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Article: Looking for Gatsby: My Life.
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- Video Age International
- Article date:
- March 1, 1996
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Who can forget the belligerent Bonnie "We Rob Banks" Parker in Bonnie & Clyde; or the mysterious socialite Evelyn Mulwray in Chinatown; or the driven programming executive Diana Christensen in Network? Through her passionate portrayals, Faye Dunaway made these strong female characters unforgettable; she not only played these characters, she became them.
In Looking For Gatsby: My Life (Simon & Schuster, 416 pp.), Dunaway, with Betsy Sharkey, candidly details her lifelong struggle to find herself both as an actor and as an individual searching for that special someone who never really materializes. This longing for the perfect man who would love her unconditionally - ...