Tea At Five Boston Reviews

https://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20190629/tea-at-five-dunaway-lack-spontaneity

I hope this does well and I would love to see Dunaway have a great success with this on Broadway. She's one of the great actresses of her generation and she's given several classic film performances.

Can you imagine that great book? He was there when Harper discovered she was ill, then worked with Powers replacing her, then the short lived High with Turner, and now this careening vehicle with THE Dunaway.

I would buy that in a heartbeat. A play would also be great with actresses playing Harper, Powers, Turner and Dunaway.

Even after hearing all this gossip a friend of mine is flying to Boston just to see Faye on the stage for the second time in his life.

Can't wait to see what happens next.

Updated On: 6/30/19 at 05:34 AM

Dollypop said: "Perhaps 30 years ago, I was teaching high school English and moderating the schoo's newspaper. We had secured an interview with an Off-Broadway actor who had done a TV series that had a cult following.

In the course of the interview, the actor spoke of a movie he'd done with Dunaway and what a miserable experience it was. He said she was impossible to work with and felt she really needed "professional help".

On the train ride home, the newspaper staff and I decided not to use that information in the article because it was so harsh and because we couldn't get other witnesses who could back up the actor's comments about Dunaway.

The next day the actor called me and asked if we could omit his words about Dunaway. He breathed a sigh of relief when he learned we'd already done so."

If someone mentioned the name Faye Dunaway, most people of a certain age or movie fans will know her name and the iconic roles she has portrayed. If someone mentioned the name of this Off Broadway actor, for most people, the response would probably be who?

HogansHero said: "ArtMan said: "If someone mentioned the name Faye Dunaway, most people of a certain age or movie fans will know her name and the iconic roles she has portrayed. If someone mentioned the name of this Off Broadway actor, for most people, the response would probably be who?"

And your point is?

Incredibly talented people are not a fortiori nice people. When people are not nice, they get called out on it; they do not get a free pass. Would you say the same thing about Kevin Spacey? Abuse, bullying, and other unpleasantness to co-workers (or others) should not be shoved under the rug. You maybe wanna reconsider?"

I would say that Kevin Spacey is nasty, because my own personal encounter with him he was nasty. My three encounters with Faye Dunaway were not. I don't base my opinions on someone on gossip, rumours and innuendo. I form my own personal opinion, based on my own encounters. Something you may wanna reconsider?

HogansHero said: "ArtMan said: "If someone mentioned the name Faye Dunaway, most people of a certain age or movie fans will know her name and the iconic roles she has portrayed. If someone mentioned the name of this Off Broadway actor, for most people, the response would probably be who?"

And your point is?

Incredibly talented people are not a fortiori nice people. When people are not nice, they get called out on it; they do not get a free pass. Would you say the same thing about Kevin Spacey? Abuse, bullying, and other unpleasantness to co-workers (or others) should not be shoved under the rug. You maybe wanna reconsider?"

I agree with you that talented people's bad behavior "should not be shoved under the rug". As I stated I base my own opinion of the person on my own personal experience and facts. You brought up Kevin Spacey, as example. I agree with you, but for my own personal reasons. Can I then ask, why for years, your avatar, is of Bob Crane? Although extremely talented, he was proven to be a sexual addict, who tricked hundreds of star struck unsuspecting women into bed and video taped their sexual encounters without their consent. He cheated on his wife hundreds of times and had a drug problem. Certainly not the person you see on tv. Why celebrate his behavior with an avatar?

HogansHero said: "re the avatar, it is ofColonel Robert E. Hogan, not Bob Crane. Col. Hogan is worth celebrating IMHO and my connection to the name relates only to the character."

LOL

THE BOSTON GLOBE gives Ms. Dunaway a great review but not so much the play.

Still looking forward to seeing it

https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2019/06/30/tea-five-dunaway-delivers-full-flavor-hepburn/UjiU5FQrSMYJKElK3lIYEP/story.html

Jordan Catalano said: "What an odd review! I loved his, though -

“In fact, when Hepburn’s niece Katharine Houghton saw the play in 2002, she said, “If my aunt saw this, she’d slit her wrists.”"

Perhaps Houghton was less critiquing the play and more commenting on her aunt's loathing of seeing any play or movie about herself.

Dollypop, you've told that story before on another thread. I love that story.. Can you at least tell us which movie it was? I'm assuming by your time line it was in the 80s.