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Article: Faye Dunaway, inconsistent but illuminating
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 2, 1996
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LOOKING FOR GATSBY
My Life
By Faye Dunaway with Betsy Sharkey
Simon & Schuster, 416 pp., illustrated, $25
Jack Nicholson, who wanted her as his costar in "Chinatown,"
called her "Dread." He had nicknames for everybody. British
director Michael Winner called her "Faysie," which she didn't like.
He pointed out that it made people feel that she was "human" and not
"just a great big American movie star." And Michael Caine called her
"Fadun Away."
The title of Faye Dunaway's memoir, "Looking for Gatsby,"
derives from the author's mistaken belief that her life has been a
search for the elusive Fitzgerald icon. I say "mistaken" because she
writes about two marriages, first to rock ...