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Article: No More Wire Hangers! Dunaway's Mommie Returns.(Culture)
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- The New York Observer (New York, NY)
- Article date:
- July 3, 2006
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Byline: Charles Taylor
When Louis B. Mayer saw Billy Wilder's Sunset Boulevard, he exploded, "How dare this young man, Wilder, bite the hand that feeds him?" (Wilder, who was present, replied, "I am Wilder and go fuck yourself.") As Joan Crawford in the much-ridiculed Mommie Dearest, Faye Dunaway doesn't so much bite the hand that feeds her as rip it off with her teeth and stand there gnawing, oblivious to the bloody stump she's inflicted.
Ms. Dunaway's Crawford is one of the most reckless and extreme performances any star has ever dared. Ms. Dunaway goes at the role as if she were exacting revenge for every indignity and slight, every pass made by some ...