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Article: Faye Dunaway, Full Throttle; The Actress, Looking Ahead & Taking Charge, With a New Kind of Role in `Barfly'
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- The Washington Post
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- November 20, 1987
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Her arms swinging, cigarette in hand, Faye Dunaway cuts across
the flagstone floor of her New York apartment, the spikes of her high
heels exploding like they were rigged with firecrackers. The
apartment, which looks out over the reservoir from high up on Central
Park West, is spacious, cluttered, lived-in. It's decorated (by
Charles Gwathmey), but not in grand palais diva-style regal. It's
more Milanese modernismo. Cassette tapes are scattered everywhere.
Bowie. The Pretenders. Suzanne Vega. It looks like what it is: a
place where a woman lives with her kid. Still, it provides Dunaway
with plenty of runway for takeoff.
Faye Dunaway likes to make an entrance. And those strides of
hers ...