Faye Dunaway

Faye Dunaway Breaks Silence On Controversial Oscars Mix Up

By Charlotte Court in Movies / TV / Theatre on 25 April 2017

The actress announced the wrong Best Picture winner with Warren Beatty at this year's ceremony

Iconic actress Faye Dunaway found herself at the centre of the biggest Oscar controversies in recent times this year when she was part of the twosome that read out the wrong name for the recipient of the Best Picture award.

Faye Dunaway was part of the duo who read out the wrong winner at this year's Oscars

Having stayed silent since the monumental gaff in February, the 76-year-old star has now come out to talk about the incident and describes how "very guilty" she felt about the mistake that saw the cast of La La Land take to the stage to accept the award that should have gone to Moonlight.

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Faye Dunaway - 69th Cannes Film Festival - 'The Last Face' - Premiere at Palais de Festivals, Cannes Film Festival - Cannes, France - Friday 20th May 2016

Faye Dunaway - Premiere Of Universal Pictures' "The Huntsman: Winter's War" at Regency Village Theatre - Westwood, California, United States - Tuesday 12th April 2016

'I'll Eat You Last' Sees Beth Midler At Her Very Best As The Witty And Cynical Sue Mengers

By Victoria Pavlova on 25 April 2013

Bette Midler Barbra Streisand Faye Dunaway Michael Caine Gene Hackman

Middler shines as a why and witty Hollywood agent in this John Logan play.

Bette Midler is Sue Mengers. In I’ll Eat You Last, the funny, outspoken actress plays the infamous 70s talent agent with such clarity and wit, that you can’t help but believe her throughout. Midler is the sole performer in the production and, while the set is visually interesting, she herself hardly moves from the couch for the duration of the play. But if you think this would make for a boring or static production, you clearly haven’t seen Midler act to her fullest, which is exactly what she is doing in the John Logan play, which opened last night (Wednesday, April 24) at Broadway’s Booth theatre.

The setup is simple – the play is set in 1981, when Mengers, who represented stars of Barbra Streisand, Faye Dunaway, Michael Caine and Gene Hackman is already losing relevance. But she isn’t one to moan about it – not on the surface at least. Middler is the perfect actress to bring the quippy, somewhat cynical, occasionally foul-mouthed Mengers back to life. She is an actress experienced enough to not only fill up the stage, but to also possess enough knowledge of the harsh world of Tinseltown, giving her character some essential depth. I’ll Eat You Last captures the essence of a woman who has experienced Hollywood to its fullest and lived to tell the tale.

Bette Midler, Booth Theatre
Midler has been collecting praise from fans and critics for her spot on performance.

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Cougar Club Review

By Christopher Null

Weak

What movie do Faye Dunaway, Carrie Fisher, and Joe Mantegna have in common? That's right: Cougar Club!

Yes, the "MILF" craze has gotten so popular that even big stars (or at least people that used to be big stars) will show up for a MILF-oriented sex comedy.

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Midnight Crossing Review

By Christopher Null

Terrible

A modern-day pirate movie?

Yes, sadly, and that means we have a glaucoma victim (Faye Dunaway), an grubby fat man (Ned Beatty), and a garden-variety hussy (Kim Cattrall, proving that you can work a single hairdo for 15 years, no problem) on a little sailboat in search of money hidden in Cuba during the Bay of Pigs.

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The Three Musketeers (1973) Review

By Christopher Null

Very Good

I saw the word "whimsical" used in one product description of this installment of The Three Musketeers, a faithful adaptation of the classic novel, and no word could better describe the film. It's a combination of belly laughs via non-stop sight gags, endless swashbuckling, and only a dab of plot, all of which serve to make this an engaging event movie that takes place in France instead of in space. Packed with classic actors (including Charlton Heston, Christopher Lee, and Raquel Welch), this is a fun, nearly farcical adventure that's definitely worth a look.

The Handmaid's Tale Review

By Christopher Null

Very Good

Margaret Atwood's highly regarded novel came to the screen in 1990 in an uneven yet still gripping production (newly released on DVD). Natasha Richardson makes perhaps the biggest impact in her career as Offred, the "handmaid" at the center of a dystopic future where ultra-right wing factions are in control of the government, martial law rules, and biological agents have rendered 99% of women sterile. Those women who are still fertile and have been convicted of some crime, however ridiculous, become handmaids, stripped from their lives and sentenced to service the remaining rich and powerful, whose wives can't conceive children.

Offred finds herself at the mercy of a good-natured but subtly manipulative commander (Robert Duvall) and his faded-star wife Serena Joy (Faye Dunaway). And soon enough she slips her way into an underground aiming to overthrow the fascist regime.

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Chinatown Review

By James Brundage

Extraordinary

I do my homework. All right. So I don't always do my homework, but when it comes to film critiquing, I'm pretty good at doing my homework. So, since The Ninth Gate is being released later this week, I figured I should check out the Chinatown DVD, in order to get background on Roman Polanski's career.

Ain't homework painful?

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The Rules Of Attraction Review

By Rob Blackwelder

OK

Like an episode of MTV's barely-legal late-night dorm life soap "Undressed," with 20 times the creativity but without any more substance, "The Rules of Attraction" is a stylish, glib, endemically energetic diversion that's indulgently entertaining but could have and should have been deeper.

Enthusiastically adapted by Roger Avery (co-writer of "Pulp Fiction" and writer-director of "Killing Zoe") from the whimsically subversive novel by Bret Easton Ellis, it's a black comedy about the feral underbelly of modern campus life, full of cinematic invention but narrative superficiality.

Populated by teen-TV lightweight types trying to gain edgy credibility, "Rules" stars James Van Der Beek ("Dawson's Creek") in the movie's most resonant performance as antihero Sean Bateman, a deviant college cool-jerk -- who, for the trivia-minded, is the younger brother of the title character in Ellis's "American Psycho."

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Faye Dunaway Adopted Her Son, Liam

By Steven Williams in Lifestyle / Showbiz on 03 November 2003

Faye Dunaway

In a recent interview, Faye Dunaway's ex-husband has spoken out about how she is not the biological mother of her son, Liam, despite her attempts to convince the public otherwise.

Faye Dunaway's ex-husband, Terry O'Neill has revealed that her son, Liam, was actually adopted. The British photographer has tried to set the record straight after 23 years, as Academy Award-winning actress, Dunaway, has been trying to convince people that she is Liam's biological mother since his birth.

O'Neill and Dunaway were married in 1983 and were together for four years. Now, he reveals that: "Faye was desperate to have a baby. She wanted to be a mother because her own childhood had been so rotten. But there came a point when she had to face the fact that kids weren't coming."

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