first word that came to mind when she thought of Faye Dunaway: “Sad”.

Ohhh, her "sad" was sad.

In fairness, that voice mail at R158 was really not that bad at all. No swearing, no shrillness, just making some points.

Except it was left early in the morning for someone's assistant, and it woke him up. That's why he leaked it.

ENOUGH CRAZY PRE-DAWN CALLS, BITCH!

She and Kevin Spacey should do a remake of Moment by Moment with Faye in the Travolta role and Spacey as Miss Tomlin.

R178 Did Jane spill the tea at five?

Did anyone notice it was her _former_ assistant they called about her meds?

Imagine being Faye's assistant. What kind of hell on earth that must be.

Read all about it

[quote]Did anyone notice it was her _former_ assistant they called about her meds?

I would imagine that Faye has many, many former assistants.

A reliable source reports that Actors' Equity was called pretty much daily during the run of TEA AT FIVE in Boston, for one Faye insanity or another.

She and Matthew Lombardo deserve each other. And yes, that POS did sue Valerie Harper. I hope she's not too ill to be following all of this drama. Would be interesting to know what she thinks of it, even though of course she has far more important things on her mind.

Does anyone really care about the recast? The playwright isn't exactly known for quality work, is he?

She's definitely got mental problems I'm sorry but come on. And no doubt going way back.

The kids today want all the glamor and success without the hard work. The public will decide that for them.

How about Holland Taylor to take Faye’s place?

She refused to eat a salad and threw on the floor because she was watching her weight? Just what kind of salad was it?

She refused to eat a salad and threw on the floor because she was watching her weight? Just what kind of salad was it?

A Waldorf Salad made with high fat Duke’s mayonnaise

Well, truthfully, she was damn right NOT to eat anything the poor, abused crew gave her.

The management is thrilled to announce Miss Dunaway has been replaced by her current lookalike, a Queensland freshwater cod, in the role of Katharine Hepburn.

This says it all.

I should’ve known...

You’d know where to find the salad AND the WHITE!

Miss Dunaway's cunty behavior on sets dates back to her very first movie, "Hurry Sundown," where she repeatedly clashed with veteran film director Otto Preminger, whom she claimed "didn't know anything at all about the process of acting." Preminger came from the tyrannical school of film directing, where he barked orders and the paid actors were expected to jump. But young upstart Faye tried to put him in his place, which means she's either got chutzpah or is just plain crazy.

I knew this was going to happen just as I knew what would happen with Roseanne when they announced her sitcom was returning. These are two very fucked up women.

One person she had to get on with! One! Herself! and she couldn't even do that. It has to be more than ego, she must be bipolar surely.

R151, Jessica looks fine and looks naturally aged compared to Faye's pulled tight look. However, this crappy one-woman play isn't something Jess should be wasting her time on.

R151, Jessica looks fine and looks naturally aged compared to Faye's pulled tight look. However, this crappy one-woman play isn't something Jess should be wasting her time on.

Lange looks frozen smooth up top, which contrasts too greatly with the lower half of her face + her neck.

Hollywood Royalty...

I'll show those fuckers!

sources say the production wasn't going to NY even if Faye was an angel because play was weak (remember she got better reviews than the play - no one liked it and it's only about 70 mins.), her memory is failing (she's 79 in Jan) and box office interest was tepid. If play had gotten great reviews they would dump Dunaway and go to Broadway with another actress not London.

They can terminate Faye and save money contractually and of course they have cause because of Faye's behavior and Faye can't sue.

Interesting Page Six column mentions her medication, and what the ethics are of putting someone in her condition in front of an audience. First time I can remember where they are framing it as her illness (bi-polar?) and not just diva behavior - industry secret for years - plus drug use in 70s. Is this the beginning of an intervention?

The story about the real Faye has yet to be written/told.

It's kind of extreme for bipolar. It sounds to me like she's schizophrenic.

Noel Coward pleaded with Mary Martin to make her London debut in the early 1950s and star in one of his (lesser) musical plays. Their relationship went very sour quite quickly. He could only communicate with the prima donna via her ever-present husband.

Does anyone know Faye's son? Is he stable?

R200 Preminger was a pig.

He cut my role in 'Bonjour Tristesse' down to half a sentence.

I've heard that too. Whatever the illness, it's Faye's shameful secret (she feels). Denial.

r34 you don't think 78 is old? You must really be an elder gay

Faye isn't as old as Vanessa and Maggie.

And they know how to behave!

I feel really sorry she's been humiliated this way, she is an icon.

When you shit on people for decades there'll come a time someone's going to shit on you and everybody's laughing and enjoying your public humiliation.

Well, it's not like this is Dunaway's first public humiliation...

This is sad.

On the upside, she can totally turn this around with a little humility and self-reflection.

Hell, I’d write a candid, apologetic and cathartic memoir after this if I were her. That would reopen some doors.

Her legend would rise as a result.

R219 I'm not sure who would give her a chance after this but I agree she should write her memoirs.

[quote]You fucked up, Faye.

Of course her being mentally ill never comes into you equation? Normal healthy people don't act like this.

Faye was able to get away with a lot of shit when she was a very beautiful woman, but she has always been crazy. Remember, she peed in a cup and threw it in Roman Polanski's face.

[quote] I'm not sure who would give her a chance after this but I agree she should write her memoirs.

Preferably when she's off meds.

Faye is the Betty Broderick of the creative arts.

Well, who hasn't, r222?

Does this mean she's available for Sunset? Now that CATS is out, we need more than Glenn squalling in that turkey.

r209 clearly has never seen a bipolar person in manic phase.

You can't diagnose anyone remotely but that sounds like a cluster B personality disorder. Either of the following ones:

- Antisocial PD

- BPD

- Histrionic PD or

- NPD

I read that she felt awfully depressed after each of her meltdowns, so I'd go with BPD. Other cluster B PDs would not feel depressed after one of their meltdowns, but relieved to have reinstated their sense of superiority and grandiosity.

[quote]Well, who hasn't, [R222]?

It's his preferred form of greeting, from what I understand.

r228 but would you necessarily take medication for any of those conditions? Having three bipolars in my family, i'd put money on bipolar. That anger and the depression screams bipolar, perhaps bipolar 2.

[quote]I feel bad for her. She's not THAT old. So talented, such a great actress, but so batshit crazy.

I felt empathy for her when I read the whole Post story. She's plainly got a mental illness and that is sad.

But a separate question... is she that talented? She's got, or had, a great voice, a distinct look, but was she a great actress or was she a great performer who consistently delivered Faye Dunaway on screen ?

I was pulling for her comeback . But I agree she may not be well mentally or emotionally . Hope she seeks help.

I don't get it. If she had slapped me, I would have called the police, pressed assault charges, and sued her ass.

"When you hand me the wig, you've got to remove the gray. If you can't do something right, don't do it at all!"

Now you know why.

I think Faye is a hoarder. She hoards personality disorders.

I would have been honoured to have had her slap me tbh

Hey, producers. You want to make a fortune? Charo. Put her in the Kate drag, but have her keep the cuchi cuchi hair. Show the Met what camp really is. It's only 70 minutes long, so have her do 10 minutes of classical guitar at the end. She'd be the toast of the town. The idea of her evoking Hepburn is too fantastic.

It would run as long as she wanted to do it, and it would be hilarious. Shit, have Nathan Lane replace her after a season. It could become a 21st century The Mousetrap.

I'm not drunk, just a little iffy.

Talked to a hair stylist on a film set once. She said “Last week I was offered a choice. To work on Faye Dunaway-a psycho-or Betty Buckley-a cunt. I chose the cunt.”

I know this is not a gay-friendly thing to day, but I'm glad that a tantrum-prone harridan has been cut off at the stem for this sort of behavior. It might be delicious fun to read about it on the internet, but in real life she was making peoples' lives a living hell, and she was probably enjoying that fact, enjoying the power she had over them because she's the "star," so [bold]GOOD[/bold].

^^^to say

They should get Kate Mulgrew for the part. She has done Katherine Hepburn before, and is a totally professional actor.

I vote the latter, r231.

[quote] They should get Kate Mulgrew for the part. She has done Katherine Hepburn before, and is a totally professional actor.

Or just move on. Why does the world need a Tea at Five revival?

[quote]They should get Kate Mulgrew for the part. She has done Katherine Hepburn before, and is a totally professional actor

I totally agree! She's a very underrated actress and would be fantastic!

The Boston paper devoted the whole front page to this turn of events, in 400 point type: FAYE DONE AWAY.

It was as if, like some obviously upcoming obits, they had it ready and waiting.

R222, According to Mia Farrow, Roman and John Cassavetes came to blows on the set of "Rosemary's Baby".

Here's a Woke(tm) take on the allegations:

The Post story goes further, listing complaints from those who worked on the show's pre-Broadway engagement at Boston's Huntington Theatre. They allege that Dunaway physically assaulted the wardrobe crew and became verbally abusive after a performance was cancelled. No sources were named, and the style is predictably sensationalist, with unverified digs at Dunaway's mental health and medication regimen.

It falls into an established narrative of Dunaway as an infamously "difficult" actor. Notably, she was fired in 1994 from the LA production of Sunset Boulevard, then sued composer Andrew Lloyd Webber for defamation, settling out of court.

However, the narrative has come under deserved scrutiny in a post-MeToo world. "Difficult" has long been a moniker attached to women who refuse to kowtow to male higher-ups, then used as an excuse to stymie careers, especially in Hollywood. Since Harvey Weinstein's predatory abuses were exposed, scores of women have spoken about the ways in which they were undermined, threatened, blackballed, and otherwise impeded for standing their ground when pressured by male colleagues.

Dunaway is far from the only actress of her generation to be labeled as such. She's not even the only actress to sue Andrew Lloyd Webber for firing her from Sunset Boulevard - it's a dubiously specific honor she shares with Patti LuPone. (One does wonder how difficult Webber must be, then.)

And Dunaway's specific "difficult" reputation was pushed by such behavioral paragons as convicted child rapist Roman Polanski. So. There's that.

However, the alleged behavior at The Huntington is of a different caliber than the usual euphemisms. When a woman in Hollywood is known as "difficult," the assumption is that she is outspoken, and ran afoul of a male boss's ego at some point. Physical abuse is not an affiliated conjecture, and makes the Tea at Five controversy a different - but not mutually exclusive - narrative.

She's an abusive, difficult HAG. That Forbes article is risible in its insinuations between real challenges women face and a historically difficult celebrity.

All this behavior might stem from the early stages of dementia or Alzheimer's Syndrome. Faye Dunaway is 78. Rita Hayworth exhibited similar behavior in the years before her diagnosis. This is not just an actress being a diva.

But she's been this way for decades. I agree she's mentally ill, but she's been so for quite a long time.

R250 AD or dementia is a stretch, because sufferers with early symptoms do not have the capacity for remembering lines and stage directions for a play.

[quote]r222 Remember, she peed in a cup and threw it in Roman Polanski's face.

Yes, well, I'm sure that WAS a bit startling.

An old teacher of mine was connected to the Dunaway/Voight revival of STREETCAR in L.A., and he said a bucket of water was kept offstage for one of Stanley's entrances, where he has to appear damp and sweating. As the actors' relationship crumbled, Dunaway took to peeing in Voight's bucket of water, saying she did not have time to make it to the restroom.

PISS BECAME HER VITRIOL!

[quote]r233 I don't get it. If she had slapped me, I would have called the police, pressed assault charges, and sued her ass.

And your theater career would stall.

We handle these things within the family.

I assume you are the great-grandmother of said family r254?

[italic]IF YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE PISS, GET OUT OF THE THEATER!

Do you do it deliberately, Faye, or is it just a reflex?

One-man/one-woman shows are enjoyed by almost no one. It's just a chance for the actor to show off.

[quote]r224 [bold]Faye is the Betty Broderick of the creative arts.[/bold]

Quoted for [italic]Truth.[/italic]

I want Faye's gay son and Barbra Streisand's gay son to get married ... then watch the two crazy, controlling bats try to plan the wedding together.

That would be EPIC.

Oh, god that is a fantastic idea for a movie, r259!

Monsters-in-Law: This Time, It's War

Why can’t people focus on this wonderful film, you know?

All kidding aside, this has been such a sad story. Faye had such a good run as one of the highest visibility stars in Hollywood basically from Bonnie and Clyde through Mommie Dearest, but then it was over and she could not reconcile herself to being older. She has thirsted for a return to the spotlight for forty years, and though she actually did a few good character turns (most memorably in Barfly), she didn't want to be a character actress--she wanted to be a star. And you can;t be a star forever unless you're a first-rate actress, like Meryl Streep or Judi Dench, and Dunaway was never at that level.

She's one of those extremely sad Norma Desmond types. She will be like Bette Davis or Barbara Stanwyck and will try to keep bgetting starring work until she draws her last breath.

" She will be like Bette Davis or Barbara Stanwyck and will try to keep bgetting starring work until she draws her last breath."

Bette and Barbara were pros to the end and didn't have Faye's unfortunate mental issues.

Is there a #MeToo movement for people who've been abused/ wronged by Faye? I'm sure she pissed off enough people for there to be a movement.

[quote]r263 Faye had such a good run as one of the highest visibility stars in Hollywood basically from Bonnie and Clyde through Mommie Dearest, but then it was over and she could not reconcile herself to being older. She has thirsted for a return to the spotlight for forty years, and though she actually did a few good character turns (most memorably in Barfly), she didn't want to be a character actress--she wanted to be a star.

this is insightful, and what seems to basically be the truth. She's a good actress with a narrow range. With very few exceptions, she cannot let go of her image even the tiniest bit.

Faye at her best was better than Streep. But there have been a lot of bad/mediocre films as well.

Elia Kazan on Faye Dunaway: God And Will

R165 - yes: #PeeToo

[quote]Here's a Woke take on the allegations

Yeah! Work!

She was so beautiful in her youth, with a look unlike anyone else. Even in Barfly she looked striking. I wish she hadn’t messed up her face so much.

Some beautiful stills of her from [italic]The Towering Inferno[/italic] in THIS, which discusses her wardrobe for the film:

[quote]She was so beautiful in her youth, with a look unlike anyone else.

And so talented too. And she got a ton of attention and praise for that from the get-go, just about. It obviously went straight to her head, and stayed there, engendering a sense of entitlement that has not dimmed with the decades.

A friend of mine's father went to high school with her in Germany. He said she was mean even then, with a group of lovestruck boys about her. He was NOT ONE OF HER FAAAAANNNNSSS.

Mean people are usually very insecure. She was fucked up from Day 1, apparently, though she was able to at least stay functional for much of her adulthood. (Well, "functional" being a relative term in Hollywood.)

I guess that crew member wasn't one of her FANNNNNSSSSS!

Nothing matches her work in Supergirl!

Dana Delaney tweeted: I have briefly worked with Ms. Dunaway. She was and is a sensitive & formidable talent. Let’s be kind.

Ben Mankiewicz then responded: So Dana is right. Faye is a sensitive soul who has a terribly tough time figuring out when people are trying to help her...when they’re on her side. We ought to be kind. To her. To each other.

Then Delaney answered another tweet that accused Faye of white privilege she repsonded: It has nothing to do with privilege. It’s chemical imbalance. Don’t judge.

Maybe this will make Faye admit to her chemical imbalance ( a secret for years in the industry) and come out and talk about the struggles of those with mental health issues. It's her only way to redemption.

Dana Delaney tweeted: I have briefly worked with Ms. Dunaway. She was and is a sensitive & formidable talent. Let’s be kind.

Ben Mankiewicz then responded: So Dana is right. Faye is a sensitive soul who has a terribly tough time figuring out when people are trying to help her...when they’re on her side. We ought to be kind. To her. To each other.

Then Delaney answered another tweet that accused Faye of white privilege she responded: It has nothing to do with privilege. It’s chemical imbalance. Don’t judge.

Maybe this will make Faye admit to her chemical imbalance ( a secret for years in the industry) and come out and talk about the struggles of those with mental health issues. It's her only way to redemption.

White privilege?? Jesus H. Christ, SJWs want that to be the cause of all problems. If the Earth was about to be hit by a giant meteor, they would lay the blame on white privilege.

I don't what you all are talking about her behavior sounds perfectly normal and understandable to me.

It's not an excuse, but part of Dunaway's decades-long prickliness and erratic behavior might have to do with using starvation as a dieting approach.

Back in her day (the 60s and 70s) actresses and models didn't go to the gym to maintain a thin frame, they just basically ate hard boiled eggs or nothing at all ... washed down with cigarettes and sometimes cocaine. The result = hangry.

She lost 20 or 30 lbs. for BONNIE AND CLYDE, even strapping weights to her wrists and ankles when not in front of the camera. That's because her weight was at different levels in HURRY SUNDOWN when she was miserable under dictatorial Otto Preminger, and started pigging out. (She later bought her way out of her contract with Preminger, she was so unhappy.)

What I'm saying is, Dunaway has a longtime history of battling her weight. (Her closest rival, Jane Fonda, was bulimic throughout that same era to stay thin, as well.) Since Dunaway primarily just refused food when she had to reduce for a film, it's understandable that that could have added fuel to the fire of her already unsteady mood swings. It could be one piece of the puzzle.

Who's the man at r283?

[quote]If play had gotten great reviews they would dump Dunaway and go to Broadway with another actress not London.

R208. Mental health issues aside if in fact that's what has happened, I believe "Tea at Five" was always scheduled to go to London, which would serve as a pre-Broadway run so that the play could continue to be worked on and refined prior to coming to NYC, which is not unusual for a play such as this one and a star of Faye's stature.

John Phillip Law, R284. Hotness personified.

Yes...that's from the Preminger film, HURRY SUNDOWN (1967) in which Law plays her husband.

It's all around awful, BTW

[Quote] John Phillip Law, [R284]. Hotness personified.

He looks better in that pic, than in BARBARELLA.

Forget about "Tea at Five." I want a play about Faye Dunaway's career and life.

Cate Blanchett for Faye!

Amy Klobuchar is the Faye Dunaway of Senators.

The only chemical imbalance that she has is the one induced by coke.

Faye has been a cokehead right up until age 78?

Has Robert Urich commented yet?

My GP's mother-in-law from Texas is 88 yo and has been a coke head for 60 years, believe it or not.

WTF is a GP?

General Practitioner?

[quote]r288 He looks better in that pic than in BARBARELLA.

I met him in his late 60s, a year or two before he died. He was tall, goodlooking, well dressed, polite, low key. I thought, "That man is handsome."

Star Quality

[quote]The July 10 performance was canceled moments before curtain because Dunaway slapped and threw things at crew members who were trying to put on her wig, sources say. Enraged at the cancellation, Dunaway began “verbally abusing” the crew. They were “fearful for their safety,” said one source.

LOL

Dana darling, you're drunk. Go to bed.

Is Celebrity Rehab still on the air?

Dorothy Faye Dunaway

Faye Done Away.

Ohmygawd, we're ALL SLIPPING!!

I've seen "Mommie Dearest" a thousand times, and am a big gay movie hag, but now I am noticing something for the FIRST TIME!

That photo from "MD" where Joan is sitting in L.B. Mayer's office has a ridiculous error! The large color photo on the wall is the somewhat famous photo of the MGM contract stars from MGM's thirtieth anniversary......in 1954! Joan left MGM in early 1943, eleven years before that photo was taken! If you squint you can see Esther Williams in her gold "Jupiter's Darling" costume! Why the hell didn't anyone catch this earlier?

Dammit what about me?!?!? Yes, I can be difficult, but I'm not batshit insane!

Miss Dunaway, Dancing With the Stars is on line two.

FORMER personal assistant, r306! For reasons well known to her.

I agree with you R240 that 'it might be delicious fun to read about it on the internet, but in real life she was making peoples' lives a living hell'.

Why do we venerate abusers?

Imagine how _I_ feel, having to deal with these shrieking harpies every day on the View! Why DO we venerate abusers?

How exactly is Faye venerated? Her career has been in the toilet for decades. The Oscars appearance was a drop in the ocean from which she saw little benefit.

She is rather lucky to have found fame while being mentally ill. I'm sure plenty of those who struggle in that capacity would love to be whisked away to a yacht for an all expenses paid summer vacation.

R310 This tread venerates her and her bad behaviour just like the eldergays venerated Bette Davis and her bad, undisciplined behaviour.

Bette Davis was a lot of things, r311, but "undisciplined" was not one of them.

[Quote] This tread venerates her and her bad behaviour just like the eldergays venerated Bette Davis and her bad, undisciplined behaviour.

This is an entertainment forum for pointless bitchery. And really, what is a thread of finger wagging Faye going to achieve?

R312 William Wyler was the only man who could discipline Bette Davis.

She walked all over the other men (and she made a fool of herself doing so).

Don’t fret dear Faye.

The legitimate theater isn’t what it used to be.

[quote]r312 Bette Davis was a lot of things, but "undisciplined" was not one of them.

ALLEGEDLY, Bette Davis dragged out the filming of [italic]Mr. Skeffington[/italic] for so long, and was so unpleasant, that someone on the crew struck back. (I think the problem was she'd once had a romance with the director, but was now fighting furiously with him.)

Anyway, Davis' eyes would get dry from the bright studio lights, and she'd sometimes rinse them out between takes with a special solution. Late in the looooooooooooooooooooooooong filming, there was a shriek from her dressing room. Someone had put a photo developing chemical in the eyewash bottle. No one ever found out who did it.

r282 I almost did a real spit take reading your response! Thanks for making my day r282:) My deceased partner had many run ins with La Battle

r282 I almost did a real spit take reading your comment My now deceased partner had many unpleasant experiences with the angry/unhappy/unstable Battle

😬 Sorry for duplicate posts

[quote]It would run as long as she wanted to do it, and it would be hilarious. Shit, have Nathan Lane replace her after a season. It could become a 21st century The Mousetrap.

That Nathan Lane movie is called MOUSE HUNT.

R320 is too stupid to live.

R320 is too stupid to live.

R321, you could say that agai...

R238

Does she have any money left? Sounds like she’s on her way to becoming homeless.

She sold her 600k one bedroom apartment in 2017

[quote]Our favorite part of the apartment, however, is definitely how Dunaway chose to have the listing photos taken—the televisions are playing scenes from Bonnie and Clyde, there’s a Chinatown poster on one wall and you can see a few of the many awards the actress has received over the years, all on display by the entryway.

I could be wrong but wasn't she busted a few years ago for still having a rent controlled apartment in NYC that she was not living in and paying next to nothing for?

[quote] Bette Davis was a lot of things, [R311], but "undisciplined" was not one of them.

Oh really?

What kind of world are we living in when a Diva can't slap the staff?

R328 "Somewhere along the line, the world has lost all of its standards and all of its taste"

No one working on that play recorded any of her lunacy incognito?

Can someone enlighten me as to why/how Faye's plastic surgery makes her look like a chimpanzee? What sort of procedures would she have had to had?! What went wrong?

Faye has always looked so cute in a hat!

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R140 Your post had me crying!

Bonnie Parker is the only performance I've seen where Faye is not up to her usual Faye persona. It's so refreshing and unlike her.By the time of *Chinatown* and *Network* you can clearly tell it is her.

Well if we are commenting on Faye's acting, despite what Bette Davis said against her on The Disappearance of Amy, Dunaway is brilliant when she has to deliver a 10 minute monologue on what happened to Amy when she disappeared.

Oops it's Aimee.

I could play the part and learning aidy pages of dialhog is easy for me.

[quote] r335 Bonnie Parker is the only performance I've seen where Faye is not up to her usual Faye persona. It's so refreshing and unlike her.

She was funny in a supporting role in the 1997 version of REBECCA.

I guess she was in a good mood that week.

I'm not much of a fan, but I did find her actually likable in her Emmy-winning Columbo appearance.

Diana Rigg lost out on the lead in NETWORK to Faye Dunaway. Twenty years later, Diana got the bigger role in REBECCA.

Well, it was produced by a London company. They were unlikely to cast an American in the leading role of a Brit (Mrs. Danvers), when they had plenty of real English actors onhand.

Rigg did replace Dunaway at the last minute in Olivier's KING LEAR. But Faye was living in England at the time, so Granada Television was probably more lenient about the residency issue.

she looks simian

[Quote] Well, it was produced by a London company. They were unlikely to cast an American in the leading role of a Brit (Mrs. Danvers), when they had plenty of real English actors onhand.

[Quote] Rigg did replace Dunaway at the last minute in Olivier's KING LEAR. But Faye was living in England at the time, so Granada Television was probably more lenient about the residency issue.

Are you kidding? If Faye's star was sufficiently bright, she would have got the role as the housekeeper. Gillian Anderson hasn't had any trouble getting big, showy roles in the UK. And before you say, that's because Anderson lives in the UK, it's not. Hollywood actors don't tend to do pursue work Brit TV because of the lower pay and lack of comparable audience (hiistorically, British TV has not sold as well to America as vice versa).

*pursue work in Brit TV

We all know there is only one possible person who can take over the role and do it justice...

She was good on “Columbo”.

[quote]r344 Are you kidding? If Faye's star was sufficiently bright, she would have got the role as the housekeeper

Did she want it? Post [italic]Mommie Dearest,[/italic] Dunaway always went on and on in interviews about how she wanted to break away from the icy, malevolent image she ended up with.

I don't think playing the evil, skulking Mrs. Danvers would have been to her taste at the time. Not to mention she'd have been stuck in the same drab housekeeper's uniform for 4 hours.

So she did SUPERGIRL? Or Beverly Hills Madam? Or...

Better clothes.

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Raquel looks silly with that bad wig.

There's nothing wrong with Faye, she just a d lounger in drag

Faye IS Allan Carr!

Faye's career was basically done by the time she made Mommie Dearest. After that she appeared in crap like supergirl and a string of average TV movies like that Poirot movie with Peter Ustinov, and Raspberry Ripple made in 1986. She basically had a very short window if big success from 1967 to 1978 ish.

[quote] She basically had a very short window of big success from 1967 to 1978 ish.

That's true. And it wasn't long afterwards she dove into plastic surgery. Because there weren't many parts for traditionally beautiful actresses after they turned 40. Jane Fonda had to start producing her own stuff to create decent roles as she faced that birthday.

I don't think Faye is alone in having psychological problems in Hollywood. If you look back many stars seemed unbalanced. Bette Davis, as someone else noted, was prone to outbursts of temperament, and seemed pathological at times. No need to mention Joan Crawford. Also Marlon Brando, Marilyn Monroe and Frances Farmer. I think maybe even Lana Turner too when you read about her. And Judy Garland was certainly unbalanced, whatever the cause. Hollywood is a big asylum.

Jane Fonda wasn't a beauty. Just pretty. Dunaway was unbelievably beautiful. Before I was born.

I think Faye could have done some of Glenn Close's roles.

I hate Jane Fonda's voice. In its way, her voice is as bad as Raquel Welch's Charm School voice.

Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen were sensational in The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

Faye Dunaway looked stunning in The Thomas Crown Affair

Dunaway has to work while her male counterparts, Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson are mostly retired and wealthy.

She doesn't understand the world has moved on , people no longer put up with funky divattude. you will be called out on your bad behavior.

Faye looking like the cool, sexy, ice princess in The Thomas Crown Affair.

Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway in The Thomas Crown Affair and one of the most famous on screen kisses ever.

[quote]r358 Jane Fonda wasn't a beauty. Just pretty.

Mmmmm, her looks were more versatile than Dunaway's, but she was absolutely considered a screen beauty in her youth. She started as a model.

Thanks for the Bette Davis clip . A true legend ! ‘Made me spit my coffee out and laugh this dreary London morning . They don’t make ‘em like that anymore.

Don't bore me with your Jane Fonda modelling pics R367. She wasn't a beauty. A pretty girl with a sexy body. Zoom in on R365's pic of Dunaway. Fuck damn she's not only beautiful, she was a chiselled piece of female perfection. Even her ears were exquisite. People who look like young Dunaway are not just walking around. Jane Fonda could be found working in any hair salon.

I think Dunaway's beauty appealed to gay men while Fonda's appealed more to straight men.

They're simply different types.

Whereas Fonda was photographed with them, Faye was actively in cahoots with the Viet Cong!

But you'll never hear that truth in Hollywood.

Faye had to get those Eurasian looks from somewhere...

I understand Faye was fornicating with Marcello Mastroianni during her brief time as a top star.

Jane Fonda was a better actress im sorry. Her performances in They Shoot Horses Don't They? Klute, and A Dolls House are better than j7st of Dunaways, and more real. I give Faye two great performances, in Chinatown and Network.

^^ I would agree with this, though Dunaway does have other very, very good performances on her resume.

Still, Fonda is the more secure performer, with a much broader range.

Fonda can also do comedy yes.

R374, Marcello Mastroianni, who had affairs with many beautiful women--Catherine Deneuve, Ursula Andress, Anouk Aimee, Claudia Cardinale, etc.--said that Faye was the woman he loved the most. They had an intense three-year relationship, and Faye wanted to marry him and have his kids, but he refused to divorce his wife Flora Carabella.

R374, Marcello Mastroianni, who had affairs with many beautiful women--Catherine Deneuve, Ursula Andress, Anouk Aimee, Claudia Cardinale, etc.--said that Faye was the woman he loved the most. They had an intense three-year relationship, and Faye wanted to marry him and have his kids, but he refused to divorce his wife Flora Carabella.

[quote]Davis' eyes would get dry from the bright studio lights, and she'd sometimes rinse them out between takes with a special solution. Late in the looooooooooooooooooooooooong filming, there was a shriek from her dressing room. Someone had put a photo developing chemical in the eyewash bottle. No one ever found out who did it.

Doubtful. It would have damaged her eyes (even blinded her permanently) if that had really happened. And how could she have used eyewash when it would have meant redoing her makeup every single time? She would have been using drops at most, not a wash, and with the makeup people nearby for touchups.

Meryl wanted to do Master Class after Faye lost it so will she now try and do Tea at Five?

[quote]Can someone enlighten me as to why/how Faye's plastic surgery makes her look like a chimpanzee?

It's the snub nose and the large area between the nostrils and the top of her upper lip.

R359 She tried but poor thing can’t sing.

Jane and Faye are like Dorian Gray, with Jane looking like a vigorous version of her younger self and Faye like a melted mask. I wonder if it’s that Jane was willing to spend more money and had better judgement in terms of more natural adjustments over the years.

[quote] I want a play about Faye Dunaway's career and life.

"Thorazine at Noon, Three and Nine"

Jane gave better cheer.

Faye has a reputation of being absolutely impossible and at a certain point no amount of talent excuses that. People just don't want to deal with her shit and I don't blame them. Look at all the work Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, even Jessica Lange have done since Mommie Dearest. Faye isn't that much older than those three. You can't tell me that she couldn't have been awesome in any of the parts that trio got. She clearly has mental issues. I wonder if she went public with those mental issues, wrote a tell all, did Oprah in the 1990s if her career would be different. It's very sad, you never hear anyone really defend her or admit to being her friend. I'd imagine she lives a very solitary existence. Supposedly she's very into Jesus, but hasn't realized he's not helping.

Jane was a model because of her family. If she had been a girl off the bus from Oklahoma, her looks would not have gotten her anywhere. She looked good enough, but....

Dunaway though was startlingly beautiful.

Has anyone read Faye's autobiography "Looking for Gatsby"? Did she address her difficult reputation and alleged drug use?

Faye was still beautiful in the nineties. Her first revisions were not badly done. Still twenty five long hard years ago. My friend worked with her on The Road To Avonlea and they quite liked her. She needed the money and tried hard to work well with others. No makeup or hair melt downs, but it wasn't a glamorous part. She took the cast and director to dinner. Dunaway can't separate the work from life. One aspect destabilizes the other. Remember the great Irene Sharaff quit Mommie Dearest saying she wouldn't enter Faye's dressing room unless someone threw in a hunk of raw meat first?

It's funny that Dunaway ended up playing Hepburn. They have nothing in common except such incredible unique bone structure that Faye could have remained beautiful too - in her way, until the day she died.

Yep, r390, such exquisite bone structure.

Amateur.....

IMO, Faye Dunaway is not significantly better-looking than Jane Fonda. FD had a more interesting and mysterious demeanor (facial expression). Jane probably had a better figure. Jane, now, has a better figure, it appears.

[quote]I give Faye two great performances, in Chinatown and Network.

R375. You're forgetting "Bonnie & Clyde." Faye was outstanding. Faye's first three movies all came out in 1967, the same year as "Bonnie & Clyde," in which she was nominated for a 1968 Academy Award. She didn't win the Oscar that year, but she was a newcomer, although she was "talk of the town" her first time out. Quite an accomplishment for a first movie.

By the way--and ironically, in 1968, Faye (in Bonnie & Clyde) lost the Best Actress Oscar lost to Katherine Hepburn, who won for "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner." Warren Beatty was also nominated for Best Actor in "Bonnie & Clyde" but lost to Rod Steiger in "In the Heat of the Night."

R394. Estelle Parsons won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in "Bonnie & Clyde." Both Gene Hackman and Michael J. Pollard were nominated for Best Supporting Actor for their work in "Bonnie & Clyde" but lost to George Kennedy in "Cool Hand Luke."

Quite the movie: "Bonnie & Clyde" had a very impressive cast of principals: Faye Dunaway, Warren Beatty, Gene Hackman, Michael J. Pollard, all nominated for Oscars, with Estelle Parsons winning.

What an opportunity. Aren't 16 Broadway plays closing right now? Faye should take a page from Kathy Griffin. Rent a theater on Saturday night. And just talk. $100 tickets. SOLD OUT! Fay could keep it for up at least three weeks. Maybe have a different person moderate questions. I'd buy airline tickets to witness that.

R395 A young Gene Wilder, too.

I always liked the scene where they go see Bonnie's mysterious hippie mother. It felt like another world... I think it remains one of her more interesting performances (along with Puzzle of a Downfall Child). She's fun in Network and Chinatown but I agree with the poster upthread who said those are more 'Faye' and rely more heavily on her own screen persona, charisma and mannerisms rather than being transformations into another character.

[quote]Look at all the work Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, even Jessica Lange have done since Mommie Dearest. Faye isn't that much older than those three.

Faye hit it big a decade earlier than those three. By the time they became huge, acclaimed actresses, Faye was pretty much considered a veteran. It's not a fair comparison.

Faye was the era of Dyan Cannon, Ali MacGraw, Streisand, and Jane Fonda. And by the mid 80's, none of them were really the screen presences that they were in the 70's. Fonda fared the best of the bunch, having some acclaimed performances but she eventually walked away from it all for a number of years. Cannon and MacGraw wound up doing a lot of TV work. Streisand had some great success but her film work became sporadic.

R393 Also, Jane has had plenty of plastic surgery, but she doesn't yet look like a chimp!!

R394, Faye was at her most glamorous in "The Thomas Crown Affair", one Theadora Van Runkle design after another.

Jane had a touch of "marbles in the mouth" + too much chin.

Faye followed "Bonnie & Clyde" with the stunning movie, "The Thomas Crown Affair," which also starred Steve McQueen. While not a major Oscar contender, it did win the Oscar for Best Original Song: "Windmills of Your Mind," music by the great Michel Legrand with lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman. Of course, 'Windmills' was a major hit sung DL fave, Dusty Springfield.

Faye Dunaway - Newsweek - March 4, 1968

No, it wasn't. The only major hit Dusty had off that album was "Son of a Preacher Man". Noel Harrison got the hit of "Windmills...".

Faye was flawless.

R404, Ahem!

A more mature Faye - still beautiful.

I remember reading somewhere that she got into heroin in the 1970s. She was dating a prominent musician.

Has it ever been brought up how interesting Faye would have been if cast as Beth Jarrett in Ordinary People??

This has never crossed my mind until someone posted that GIF above.

Faye would have been FRIGHTENING AS HELL!!! (IN a good way I think)

She’s another one that has big, fake, young teeth in an old head,

R408. Faye married Peter Wolf 1974-79 (born Peter Blankfield), lead vocalist of the successful J. Geils Band. I never heard anything about heroin.

Peter Wolf did H.

Here's a quote from an old thread. It's reply 28.

[Quote] Wolf was a heroin addict. I don't know for a fact that Faye went that far with him but I have always believed that she did.

Reply 4

[Quote] Faye was into serious drugs while married to that loser Peter Wolf from the J. Geils Band. I remember being backstage with a music writer friend at J. Geils gig in NYC. Faye and Peter Wolf spent most of the time, between the bands next set, snorting coke in the bathroom. I even saw the coke on Faye's black dress. Faye looked sickly and was extremely thin. I saw none of the glamor she displayed earlier in her career. She was already going downhill at that point, this must have been around 1973-74. I'm not sure if they were married at that point, but they were together.

Faye became a fashion icon when Bonnie and Clyde was released. Her look was copied everywhere. In fact, the film inspired a 1930s nostalgia and many young people were dressing like B&C. Even Elvis got into the game (see link).

In 1968, Georgie Fame, Merle Haggard, Serge Gainsbourg & Bridget Bardot all released hit B&C songs.

The film should've won the Oscar for Best Picture -- it was innovative and ushered in a new era in filmmaking -- but In the Heat of the Night was the safe PC choice. B&C was very controversial upon release.

R209 Untreated bipolar I (severe, psychotic mania) can be very extreme.

From the book "Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s First Superagent," by Brian Kellow:

Three months later, on Oscar night, after her former client Faye Dunaway’s performance in Network brought her the Academy Award for best actress, Sue was standing near Dunaway outside the Beverly Hills Hotel, about to go to a victory party Sidney Lumet was throwing. Sue walked over to Dunaway’s agent, Joel Dean, and, within earshot of Dunaway, said, “Don’t let this little trophy make Faye think she’s a movie star. She’s not. The only movie star in the whole town is Barbra Streisand.”

How wrong Sue Mengers was about just about everything. Only Streisand herself has a more obnoxious and tedious personality.

Sue got her comeuppance courtesy of Streisand.

R418 could you explain?

Sue convinced Streisand to take the part in All Night Long while she was waiting for Yentl to begin production. Streisand was hesitant, but Sue wooed her enough to do it. The film was already in production with Lisa Eichorn in the role. Lisa had been getting a lot of critical attention and this was deemed her breakout role. But Sue's ego wouldn't allow her husband's picture to have a "lesser name" leading lady (even though it was supposed to be a low budget movie) so she got her main client involved. They fired Lisa even though she shot several weeks of work, and Streisand stepped in. The film went way over budget due to Streisand's salary and when it was released it flopped at the box office. Streisand was pissed that Sue put her in such a mess that she fired her. It was the end of Menger's career as she never recovered her former status as the top agent in Hollywood. Sue was bitter for the rest of her life over what Streisand did to her.

It's funny because in that Mike Wallace piece on Mengers, she admits she knows nothing about a quality script/good property etc. They joke about her suggesting Ryan O'Neal for THE GODFATHER.

It's funny because in that Mike Wallace piece on Mengers, she admits she knows nothing about a quality script/good property etc. They joke about her suggesting Ryan O'Neal for THE GODFATHER.

Lisa Eichhorn resembles Kirsten Dunst.

R420, Hasn't Streisand said that she now likes the movie?

WTF...

No one's going to bring up Faye's extremely short-lived sitcom IT HAD TO BE YOU?

Not a bad premise and she's pretty good, but she and Robert Urich have zero chemistry and the script tries to sparkle but doesn't quite.

I forgot that Faye Dunaway was married (1974 to 1979) to Peter Wolf of J. Geils.

R342 That's interesting what you say about Dunaway swapping with Rigg in the 1983 TV version of 'King Lear' but I reckon the American interloper would have been quite jarring.

It was a very traditional, ‘old-fashioned’ production with the dying Olivier giving his very fragile, last important performance.

It was, as I say, very traditional production. The designer was one of Olivier’s employees four decades previously and the director was son-in-law to Esmond Knight.

Olivier and Esmond Knight did six films together because they were bounded together by guilt; Olivier dallied in movieland during the war years while Knight served in the King's Navy, was wounded and made blind in battle.

If they were both doing smack, she probably forgot, too, R427.

R420 - Apparently Gene Hackman was also involved in the machinations to get Streisand to co-star in what was his comeback role after years of semi-retirement. He wanted her for the part from the beginning but Barbra turned it down. Then he started an affair with Lisa during filming and then dropped her. It was also decided that Lisa was just not cutting it in the part so when Streisand was convinced to come on board, for a sizable amount - I think a record amount of money - Hackman was thrilled. They are wonderful on screen together even if the film was not a box office success.

I also think All Night Long is a good film.

R430, "All Night Long" was filmed in 1981. Gene Hackman was still very active then, not in retirement.

He semi-retired after Superman and came back for All Night Long.

[quote]r390 it wasn't a glamorous part.

She played a Polish countess. That's glamorous by ANNE OF GREEN GABLES standards. By way of contrast, her costar Maureen Stapleton played an Irish charwoman.

02:50 mark

I just saw All Night Long for the first time and it's not that great, but it's better than a lot of the other crap Streisand has done. At least she was actually attempting to play someone other than herself for once.

As for Faye and Jane aging differently, they've both obviously had lots of work done, but Jane always seems just like a refreshed older woman. There's still joy and curiosity in her eyes. Faye always looks bitter. Sometimes, you earn the face you get and no amount of plastic surgery will help.

Faye had far more beautiful looks to lose than Jane Fonda. Faye had terrible surgery and a long history of personal abuses and she does look bad. Fonda looks brittle and frightened. She was a great looking 65 year old, but a fake and frozen looking 80. People who keep saying that Jane Fonda looks great are not looking very closely. She tries way too hard to look sexy and ends up looking uncomfortable. That's an embarrassment. Faye has ruined her face but she looks more age appropriate than desperate Jane.

No man wants either stank pussy, so why bother?

Do you enjoy my fake tits, hair or hips more? Do ya think I'm sexy now daddy?

R438 who is that?

Though Fonda had/has her issues, she came from a much different, more priviledged background than Dunaway, and basically made more sensible life choices - including those having to do with plastic surgery. She was also much wealthier, with more options.

There was a blind item in some column from the 80s or 90s, about a drunk actress being turned away from surgery appointments several times, repeatedly being told she had to show up sober or the operation would be unsafe. I always imagined it was Dunaway.

She's always been one of my favorite stars, but she's also always been a BIT of a horror show trainwreck. There's never been a shortage of turmoil surrounding her. One of the first bigwigs in Hollywood I ever met described her as "extremely neurotic," and that was even before the big headline stuff. He also said she "blew" a major career - implying cocaine.

Raw sexual heat.

That's tasteful and sensible Jane Fonda, R439. She's a total fraud.

How did this become about Jane Fonda and who is this loon who thinks Dunaway is something more than a wacky has-been from another generation. She had a good run and, sadly, has been a basket case ever since. Bipolar most likely--the onset often is in middle age.

LOVE ME

[quote]r436 Faye had far more beautiful looks to lose than Jane Fonda.

It's silly to argue about which was "more" beautiful. That is a matter of personal taste.

It is heartwarming to Faye Fans, though, that when Fonda tried to back out of KLUTE at the last minute she suggested the director replace her with Dunaway. Fonda got really insecure and suddenly became convinced she wasn't beautiful enough to play a highly desirable call girl. He laughed at her and shooting proceeded as planned.

Fonda also wanted Dunaway to do JULIA with her, but Faye was planning a film with George Cukor about 1872 presidential candidate Victoria Woodhull at the time, and declined. The script by James Toback was never filmed.

Faye Dunaway's looks are so severe, she looks Slavic or Russian.

She has aged poorly likely because she has taken terrible care of herself.

Jane looked great until a couple years ago, when she finally overdid it. I first noticed it at the Oscars.

Faye had some disastrous plastic surgery decades ago that really fucked up her unique looks, and she's been dealing with that ever since.

I remember Faye's feud with Hilary Duff after Hilary was cast in a Bonnie and Clyde remake. Bonnie Hunt played Hilary Duff's mom onscreen multiple times and they discussed the feud on The Bonnie Hunt Show. Upon hearing of the remake Faye asked, "couldn't they have hired a real actress?"

Bonnie Hunt: "I think even Faye went through a time, if you look historically, where some people might have said that same thing about her."

Faye probably had every plastic surgery procedure under the sun, many times over. The only one she didn't have is the one she needed the most, the lip lift where part of the skin between the upper lip and the nose is just being removed. She also has veneers so awful that it looks like she's wearing dentures. Horse dentures. She should have them remade too. For 20 years her mouth area has been chimpanzee meets horse: equesimian.

But since she has no friend, no one will ever tell her what she should do.

Why is it unacceptable to compare an African-American with a chimpanzee while 3 people in this thread (including R449) compare Dunaway with a chimpanzee?

I suspect Faye was cast with the producers knowing they would likely have to replace her. They bargained that Faye's casting would generate interest and press around a production that would have had a hard time registering otherwise. Once Faye imploded, they had enough momentum to entice a bankable name to take over the role. The added plus is that the replacement actress will be given credit for rescuing the production and will be met with good will.

This won't work btw. Its a flawed strategy. No star is going to do this. They should just offer it to Kate Mulgrew and be done with it. She's the only one ready to do it.

What, no mention of Faye as Eva Peron in that two part NBC miniseries with James Farentino as Peron?

Travilla (who did a lot of Marilyn Monroe's clothes as well as VALLEY OF THE DOLLS), designed the costumes for that. There's an interesting, detailed blog about his work (link below).

Apparently, Our Faye told him one of the costumes was too contemporary, and wouldn't sign off on it. He showed her a movie still from 1949, where he had created exactly the same suit. She shut her g-damn pie hole and wore it.

[quote]"Dunaway was a perfectionist. Someone who asks you to fit and re-fit a dress over and over and over again. Someone who'll ask to alter something 1/32nd of an inch. Or drive the milliner mad with the placement of dimple in a beret." Travilla nearly walked of the production when Dunaway's anger exploded after the designer adjusted the drape of a fox stole across the actress' shoulders.

[quote]The director, Marvin Chomsky (Roots) eventually calmed him down by explaining that the entire crew was in the same position as he - they were no longer directing an actress, but First Lady Peron herself, telling Travilla "She becomes more like that woman every day. But Bill, she's magnificent."

[quote]Privately, Travilla said Faye was "A very tough lady, and each day she got tougher." But publicly he was more gracious: "Perhaps she was difficult, but worthwhile. It's because she was really into her role. Faye not only wears my costumes beautifully, she becomes the character and is glorious in those clothes." He added, "She reminds me of Joan Crawford, whom I designed for in 'Flamingo Road' in 1949." A rather ironic statement as Dunaway's next role was as Crawford in the (now) camp classic Mommie Dearest.

Dunaway looked too old to play Crawford, never mind Eva Peron.

R451 is right. Producers never intended to take Dunaway to Broadway. When it was first announced many said out loud there is no way it can make it with Dunaway because of her behavior/condition. Are you telling me Lombardo, Ben Feldman, Scott Beck and the other producers thought she could handle it and had no idea about her history?

Media didn't take notice of the play or Dunaway while it was rehearsing or during the three week run. There were barely even reviews. The few reviews said the play was below average, not Broadway quality, and gave Faye some good notices.

Now BOOM!!! HEADLINES EVERYWHERE/ONLINE SATURATION!!! - Faye got the front page of NYPost relegating Mueller and Epstein to the top corners. Now everyone knows about the play. They just got millions of dollars worth of publicity by putting Faye on blast.

I hope it never makes it to London, and Faye's past work gets watched by those curious who have never seen her classics.

[quote]Dunaway looked too old to play Crawford, never mind Eva Peron.

Yup.

She mentions not liking white limos in this interview with Tom Snyder in the 90s (about 12:05). "They draw too much attention."

The upper dentures changed the entire bottom half of her face. She also can barely speak with them now.

[quote]Dunaway looked too old to play Crawford, never mind Eva Peron.

LOL! I thought so, too, especially in the early years when 40-year-old Dunaway is portraying the 15-year-old Eva Duarte. I wonder if that's why they cast Jose Ferrer as Agustin Magaldi, to make her seem younger. Ferrer was 69 in 1981; the real Magaldi was 35 in 1934.

R457 I guess Gucci paid her enough to agree to the white limo in the campaign for them she starred in last year. LOL

^^ That just may have been the act that pushed her too far, and over the line.

All current issues can be traced back to it.

It seems that Miss Dunaway is bi-polar.

Faye Dunaway Gucci parody by a gay guy

Lol r463.

That really was a bad commercial.

And a Faye Dunaway Gucci parody by Deven Green.

All I see in that Gucci shit show is her fucking giant horse teeth. Does it mean there are Gucci dentures?

Yay! Gucci dentures!

There is only one thing worse thing than Gucci dentures: last season Gucci dentures!

The post is a gossipy tabloid, this ain't front page news

Well, R468 then read the similar reporting in the NYT, Wash Post, USA Today, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, LA Times, etc.

Wonderwall:

Faye Dunaway's 'Tea at Five' firing comes after decades of allegedly bad behavior

Forever Faye. I love her.

The stage crew obviously did something to ruin the day.

You know why we have global warming? The sun is terrified of Faye and that's why it needs to take special meds to face her and one side effect of those meds is global warming!

good god, none of those voiceover "parodies" was the least bit funny. This is what passes for humor these days? No wonder Faye is always in a bad mood.

Has Michael Lombardo ever actually had a success?

The only time I hear of him it's because he cast some washed up actress to play some dead actress and it falls apart.

Who is bankrolling these flights of fancy? Does Lombardo have a sugar daddy? Does he come from money himself?

R474 what other plays has he written?

The movie if her life will have a tragic, dramatic ending now. Faye was thinking ahead.

Is Faye fine? Sending her love?

[quote]what other plays has he written?

According to posts here and in another thread, he also did one with Valerie Harper playing Tallulah Bankhead which ended in a lawsuit.

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I saw Faye Dunaway in the national Broadway touring company of "Master Class." It was the most brilliant performance I have ever seen. She was stunning, mesmerizing. She was so great in a role tailored made for her.

Faye had the film rights to "Master Class." Damn, it is so unfortunate that the film didn't materialize. Faye was incredible on stage--and after seeing her on stage--I had such high hopes that we would see Faye in the movie so that would last forever. Besides, Maria Callas, her monumental talent and her larger-than-life relationship with Aristotle Onassis is complicated, joyful, bittersweet, historical, tragic and compelling.

R479 I love how Faye slams her "good friend" Sharon Stone in that article.

[quote]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.”

Faye is no Johanna....

She's right, isn't she? Stone pretty much squandered her opportunities and only lasted a mere 4 years (1992-1996) as a top star. On the other hand, Faye made some good choices and extended her movie star fame for a decade.

And on an Oscar!

Faye back when she was part of the kool krowd.

And according to Faye at R479, the actress to watch was ... Lindsay Lohan?!

R487 Meryl Streep said something similar when she worked with her in Robert Altman's A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION.

Ok, Dunaway had maybe about a decade of being a star. After Mommie Dearest, she made A LOT of bad choices. My God, the narcissism to say her instincts have never failed her. Really, bitch? What instinct was it that made you decided to get that awful surgery?

In all fairness, Lohan was a great actress once upon a time. She was always choosing really interesting films and roles. Maybe she has a comeback in her one of these days. She's only in her early 30's, isn't she?

R486 This poor septuagenarian is 1. Myopic, 2. Noseless, and 3., wears giant-size dentures.

In dog years, r490.

[quote]r489 Ok, Dunaway had maybe about a decade of being a star.

EXCUSE me, but they don't hire some flash-in-the-pan with just a decade's worth of stardom to host [italic]The Starlet.

R486. With respect to others in the photo, Raquel's breasts are stealing the show.

Faye says her instincts have never failed her, but the woman had been making Master Class for over a decade. It was never the right producer, the right director, the right screenwriter, the right cinemtographer, the right make up artist, etc. So she took it upon herself to do everything except craft services.. That kind of tells you something about her instincts.: trust no one but yourself.

Yes. If Faye had any friends or allies left in the industry, she could have gotten "Master Class" made 20 years ago, when she first got the rights.

R495 Faye ran out of money making it. It had nothing to do with being demanding. But she knew how the project should go, since she has spent a long time studying Callas and giving that performance. And by many accounts, hers was the definitive Callas of the bunch, so she probably knew what she was doing.

This should have been a case where her female peers ponied up money to help her get it done. Would have made a great statement on how women support each other.

But women DON'T support each other, R497. They talk about it all the time but they never actually lift a finger.

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R469, Faye ran out of money making it because she trusted no one to help her produce it. She claims they were all frauds, but perhaps the truth is, she wouldn't agree to their terms. It was her way or the highway.

R469, Faye ran out of money making it because she trusted no one to help her produce it. She claims they were all frauds, but perhaps the truth is, she wouldn't agree to their terms. It was her way or the highway.

[Quote] And by many accounts, hers was the definitive Callas of the bunch

Sure, fan.

^^ R497 I meant.

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And I have to tell you that I went to IMBD and I can now enumerate to you that I have paid money to watch this noseless, eviscerated, Oriental-looking woman three times in the 1960s.

Then there was three times in the 1970s, once in the 1980s, no times in the 1990s, and, then, not once at all during the 21st century.

(But then I did watch that Jewish TV drama called 'The Twilight of the Golds' for free!)

R498 or as my grandmother used to say: "Men like their friends."

R486 Raquel looks like she's wearing a breastplate.

Of all the actresses, to me, only Faye Dunaway has the talent and the class and the courage it takes to make a real star.

Mommie Dearest is a good film...

Faye's instincts have never failed her?

Hurry Sundown

The Happening

Mommie Dearest

The Wicked Lady

Supergirl

It Had to Be You (TV show that didn't even last one season)

Dunston Checks In (second banana to a chimp!)

And from the late '90s on, a slew of utterly forgotten, direct to video dreck you've never heard of.

How does Faye have the balls to assert that her career has been nothing but a raging success due to her flawless instincts??

This bitch just won’t die!

R510, What about "The Temp", in which Faye plays the CEO of a cookie company?

These reports have buried her and her career. It's a #SheToo moment. People have been waiting to tell the truth about her for decades. She must be a very mean bitch/sick woman to engender so many bad memories.

Maybe she could get work in a plastic surgeon's office in Mexico. Barter system.

Faye's "Master Class" debacle reminds me of Streisand. Both are obviously singular talents, but it's like some OCD disorder completely immobilized them as they got older.

WOW. She sounds unstable.

The craziest story I heard about her was from a London paper, maybe 20 years ago. I wish someone could find it.

According to the article, Dunaway sent an asistant out to get her a snack ... plum tomatoes. But the harried little rabbit assistant came back to the set with plums. Well, Faye stood the assistant is a corner and tossed the plums at her, one by one.

COULD THAT BE TRUE ? ?

Faye is a neurotic, bitter, and abusive sow who should have retired a long time ago. She is a great actress, but is a workaholic and a perfectionist to a fault. I don't think she'll ever quit. They will have to wheel her out of the spotlight on her oxygen tank-equipped wheelchair.

Faye is ancient history now. She was brilliant in a handful of films, decades ago. That’s all.

The whole "La La Land!" debacle happened because she and Beatty did nothing but argue their way through their pre-show rehearsal, over who would speak first, who would read the winning title, etc. So when the chips were down and he could have protected her, the irked Beatty just handed Faye the card and let her hang herself.

She should have just kissed his ass at the rehearsal and been happy to be there, as he's still a respected industry figure, and could even get her A JOB. But no, she had to dig in her heels and insist on announcing the winner, etc.... [italic] and it all caught up with her.

Faye says it's all essentially a pack of lies! And that she was "doing the play a favor" by appearing in it.

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[bold]Faye Dunaway Calls Diva & Abuse Allegations ‘Lies’ To Pals, Believes She’s A ‘Scapegoat’ The actress was accused of slapping & berating theater staff[/bold]

[italic]Faye Dunaway has remained mum on scathing allegations she physically assaulted Tea at Five crew members and berated staff, but behind the scenes, the Oscar winner is slamming the claims as vicious “lies,” RadarOnline.com can exclusively report.

“She said the stories were ‘100% fabricated,'” a source close to the 78-year-old actress told Radar.

In fact, Dunaway told friends producers of the Broadway-bound play are using her as a “scapegoat” for low ticket sales.

She said “they were cutting corners, and tried to do the play with no budget. Faye said she was doing the play a favor, and it was only headed to Broadway because of her,” snipped the source. “She thinks producers failed to market the play properly, and as a result ticket sales were bad. So they used Faye as the scapegoat by blaming her for the show’s failure.”

This is really sad, because she was really amazing in Bonnie & Clyde.

[quote]What about "The Temp", in which Faye plays the CEO of a cookie company?

"The Temp" is an underrated camp gem, with a (still-human-looking) Lara Flynn Boyle clawing her way from temp to the top of Faye's cookie company.

This scene (Faye having lunch next to an indoor tennis court) has more than a little Mommie Dearest to it.

"If they think I'm going down without a fight, they're mistaken — CAPPUCCINO!"

"I've had more knives stuck in me than Julius Caesar!"

I don't believe RadarOnline ever gets "exclusive" scoops, except the ones it makes up.

Buck never would have been blindsided by a temp!

Warren Beatty can't get himself a job, never mind Faye Dunaway. Don't make shit up. If you recall, they both returned to present the Oscar the following year.

Faye kind of fucked up her studio politics with that movie THE TEMP. The movie tested badly and the studio wanted to reshoot the ending, making her character the villain. She took offense to this and outright refused, insisting she didn't need to be saddled with more of an Evil Ice Bitch image. So they gave her different pages, but then shot additional stuff with the other actors and re-edited it all together with the result that she looks like the villain.

Since she was on thin ice in her profession (due to her advancing age, her reputation, her not-great bankability) she should have just been a team player and not made it all so complicated. Obviously she's fine in the movie, and looks good ... but she sabotaged herself one again by being so DEMANDING.

R527 Found it for you. It happend in 2003.

[quote]Plum assignment There are hard jobs and then there are really hard jobs. While shooting The Last Goodbye in Atlanta recently, Faye Dunaway requested plum tomatoes. An unfortunate assistant misheard the order and brought plums. Dunaway proceeded to chuck them at the lackey one by one. "Lettuce was also involved," reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Dunaway experienced further food rage at a restaurant when she wanted to pay half-price for a half -portion of pasta. "I'm Faye Dunaway, and restaurants always give me what I want!" she reportedly howled.

Whoops. Meant R517 in my post above.

1980s

1990s

[quote]r528 Found it for you. It happend in 2003.

OMG .... THANK YOU.

Sooooooo bizarre!

r531 was pre fillers, right? But she clearly had more done than just hiking the face up and tying it with a bull clip.

If I were this woman I'd do what Garbo contemplated in the mid-50s—

appear on Broadway with the audience banned from sitting in the first twelve rows of the auditorium.

Garbo was a multi-millionaire due to cany real estate investments.

Dunaway, not so much.

Loved Faye in “The Eyes Of Laura Mars”. I would love to hear backstage stories in the making of that movie.

Linda Evangelista did a fashion layout inspired by EYES OF LAURA MARS

[quote]Don't bore me with your Jane Fonda modelling pics [R367]. She wasn't a beauty.

Precisely one million percent wrong. Fonda was absolutely a beauty.

So did Debbie Harry.

Many good posts here inform about her surgeries (poor quality work). She does need the upper lip lift, as someone remarked upthread. When the old style full facelift was popular, it was said that a hallmark of a bad job was stretching the skin so much that one's philtrum disappeared. This is exactly what happened with Faye. Dentures or veneers may also deform her mouth, but the lack of a philtrum is what contributes to the simian look.

I'm guessing she tried that half-price b.s. with her surgeon and he gave her a half-good facelift.

Kate Mulgrew weighs in:

[quote]“That’s too bad, isn’t it? Just too bad,” said Mulgrew at the premiere of season seven of Orange Is the New Black. “I don’t think anybody wants that to happen to them, least of all an actress of her stature. I think it’s just a sadness all the way around. I’m profoundly sorry.”

This was something destined to happen. But what a slimy team comprised of Matthew Lombardo and Ben Feldman. They really deserve each other.

All I can see from 80's to 90's picture is that she had her upper lids done- I don't even see brow lift or face lift. Just the lids. Its sad, just like Tori Amos she had those alluring sleepy hooded eyes, and she ditched them. In the 90's pic they are all scooped out and it makes the eyes look wide open and alert. I hate it. They never look younger, only like their eyes are not "tired". But the "tired" is what is so appealing and sexy.

That’s gorgeous, r537!

Another shot from that Linda Evangelista / LAURA MARS layout

In the '90s, she had an upper and lower eye lift (more subtle on the lower, but the upper was disastrous and destroyed her trademark look), slight brow lift, a fat transplant or fillers under her eyes that made her cheekbones like a foot long, and lip injections or implants.

Bad, bad, bad. If she truly cared about keeping her iconic looks, she would have gone to someone top-tier like Sherrill Aston, as Debbie Harry did. She's the paragon of good face work.

Actually, even though one writer described her as looking like "a cat squeezing its face through a chain link fence," Dunaway's plastic surgery has never looked ALL that awful to me. I mean, if she'd done nothing, contrasting what she'd look like now to how she did at 30 would be just as shocking. We just expect stars to never age.

Basically, there's really good plastic surgery (maybe 10% of the customers) and then there's everyone else.

Get your eyes checked R550. There's also really bad plastic surgery (maybe 20% of the customers) and that's what Dunaway has ended up with. The more you have - the higher the chance the worse you'll look. Joan Rivers looked worked on but good at 70 years old and like some alien insect from outer space at 80.

Faye has had not only two many procedures, but some really bad planning and results. Start with her teeth. They aren't dentures, as they are in the same formation as her original teeth. But they are FAR too large and white veneers. They disfigure her mouth. This is not OK work, nore is her unneeded nose job or the terrible look of her second, third or fourth eye and face lift. Her skin looks tortured.

She doesn't look younger AND she doesn't look like Faye Dunaway. That's the definition of bad work.

Faye really wouldn’t look all that bad if she didn’t have those horrible TEETH.

INSECT

Yes, she's old. And she would look old without surgery too. But the truth is that she often looks quite tragic. I'm not trying to be mean to the woman. She doesn't look good in any way to me. She looks strange and sad. And hungry.

R515, Streisand is a selfish, self-absorbed woman who can be painstakingly perfectionistic, but I've never heard stories of her being downright violent or screaming at people at any perceived offense. Faye sounds like she's on a whole other level of crazy.

The surgeon who destroyed her almond shaped eyes and made them like everyone else’s should be strung up.

[quote]r551 There's also really bad plastic surgery (maybe 20% of the customers) and that's what Dunaway has ended up with.

I'm not here to make anyone feel bad about their looks, but I guess Joan Van Ark does look worse than most.

Dunaway doesn't look all that bad in those pictures. If I she was just anyone on the street it's not like I'd snap my head around and think, "Oh my god, what happened to that person??" (As I would with Van Ark.)

What you see isn't always the truth. The way things appear on your TeeVee are not the same as they look backstage R558. Faye looks freakish. She's put together with a few gizmos.

R558, Or . . .

R559, Warren looks freakish, as well.

I'm off to the theatre!

In her play "Dirty Blonde," Claudia Shear talks about having seen Mae West in her final years, with her mask-like plastic surgery. "She didn't look young," Claudia says. "She just looked un-old."

Fayette and me is planning to star in a revival of A Streetcar Named Desire. We got along good in Barfly. She's a hot fiery dame, my Blanche.

Dunaway got a good review in the New York Times for her Blanche in 1973. A lot of her approach was apparently comedic.

A former teacher of mine (the same one who said Dunaway would pee in Jon Voight's offstage water bucket) said her delivery of "I've always depended upon the kindness of strangers" was done flirtatiously. He said this was not a Blanche who was going to be stuck in the asylum forever.

How did her mouth get so wide? She used to have a very cute small mouth and now it's enormous.

How did her mouth get so wide? She used to have a very cute small mouth and now it's enormous.

Facelifts aren't too high tech R568. They stretch the skin and sometimes muscles of the face up and out to the sides. Snip and sew along the ears. This tugging and pulling enlarges the width of the mouth after your second or third one. That's one of the reasons people were overdoing fillers for a while - less cutting, more plumping of sagging skin.

Faye should just drink from here on in.

R570 drink what?

A touch of magic, r571!

She needs to go to Korea for philtrum reduction surgery.

Faye should at least fix the teeth. Not too long ago Rosie got new veneers and had them filed down. She said they looked like horse teeth.

Why DO women like Joan Rivers and Kathy Griffith have so much plastic surgery? It is not like they were ever youthful beauties or have ever relied on their looks to have careers. You would think they would be clever enough to enjoy the aging process that sends the gorgeous women of Hollywood into such desperation and unhappiness.

R575, everyone wants to look good whether they admit it or not. No one wants to wake up and stare at the bags under their eyes or their crow's feet or sagging chins before heading out into the world.

Personally, I have no issue with some tasteful surgery to refresh, but people have to know what they're getting into. Don't be persuaded to put that shit in your lips or cheeks, because it never looks right. Most of the time a simple face lift and some under eye work will make you look a good 10/15 years younger or at least more rested.

Why do I picture Faye’s twat to be like a flytrap with a long spiked proboscis for a clit?

It's interesting, because I used to be quite friendly with Barbara Rush before I moved from LA. She had the bare minimum, with chemical peels and still looks like herself. Of course, it was always "I'm going to Palm Springs to rest", lol.

Um, is that Faye at R579?

What a shame. She was a superb actress and probably still has a lot to give, but she's clearly mentally ill and either isn't on meds or doesn't take them.

Babs Rush....circa ?

Meg Ryan's work also looks terrible.

Barbara's in her 90s.

^she's 78.

That picture of Barbara is not at 78, more like 90.

She looks great for 90!

It looks like Faye has a big gap between her nose and mouth, as if she shaved off a moustache from her face, and left a tan line…weird!

Can someone do the age app on one of Faye's 1980s pre-PS photos? I'd be interested to see what she'd look like.

[quote]Streisand is a selfish, self-absorbed woman

You just described every Queen here at Datalounge.

They should have found a small part for Ms. Dunaway in this new Tarantino movie. What's more late 60s Hollywood than dear old Faye?

Has Madame ever mentioned which roles she regrets refusing? Didn't she say no to "They shoot horses, don't they?" and "Julia"? Surely those are times her high powered savvy failed her.

And could anyone clarify how much of Master Class she actually filmed? I've never seen the play but can someone also elaborate on why a fairly simple stage play is so hard to make into a straightforward movie?

And how come she never got to bring it to Broadway following the successful tour?

[quote]Has Madame ever mentioned which roles she regrets refusing? Didn't she say no to "They shoot horses, don't they?" and "Julia"? Surely those are times her high powered savvy failed her.

She also turned down "Anne of the Thousand Days" and "Norma Rae". I think the one she mentioned regretting not doing was "Julia" ... though I don't know which role she was offered. I believe Fonda was flexible about whether she herself would play Lillian or Julia, and finally took the role of Lillian when Redgrave became available, and was a better fit for the part of Julia.

At least, I have a vague memory of reading that somewhere.

Thanks R592

I find it surprising for someone so talented she never had more Oscar attention

I remember Jane Fonda confessing to Andy Cohen on WATCH WHAT HAPPENS LIVE back in 2012 or so that her biggest professional regret was not doing BONNIE AND CLYDE. Then she called Faye a bitch, but she was just joking (supposedly).

[bold]Barry Manilow: I’ve never been a diva (unlike Faye Dunaway)[/bold]

[quote]Barry Manilow, back on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne for a few weeks, came onstage at Tuesday’s opening night and cracked: “You weren’t expecting Faye Dunaway, were you?”

[quote]Big laughs from a crowd who knew the star had been fired days before from her Broadway-bound show for being an out-of-control diva.

Meow!

[QUOTE] Rosie got new veneers and had them filed down. She said they looked like horse teeth.

Rosie has a typical drunk shanty Irish shaped mouth.

[R597] She was on that PBS show “Finding your Roots” and Henry Louis Gates traced her back to a paupers workhouse for those potato famine people. It looked like a horrible place!

Rosie is a far more intelligent and ethical woman than Faye Dunaway. Rosie doesn't suck Brunei dicks for a free dinner and a necklace. Who are these ancient f@gs on DL that always bring up someone's heritage? It's so anachronistic. You're all from the gutter - found ass up in some bathhouse, back in 1974. Don't throw stones and stop being so damn RACIST.

Dunaway was exquisite looking. But she's just as trashy as all y'all.

Are you Gore Vidal, r597? He is the only person I ever heard use "shanty Irish."