New Tell-All Spills the Dirt About Faye Dunaway and Mommie Dearest!
Michael MustoTheater & DanceMichael MustoIn 1981, I caught a screening of Mommie Dearest, with Faye Dunaway as aging Hollywood gorgon Joan Crawford in all her penciled-eyebrowed neuroses, and I was perhaps bizarrely impressed. I promptly called a friend to tell him I'd just seen something that works on every level, and I felt that no one could have made a better Joan than plucky, problematic Faye. After all, Joan…