What Is Wrong with Faye Dunaway?

[nmartin]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 10:28am

I watched Chinatown last night for the first time in many years. She was so good in that. Now, she makes low to no budget movies including something called Flick in which she plays a one-armed Memphis cop hunting an Elvis-loving zombie. She was also in Dr. Fugazzi, which I've watched a few scenes. Dreadful. You can go to that site and watch clips from some of her latest movies. Once again, dreadful! Not to mention that hideous plastic surgery. The link is one of Faye's tirades.
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[romantico]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 10:48am

I think Faye is a very good actress. Sad thing is, her like many of her generation just are not used anymore.To work in Hollywood once you hit a certain age just does not happen anymore.It's sad because there are many great actors out there,they just are not writing roles for them it seems.Very sad indeed.I hear she is a difficult actress,but I hear the same with some male actors as well.

I loved Faye in the Thomas Crown Affair with Steve McQueen and Bonnie and Clyde. She was also great in the eyes of Laura Mars,Network and the Towering Inferno.

Here is one my favorite Faye scenes in "that Movie" which shall not be named:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uq-hhXyA53I

Updated On: 5/17/09 at 10:48 AM

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 11:05am

Faye is bat sh!t crazy. I live about a mile from her.

No one wants to work with her because she can be an evil, EVIL person.

A friend did publicity for Master Class when she was starring in it here in LA. He hated her SO MUCH he offered to pay meto show up on opening niight dressed as Mommie Dearest, just to piss her off, and he's the NICEST guy.

Another person calls her Day Funaway, because if you spend a day with her, the fun just goes away...

[nmartin]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 11:34am

I've read several horrible stories about her including one where she was denied a charge card at Banana Republic, and she proceeded to scream, "Don't you know who I am?!" Allegedly, she threw clothes around the store on her way out.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 11:37am

That's true.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 11:37am

"To work in Hollywood once you hit a certain age just does not happen anymore."

Many women of a certain age (and older!) continue to work and that's because in large measure, they aren't shrieking harridans.

[nmartin]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 11:59am

"Who am I kidding? I'm going to hell like Hitler and Faye Dunaway."
Dorothy Faye

[StockardFan]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 12:02pm

A guy I used to work for was really good friends with her brother, and he said she was a total bitch too.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 12:06pm

Sally Field continues to work and she's in the same age category (Field is five years younger than Dunaway).

I think Dunaway's lack of good work comes from things other than her age. There's a reason why Lauren Bacall in later years was reduced to doing cat food commercials. The less bankable you are as a star, the less people put up with your crap.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 12:17pm

I wanted to post a phone message she had left on a reporters machine, but it seems to have vanished from the internet.

I did find the transcript, but it's not as much fun as hearing her go ballistic on the phone.


Transcript

[danmag]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 12:19pm

Oh God! I remember hearing that message!! I never even knew she was a wack job till I heard that....

[nmartin]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 12:20pm

Diva, I linked the phone message in my original post.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 12:25pm

Whoops.

The two web sites I had saved it from have now taken them down. I didn't even check Youtube...

Or your link. I thought it was to the pictures.


*EDIT* OMG! That video adds a whole other layer of fun!

Updated On: 5/17/09 at 12:25 PM

[StockardFan]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 1:17pm

HAHAHA! I just watched the video too. She seems a tad obsessed with Marlon Brando.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 7:09pm

That video had fabulous images-edited perfectly!

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 7:24pm

I always felt like she sort of sprained something in her brain when she was making "Mommie Dearest."

Her work was never as good afterward. Also she seems like a drooling psychopath.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/17/09 at 9:10pm

We got into a discussion about this at a guest house in P-town (for a bit of context) and one of the owners said, "After Mommie Dearest we started referring to her as Done Fadeaway."

Which I thought was pretty brill.

[jeniferrenepatricia]

Posted: 5/18/09 at 1:30am

Please don't rip me apart, but I truly loved Faye in "Mommie Dearest." I didn't like the material because I am a big Joan Crawford fan, but I loved the camp, over-the-top acting in that film. Maybe it's because I saw that film when I was 10...my brother and I used to act out all the scenes. (he never forgave me for making him wear a blond wig when he was just 6 years old...LOL) I realized how bad the movie was when I was older, but I love it just the same. I also loved her work in Chinatown and Bonnie and Clyde. I think her plastic surgery looks damn good- better than many others in Hollywood.

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/18/09 at 2:09am

Yea yea yea...

She's still nucking futs.

[Mister Matt]

Posted: 5/18/09 at 1:05pm

She didn't do anything of interest after Mommie Dearest and has napalmed nearly every bridge she's crossed. I remember working box office during the tour for Master Class in Houston and she delayed the opening night curtain 90 minutes (a habit I was told she practiced in practically every city on the tour). After the first half hour, audience members started demanding refunds at the box office in herds. And she sucked hard in that show. I left at intermission.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/18/09 at 5:43pm

In one city on that tour it made the newspaper when she FREAKED OUT at a small neighborhood grocery store for not having any KOSHER HOT DOGS in stock.

I still have a hard time wrapping my brain around the fact that she was married for five years to Peter "Love Stinks" Wolf.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 5/18/09 at 7:50pm

I loved how she kept babbling that "playing Crawford" ruined her career, and then went off to do SUPERGIRL with Helen Slater and ate everything around her not nailed down except Helen Slater. When she's good, she's remarkable; when she's bad, she's either a lot of fun or unwatchable, nothing much in between. I saw her in MASTER CLASS and was dreadful. (And she owns the film rights, something few people know.)

"Barbara, please!"

[TheatreDiva90016]

Posted: 5/18/09 at 7:57pm

An old friend of mine worked at Video West in WeHo and she came in one day. She pulled out Mommie Dearest, read the jacket cover, and he said she laughed out loud, then walked out of the store with it and threw it in the nearest trash can.

He later retreived it.

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 5/18/09 at 8:09pm

All it is - a very good actress time has passed by.

I will remember her in Bonnie & Clyde & Network.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 5/18/09 at 8:12pm

Does somebody have a Roxy to English Dictionary nearby?