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May 21, 2012
That Dangerous Looking Homeless Lady Was Actually Faye Dunaway
The Drama Book Shop, the West 40th Street treasure for theater folk and those that care about them, once called the police on an Oscar winner! This is from the New York Times article about the place. "Stars shop without fear of harassment by the star-struck, and the occasional out-of-work thespi ... More >>
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March 5, 2012
Faye Dunaway Updates Her Fans On Master Class
At least I think it's Faye Dunaway. On Twitter, @RealFayeDunaway has been saying that her long-awaited film version of Master Class is in post production. Master Class is the Terrence McNally play about opera diva Maria Callas instructing some young hopefuls with brash charm and putdowns. Faye ha ... More >>
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February 14, 2012
Raquel Welch And That Famous Strap-On! (Photo NSFW)
Raquel Welch has been having a wonderful Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute series consisting of highlights from her saucy and diverse career. The other night, they showed The Three Musketeers--the catfight between Raquel and Faye Dunaway is absolutely priceless--and before the film, I g ... More >>
Film
August 31, 2011
Ladies Be Manipulative: Power-mad and Out for Revenge in Love Crime
Raquel Welch has been having a wonderful Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute series consisting of highlights from her saucy and diverse career. The other night, they showed The Three Musketeers--the catfight between Raquel and Faye Dunaway is absolutely priceless--and before the film, I g ... More >>
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August 8, 2011
My Book Is Available For Ordering
My newest book, Fork on the Left, Knife in The Back, has an official pub date of September 1, but one of my millions of fans (shut up) has alerted me to the fact that it's available on Amazon and in fact she was just told her copy shipped right away. It's a preemie baby, and such a cutie!
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August 5, 2011
Jimmy McMillan, 'Rent Is Too Damn High' Guy, Is Getting Evicted
Remember Jimmy McMillan, the "Rent Is Too Damn High" guy who ran for governor of New York, and also has something of a musical career? The New York Post reports that he, like Faye Dunaway, is having real estate troubles. Also like Faye Dunaway, his troubles are with his landlord, who wants to ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Faye Dunaway Is Being Sued by Her New York Landlord Over Her Rent-Stabilized Apartment
Shockingly, Faye Dunaway is facing eviction in Manhattan housing court. More shockingly, Faye Dunaway pays $1048.72 a month for her rent-stabilized 1-bedroom walkup on East 78th. Slightly less shockingly, Dunaway may not actually inhabit the apartment, but instead lives in California, per a l ... More >>
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August 3, 2011
Faye Dunaway Named In Eviction Lawsuit!
Oscar wining goddess Faye Dunaway just might get thrown out of her one-bedroom walkup in the east 70s. But apparently she doesn't live there anyway. See, in order to keep a rent stabilized apartment in NYC, it has to be your primary residence, and Faye's landlord is claiming that she really ... More >>
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June 28, 2011
Faye Dunaway Almost Broke Up Director's Marriage
In Robert Altman, The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zuckoff, the late, great director's longtime wife, Kathryn Reed Altman, remembers a time in 1972 when the phone rang and Altman picked up the other extension. "I could tell something was up," Kathryn relates. That night, she goes on, "it all ... More >>
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June 24, 2011
Interactive Mommie Dearest Was A Scream
Mommie Dearest is the unwitting 1981 comedy about celebrity child abuse, but it was funnier than ever at last night's interactive version of the camp classic at the Ziegfeld. The event ballsily started with go-go boys running down the aisles with empty popcorn buckets that the audience was ... More >>
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February 7, 2011
The 10 Best Female Outfits in Movie History
Who cares about the men? They always wear suits or sweaty T-shirts. But from the beginning of cinema, Hollywood's ladies have gotten swathed and feathered and dressed and undressed in ways that have made the fashion world rock with diversity and delight. My 10 all-time fave looks are:
Columns
January 12, 2011
Blind Items! Blind Items! Blind Items!
You figure out the names.
Blogs
December 20, 2010
Faye Dunaway's Master Class Movie: What The Hell Happened?
The screen version of Master Class--directed by Oscar winner Faye Dunaway, who stars as opera diva Maria Callas--was scheduled to come out in 2010. But it ain't ready, divas. A while ago, I had gotten an anonymous tip that people had stormed off the set for some reason and there was major t ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 24, 2010
BROKEN DOLL
Sympathy for the model
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November 19, 2010
Mommie Dearest Dish From Rutanya Alda
Rutanya Alda played loyal housekeeper Carol Ann in the 1981 flick about Joan Crawford's abuse of little Christina, who fought back with a tell-all. She's interviewed in my current column, but here are some more tidbits she revealed to me (which will be in her upcoming book, The Mommie Deares ... More >>
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November 17, 2010
Colin Firth Said the C-Word!
Speechifying on Broadway, plus plenty of cussing and discussing
Blogs
November 17, 2010
The Wire Hangers Incident Never Happened!
If you're gay and of a certain age, the iconic scene from Mommie Dearest where Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford shrieks at her daughter Christina, "No wire hangers!" has been ingrained into your being like Man Tan. Well, a new book about Joan by Donald Spoto says it's pure fiction. In Possesse ... More >>
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August 27, 2010
Patti LuPone Calls Andrew Lloyd Webber "An Alcoholic"
In 1994, Tony winner Patti LuPone was bumped from the starring role in Sunset Boulevard by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, though she'd been promised the Broadway run after doing it in London. Well, some people might have just gone home and cried about it, but some people ain't Patti! Don't c ... More >>
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August 18, 2010
The Bette/Joan/Faye Connection
In 1973, Joan Crawford told a paying audience that Faye Dunaway was the only current movie actress who "has the talent and the class and the courage to become a real star." Poetically enough, Faye went on to play Joan in the 1981 film Mommie Dearest.
Blogs
July 29, 2010
Faye Dunaway Eats an Egg
And turns it into a three-act opera. This is what acting is all about, people. Focus. Determination. Cholesterol.
Blogs
November 12, 2009
Name The Best Film About Alcoholics
There have been so many good movies made about drunks, you wonder why booze can inspire so many artists while ruining so many lives. No matter. My personal favorites are:
Blogs
October 26, 2009
Faye Dunaway Is a Big, Old Diva--Namely Maria Callas
The last time I interviewed Oscar winner Faye Dunaway, I asked her what was taking so long with her proposed film adaptation of Master Class, in which she would recreate her L.A. stage role of opera diva Maria Callas. Faye looked as confused as when Mommie Dearest started being promoted as c ... More >>
Voice Choices
September 15, 2009
Three Days of the Condor
The last time I interviewed Oscar winner Faye Dunaway, I asked her what was taking so long with her proposed film adaptation of Master Class, in which she would recreate her L.A. stage role of opera diva Maria Callas. Faye looked as confused as when Mommie Dearest started being promoted as c ... More >>
Blogs
August 7, 2009
Re-Viewing Films With Diminishing Returns
Since I've already seen every movie ever made, I have to watch them all over again or I'll have chunks of unfilled time on my agenda. But in doing so, something very dispiriting happens sometimes. When I re-view movies that blew me away when I was younger, they don't always hold up! Yes, Nas ... More >>
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July 14, 2009
How Michael Jackson Would Have Looked Without All That Surgery
Michael Jackson used to downplay the amount of surgery he had--I think he copped to one nose tweaking and perhaps an occasional eyebrow tweaze--but we know better. The guy had even more surgery than Kathy Griffin and Faye Dunaway combined. But what if he'd gone au naturel? What if he'd never touched ... More >>
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May 27, 2009
Who's The Most Beautiful Screen Goddess of All Time?
Mind you, I'm not including anyone from the silent era because I'm always too busy reading their lips to assess their attributes. But looking through my old issues of Hollywood Confidential--and skimming through some Peoples for updates--I've decided that the 10 runners-up for "most stunning cinema ... More >>
Voice Choices
November 19, 2008
LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS
When children make you want to screen
Columns
November 19, 2008
Oscar Nominee Swallowed After BJ!
Ken Russell and other crazy people we love.
Blogs
October 23, 2008
Performances That Should Have Been Nominated For an Oscar
Ken Russell and other crazy people we love.
Blogs
October 14, 2008
Faye Dunaway Still Full of Piss and Vinegar
Ken Russell and other crazy people we love.
Film
September 3, 2008
Overlooked and Undervalued, the Films of Jerry Schatzberg
Forgotten auteur of 70s skepticism and American waywardness
Voice Choices
March 4, 2008
MORE WIRE HANGERS
Do it for Mommie
Columns
March 20, 2007
Network Encore? I'm Glad as Hell.
We interrupt regular programming to take you back to 1976's darkly comic masterpiece.
Columns
January 16, 2007
NY Mirror
We interrupt regular programming to take you back to 1976's darkly comic masterpiece.
Columns
January 2, 2007
NY Mirror
We interrupt regular programming to take you back to 1976's darkly comic masterpiece.
NYC Life
August 1, 2006
Thursday 8/10
We interrupt regular programming to take you back to 1976's darkly comic masterpiece.
Columns
May 9, 2006
NY Mirror
We interrupt regular programming to take you back to 1976's darkly comic masterpiece.
Screens
February 28, 2006
Prophecies Fulfilled in a Cerebral, Caustic American Classic
We interrupt regular programming to take you back to 1976's darkly comic masterpiece.
Columns
August 2, 2005
NY Mirror
We interrupt regular programming to take you back to 1976's darkly comic masterpiece.
Film
January 11, 2005
In Bad Company
The girl can't help it: Obsessive, ruthless temp learns how to climb the ladder of success
Dance
June 1, 2004
Movie-Star Glamour Drips From Dancers; Choreographer Collaborates With Filmmaker
The girl can't help it: Obsessive, ruthless temp learns how to climb the ladder of success
Film
August 5, 2003
Death Valley '74
The Desert of the Steal
Music
July 16, 2002
Where's Waldo?
Looking for Uncle Jazz at the 2002 JVC Something-or-Other Festival
Columns
January 23, 2001
NY Mirror
Looking for Uncle Jazz at the 2002 JVC Something-or-Other Festival
Film
October 17, 2000
Next of Kin in Shades of Gray
Looking for Uncle Jazz at the 2002 JVC Something-or-Other Festival
Theater
September 5, 2000
Archival and Departure
Maybe, in Our Hemmed-In World, One Step Back Could Mean Two Steps Forward
Long Island Voice
November 16, 1999
Redeeming features
Maybe, in Our Hemmed-In World, One Step Back Could Mean Two Steps Forward
Film
November 9, 1999
Redeeming Features
Maybe, in Our Hemmed-In World, One Step Back Could Mean Two Steps Forward
Film
August 3, 1999
The Uninvited
Maybe, in Our Hemmed-In World, One Step Back Could Mean Two Steps Forward
Columns
January 26, 1999
NY Mirror
Faye said she felt Chinatown 'gave people something to put their dreams on.' (It's better than a wire hanger.)
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